Omnimon rises (Atari)
I'm in a good mood despite the rain (couldn't finish painting for my bicycle club's Farmland tour). Last night my parts arrived to connect my computers to my TV (Antenna in - 300 Ohm). I plugged in my first computer, the Atari 800XL with Omnimon and up popped the familiar BASIC Ready prompt. The reversal of the control and shift keys is biting me from time to time (grr) but I was able to pop into Omnimon (a resident machine language monitor). Next step will be to check out the condition of a few other computers and then start working on building the Raspberry Pi interface (to replace the disk drive and other common peripherals). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
Outstanding! Enjoy getting reacquainted with your Atari. However, the control key is where God intended it, before the scourge of the PC keyboard :-) On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:06 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I'm in a good mood despite the rain (couldn't finish painting for my bicycle club's Farmland tour). Last night my parts arrived to connect my computers to my TV (Antenna in - 300 Ohm). I plugged in my first computer, the Atari 800XL with Omnimon and up popped the familiar BASIC Ready prompt. The reversal of the control and shift keys is biting me from time to time (grr) but I was able to pop into Omnimon (a resident machine language monitor). Next step will be to check out the condition of a few other computers and then start working on building the Raspberry Pi interface (to replace the disk drive and other common peripherals).
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 04/22/2017 08:12 PM, Dean Notarnicola wrote:
Outstanding! Enjoy getting reacquainted with your Atari. However, the control key is where God intended it, before the scourge of the PC keyboard :-)
Yes it took me a number of years to get used to the change. That and the serial port connectors (grrrr). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
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