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2021 already better than 2020! Thanks!

I was watching American Rickshaw (1989) a couple of days ago, and spotted a 130XE in the background in a store window...

Just spotted this in the first segment of the new HBO Max documentary "Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults"


The daughter of two former cult members is showing off one of her dad's inventions, an ergonomic desk, and there's an Atari ST monitor and mouse there.

I'm going to try reseating the components firstly but I've got the replacement PSU bookmarked in case that's required (I suspect it may well be!) But hopefully I can save some money and not buy it unncessarily. If you have a multimeter and you're comfortable using it on live equipment, you can chec...

Thank derkom, much appreciated. I've had a check and there is no lo/hi switch. :( I'm guessing that might rule out this cable type? Well, let's be sure. I've just looked on my STE here, and there's no Lo/Hi switch either, which I never noticed. :D Maybe the Lo/Hi switch is only on NTSC machines? So...

This may be a stupid question, but how do I find out if my STe has an RF converter and is outputting composite video? I would imagine your eBay cable is fine. These things aren't complicated. Have a look at the back of your STE... back_panel.gif If you have a Lo/Hi switch and an RCA style output in...

Gaiyan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:38 am Well, whaddaya know! It works now

Not entirely sure which monitor you mean here, since there doesn't seem to be anything called a Dell 24U. Do you perhaps mean something like a Dell U2412? If you're using a monitor with a DVI input, not HDMI, make sure you've set "TX mode" to "DVI" in the OSSC's output options menu.

Good choice of keeping your beloved one. For the black screen, could it be the infamous problem of the unsupported 15Khz horizontal freq on nowadays monitors ? Try to find a way to test booting in monochrome (involves a custom din 13 to vga adaptator) If he's really using a DIN13-to-composite cable...

Does your STE have an RF modulator? If I'm not mistaken,the 13-pin DIN to composite type cable will only work on an STE with an RF modulator. STEs without RF output have only composite sync on that pin, and no picture, which could explain why your devices are detecting sync. (However, I think the on...

Bama wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:58 pm Thank you for testing, correcting and educating.

Cheers. Only took four years.

Here are the solder points: 1) Pin 11 of IC 6301 lablelled U1 on schematic (IC was removed from socket, pin 11 bent outward and soldered to wire and then IC was re-socketed) is keyb tx orig (TX signal going from keyboard, which is sent to CE for processing) red wire in pic below. 2) Pin 43 of Heade...

Nice video. Bad game.

I've finished the game in a couple of sittings. It's nice to have a new game for the ST, but it's very, very short. If all the right moves were made in a row, it would take only about 10 minutes to play through, although obviously on first play (and there really is no replayability here) it takes qu...

Look what just arrived in today's mail.
Can confirm it even runs on CT60e Falcon.

I've got mine starting by adding it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but that will work only if you have an init-based MiNT system I believe. sshd is saying that because apparently the way mint.cnf is starting it, it's not executing the binary as a full path to the binary, despite looking that way in mint.cnf...

Foxxy74 wrote:Jason Bourne, at 4.54 minutes got an ST!

Picture toon large to upload

Here you go...

jd wrote: Anyone running on genuine Atari hardware?

I am running it on a real TT, running MiNT. No problems over here.

Gluestik for MiNT should be included in the distribution, look for it at C:/mint/1-19-9ef/sys-root/opt/GEM/gluestik, but it is disabled by default and needs to be enabled in mint.cnf. I am not a MiNT expert, though. I can confirm it works fine with Gluesitk/MiNT. I find it cynical to shout here hoo...

2. TOS 2.06 seems to be much more suitable for an STE with a hard drive. Will I miss out on anything once I don't have access to TOS 1.xx? Any notable games or applications that haven't been patched for TOS 2? You could get the best of both worlds with something like the exxos STE TOS switcher . I'...

Also what should I see on screen from the working falcon? That is without a diagnostic cart yet? I know I will not see the desktop, but key presses? Without the diag cart running on the broken Falcon, you should see nothing at all on the working Falcon's terminal program. Nothing producing serial o...

The only null-modem cable I have is a F-DB25 to F-DB9. I have no gender changer. I have a F-DB9 to M-DB25 serial I can use a gender changer. But this setup will only connect the modem ports. Thanks Those are the correct ports to be connecting, so the combination of your two cables should give you w...

Thanks, I have a blank cart shell and PCB. I only have diag ROMs for ST/Mega, STe, & MSte, No falcon. Consider picking up one of the muti-image diag carts from exxos . Very very handy to have that around. You can select which diag software you want (or YARTT or GEMBENCH) via jumpers and just plug i...

dddddoooooouuuhhhhhhhh! Sorry, Top picture is holding the reset button in, (8mhz?) Second pic not holding reset button(16Mhz?) Looks good. Do you have a diagnostic cartridge? Based on your description of what you saw when you were mistakenly probing the cartridge port, it seems like it's at least d...

KLund1 wrote: Pin 12 on the bottom row of the expansion port is hard to get to.

Expansion port, not cartridge port.

This one...