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The New! Improved! Powerful! Faster! North Star Horizon Emulator for

jack — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:54:14 GMT

Well, maybe not hugely different. But we now have hard-disk capability using hard-disk images between 5megabytes and 30 megabytes. Documentation is

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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:26:26 GMT

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Re: Advantage Simulator

jack — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:13:20 GMT

... Oh, Allison, I love you! Thanks to that throw-away line to John Crane, I've found all the information on the control ports and status bytes I was

Re: Advantage Simulator

ajparent1 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:48:51 GMT

It is but its also all the old Horizon stuff was upward compatable to the Advantage. If you didn't use the features you can view the Advantage as a one box

Re: Advantage Simulator

Mark Olding — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:01:43 GMT

Quick follow up As I suspected from the same site http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/miscpm/index.htm#nsa GBASIC and GDOS is what I was thinking about that is

Re: Advantage Simulator

Mark Olding — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:50:02 GMT

Interesting I would have though the Advantage was "superior" to the Horizon. The built in display that I thought supported "hi-res" graphics that could be

Re: Advantage Simulator

ajparent1 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:25:29 GMT

The Advantage is a Horizon with a few added features. The basic used is the same (NS* Basic) and the Dave Dunfields Altair/Horizon simulator is good (plus

Re: Advantage Simulator

Agustus Finknottle IV "Gussy" — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:51:14 GMT

... I've seen a Horizon simulator, but never an Advantage. The N* BASIC docs are available online at:

Advantage Simulator

marko63 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:27:31 GMT

Hello all, I am a Noob to this group so forgive me if I am asking an "answered" question. I used an Advantage in 1984 as part of the John Abbot computer lab in

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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:51:25 GMT

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wanted: control and status byte info on north star horizon hard disk

Jack Strangio — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:03:15 GMT

Does anybody have any information on the 'Theory of Operation' for the N* HD5X or HD18 hard drives? I'm mainly looking for information on the port numbers,

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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:44:23 GMT

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Re: N* Horizon Project Update -

Allison Parent — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:31:02 GMT

Why not store it in the files section of this group? Allison ... http://www.vintagecomputer.net/northstar/ ... original.? Also, the proportional spacing in

Re: N* Horizon Project Update -

Allison Parent — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:29:00 GMT

Boot address can be either depending on the disk card used. Single density is E900, double is E800 (more rom). However all of single denisty cards also