SIO2SD Review Page

SIO2SD Comes in two types.

The SIO2SD media is a SD card that you can place your atrs on with your IBM. Has a nice display five external buttons to change atrs with out running software. The software that comes with the Device is easy to use. You can run up to 8 drives. The only downfall is the board does not lend itself to easy installation. But with a bit of work it can turn into a nice upgrade. I built mine into an 800xl.

This is a picture of the display mounted into the 800xl case.

The SIO2SD plugs into the display. You also need to trim the case for the sd card.

Here you see the buttons and led’s.

Now it is all closed up and the finial view of the completed project.

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
- 16x2 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)

Some useful documents and informations

SIO2SD

- How to create ATR file
- SIO2SD Quick guide
- SIO2SD firmware upgrade v. 2.4.07
- How to connect SIO2SD directly to Atari motherboard or build your own cable

I Rate the SIO2SD a 7! I gave it 5 point for function ease of use 2 more points

Because it did turn into a nice mod. You can get one of these devices from

The Atari Fan Store

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