Sio2sd for ATARI XE/XL/400/800 with 16 GB SD CARD with DEMOS/FREE SOFTWARE UNBOXING AND REVIEW

Obsolete But Neat, I am a fan of this format of computer sometimes called the grandfather of the Amiga as Jay Miner was one of the developers at Atari on this computer. Great way to get access to the large variety of software for this computer as it was sold for over a decade like the Commodore 64 its rival of the 8 bit computer giants.
floppy disk drive emulator for any 8bit ATARI computer

lotharek Sio2sd is a device that allows you to load games/applications into 8-bit Atari computers via SIO interface from SD/MMC cards

Device abilities:

Works with SD/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 (up to version 1.2 only d1 to d4 drives were available)
Can be configured using ATARI (it's possible to load configuration tool directly from MCU flash memory, so no SD card is needed)
Fimware uploaded 3.1 RC2 / www.lotharek.pl customized/
Most of the games for atari 8bit needs BASIC to be DISABLED - it means You have to press and hold ATARI OPTION KEY at power on.

What`s inside the box :

Sio2sd ready to use with sio cable ( please, put in paypal comment tab info for me, what colour You prefer: BLACK, WHITE, GREY XE, otherwise first from the left will be posted ;-)
16 GB SANDISK sd card with freeware software

Keyboard:

K1: next atari drive (D1,D2,..)
SHIFT + K1: previous atari drive (D2,D1,..)
K2: next file/folder
SHIFT + K2: previous file/folder
K3: parent directory (cd ..)
SHIFT pressed and held during ATARI POWER ON - on screen software selector software (with supplied card only) - default set up
K4: go to folder/map file to current atari drive
SHIFT+k4: turn off current atari drive ("eject disk")

Options:

sio high speed
off
hsindex from 1 to 16 (6 is the default setting)
cfg tool load (when to override D1 to load configuration program)
never
startup+shift - only when SHIFT was pressed during startup (power on)
every startup
no card - only if SD card is not inserted (default setting)
shift pressed - SHIFT always cause D1 override (tested on every SIO 'S' command on D1 - available from version 2.2)
LED mode (meanig of LEDs)
SD read/write - first LED shows SD reads, second LED shows SD writes
SIO read/write - first LED shows SIO reads, second SIO writes
SD act/SIO act - first LED shows any SD activity, second any SIO activity
device id (number of device for SIO2SD.XEX - available from version 2.2)
values from 0 to 3
write protect (write protection in ATR files - available from version 2.2)
never - ATR's are always R/W (write protect flag ignored)
obey ATR flag - obey ATR write protect flag - default
always - ATR's are always R/O
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