Atari-Forum

I never worked out how to use irc.

I remember them breaking aIcq but I wasn't sure if something else had come along.

A quick search reveals how they changed the protocol several times. There is the inevitable lib:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/icqlib/

Years ago there were loads of IM platforms and several IM apps for the Atari. aICQ was the one I used most.


Are there any working IM apps at the moment ?

English Pure Pascal files would be a great help.

I would like to change the events from text to buttons, rather like hyperlinks. This is so the event can be opened and to use bubble help. I can't find an example of adding buttons to a window in objectGem. Also I don't know if I can create a button in the rsc and then make lots of copies of it in c...

I seem to recall the Milan can be started from the second IDE by pressing 2 during boot up. I can't remember the details but it would help testing.

It is marked as LNX I just did that to highlight it.

I don't have many symbolic links, really just the bare minimum for Mint to work.

Maybe we need a 1-20 release so people don't use these ancient versions.

I had a search for the pinouts, they are very different. It was a bit of a tongue-in-cheek suggestion, well beyond my skills.

Sata drives are about a quarter of the price of pata drives and go beyond 750GB which seems to be the upper limit for ide.

I don't suppose that Intel 82371FB could be upgraded to a later one (SB or AB) by some soldering whizz ?

Probably different packages, pinouts.

What did they use in the Milan II prototypes ?

In HD Driver they look the same apart from the increased sizes. Both are Seagate 160GB drives of slightly different ages.

The two drives have the same partitions

C D E F G h
I J K L M n

So the fstab on each drive is the same.

c / dos root wheel 700
d / dos root wheel 700
e / dos root wheel 700
f / dos root wheel 700
g / dos root wheel 700
h / ext2 root wheel 777
i / dos root wheel 700
j / dos root wheel 700
k / dos root wheel 700
l / dos root wheel 700
m / dos root wheel 700
n / ext2 root wheel 777

Yes it is puzzling that it works as the second drive but not the primary.

I am currently using Mint build d4a.

I though I spotted the mistake in fstab which had the access 777 on H but only has 700 on N

With N set to 777 it still drops to the MiS console with:

unitsize (32768) too small (clsizb=1757680)

I have just partitioned an IDE drive with HD Driver 10.14, mke2fs on the h: partition and copied everything from the existing drive. All good so far. When I install the driver as a secondary, IDE slave the Milan boots up and I can access the original primary and the new drive. However, if the drives...

I have uploaded a release to github:

https://github.com/ps68060/GEMiCal/releases

No new features in recent builds I have been improving the code structure to make it easier to add more features.

I only had 1 device on the sata adapter.

I just wondered if anyone makes a pci->sata adapter and Startech do make one but it only has one internal sata and one external e-sata port and it would need a driver. There are more options on a pci-express interface but that wouldn't fit in the Milan however they do make a pci->pci express adapter...

I had the same problem, the sockets don't seem string enough to hold the simms.

Which slots do you have them in ?

I've been using the last of my furlough time to create a simple app for displaying ICS (iCal) files in a calendar. It is Pure Pascal with ObjectGEM which I have never done much with so it is very much an Alpha at this time. https://github.com/ps68060/GEMiCal It does have a slight memory leak but I h...

I've never tried BigDOS either, I thought it was like HD Driver.

http://rainer-seitel.onlinehome.de/bigdos.html

It looks like it has a 2GB limit. I've got 10GB partitions.

In my tests the eof flag is Never being set no matter where it is tested this results in reading beyond the end of the file.

EOF didn't work so I had to test for a 0 in the returned content. It looks like PP eof only works in text files.

That's annoying.

Is there any other way to access large partitions from TOS ?