SDrive-MAX is a cheap and easy way to build yourself an Atari disk drive emulator using an Arduino UNO board. In a previous article I described how to build one yourself. To make our SDrive a little more attractive, you can add LEDs. The POWER LED, of course, lights up when the device is connected to power (or gets 5V from the Atari), and the ACTIVITY LED blinks when loading a program.
Read More »SDrive-MAX and LEDs
After assembling the Ultimate 1MB, Sophia DVI and Simple Stereo modules, it was time to put all this stuff into the case. It came to my mind a few ideas that I would like to share with you.
Read More »Captain’s Log, Supplemental: Atari upgrade and mounting of extensions in the housing
I’ve been thinking about expanding my Atari for a long time, but it took me a while to complete all the necessary elements. Here’s a report from the front line. I don’t recommend to do it if you’ve never had a soldering iron in your hand before. Well, it’s time to create a real 8-bit monster!
Read More »How to upgrade your Atari with Ultimate 1MB, Stereo and Sophia DVI
SDrive-MAX is a disk drive/tape recorder emulator for Atari 8-bit computers. It’s open source project based on sdrive-ng ported to Arduino platform. All source code and many usefull informations you can find on a github project page: https://github.com/kbr-net/sdrive-max