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Keep the cable as short as possible though.

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Today is a sad day, because Sir Clive Sinclair, a pioneer of home computing has died aged 81.

Definitely very sad news

May he enjoy the inventors heaven.

>BBC News story

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Glad to hear that you are all sorted
And thanks for coming back and letting us know.

Have fun

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Atari ST machine’s with TOS 1.04 don’t need a FDD in order to start up, so best to leave it disconnected for now.

Was the machine running okay with the old ROMs?

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This game does not appear to be Atari related?

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A photo of the relevant area of the board may help. Do you have a digital multimeter? If yes, test the +5V supply, if it is within +/-5% (4.75V to 5.25V) then it’s fine Have you checked to make sure that each and every EPROM pin is okay and not bent under the socket? What is the condition of the soc...

Alas, the relentless SPAM attack continues unabated while I watch and can’t really do much (as I am just an ordinary user on the Wiki)...
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The MiSTer forums only are locked.

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Yeah, I’ve already PMed Dal and Mug.

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It's getting spammed, that's why...

I've started reverting the changes...

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Hello Antibaddy, welcome to the forum :D From the symptoms you describe, and as the PSU works in another Ste, I would say that the PSU is unhappy because something on the main board is either short circuit, or drawing an excessive amount of current. Hence the PSU is shutting down to protect itself. ...

Hello dempseydiscus, welcome to the forum :D Atari ST machines normally boot from the internal floppy drive. The device (drive) select lines are routed so that the first DS line goes to the internal FDD connector and the second DS line goes to the 14 way DIN socket for external drives. On some mothe...

Hi, I would like to present my last Atari ST project which was never made before AFAIK: RAMcart ST . It is 2x128kB cartridge with battery powered RAM. Hello tOri and welcome to the forum :D Looks good 8) I'm tempted to build one (although I've got far too many other things to do at the moment :( )....

Dal carried out some more tweaks yesterday, so hopefully everyone’s forum experience is improving. Personally I would like to thank Dal for all the hard work he has done and is continuing to do to keep the forum and wiki online and usable https://www.atari-forum.com/download/file.php?id=42707 https:...

robdaemon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:54 am Do you have a Patreon or something so we can help sponsor the site, or do you want / need that? I'd be happy to throw some money in every month.

For Donations, see this topic.

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We are aware that the style is not right. See my post here about what happened.

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Okay, to head off too many comments about the forum being a bit different from what you are used to... Dal received no notice from the previous hosting company on their intention to switch off the virtual private server. Although the company 'apparently' communicated their intention to switch it off...

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I think some changes occurred with phpBB as other forums that support embedded YouTube videos also experienced problems during updates.

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Machines without a built in floppy drive were intended to be used with an external floppy drive. You should find a pin-out of the 14 pin DIN connector here . A cable can be made up to connect to a ‘standard’ 34 pin Shugart Associates floppy disk drive. A Gotek should then be able to be used. Finding...

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It may be as the result of ripple on one of the DC supplies. Check the electrolytic capacitors on the various DC supply rails.

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Not sure if this exactly matches your symptoms, but the monitor DIN socket uses an input on one of the pins to detect which type of monitor (if any) is in use. If there is a fault on this input circuit, the computer will only work in the high resolution mode.

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You may want to give potential buyers an idea of where in the world you are

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A few more: Atari Hardware HxC Floppy Emulator -> http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/ YouTube channels Vretrocomputing -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4S3PerB8tmodN-tpGQthA Added :wink: Hello there. Can my website address be altered please? I've just bought this address you see : ht...

edingacic wrote:so are we going to ever enable tapatalk?

Until and unless it becomes a well behaved extension with no security risks, no, it's not likely.

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