>AFAIK, there's a 5200 and there's a 7800. But I've never
>heard of a 5800 ... did I miss one somewhere?
You know, I never realized that before.
Atari had the 2600, then the 5200 (2600 x2) then the 7800 (2600 x3)
Was the 2600 a number picked for a reason? Something that was doubled and
then tripled in later models? Or were they just a bunch of phone phreaks
that designed the first one :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Folks, I just put a nice SOL-20 computer on e-bay as item #2754896139. I
also put an original Microsoft 2-button mouse (circa 1983) on e-bay, item
#2754897096.
Jon
Jon Titus
Milford, MA
E-mail: jontitus(a)comcast.net
Being that there was a recent discussion about 2600's (I have the 5800!), I
am actually looking for an original working NES system with the game
"Punchout" . I never had a NES growing up!!! :(
e-mail me directly at joel.bradley(a)comcast.net
Joel
On Sep 22, 20:23, Ian Primus wrote:
> Hmm, if it sends all characters as uppercase, I will need some way to
> change the PC to recognize that and convert it all back to lowercase
or
> something, since all of the UNIX commands are lower case. I assume
> there is probably a setting in Linux somewhere to do that. At least
> it's ASCII and not Baudot. That would be lots of fun...
On old versions of unix, if the username and password you typed was all
upper-case, it assumed you were using an uppercase-only teletype and
set things accordingly. I doubt if Lunix includes that code :-)
However, you should be able to do "stty tty33" which should set xcase,
iuclc, olcuc, the correct delays for carriage-return and linefeed, and
allow mark parity. I'm not sure how you type the stty command in the
first place, though :-) You'll probably have to change /etc/gettydefs.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
>Are you talking about Stella?
Yup, thats the one I use
>But one of the problems with playing on your computer is the screen size...
>Playing on a 31" TV or projection TV is *much* nicer. :) Plus it is
>easier to use a *real* joystick to paddle.
Yes, these are two very good reasons to use the real thing. (and of
course, its just cooler to use the real thing, but when space it tight,
at least the emulator lets you play)
>There is also the CuttleCart, which allows you to play downloaded ROMs on
>a real 2600.
Humm.... that sounds like something I want to locate. :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
In a message dated 9/23/2003 11:47:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
teoz(a)neo.rr.com writes:
<< > Are you talking about Stella?
>
> But one of the problems with playing on your computer is the screen
size...
> Playing on a 31" TV or projection TV is *much* nicer. :) Plus it is
> easier to use a *real* joystick to paddle. (No adapter required).
> There is also the CuttleCart, which allows you to play downloaded ROMs on
> a real 2600. :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bryan
>
Nothing beats playing the original games on the real hardware (wether its a
2600, amiga, c64, arcade game etc).
I have an original 2600 with maybe 20 original carts, I also have the atari
2600 emu with every cart made on my dreamcast console. I like the real 2600
better because of the joystick and paddle control, but use the dreamcast for
the games I dont have. >>
ah, there's nothing like cursing out a flaky joystick in the heat of battle.
ha ha. I've got several joysticks with much better action than the Atari ones.
Hiyas,
Does anyone have experience with troubleshooting Kennedy
tape drives?
I have a 9600A here (still needed for reading in that darned
UNIX tape...) and although it seems to work, it does fail one
of its self tests (FAIL 153, second code is A50-NRZ1) and
indeed does not read tapes, *nor* does it "see" the write
enable rings. All other things seem to work fine.
Any help would be muchly appreciated... if anyone has a
scanned manual for it, that would even be better !
Cheers,
Fred
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> Is it possibl;e to modify a standard IBM 3.5 inch FDD to
> work with the apple??
As other pointed out, no....
> I understand the Apple II uses a
> special drive interface, can this be conected up to the 3.5 inch drive
> hardware and be used to drive them??
You can't hook up a Disk II or 5.25" controller to a 3.5" disk drive..
However, a 3.5" drive can be used in an Apple IIe (not sure about II, II+).
There are two possible combinations:
- Apple sold a drive called a UniDisk 3.5. This drive had a processor and
buffer memory inside the case to allow it to buffer and effectively slow
down the data transfer rate to the point where the Apple IIe could handle
it. You still need to get a special controller card (often referred to as a
"LIRON" card, because the word was silkscreened on the card).
- Apple also sold a 3.5" drive controller card that had the
processor/buffers/logic on the card, so you could use the standard 800KB
drives from an Apple IIgs in an Apple IIe. This card also had the
capability to drive Macintosh 1.44MB drives (so you could get 1.44MB on an
Apple IIe!!). Coincidentally, I have one of these for auction on eBay right
now (search for seller "rbeaudry") :-). You'd still need to get drives, but
Apple IIgs 800KB drives are cheap and plentiful (in fact, I have several
spares I could make available).
Confusingly, both card were named by Apple as "3.5 controller cards", so be
careful when looking fo rthem that you get the right card/drive
combination....
Rich B.
Does anyone have any HSJ50 controllers? I need to get new firmware for mine
since I can't read either of the cards that came with them. If you have
firmware and have access to a Windows 98/2000/XP system with a PCMCIA slot
there's software that can read and write the cards.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
>speaking of such, anyone got an extra 2600 console? Mine died, and I want to
>play river raid pretty badly!
There is at least one emulator for the 2600 that I know of. I tend to
play all my favorite games that way. Its easier than chewing up space
with the 2600 itself (and I have a MUCH bigger collection of game ROMS
than I ever had of carts)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
