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I would like to buy two or three SuperVidel boards.

I'm curious where you got the sequence number from and what that means - does that mean it was the 31st unit produced, period? Or just 31st in a certain period of time? I'm surprised I haven't hit upon much info on these yet. You'd think if there were 'pre-production' or demo units out there someon...

Seems to have sequential numer #31. So it's very early model 8) Also PCB is unpopulated from left side of the case fan... Something missing from early models? No, My European model has some IC/resistor/stuff populated on the left of the fan while my USA model does not. I think it something to do wi...

Here are some pics - the pics of the motherboard are from within one of the 'B' units -- the one with the Falcon grey case but white keyboard. Don't know if these help - the board looks like the standard Falcon board, although with ROM/PROMs that are labelled. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders...

Hello, after receving my ct60e, i decided to run it with and ATX psu. Now, i have fine system, everything installed on an SD card. It's time to move forward. I bought a picoPSU-160-XT and the power supply that goes with it. working fine. But when i tried to close the original falcon case, it looks ...

That's exactly why i got one. I have no interest for modern gaming stuff at all. Just want to have an Atari branded hardware and use it as my emulated Atari environment. Just give me my overpriced Windows-clone in December, that's all i ask :P Well, not sure if it's overpriced for what it offers ha...

My personal experience with PMMU enabled on TT and ct60 is, that with that enabled, more software to crash than without. So PMMU support sounds a nice freature, but I idiot think, that many people will be unhappy enabling that memory protection feature in MiNT, when their favourite legacy GEM appli...

The mega st keyboard has ways to repair bad keys. It fortunatley has a solid pcb instead of a mylar. You can spray a little contact spray(not wd40) in the switches to clean the >30yo contacts on the inside. Or Desolder and remove all the switches and solder in new cherry black/red/brown/blue switch...

wongck wrote: if you ask me, I have no idea.
I screwed up my TT keyboard while trying to 'fix' it.
I use my STFM keyboard with my TT.

Ah, ok... I guess I need to open keyboard and check it out. Some keys are unresponsive, but usually they work when you hit them with excessive force.

A common problem with the MegaSTE/TT keyboards is damaged tracks of the mylar which results in some keys stop working, but that's easy to fix. Out of curiosity, how would you fix it? :-) Dexterslab done it before on his TT. http://www.mr2.net/marknias/atari_tt030.html#Keyboard I have Mega ST keyboa...

I will give my opinion: I would like two new joysticks, one that corresponds to the retro aesthetic (Atari in this case) and another that is truly ergonomic (PlayStation type) and that includes an auto-fire button; I would buy both if its price is reasonable, for other prices there are already alte...

This is scary. I have a CT63/CTPCI with one slot, that have a Radeon card. I am considering adding EtherNat. Is it risky? Can just adding it cause the CT63 to go bad? I can only speak from my experience, but somehow it was CT63+EtherNat combo that broke up both boards. Rodolphe suspected thermal is...

Does somebody have recommendation for cooler with fan for 68060? btw is it possible to have 68060 without fan inside Falcon? (without overclocking of course...) Chipset coolers (45mmx45mm) are perfect. 060 is designed to work without active cooling, so you should be able to use it without fan. This...

I'm not anymore conviced to ColdFire, when we have alternatives like 68080. Would be cool to get rid CF and have integrated 68080 wit FB Well... we have alternatives for emulation like PC running Aranym. 68080 is hardware emulation and I really don't see reason to buy 499,- euros emulation board wh...

Hi, compared to ct60, ct60e seems to sit quite tightly on falcon mobo because it snaps to falcon PSU connector. I'm afraid to use excessive force to pull it out and there's no really room to try loosen plastic PSU connector lip on falcon mobo underneath ct60e before pulling board off. I'm asking bec...

VAMPIRE V4 standalone price was anounced: https://www.vesalia.de/e_vampirev4sa.htm 499.90 € ugh... That's quite much for emulation board. You can just buy Raspberry pi 4 for about 40,- euros and I bet it's faster for 68k emulation than Vampire v4. I don't know enough about hardware vs software emul...

I had similar issues with CT63/EtherNat combo ten years ago... Rodolphe fixed CT63 by replacing one Xilinx chip on it (if I recall correctly). I think there was some problem with CT63/EtherNAT/expansion card combination, because both CT63 and EtherNat went bad, when this happened. How do you contac...

Hi Already tested booting without CTPCI and VGA connected to video => black screen ! I hope my CT63 is not damaged ! In that case, then it does seems so. :( Sounds like it is toasted, i just fried both my ct60/ctpci not long ago, and was extremely bumbed. These are very delicate boards! We got to b...

dhedberg wrote:Some of them are full 060:s but an older revision, some of them are LC or EC versions, i.e., missing MMU/FPU.

https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/ ... /index.htm

Some are probably 68040 cpus.

Just out of curiosity, are there any reliable sources for 68060 CPU's? According to lore almost every 68060 from China is fake, especially if advertised as genuine Rev. 6 CPU. There's couple of sellers at ebay who list their products as real Rev. 6 version, but I don't know if chinese CPU market is...

That's nice :) Are you aware if there's decent list of telnet based BBS systems somewhere (Atari, Amiga etc) ? Go to AtariAge and under the 8bit section look for the permanent message base, "Atari 8bit BBS's". Doctor Clu there maintains a list that is updated periodically although you may have to b...

Except NetSurf, no Atari browser was updated for the last 15 years or so. No CSS*, no JavaScript* and unless you go for a real bare bone website design, the classic Atari browser running on Atari hardware simply won't handle a website. I certainly won't go back to a time of table-based layouts with...

1st1 wrote:Hello, atari-forum.com is one of the last websites I use which I use which is not encrypted by HTTPS. Could it be changed? Let's-encrypt HTTPS certificate is for free, only needs to be renewed every three month.

But you can't use Atari with HTTPS websites.

Is there any plans for new FireBee batch?

I'm always wanting to find meaningful uses for my retro machines, having a real Atari running a bbs sounds brilliant :) There are a handful of us loonies who are dedicated to it. You'll find even more among the 8bit crowd. :) That's nice :) Are you aware if there's decent list of telnet based BBS s...