Hi Everybody, (Hi doctor Nick)
I discovered that I had a couple of power supplies all along. I remembered this
afternoon that I have a couple of Atari 1010 Cassette drives tucked away, so I
dug em out and sure enough: Atari 9v 31va supply - just what the doctor ordered.
I also found a program called WRITEATA which tries to write Atari format disks on
a standard PC drive. It has trouble due to differences in drive speed and the fact
that it can't do 128 byte sectors, however I was able to get it to write 130k
"enhanced format" 1050 disks.
Most Atari DOS images I've found are 90k which it can't do, however I found one
called "TurboDos" in a 130k image, and was able to write it and it booted!
It booted and then crashed on the 600XL I was originally testing with, however I
noticed a message indicating "XE RAMDISK LOADED" ... so I tried a 130XE and everything
worked - it comes up in some sort of menu program written in basic, which I could
exit (to BASIC), then use "DOS" to get to DOS - so my drive does work!
I also found a 130k disk copying disk that works, it appears to have a German version
of Atari DOS 2.5 underneath it.
Thanks to everyone who helped me figure this out.
Regards,
--
dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield
dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
com Vintage computing equipment collector.
Received on Tue Apr 20 2004 - 16:53:23 BST