On 08-May-99, Lawrence Walker wrote:
>On 8 May 99 at 4:31, Doug Spence wrote:
> The XF551 is getting hard to find, one of the few Atari 8bit
>peripherals I'm looking for.
Most Atari 8bit peripherals are hard to find, at the stores I visit.
I'm going to see if I can widen my scavenging base, but with only bus or
bicycle for transportation, it's a little difficult with me living way
out in the 'burbs. I basically only visit a few places close to the
university.
The XF551 that I have is the only one I've ever seen. Same for the 1050
and 810 drives, the XC12 Program Recorder, and the CX85 Numeric Keypad.
The only things Atari 8bit that I see with reasonable frequency are
Atari 400 and 800XL computers, and the 410 Program Recorder. I have
come across a couple of Atari 800 computers, but both were damaged and
so I didn't haul them home (something I regret now).
Of course, I run across plenty of Atari VCS systems. :)
>> As for disk transfers, I can do that with my handy-dandy A1020 drive
>> on my Amiga. It reads and writes several Atari 8-bit formats just
>> fine, including 810 (SS/SD) and XF551 (DS/DD?).
>
> Hmm have to check that out.
Yes, if your Amiga's 5.25" floppy drive is connected to the Amiga's
floppy controller, you should be able to do the same thing.
The program for doing this is on aminet:misc/emu/551conv.lha
IIRC, you have to mount the 5.25" drive as an Amiga volume first. The
program will work with Kickstart 1.3 (according to the docs), and best
of all it's Freeware. :)
Too bad source code is not included.
[re: the modem]
>Just checked my Blue Book. The 835 seems like the likely candidate.
>The only Atari modems they mention are the accoustik 830 which required
>an RS232 port and the 835 direct connect which didn't.
OK, the 835 is probably it then.
>Compatible w Bell 103/113 series modems.full and 1/2 duplex 300 or 1200
>bps Power on and C-D LEDs .
Excellent! It's nice to have 1200bps. The most famous of the local
Atari BBSes survived until the early '90s with only 300bps. :)
Where did the modem plug in? Cartridge port? SIO?
[re: Atari 8bit disks]
>There are quite a few sites with images available.
I guess I haven't looked. I should do that before someone decides to
crack down on 'piracy'.
>ciaolarry
>
>lwalker_at_interlog.com
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Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 06:14:49 BST