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I presume that the lack of an Ultimax-style bypass is why, as I understand it, there are no freezer cartridges for Atari 8-bit. (The piracy problem was just as
by TMWNN 1y ago
I presume that the lack of an Ultimax-style bypass is why, as I understand it, there are no freezer cartridges for Atari 8-bit. (The piracy problem was just as bad, however, because of Happy Computers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_drives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_drives>.)
On the other hand, Atari 8-bit's design allows for FujiNet to work without the workarounds/disadvantages a Commodore equivalent would have. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37424773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37424773>
- spacedcowboy 1y agoThere were freezer's for the Atari line. They plugged into the parallel bus IIRC. I never owned one, I only know because I've just spent the last 3 or 4 days putting together a site to browse my mirror of pigwa.net (the Atari software archive site), and I happened to be using the 'Projects' directory for my testing. If you: 1) go to http://atari-archive.net/ http://atari-archive.net/ 2) Double-click the 'Cloud drive' icon to open the window 3) Double-click on 'Projects', then 'Turbo Freezer 2005 & 2011' [1] You can see the project, including a PDF of English documentation in the turbo-freezer-2011 subfolder. [1] The icon isn't wide enough for the entire filename but it's obvious what's what. There's an 'As list' mode if it bothers you :) I think the Atari version uses the /IRQ on the parallel bus, I know you can do some funky stuff with that - like take over the bus from the CPU (by keeping it in halt) and as long as you respect Antic's bus cycles (the true master of the "cpu" bus) you can read/write to RAM and do whatever you want.