The Last Starfighter on Atari 800XL
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The Last Starfighter on Atari 800XL
(No emulation, booting from a >20 year old floppy.)
So, yes. The Atari 1050 floppy drive that I was attempting to fix is… Well… Fixed. I also played some Necromancer too, before turning it off and ceasing working for the evening. The new caps are considerably smaller than the old ones, but the snap in pins were large enough that they had to be ground down to fit. Once all the new electrolytic caps were in place and I’d jumpered around the trace I lifted earlier and tested everything, it was time to put the RF shied on the board and put it back in the enclosure. I was a bit nervous about reconnecting the floppy drive because of the many different connectors, but it worked out.
I then put it all together, hooked it up to the TV, and tried to boot a game disk, which failed. Next I tried a DOS disk and that worked, then finally The Last Starfighter beta and Necromancer. So, it looks like that first failure was just a problem with a single disk. Hopefully I can still read the rest of it.
With any luck the SIO2PC adapter will come pretty soon and then I can image as many of the old floppies as possible. Now, bed.
“Necromancer, by Bill Williams”
I remember those days, before the NEW was flooded by shitty knock-off games. Days when people were proud to put there name on a game. Which is why I believe that some video games are just as viable of an artform as cinema, literature, or music.
NEW = NES
NEW = NES
“Necromancer, by Bill Williams”
I remember those days, before the NEW was flooded by shitty knock-off games. Days when people were proud to put there name on a game. Which is why I believe that some video games are just as viable of an artform as cinema, literature, or music.