+Zeptari Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 http://cgi.ebay.com/HANDY-Huge-Space-Mobil...1QQcmdZViewItem Can anyone tell me more about this thing? Was this a homemade project? Anyone here have one? If so, how anout a review? -Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 http://cgi.ebay.com/HANDY-Huge-Space-Mobil...1QQcmdZViewItem Can anyone tell me more about this thing? Was this a homemade project? Anyone here have one? If so, how anout a review? -Rick Now that is cute. They are finally getting good use out of that cartridge port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apex Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Uhhhhhh .... I never heard of that thing. The only device I had that used my cartridge port was the Monster Sound Card which I used for sampling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apex Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 This proves how much potential the ST's had. My gosh just hink about it. I heard a while ago or read that Atari's were getting a lot of miles in Poland, and this proves it. Gigabyte HD storage through the cartridge port. Man could I have used that back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarian1 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 It has been around for a while. It looks like a nice hack. Be aware that it's not 100% AHDI compatible. Some finicky software may not like it (off the top of my head...Notator). The drivers are custom drivers that are not AHDI compatible. So if you generally use cleanly written software, then it just may work. Otherwise, you're better off with a hard drive connected to the ACSI port with an AHDI compatible driver. (I prefer using the ACSI port myself anyday) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgar Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Hello Yes driver is not ACSI compatible but its also on the way. Anyway it works perfectly and most software run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppera Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 It has been around for a while. It looks like a nice hack. Be aware that it's not 100% AHDI compatible. Some finicky software may not like it (off the top of my head...Notator). The drivers are custom drivers that are not AHDI compatible. So if you generally use cleanly written software, then it just may work. Otherwise, you're better off with a hard drive connected to the ACSI port with an AHDI compatible driver. (I prefer using the ACSI port myself anyday) AHDI and ACSI compability is not same thing. AHDI is not tied for specific port on Atari. So, beeing AHDI compatible is possible on Cartridge, IDE or any other port. It depends on driver. And I must say here, that AHDI is not perfect. What is AHDI? Bunch of rules for block device support on Atari. It has some stupid limitations and supports not more than 1 driver at once. XHDI tries to override them - but all it is just waste for average, single-task Atari user. If some proggy works only with ACSI port based drives blame it, not adapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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