SPEEDY 1050 / mini SPEEDY MANUAL (C) ABBUC

ATTENTION IMPORTANT! READ THIS !!

In order to install the SPEEDY 1050/Mini-SPEEDY into your drive you have to open the drive case. Thereby you may lose any warranty of ATARI or the warranty of the dealer/vendor, you purchased the drive. We cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your drive nor do we replace any broken hardware. In the case of doubt you give the SPEEDY 1050 / Mini-SPEEDY to us (CompyShop, now days ABBUC !) to properly insert it into your 1050. We take some extra costs for this service that are well worth paying, than probably damaging your hardware. If you think you are capable of inserting the extension yourself, position yourself the following tools:

1. Screwdriver

2. Normal screwdriver (small)

3. Flat-nose pliers

4. Side cutter

Raise the mechanic in front and you will recognize a quantity of cables, which go from the mechanic to the basic plate. Normally it is not necessarily to take off the plugs, you can however remove them from the basic plate, if you like. Caution: Remember the correct plug-ins, please or write them down!!

Then remove the four black rubber plugs, which the drive assembly mechanic normally rests upon and keep them in a safe place. You will need them afterwards. The drive assembly electronics is held in the front case by two plastic noses. They are on each side of the front case (right and left). They prevent the floppy board from moving away. Bend the noses carefully to the side and thereby raise the board.

If you took this hurdle, you can lift the board without any further difficulties from the lower case. You should pay as well some attention to it. Now you may recognize the silver metal screen, that hides the ROM chips under it. This screen consists of two parts, which are connected with four latches at the lower surface of the floppy board. Bend these four noses with the flat-nose pliers to the side and take the metal screen off (we do not need it anymore!).

In the center of the plate, where the screen was before, you will now see five big IC's,

Here is the list of IC’s from left to the right:

Disc controller 2793 or 2797 (40 pins)

ROM or EPROM with the operating system (24 poles)

CCU 6507 (28 pins)

RAM 68lO (24 pins)

Lift now (with the help of a screwdriver) the ROM (U10) and the CCU (U9) from their bases and put you them aside. These IC`s are not needed any longer!! Into free the space of the CCU (U9), put the SPEEDY 1050 plate. Owners of a mini SPEEDY should put the plate facing to the left here. Do not put in the plate in the wrong way!!

(The ROM (with the sticker) and RAM (with the designation 6264) should face to the left!!)

If you have one of the older BIG SPEEDY board you should fit the high-standing silver quartz by the cutout in the plate look. Pay some attention here!! With some drive assemblies the plate itself somewhat heavily puts in. But don't be frightened, the Speedy therefore fits better and tougher in its place...

In the power amplification for the serial signals, there are four condensers, which affect the pulse slope with the higher SIO rate. Thus, you have to remove them. Take a side cutter and simply cut the following condensers off: C56 - C57 - C58 - C61

Next, you should do a function control and set the speed adjustment. Connect the power to the drive assembly. If everything still functions correctly, after you switch on the drive and the power control light should light up. Now close the flap of the drive assembly without a disk. The busy lamp should light up and the write/read head should move a few steps to center. If all functions of your drive work as described here, you can continue testing the speed adjustment. If something is wrong or does not work, go through all steps again and particularly test the contacts which connect the SPEEDY 1050/mini-SPEEDY with the CPU BASE.

In order to do the speed adjustment, insert your provided SPEEDY SYSTEMDISK into the drive assembly and switch on the computer. After a short load time the Speedy software menu appears. choose the speed adjustment by pressing one for the SPEEDY MENU selections. Press ‘1’ and you will arrive at the SPEEDY 1050 test program.

Pressing the key ‘4’ starts the speed test. You get the rounds per minute (RPM) measure indicated, the drive should have (288) and the real RPM measure it actually has (<=> 288). The optimal speed is 288 RPM. Because the Drive assembly mechanics are not always rotating (properly) disks with the same measure, the speed may not always be constant and speed fluctuations up to 0.6 RPM may appear. This is normal and should not worry you. With the automatic controller VR2 you should stop the number of revolutions, so the speed adjusts between 287.5 and 288.5 RPM. The speed may be better adjusted to somewhat less than more. The speed adjuster is directly behind the drive assembly chassis on the left side of the basic plate (consider the instruction). NOTE: The control range is very big and minimum adjustment may already cause a big speed variance...

