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PurpleMelbourne wrote:That's interesting. What do you mean by expand the range of Amiga's?

The Amiga chipset can only DMA to and from chip ram. That's a 2 meg limit.

So now that we are looking at upgrading the old workhorses with FPGA updates. There are a lot of stuff in the Amiga which would be a great upgrade to Atari. So I've been wondering what in the Atari would be good to upgrade the Amiga with. By the sounds of it Amiga would benefit with Atari blitter u...

Got that right! The blitter is absolutely awesome in the ST. It's faster than the Amigas for window to window translation providing the ratio of fringe to inner area is weighted to the inside. I raster timed it recently with an 18 word 20 line high single plane copy with fringes. The STE beat the Am...

I swapped out the CPU on a 1040 STe when Simbo fitted a Monster for me. We discovered that Atari used a 6 mhz (!) 68000 in the machine and overclocked it. I wonder how many other overclocked CPUS are out there in the STe.

Correction, it will affect many ACSI storage devices, but far from all. Atari harddisks are known to work just fine, and from memory a couple of other well-known brands back then showed no problems. However, other host-adapters did trigger this problem, and the UltraSatan is known to not work relia...

is the system output from sysinfo on the ramtos MSA disk.
It would be good to know the ROM date on each version of RAM TOS. I'd like to know when its the ST's birthday. I have a date of January 8th 1985 from somewhere but can't remember where it came from.

Will it just act like GDOS if it finds an old assign.sys ?

Interesting. Not having a lot of luck with microsoft write so far

Can NVDI use the old bitmap fonts from apps like Microsoft write or Timeworks?

Anything above 8 inches gets converted to two pages I almost got it working by changing the page size in easydraw but it gets the height wrong.

I wonder if it is misconfiguration? Works thinks the printer maxes out at 7 inches when I get printer sizes. I might try another hp model in NVDI. Update: Looks like every printer driver is convinced the page is only 7.73 inches wide. Every page preset is too wide. I can't use a4, us letter etc. I w...

I tried but it seems to only be capable of opening img files

Thanks

Failing that, is there an NVDI equivalent of outprint somewhere?

I've been playing with NVDI and Easydraw 2 to see if I can get printed output via PCL. This app uses GDOS and prints via outprint. It always prints in landscape though. It splits a single portrait page into two. Half the content is on one page and half on the other. I've set the page size to a4 and ...

Is there a 68k distribution of Magic 6.23 on the cards?

Please archive it if it isn't available on the net.

They're both distinct and awesome!

This worked for me. 1) Modify the ultrasatan set and get clock to handle dates < 2000. 2) Set the date to 1988 3) Use Troed's RTC Dallas patch. The computer now has the correct date with TOS 1.6 :) Prebuilt usatan clock binaries here https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9pfpj00fwa76qp/clock.zip?dl=0 along wit...

Looks like I'll need to modify the ultrasatan clock save utility to allow dates < 2000. With this and Troed's patch will this fix the time stamp problems on tos 1.x ?

I should clarify something. I didn't mean games that could use the cache. I actually meant games that improve framerate wise if it has been enabled.
Eg going from 3 vbl to two etc.

Does it support 20x87 FPU?

That looks like a very good *commercial* quality release! NICE!

It's exciting if it leads to the ST version of Magic being open sourced.

I love it! It has blast processing(tm)