Portfolio to USB adapter stack:

  1. Portfolio Serial Module
  2. Gender Changer
  3. Null Modem adapter
  4. RS232 to USB adapter

I can send and receive files on the Portfolio via xterm2, on my modern PC I use TeraTerm to communicate with xterm2 over serial using the XModem protocol.

I also wrote an image converter to convert jpg to pgf (portfolio graphics file). I haven’t yet implemented the compression to write pgc (portfolio graphics compressed) files directly. I use pgcompress on the atari to convert pgf to pgc. Pgc files can be viewed on the Atari using pgshow.

I got all software for the portfolio from here: Portfolio Library

  • DammN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    This was my very first computer… Still have it though but ribbon which connects display to motherboard needs to be replaced. There are some glitches on display when I use it.

    • constantokra@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Glitches like what? Sometimes all it takes is to run a warm soldering iron along the ribbon where it’s soldered to the board. Or anyway it works on old gameboys and calculators.

      • DammN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Missing lines at the bottom of the display… Just few lines. Maybe all it takes is just open that miracle and move the ribbon a bit. Getting old sucks, hands shake and you don’t trust your senses anymore…