Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A few random thoughts
Message-ID: <1220@electro.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 15:11:00 GMT
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Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <4448.257a46e4@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4224_5132@uwovax.uwo.ca (Andrew Semple) writes:
>  I was recently in one of my local (non-authorized) Atari dealers when I 
>noticed that he had an Atari product called VT100 Emulator.  It was a cart
>that you plugged in so your screen resembled those old VT100 terminals that
>astronomy people use :-).  Has anyone used it.  It was only 10$ so I might
>go back and purchase it just fo rthe heck of it.  Do I have to be hardwired to
>the system I want to use, or can I use Flash! or something.




yup. i've used it (once). the only reason i have two of these carts is that
i've desoldered the two roms on the cartridge and i can now experiment with
the cartridge port (ie: i can build whatever hardware i want and
hook it up to the empty sockets on these cartridges.) i did this for my
EE499 project at U of Waterloo. i removed the roms and replaced them with
the circuitry to allow up to 40kHz 12 bit sampling through the cartridge
port. worked really great. 

while on the subject of cartridges: does ANYONE know of where you can get 
** real ** prototype boards for the atari's cartridge port???? i've asked
this question a few times, but no-one ever seems to respond. not even
atari itself. i don't really feel like running out and buying a vt100
cart everytime i want to try some new hardware project on the st.

btw: are there any other official atari made cartridges like the vt100 cart???
(just wondering)



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