Mathy Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Howdy Carmel Mathy....is the the 800 cum xe upgrade you are referring to I do have an 800 somewhere, i know though that it does not work properly (wrong colours and awful TVI/white noise) I have no clue what you mean by "800 cum xe upgrade". I was talking about the ATR8000 and ATR8500, hence the "x" in ATR8x00. It's made by SWP. It runs on a Z81 processor IIRC. But there are lot's of people who can tell you more about this then me. Greetings Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 ILooks like the design will be finalized on a Xilinx XC9572XL in VQ64 small quad-flat pack. That will allow me the room to do the complete implementation with the PBI logic in place for those who want to use the now free RAM slots for PBI devices. Awesome, keep up the good work - my 800 is eagerly waiting it's new lease on life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Howdy Carmel Mathy....is the the 800 cum xe upgrade you are referring to I do have an 800 somewhere, i know though that it does not work properly (wrong colours and awful TVI/white noise) I have no clue what you mean by "800 cum xe upgrade". I was talking about the ATR8000 and ATR8500, hence the "x" in ATR8x00. It's made by SWP. It runs on a Z81 processor IIRC. But there are lot's of people who can tell you more about this then me. Greetings Mathy Mathy....I was referring to the upgrade mentioned earlier in the subject thread (and probably the idea behind the whole subject in the first place), since warerat was or is working on an xe compatible 800 mod (hence 800 cum xe upgrade) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I can't believe that I've ignored this thread for so long. An 800 that behaves like an XE, but without the crappy keyboard ... sweeeeet. Makes me wanna finally dig out the untested 800 from the cupboard and actually try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Didn't someone say the 800 had the best keyboard....still, to each their own i s'pose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 The XE has a crappy keyboard, not the 800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 The XE has a crappy keyboard, not the 800. and it's got s-video straight out the box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Unfortunately I don't think I have one ... well, not one that's working anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Unfortunately I don't think I have one ... well, not one that's working anyway. but nicely socketed to make repair a little easier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 (edited) .deleted. Edited March 31, 2007 by kheller2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Mathy I have an ATR8500, serial #5, plus the schematics and some product literature and full sets of the ATR 8xxx Cp?M disks and such. I also have scanned in the ATR8000 manuals and other documents as well if you need them. Curt Howdy Carmel Mathy....is the the 800 cum xe upgrade you are referring to I do have an 800 somewhere, i know though that it does not work properly (wrong colours and awful TVI/white noise) I have no clue what you mean by "800 cum xe upgrade". I was talking about the ATR8000 and ATR8500, hence the "x" in ATR8x00. It's made by SWP. It runs on a Z81 processor IIRC. But there are lot's of people who can tell you more about this then me. Greetings Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Mathy I have an ATR8500, serial #5, plus the schematics and some product literature and full sets of the ATR 8xxx Cp?M disks and such. Curt, IIRC one of those CP/M disks was "copy protected", and I would like to preserve it. I never owned one of those, I just remember reading that the boot disk has some kind of mix of Atari and CP/M format. Do you still have the Catweasel? Any chance to connect it to a 5.25 drive for dumping that disk? If so, let me know which OS can you run on that system and I'll provide the required dumping software. Or otherwise, may be you or somebody else can loan me the disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 (edited) Yup, Still have the Catweasel, I need to setup an older system I have that has an ISA slot in it, all my systems are PCI only and its getting to be a bit of pain not having an ISA slot anymore :-/ Curt Mathy I have an ATR8500, serial #5, plus the schematics and some product literature and full sets of the ATR 8xxx Cp?M disks and such. Curt, IIRC one of those CP/M disks was "copy protected", and I would like to preserve it. I never owned one of those, I just remember reading that the boot disk has some kind of mix of Atari and CP/M format. Do you still have the Catweasel? Any chance to connect it to a 5.25 drive for dumping that disk? If so, let me know which OS can you run on that system and I'll provide the required dumping software. Or otherwise, may be you or somebody else can loan me the disk? Edited March 31, 2007 by Curt Vendel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Howdy Curt Mathy I have an ATR8500, serial #5, plus the schematics and some product literature and full sets of the ATR 8xxx Cp?M disks and such. I also have scanned in the ATR8000 manuals and other documents as well if you need them. Sorry, but I'm not looking for either the ATR8x00 or the docs. Maybe you or somebody else can publish the software and docs on the net. I try to limit the stuff that's on my site to stuff I have, stuff I know something about or stuff I really like. Greetings Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeventura Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 Any forward momentum on this? Figured I would wait until the summer to ask Warerat, Could you please give us an update? I'm very interested in this project of yours! Thanks! Hi folks, I'm still alive. I'm the midst of finishing my last long semester in grad school and well as working full time and traveling for work (for those that have been there, you know what I mean). So my time working on it has been pretty limited. I am happy to report that I did work out some bugs and can bring the system up on it's own and run the self-test. There's something wrong with the memory system because it thinks there's only 20K of memory installed and only the first 1K and the 13th 1K test good. But apparently there's enough memory to run Star Raiders. I'm going to have to move to a larger CPLD with more I/Os as the more I look at the logic, the more extra chips I can eliminate. Looks like the design will be finalized on a Xilinx XC9572XL in VQ64 small quad-flat pack. That will allow me the room to do the complete implementation with the PBI logic in place for those who want to use the now free RAM slots for PBI devices. Sorry for the delay. Sergio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastRobPlus Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Any forward momentum on this? Figured I would wait until the summer to ask I'm ready with money too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 I spoke with Warerat last saturday. He's currently still under quite an acedemic load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timofonic Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 (edited) Any news about this? I'm HIGHLY interested on this upgrade! I only need the schematics if manufacturing isn't possible... EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to see the other thread... http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/95123-warerat-projects/ Edited November 3, 2009 by timofonic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Any news about this? I'm HIGHLY interested on this upgrade! I only need the schematics if manufacturing isn't possible... Pfft. What are you gonna do with the schematics? 90% of the logic is in an 84pin Complex Programmable Logic Device.. And then there's a custom ROM as well.. Best wait for Warerat to manufacture it.. He's almost there.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainjh Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 (edited) I'd like to buy one as well! Iain Edited November 3, 2009 by iainjh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 bump EDIT: the original link to "the 576k xe compatible 800" here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 bump EDIT: the original link to "the 576k xe compatible 800" here Holy NECROBUMP batman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 There is an element of necromancy involved in any Atari project Looking forward to resurrecting Warerat's Atari 800 to 130XE compatibility project For alchemy, see MEtalGuy66, Warerat, ClausB For PFM, See Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I'm off to turn my solder into gold... oh damit, it's lead free! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem00 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 (edited) deleted Edited March 28, 2011 by stevem00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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