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Buying a 3.5inch IDE 80Gb hard drive for £200 and mounting it with a lot of effort inside the case, had to cut plastic off the molex connector and the floppy power connector. Had to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 convertor and solder on a molex off an old pc, some metal cutting, also had to remove a plastic pilla...

Dal wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:40 am https://gamesx.com/controldata/ejp_faq.htm

Section 10.1 suggests that it could be possible to write data 8bits wide across both ports.

Looking at the ejp faq suggests it may be possible to read/write 16bit wide data across both (possibly more)?

"and where do you see 8bits pins on the SD card ? ..." You don't, so that is where a dedicated micro controller or ic like MC74HC595A (I said like:-)))) Basically a shift register, for the nit pickers - I'm not advocating that I plan on making a working device - just ideas for a proof of concept, th...

Great project, super cheap and super cool, I was going to post yesterday about using maybe 4bit wide to increase speed but, "https://gamesx.com/controldata/ejp_faq.htm Section 10.1 suggests that it could be possible to write data 8bits wide across both ports." It would be amazing if that were possib...

I have a dead one too where the heat has burned a hole in the case after being inserted the wrong way. You would think since there's only four wires which probably relate to +5V Gnd data in and out - that it would be worthwhile probing a working dongle with a signal analyser - logging the serial dat...

ranix wrote:I didn't know the dongle needed to be modified to fit in a Unitor 2, how strange. Is that just the Score dongle, or all of them?

I thought that too, that they were all a standard size?

Maybe it's been trimmed for another purpose.

S

Any chance of a link to the download?

Would it not cost less and save hassle by buying a 1040ste off of Ebay? One with socketed simms. ....or this one, already has 4mb https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Atari-520-STE-computer-upgraded-to-4mb-in-good-working-order/323267100565?hash=item4b44387f95:g:bA0AAOSwH4hbAzPM ....be interesting to see what...

If you have an ide hard disk or cf card etc plugged in, try booting with this removed, have had the out of sync issue brfore due to faulty/badly connected ide device.

Probably see it back on in a few days for £500

Did not see a Buy it Now option.
What did it go at, I'm sure it was listed for auction?

Stacy for sale on Ebay just now; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Atari-Stacy-2-with-4mb-hard-drive/323254522920?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D50546%26meid%3Db8ee439e26a14dfe8ce3103aba2a988e%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D232767429001%26itm%3D323254522920&_trksid=p2047...

I wonder how this differs from the French version?

What about the 2.5Mb "version" or the magnum board for 16Mb

You could swap the keys

You can try the idea you mentioned - swapping the keyboard assembly for one off another Falcon or a 520STfm/Ste as they are the same apart from the keyboard keys colour.

Are you using a Pest/Usb adaptor?
If so, did you try it with just the original Atari mouse plugged in?

Can you move the mouse manually using the cursor keys,
- Hold "Alt" and press the left,right, up and down keys.

Does the cracked Aura run on a Falcon? It start with a message from MCA and .... nothing but reboot. I use the high mono resolution. I get two bombs and it returns to desktop, considering C-Lab Notator never worked on the Falcon I'm not surprised this program form the same era doesn't work either -...

Definitely interested here, been stuck with 4mb after paying 200 quid plus to upgrade from 1meg in the 90s after discovering a 1meg Falcon is pretty much a dead loss.

Yeah, fair enough, $10+ for these plcc male plugs unless you are ordering thousands of units + extra labour. Next logical workaround for me would be to bend the pins on the Atari plcc (as per your guide) though up to 180° (double sided solder atari pcb) and line up your pcb to these pins for an fair...

Sorry if this is a silly question, but would it have been easier to make the booster with a male plcc plug, would reduce the need to desolder and risk damaging pcb traces?
It would then just be a matter of removing the old plcc chip and plugging in (and securing?) the booster.
David

What's with the missing components L3 and L4? Might only be on CLAB boards as this MK1 one shows the same (Mine is a MK2). See examples here http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Atari_Falcon_motherboard_revisions http://www.atari-wiki.com/images/d/db/Falcon_CLAB_MK1_Top.jpg Yes noted, however it loo...

What's with the missing components L3 and L4?