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Pfft, Get a Mac.... :roll: Hehe, No its totally Neat- really neat...... The Ultimate Atari... Portable with power!!!! The near conclusion of an impressive project. I am quite sure somehow we can find a modern LCD/LED panel to interface with a GBS board... and have color or mono too.... Regardless. W...

Those little Picos are awesome.. I have one in my AMD64 that runs the media center in my car (90w I think). On board computing is a great thing. music/videos, and internet when in 3G or WiFi range. The less I use the 240v inverter the better. Sucks too much power and drops out early. ST. :cheers: Mi...

If I am having a bad day Ron- I'll visit your thread.

Misery loves company... Seeing someone else trying really hard to do good things- and crazy annoying stupid things going wrong, is rather amusing in a dark kind of way.

Chin up mate... you're nearly there!!!

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Awesome.. Just awesome.

Very happy to see such a result.

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After months of code testing, annoying delays in receiving parts, failed etchings- and a long cold winter. Darklord has the first operational pcb I built. It suffered a few weeks of relentless testing. I only built a second one for my own use a couple days ago.... I might need it to help Ron if some...

Progress... (The opposite of Congress :lol: ) Good News Ronny, The HD mod is assembled.!!.. The 10pack of new GALs purchased for the mear sum of $AU6.64 finally arrived Friday, and a pair were programmed for testing in my prototype rig. They worked perfectly last night. The GAL has been transfered t...

Wow. Nice.

The way I read Marks posts, using an IC to combine V & H sync for a new composite does away with the modulator.

Unless I'm mistaken. It should work.

Back from Vacation.

How about.. that new version of the GBS v5.0 has a LCD connector instead of a second VGA output.

Would there be a lcd panel that would fit the STacy screen hole and give color!

Now that is a project.

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Yes, It makes sense now. Tight confines. Clever and Considered placement and engineering. No good for me, my original RAM is surface mounted. But many others out there missing bank1 won't even need much desoldering work. It is entirely possible to disable bank0 on a 520ST, and use this hardware on t...

I hadn't bothered to buy one my self.. but now I will just to see the drama. So to be annoying- instead of resisters in the simple version, why not a pair of signal diodes? It would drop the voltage a bit too as a bonus. 1N4148 or similar. Then the lines wouldn't been see as a short to the Atari. Ot...

You're right.. The Mono detect & Previously GP0 output is exchanged for 'Genlock input', they are fed to a 74S257 chip, clocked with 32Mhz. Generating a new 'MonoMon' signal sent almost to IO7 (like a normal ST mono detect pin.. but different, also altered with interupts from XSint).. And still with...

No... not nothing to do the bad DMA issues..... @dml has the idea. Its a botch job. Detailed comparison between the STFM schematics and STE shows an unusual wiring alteration to TA1 by instead being connected back to the IO0 output of the same MFP (& incidently the #Busy signal of the parallel port)...

Yes, But if it wasn't for people playing with solutions.. we wouldn't have them. At the very start of the threads.. It didn't work out of the box. Now it does. .. Do we have to argue which method is the best? (And wow, Three guys came up with different results at different times.....) Calm down pony...

I used a 5 1/4" drive many year ago - along with my AtSpeedC16... To use one of these drives.. the 'software modification' is a step rate adjustment. These old drives don't like the 3ms pulse of the ST. We need to bring it back to 6ms. STEP6M.zip You'll need software like FCopyPro to format discs. H...

What price..?... heheh :twisted: We only need- An ET4000 style graphics, Realtek RTL8019 Ethernet, 14 Mb TT/Alt RAm, Quad Flash TOS 1.0x/2/3.xx/MagicC capable, 2.5" IDE or CF internal storage, USB mouse and/or Removable storage..,Realtime Clock DS1216E, 6888x FPU, 16-36Mhz overclocked CPU or even '0...

Which is almost exactly what the cartridge based 'NetUS-Bee' did. Use a real 'RTL8019 chip' for the ethernet port... remove the ISA implementation crap, and simplify it.

See the solution forming.

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You know, the track work to connect a ET4000 to a Mega ST (or ST) to the cpu/expansion bus is really minimal. I don't have access to my data drive for at least a while, but the diagrams are online around the place. Surely a FPGA version would be the smallest solution to do away with the ISA connecte...

If you want to admire the wallpaper, look at the wall.

I use a computer. Desktop shortcuts are actually useful.

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Hi, And welcome... I use a home made cable that runs the ST in Mono. Most screen I have tried seem to work alright. My little LG 19" does fine. If you can't build one, search "Atari ST VGA" on ebay. http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=atari+st+vga&_sacat=0&_sop=15&_odkw=atari+st+vga&_osacat=0&_tr...

So a couple days have passed, and I have some news. As I've said, Holger has been working hard finishing an awesome piece of code to run a single chip High Density solution for Darklords' STacy. So it is not to rain on the latest product release from Exxos for his ultimate logic based hardware step ...

PCBs now manufactured :) Will take some images when I get chance. Been pushed for time of late, but looking forward to soldering one up. I will update my "LaST" pages with new upgrading instructions. I think this will be the final floppy board. hopefully this version can be spread around the world ...

Lucky then this HD mod is a perfect fit for an STE. Compatible with TOS 1.x and 2.06. No software patching. Minimal wiring. (Even a MegaSTE/TT in theory) The goal is only two wires to connect for the basic internal version drive only option. Remove FDC and plug in this board. Plug FDC chip back on t...

I guess we've seen a decent factor here. Some absolutely solid upgrades have come and gone. New ones are thin but people are still trying to explore hardware options- given we have such choice now for GAL/CLPD... these are the kind of tools only chip designers had to play with once. From my own expe...

As soon as that one is completed, I can actually close it up! So Ralcool <nudge, nudge, wink, wink>, how are you and Holger coming along with that HD mod? :angel: Thanks! Cough Cough.. Erm yeah.. Well, I'll bang out a little pcb you can use- and use the early code I've got currently that can do the...