gtkakega Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Anyone have a small SpartaDOS/MyDOS utility that will turn off happy mode on a Happy 1050 drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Sorry for being a bit late… I don’t recall such an utility in file binary form. Most people just use the Happy software. May be there is one, but anyway it is trivial to make it yourself if you want. Note that there are three different unhappy levels: Slow mode, de-programmed mode (what Happy actually calls Unhappy), Happy-to-1050 ROM "translation". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almost Rice Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I use the Happy utilities There is an option to make the drive UnHappy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I use the Happy utilities There is an option to make the drive UnHappy. Yes of course, but he wants a file utility, not a boot one (or at least I understand that's what he is looking for). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtkakega Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 Sorry for being a bit late… I don’t recall such an utility in file binary form. Most people just use the Happy software. May be there is one, but anyway it is trivial to make it yourself if you want. Note that there are three different unhappy levels: Slow mode, de-programmed mode (what Happy actually calls Unhappy), Happy-to-1050 ROM "translation". The reason I'm asking is because my Happy 1050 is giving me errors when I try and write to a disk. Device timeout error I think. Anyways, if I use the Happy software to switch the drive to unhappy mode then the problem does not repeat itself. I can write just fine in sd/dd using unhappy mode. Not sure why. But it's a pain having to load the happy software everytime I want to switch to unhappy mode because the default on the drive is happy mode. Is there an SIO command to switch it to unhappy mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 The reason I'm asking is because my Happy 1050 is giving me errors when I try and write to a disk...I can write just fine in sd/dd using unhappy mode. This is probably because you are using high speed I/O (Sparta) combined with unbuffered writes. That combination doesn't work and produces writes erros. First do the following test to confirm this is the problem: Boot the happy utilities. Turn on fast writes. Boot your normal setup and see if writes now work ok (you should hear that writing now is much faster). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen J. Carden Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Anyone have a small SpartaDOS/MyDOS utility that will turn off happy mode on a Happy 1050 drive? I have an utility that I wrote that is call "HAPPY.COM" that has all the happy stuff in it.. Fast buffering on and off. it also has a section in it that will reprogram your happy drive to think it is a usdoubler drive and then you can use ultra-speed sector skew.. send me an e-mail and I will send it to you. "sjcarden@bellsouth.net" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Welcome Steven. You should do a thread with all those utilities you sent to me. People with hard-drives would just love them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Well, I have a disk with various programs for the Happy 1050 drive (most of them self-written by Happy drive users)... if interested just e-mail me to: amp at abbuc point de Besides, I also collected many utilities for other drive upgrades and speeders (like Speedy, US-Doubler, Turbo, XF). If there is a good website to upload them, let me know... -Andreas Magenheimer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen J. Carden Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Well,I have a disk with various programs for the Happy 1050 drive (most of them self-written by Happy drive users)... if interested just e-mail me to: amp at abbuc point de Besides, I also collected many utilities for other drive upgrades and speeders (like Speedy, US-Doubler, Turbo, XF). If there is a good website to upload them, let me know... -Andreas Magenheimer. ok,, be fore doing this make sure you have mac/65 and a basic understanding of machine language. This message is intended to show any one how to write a small program to make the 1050 happy do certaint things. ; ; Code Written By Stephen J. Carden ;e-mail 'sjcarden@bellsouth.net' ; *=$5000 ; org the program here start: lda #$31 sta $0300 lda #$01 ; drive 1 = $01 drive 2= $02 >>>> drive 8 = $08 sta $0301 lda #$48 sta $0302 lda #$00 sta $0306 lda #$00 sta $0303 sta $0304 sta $0305 sta $0307 sta $0308 sta $0309 jmp fastwrite ; can sub to other routines rts ; exit clean ; this will restore the Happy controler crestore: lda #$18 sta $030a lda #$00 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; if you have a happy controler this will protect drive cprotect: lda #$18 sta $030a lda #$10 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; if you have a happy controler this will unprotect drive cwrite: lda #$18 sta $030a lda #$08 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; this will init the drive init: lda #$03 sta $030a lda #$00 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; ;turns fast write on fastwrite: lda #$20 sta $030a lda #$00 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; make the drive unhappy unhappy: lda #$e0 sta $030a lda #$e0 sta $030b jmp $e459 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 ; if you have a happy controler this will protect drivecprotect: ... ; if you have a happy controler this will unprotect drive cwrite: ... Very nice stuff. But please note that these two might not work. It depends on how the controller is jumpered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen J. Carden Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 ; if you have a happy controler this will protect drivecprotect: ... ; if you have a happy controler this will unprotect drive cwrite: ... Very nice stuff. But please note that these two might not work. It depends on how the controller is jumpered. they work will all my happy 1050, But I guess there is always a version I do not have.. the happy I use are orginal one's from happy computers. If you are trying to use this code and a remake of a happy board I have no idea if it would completely work. But good info never the less. If you send me an e-mail address I will send you an atr of all the code I have been working on. e-mail 'sjcarden@bellsouth.net' Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 (edited) the happy I use are orginal one's from happy computers. If you are trying to use this code and a remake of a happy board I have no idea if it would completely work I am talking about original boards from HCI. AFAIK, no Happy clone included the controller circuit. So this is probably not relevant for clones at all. they work will all my happy 1050 Yes, and I guess it will work for most people, because it will with the default factory configuration. The default configuration is that software can override the hardware (switch) settings. But there is an alternate configuration of jumpers that will not let the software to override the switch position. The jumpers are not populated. You must solder (or cut a trace, don't remember). It is all described in the Controller manual. Edited June 20, 2006 by ijor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 On 6/18/2006 at 6:36 AM, Stephen J. Carden said: ok,, be fore doing this make sure you have mac/65 and a basic understanding of machine language. This message is intended to show any one how to write a small program to make the 1050 happy do certaint things. ; ; Code Written By Stephen J. Carden ;e-mail 'sjcarden@bellsouth.net' ; *=$5000 ; org the program here start: lda #$31 sta $0300 lda #$01 ; drive 1 = $01 drive 2= $02 >>>> drive 8 = $08 sta $0301 lda #$48 sta $0302 lda #$00 sta $0306 lda #$00 sta $0303 sta $0304 sta $0305 sta $0307 sta $0308 sta $0309 jmp fastwrite ; can sub to other routines rts ; exit clean ; this will restore the Happy controler crestore: lda #$18 sta $030a lda #$00 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; if you have a happy controler this will protect drive cprotect: lda #$18 sta $030a lda #$10 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; if you have a happy controler this will unprotect drive cwrite: lda #$18 sta $030a lda #$08 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; this will init the drive init: lda #$03 sta $030a lda #$00 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; ;turns fast write on fastwrite: lda #$20 sta $030a lda #$00 sta $030b jmp $e459 ; make the drive unhappy unhappy: lda #$e0 sta $030a lda #$e0 sta $030b jmp $e459 Here is a small basic program that sets the drive to Unhappy mode, based on Stephen's code. Tested with Atarimax Happy Board and Archon I (skew protection). ATR is attached for convenience. 10 FOR I=768 TO 779 20 READ X:POKE I,X:NEXT I 30 X=USR(ADR("hhh[*]LY[d]")) NOTE - Characters in brackets are INVERSE! 100 DATA 49,1,72,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,224,224 Unhappy(b).ATR 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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