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And they live.
Think I now have seven Fire tablets of various vintage all working and responding to my account. Although a couple will no longer be considered zombies and get their own entry on this forum, there are at least a couple that remain shambolic.
jjFire8HDb – device doesn’t charge reliably, no sound from internal speaker or headphone jack.
jjFire7HDb – works fine, screen smashed.Deserving of their own entry:
jjFire810a – Got Ralf’s old ZAGG keyboard connecting to this beast. Streams from Amazon Prime, Twitch, and Discord (live streaming still to test). Considering trying to jailbreak this guy, it’s very capable, but hindered by the limited Amazon Fire environment.
jjFireHD8a
jjFireHD7a
jjFire5a – streams Amazon Prime videoNew Atari station in the garage studio with the Falcon and the TT. Getting sound from both into the mixer is next… then Cubase on the Falcon, and who knows what exactly next on the TT.
Not sure what was wrong that night, but both the speaker and external sound are working fine at the moment. Presenting NFL Football on Amazon Prime, at the moment.
It also runs the current version of Clash of Clans, interestingly enough.
Twitch freezes trying to “Go Live.”
FujiNet SSH demo: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/319605-n-ssh-demo/page/2/
FujiNet N: Handler docs: https://github-wiki-see.page/m/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-platformio/wiki/Using-the-N%3A-DeviceHaving trouble getting this guy to charge right now.
The machine will play Amazon Prime Video content, but the sound seems completely borked: nothing comes out of the speakers, and just a buzz in the headphone output. Discord also let me know it wasn’t recieving any mic input. This machine may not have any remaining practical uses.
Want to get FujiNet connecting to jjewell.com over FlickerTerm to do meaningful WP updates from an Atari 8-bit. My currently standard setup allows me to run FlickerTerm under a modern version of SpartaDOS, next step is to figure out the N: device to connect to ssh at jjewell.com. Need links to FujiNet docs for next step.
This device is current in the bedroom, going to try it out as the office Discord machine. bedroom@jjewell.com jj_bedroom
Need to get the FujiNet into the garage: I need to try the flasher program on this computer, and run some SALT carts on the ATR256XL.
I’ll put this here until I a: figure out what exactly is going on with the machine, and b: decide the best way to present the info. For now it’s a freeform record of what I’m doing.
Turns out my prospective flagship 800XL, one I acquired with a 256k memory upgrade, is just super flaky: not all the keys seem to work… it doesn’t seem to see things on the SIO… sometimes its colors… wander… even into occasional black and white display. This seems to be the best place for me to start expanding my capabilities on the Atari 8bit: it’s a very usable, powerful machine, I have a couple backups to pull parts from, and I want to see what this Sys-Check thingy can do.
Fetched the Sys-Check from the storage unit, got things connected, fired it all up… and Sys-Check says everything is cool. Now, I know everything’s not cool, but after a moment of wondering about the validity and/or authenticity of the peripheral, I tried to assess what this was actually telling me. Most importantly, the CPU, ANTIC, GTIA, and memory seem to be in good shape. I just need a different tool for the next steps… and I am remembering the SALT cartridge images I have on the AVGcart…
Dell Dimension 2350
JJWINXP
1.8GHz Pentium 4, 256MB, 37.27G Drive, WINXP Pro 5.1.2600 SP3
Intel 8284G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics
CD-ROM GCR-8481B
BCM v.92 56K ModemAttached the FireWire drives, letting Disk Utility do its thing.
I’ve been working on this system… a foundation, a structure for understanding and evaluating our place in the world. It came out of my questioning of modern religion and politics… and how so many societal arguments come down to differences of opinion in what is “good” and “right.” It came as a way to try to score myself, to rate my progress, on the path to being “better” or “more right.”
I call it the Three As, usually referred to with the not at all confusing antonym AAA… and this is the first public step towards figuring out how to present it.
I believe using this system to evaluate myself and others has opened opportunities for me to be more understanding and forgiving of others, to focus on the things that are truly important to me, to question things that are presented to me as Truth.
