Thanks man! I appreciate you left your mistake with the different SD card in the video and not edited it to make you look perfect. This way we can learn from your mistake or we might know what to look for in case we get the same error.

Nice see atari back in use iv hundreds od games on disc

Thanks for your videos on this. I was debating between this, and a different SD solution to hook up to the SIO bus. This convinced me to go with the SIO bus solution at first, as I really want to be able to save files and such. This will be a perfect second add on for my 800XL for the ease of using carts, though. I am a big fan of The Brewing Academy - great products!

Thanks for the informative video. I ordered my Ultimate Cart several days ago and am looking forward to it. I recently got my 800XL out of the attic and now going retro! After 30+ years of being offline- I am ready to bring the A8 into the 21st century. I am lucky that most of my floppies still work. Also- it looks like you have the Hakko FX888D there... great iron!

Thanks for mentioning this,i just won this cart trough an auction on ebay and so now i do know that it doesn’t accept sd cards higher then 4GB,that means i should have to hunt down a 4GB sd card on ebay since stores no longer sells 4GB sd cards anymore,the minimum they do sell is 32GB, Would be very handy such card sothat it could put certain games on it and play them on my atari 400😁

OSS? They made the Action! language (an orange cartridge). That is where I learned to program. It was like a combination of Pascal & C. You could also inject some machine code bytes. Atari 8-bit got me started as a teenager and into college, where Atari 1040 ST got me the rest of the way through college and my first fulltime programming job (on for Atari hardware of course, but my personal projects helped to secure my first job).

Awesome video, trying to find the altimate cartridge, this is great!

Looks like a quite nice option

ultimate cart is a really nice Hardware Extension for the XL/XE and a must

Super expansion card..very nice video..

Thanks man! Great videos. I enjoyed. Looking for technology for my 800XL and this is awesome. Greetings from Buenos Aires. Bye!

man. time to get one of these and breakout my Atari 800XL. I loved Archon back in the day, used to play it on my uncle's C64.

I ordered this over the weekend. I have an UNO Cart which plays some XEX and ATR files, but I wanted the memory limitations lifted as I upgraded my 800XL's memory to 320k with an external board. Im hoping this will play XEX, ROM and CART files more flawlessly.

That's just cool. The Atari 8-bit was my first computer love so it's so neat to see it still getting love in the 21st century. Also, as a fellow content creator, you've gotta tell me what model that monitor is -- when I first saw your shot of the screen I thought that was a recorded output being composited, but then I realized it was just a standard shot. I've never seen a monitor show up so well on video with no washout or glare!

I've seen several videos about the Side3 cart, which tries to do ATR disk images. If you have the U1MB hardware installed (which requires some soldering on the motherboard), then it's apparently nearly flawless, but without it the disk emulation is a bit of a hack. There are a number of SIO options, with the FujiNet probably getting the most buzz. I saw someone with a mini-1050 printed case for an Arduino board that provides disk emulation and other stuff. I've been thinking I might want to build something like that inside my broken 1030 modem case. It's amazing how many different add-ons and hardware mods there are now for the Atari 8-bits.

The Atari disk drive was superior in many ways to the C64. It was faster just like loading games from the cartridge here is much much faster than loading a game off an SD card on the c64 !

Good video thank you. AVG Cart is much better though. It emulates all carts as well as the SIDE2+Spartados X with full hard drive read/write support. It also supports ATR (floppy disk images) hot swapping when used with U1MB. Its menu isn't as pretty though. Cassette emulation is in the works now by use of a cable between AVG and SIO. See the Atariage forums AVG Cart thread. I enjoy your interest expressed here about A8!

Modern version of the Atari 800 Right Slot SALT cartridge. Yeah! I have the MAC65 cartridge! And BASIC XE.

Just got the a8PicoCart. It’s cheaper, made with a pi peco. Plus you can make it yourself.

I prefer using a 1050 disk drive for the Nostalgia of it! Plus the 1050 drive is pretty fast! Take that from someone that also had a C64 ! In my opinion, if you're gonna use a classic Atari computer with a cartridge loader, you might as well just use an emulator on a PC.

14:33 Alley cat for the C64 is a completely different game. The Alley Cat game you show on the Atari 8-bit was only ported to MS-DOS.

Both BASIC XE and MAC 65 have extension disks which load on bootup.

This is fantastic, but there are so many amazing titles that were disk only that do not seem useable here. I think these were Are files. Also titles such as Tarzan and Seven Cities of Gold use more than one disk, which will not work with this. Nevertheless, there seems some great uses for those rare cartridges just as you've mentioned.

Am I correct in assuming that any ROM files will only run on the Ultimate Cart? I have an SD Drive Max but can't run ROM files from it.

What a beautiful Panasonic TV. Could you tell me the model?

But from MAC XE, how do you SAVE thinks? Onto Floppy Disk? Don't you need to boot into Atari DOS first?

Does this allow you to load disk images, or just ROMs?

Do you know if it will play modern homebrew files that can be as much as 1mb in size or are we a talking about a physical memory upgrade to the motherboard? Also i'm guessing it can't handle multi-loader disk based games unless they have been converted to a single xex file.

Thanks for the videos. Can I ask what the monitor you are using?

What kind of display is that? That screen looks amazing.

Actually Alley Cat was only released for 8-bit Atari and... IBM PC. There was no C64 version.

Interesting! Could you maybe do a video on the Ultimate 1MB upgrade? lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=56 Apparently comes with quite a few nice features...

I found a cartridge in my dads tote of atari 65xe stuff and it says jumpstart on it and has a little red button on the end of cartridge. Anyone know what this does? I have some guy bugging me for it. Im not sure if i should seperate it from the console.

You stated that UltimateCart is limited to a 4GB card, and this has never been true for me. Even if the docs say that officially, I've used 32GB SanDisk Ultra cards with my UltimateCart for the past 18 months and had no issues whatsoever. I think it has more to do with the way the card is formatted. You can't format a card greater than 32GB as FAT32 by default. It takes a special app to do this. For this reason, any microSD card larger than 32GB typically comes formatted as exFAT, and I think that's where the problem comes in. I think that format is incompatible with the UltimateCart. As long as your microsSD card is formatted as FAT32, any card up to 32GB should work, and you may be able to use larger cards as long as you've gone to the extra step of reformatting them to FAT32.

Interesting, why did you change the case? I prefer the red but was there another reason?

Does this cart do away with needing to use cassettes to load games that are only on cassette?

Looking for nice retro tv/monitor... Nice Panasonic TV/monitor.. What is a model?

You could always burn a ROM...PC boards are cheap AF nowadays. PCB way or JCPL or one of those folks can print 5 for 5. The ultimate however is the best way to go!

mapping the atari, best $35 i ever spent.

FPGA seems a bit excessive for this

this will not work with the 400 and i don't know about the 800. The 400 requires its cartridge door to be shut to operate and this cartridge is too tall.

i have the complete atari 8 bit compilation all in 1 zip file available for download. if anyone wants it let me know.

Uuum.