Owners of a SPEEDY 1050 with TRACK LED should insert now their indicator plate at the front of their drive assembly. We do not have general clues here, just look for the best place for the LED and cut yourself a suitable cutout into the front plate. You can also test your Track LED with the Speedy test. First, choose the Speedy menu, then the Speedy test and press three to test the LED. You will see the test onscreen (with default numbers) and simultaneously on the Track LED, besides you will hear the "Error" indicating buzzer making some noise...

Before you assemble your floppy disk drive again, you can also install two more switches into your drive assembly. The first switch is a write lock switch, with its assistance you can write onto Disk backsides without cutting it. The second switch may help you to place the SPEEDY to slow

Mode, if you want to load copy protected software for example. This is the same as the Happy enhancements "unhappy" mode. The installation of these two switches is very easy and can easily be made. Just concern the instruction manual on page 5...

SPEEDY S, SPEEDY D, SPEEDY DS

The sector copier in the SPEEDY S (DS) or the DOS in the SPEEDY D boot up if you switch on the computer and simply leave the drive assembly flap open, Since the SPEEDY DS includes both programs, you have another switch so you can always choose which program you want to boot (DOS or Sector copier). Finally, we reached the end of the SPEEDY 1050 (mini SPEEDY) installation manual. We hope, everything works well now and then and you will enjoy your Speedy 1050 enhancement.

SPEEDY SYSTEM DISK:

Insert the system disk into your drive assembly and switch on your Atari computer. The OPTION key needs not to be held. After few seconds, the MAINMENU appears with several points of selection.

Here is now a short description of all Menu options and their handling.

MAIN MENU:

[Option 1: SPEEDY MENU (V. 1.x)]

Here it is indicated how many SPEEDY drive assemblies are attached.

SLOW switched Speedy drives assemblies are not recognized. With the key ' D ' you can choose, which drive to be addressed.

1. SPEEDY RAM TEST

The 8k-Byte RAM on the SPEEDY 1050 (mini SPEEDY) is tested here.

2. SPEEDY ROM TEST

The ROM of the SPEEDY 1050 (mini SPEEDY is tested here.

3. INDICATOR TEST (TRACK LED)

Tests the display (TRACK LED) and the buzzer of a SPEEDY 1050 with Track LED.

4. SPEED TEST

The number of revolutions/rounds of the drive motor is tested here.

With the keys 1-6 you set the appropriate control bit for the chosen functions. The control bits could merely be re-setting with the key ' R '.

The functions of the control bit in detail:

1 - When a write/read error occurs, the buzzer makes a warning tone.

Works only with a SPEEDY T.

2 - Do not switch the driving motor off with command $51 (all sectors from internal Buffer are written immediately ) .

3 - With command $20 (special format instruction) do not write the boot and directory sectors.

4 - Formats without VERIFY. Thus formatting will be done in approx. 9 seconds. Caution with cheap disks!!

5 - Represent TRACK LED in Hexadecimal form.

6 - Display a write/read error (and the ERROR status) in hexadecimal form on the Track LED. Can be used together with function 1 and is indeed very handy to find copy protected sectors... (or copy protections). Works only on a SPEEDY T.

The complete control byte is indicated on the screen. After you press the key' W ' the byte is sent to the drive assembly.

With the key ' D ' you can choose the SPEEDY drive and which one should be adjusted here. With the Keys 1-4 you set again the individual status bit for the following functions:

1 - Sector read: slowly. The sectors are not read with any TRACK/Cache buffer of the Speedy, but are read individually and sent individually to the computer, as with a normal drive assembly without enhancement.

2 - Sector write slowly. The sectors are not written with any track/Cache buffer, but are written individually...

