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by CrAlt
Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:23 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Poll: What do you do for a living?
Replies: 103
Views: 39393

Re: Poll: What do you do for a living?

I know it is a personal question, but what do you do for a living? I am just curious as to how this hobby relates/influences your chosen careers, jobs, professions. Anyone work in the tech industry? Cable guy.. I support any product my company sells... from residential analog catv to business netwo...
by CrAlt
Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:42 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Is The Vic Your Favourite 8-bit?
Replies: 65
Views: 10905

The vic is my #2 fav 8bit.. A new 80 col card would definitely bump it to the top if someone could clone them. My vic would get tons of use as a terminal with a real 80 col display. The 22col display is just to much for me do deal with for any amount of real hacking. My #1 8bit is my CoCo2. Its sooo...
by CrAlt
Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:40 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Best way to referb keyboard? Dead 1541's :(
Replies: 17
Views: 4927

Just a quick tip: if the VIA chips in the drives have failed, it may be only one chip per drive (there are two in each drive). You might be able to get two good chips out of the bunch, just keep swapping them around and see what happens. Just a update... UC2 6522 VIA (MOTOR CONTROL INTERFACE) faile...
by CrAlt
Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:07 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

6502dude filled me in on the hardware section on how to setup my vic1111 for blk5 so i should be able to get my vic on the air. All i have is the interface unit and the cable that hooks it up to the VIC via the joystick port. No docs or anything. I will open it up and snap some pics for you this wee...
by CrAlt
Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:32 pm
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: Q about Vic 1111 cart.
Replies: 1
Views: 1139

Q about Vic 1111 cart.

Can the memory locations be changed on this cart to put some ram on BLK5?

I opened it up and there seems to be jumper pads for setting something.
Image
by CrAlt
Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:14 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

This should be a fixed version of radiotap that can be autostarted from RAM in BLK5 - $A000, or, after removing the two load address bytes from the start, can be used as an autostart cart image. Lee. Wow you da man! Thanks for hacking that for me. I tryed it in VICE and got it to go. Now i just nee...
by CrAlt
Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:17 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

wow...

What the heck is even the point of putting copy protection in? This software is useless with out their interface box... and the interface box came with the software. :roll:
by CrAlt
Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:49 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: spoted vic20 in a new tv show "Flight of the Conchords
Replies: 27
Views: 9330

I hope its a Packard Bell with the Flying Toasters screen saver :lol:
by CrAlt
Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:41 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

Leeeeee wrote:
Neither of these looks accidental.

Lee.
So it might be copy protected?

i added 00 A0
popped in my vic-1111 16K ram cart.
load "radiotap",8,1
sys40960

and get a READY.
:(
by CrAlt
Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:25 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

Oh well looks like this project is halted for now I added 00 A0 to the start of http://cralt.com/vic/radiotap.bin and no matter how i setup the memery in VICE i get a READY prompt when trying to start it at different addresses. The real vic hangs or also gives me a "READY" prompt with my 8...
by CrAlt
Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:38 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

Well my hardware seems good to go. The interface seems to work and its wired to my TS570d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSVcD70IS0

Just need to get this bin to start...
by CrAlt
Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:09 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

Sent! Seems I had already dumped it but forgot I did... ;) It was a simple matter of just attaching it to an email and sending it. Hope it works well for you. RJ ok. I got it thanks! Do i have to burn it to a eprom or is there a way i can run this from a disk? Im guessing its a .bin file. I searche...
by CrAlt
Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:32 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

thanks!

:D
by CrAlt
Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:56 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

Its looks like the software was called "Radiotap". It came on a cart. Anyone have a image?

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/i ... And_64.php
by CrAlt
Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:58 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Ham Radio Ten Meter Beacon Station
Replies: 26
Views: 6517

I have that brown box with the LED's flashing. Its a "Kantronics -- The Interface" rtty, cw, uP. I just dont have any software for it. It plugs in to the game port. Im a ham and would like to play with it some. People use the beacons to tell when there is band opening. If you can hear a lo...