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#91
Software / Re: Future Game Adaptions Sugg...
Last post by Atari8guy - 12-06-2023, 23:19:52
Championship Baseball would be fun...played this a lot with my father years and years ago.

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-championship-baseball_37775.html

#92
Software / New Game Menu (supporting EmuT...
Last post by andresvettori - 11-06-2023, 20:49:46
Hi Peter!  Thanks for your hard work!  I already got your ACSI Driver with your compete adapted games image, but now I'm using EmuTOS in my machine and the game menu doesn't work anymore (I have the old one).

Is there a version that works with EmuTOS (or TOS 2.06)?

Thanks in advance!

Agv
#93
Software / Re: Game adaptions bug reports
Last post by munchy - 08-06-2023, 22:20:41
Thank you so much for that.It is indeed "fixed"
#94
News / Re: How to be useless
Last post by Petari - 07-06-2023, 08:59:18
This is from masteries : " Omniflop software can read and write almost all type of floppies,
it can read copy-protected floppies and replicate these protections too:   ... "

  Part about being able to replicate copy protections is not correct for sure. That's just not possible with ordinary floppy controller chips used by computers. Actually, PCs floppy controller can not even read all used Atari floppy formats, without copy protections - i wrote about that long time ago on my site:  like hyperformat (11 sec/tr), some special formats with short gaps between sectors ...
  And if there were true, why devices like KryoFlux and SPC were made ?

#95
News / Re: How to be useless
Last post by Petari - 07-06-2023, 08:53:32
Quote from thread at atariage (ACSI2STM):  "I have a board in design that is based on the design from the project https://github.com/retro16/acsi2stm that is just about done if anyone is interested.  I have also tested it with the new 4.0 firmware.  It supports acsi and gemdos sd cards. "

 Good example of shallowness.  acsi (ACSI correct) is not SD card type, as GEMDOS is not it too. Really huge mixing up of terms.  But it goes on and on over decades, and do Atari forums help in clarifying things. Nope - they ban those who try to do it - because they are not polite :-)
  Well, I'm gonna be non polite and explain it:
ACSI is abbrev. of Atari Computer Systems (can be Storage too) Interface . Developed for fast data transfers with peripherals - hard disks in first place. Decades before SD cards. No wonder you can not insert SD card in ACSI port  ;D
 GEMDOS is in fact Atari STs disk operating system. Designed with compatibility with PC DOS in mind (DRI had his DOS for PC too in that time). So, even low Endian number format is used (called Intel format too - reversed high and low bytes).  But unfortunately it is not fully DOS compatible, only up to 32 MB partition size. Hard disk MBR format is different too.
#96
Software / Re: Game adaptions bug reports
Last post by Petari - 31-05-2023, 09:53:16
Quote from: munchy on 29-05-2023, 22:47:29Hi,
Having issue with the game HERO.The save game states are working but i lose the fire button which produces the gun on all saves
my setup a 4 meg ste tos 1.62.Ultrsatan and pp hd driver.
could anyone try to replicate this please ?

many thanks
Fixed.
#97
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by Petari - 31-05-2023, 09:13:07
Working on it. Not only new adapts but some new systems of data access on hard disks/Flash cards.
#98
Software / Re: Game adaptions bug reports
Last post by munchy - 29-05-2023, 22:47:29
Hi,
Having issue with the game HERO.The save game states are working but i lose the fire button which produces the gun on all saves
my setup a 4 meg ste tos 1.62.Ultrsatan and pp hd driver.
could anyone try to replicate this please ?

many thanks
#99
Software / Re: New game adaptations
Last post by dakidski - 28-05-2023, 22:58:29
2023, please give us a new hdd image soon. Love from Denmark.
#100
News / Re: How to be useless
Last post by Petari - 10-05-2023, 08:52:02
And another thread, where people rather blaming TOS than the real problem - using PC floppy drives on Atari ST without needed mod:  https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=42641
Yes, it happens when they ignore pages done ... hmm 17 years ago : PC floppy drive fix for Atari ST