Issue 25: Nov 2002
Features
- | Foreword
- | Pocket an Atari!
- | Collecting Atari Games
- | Tip of the day
- | Unfinished Business
- | I had a dream: The Grid Sequencer!
- | Atari in the USA: Mr Atari's IDE
- | Atari 7800: The system that could (but didn't)
- | Tablet PCs in Today's World
- | Atari Goes Metal
Reviews
- | Unreal Tournament 2003
- | V-Rally 3
- | Do you have 19 inches of rack mounted Atari?
- | Multi Worms
- | Pixel Power
News
| Mr Atari's MyIDE Well the long-awaited Atari 8-bit IDE hard drive interface kit has been shipped the last week of October. As mentioned a few months back, "Mr Atari" Sijmen Schouten had developed an IDE interface that could be built following his instructions on his web site. He also provided the software to make this interface work.
MyIDE production PCB.
Sijmen took this idea and had professional IDE interface PCBs manufactured for sale. This interface can be used inside an Atari XE cartridge or built into your Atari 8-bit unit.
Atari XE blank cartridge.
Here's what you get in the MyIDE kit version. PCB with chips on board. 3.5 inch floppy disk with software and drivers. 5.25 inch floppy disks with a master disk and a driver disk. Internal cable and ribbon cable for internal installation. Several sets of written instructions covering: How to make the XE cart to install the PCB into. How to install the PCB inside the Atari 8-bit. Manual on how to set up your hard drive using this interface and drivers. Manual on how to use the software provided.
MyIDE IDE PCB kit.
I don't want to beat a horse to death, but I think this is a very professional kit, and can be very useful to anyone wanting to add a hard drive to that old Atari 8-bit system. I just got the kit so I'll spend this month using this kit to do an install and will let you know how it worked out next month. del@myatari.co.uk
Useful links
Del's home page http://members.tripod.com/dgmccool/page2.htm MyIDE http://home.wanadoo.nl/mr.atari/hardware-want.htm
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