Unboxing SIO2SD interface by Pigula
Autopsy:
Testing the SIO2SD interface for Atari
The SIO2SD is a device that allows you to load games/applications into any 8-bit Atari XL/XE computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards.
Device abilities:
- Works with SD (not SDHC) and MMC(FAT12,FAT16 and FAT32 formats)
- Handles ATR (rw), XFD (ro) and COM/XEX (ro) file types.
- 16×2 LCD display allows to “walk” catalog tree and choose files to load.
- Handles SIO with turbo (allows to set speed index from 1 to 16, default is 6 (69kb/s), in versions 1.x speed index was always 10 (51kb/s))
- All densities with 128B and 256B sectors, including 16MB disks.
- Handles drives D1 to D8.
- Can be configured using ATARI (it’s possible to load configuration tool directly from MCU flash memory, so no SD card is needed)
SIO2SD in Action:
source: sio2sd.gucio.pl marcinprusisz.pl
Categories: Atari family, Gallery, Retro Computers and other stuff..., SD/MMC Interfaces
Nice video ;)