3 - COM $57 with Verify. DOS 2,DOS 2.5 and DOS 3 use the instruction 57 to write sectors with verify. Because this takes longer than necessary, verify is normally disabled in Speedy enhancements. You can however enable write with verify here, if you like...

4 - Drive assembly in SLOW mode. This means, that all auxiliary instructions, which are unavailable with the normal 1050 OS are ignored further on. It also means, the drive now behaves like a slow mode 1050. This can necessary, if you want to load in any copy protected software on a SPEEDY drive. If the Speedy should work with higher speed (SIO rate) after the activation of this status bit, you have to turn off and back on again the drive assembly.

With the key 'R', all status bits are re-setting. With a key press of the key ‘W’, you send the adjusted status to the SPEEDY drive...

With some copy-protected programs, it is necessary, to turn your SPEEDY 1050/mini SPEEDY into a normal 1050 drive again. With some other Floppy speeders you have to remove the enhancement to do this. This is not necessary with the SPEEDY. With the help of this function the SPEEDY OS is modified in such a way, so a SPEEDY 1050 (mini SPEEDY) drive behaves like a normal 1050 without enhancement. Thus, a program cannot determine now, whether an enhancement is

installed in the drive assembly or not. The SPEEDY 1050 (mini SPEEDY) can restart again, by simply turning off your drive and then back on again...

Main Menu Option 2 - SPEEDY BACKUP

This program serves for copies from copy-protected software. Approx.80% of all protected (SINGLE Density) disks in the trade could be copied (once upon along ago!). The operation is self-explanatory, but you cannot copy these disks:

1) Tracks with more than 19 sectors per TRACK.

2) Sectors with changing data.

3) MEDIUM Density disks.

The status of a TRACK that can be copied is indicated on the screen. The individual status messages mean in detail:

. = normal TRACKS with 18 sectors.

- = on the TRACK are less than 18 sectors.

+ = on the TRACK are more than 18 sectors.

X = TRACK is unformatted.

U = format uncommon or too many sectors on the Track.

The copied disk often will not work...

E = an error occurred while copying

Main Menu Option 3 - SPEED INIT

*.COM and *.OBJ files. It works with Single, Medium/Enhanced and Double Density Disks. Do the following:

1) Load the program and format/init a disk,

2) Use DOS or a file copier to copy all files onto this disk,

3) Lock all loadable files,

4) re-run the gamedos program and name all the copied files with full gamedos names (up to 32 chars.),

5) Now you can boot your new gamedos disk...

Main Menu Option 5 - SECTOR COPIER:

This is the standard copier for unprotected disks in all three diskette formats (S/M/D). It also works on drives, without any enhancement. All COMPY SHOP RAM disks and the RAM disk of an 130 XE Atari will be supported. Thus, it is for example possible to copy a DOUBLE Density disk in one passage. The operation of the sector copier is self-explanatory: Use [Start], [Select] and [Option] to operate it. Press [Option] again to do another copy of the same disk, press [Select] to continue reading, if an error or any disk protection appears...

Main Menu Option 6 - DISK MAPPER:

With this program, you can get an overview of a disk. Full and empty sectors are as well indicated as defective or no existing sectors. The sequence of the sectors present at a TRACK can be indicated. You will find the meaning of the individual status values in the program of the German Menu point INFORMATIONEN.

Main Menu Option 7 - _HSS COPIER:

At present, this is the quickest sector copier for the SPEEDY 1050/mini SPEEDY drives. You find a description of this program in the MAIN MENU

POINT 8 (German) "Anleitung HSS COPIER". This copier does not work on all 1050 drives. This is because of the construction unit tolerance of the different1050 electronics. If you should have problems with this copier, please inquire the ABBUC Floppy-Doc (Erhard Puetz), he perhaps can help you quickly and give some tips. As with the normal Sector-Copier, use [Start], [Select] and [Option], to operate this program.

Now, here follows the description of the permanent Speedy Drive SIO commandos. Since I am not a programmer and do not have any knowledge about this, I will not translate this long section... sorry !!