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I had a 1200XL in the late 1990's, but I donated it to a friend in France (a very serious Atari collector). I had gotten it at a thrift store for $25 USD.
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As much as it pains me to say it...
Not EVEN on your birthday, Uncle Nolan! 😖
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Nice...
Do either of you (or anyone for that matter) know of a source for the crazy DIN connector that the ST's floppy port uses? I didn't think that they were made anymore and while I did find a UK-based seller on eBay with some nice-looking homebrew cables, they are around $50 USD + shipping. I was just wondering if there might be an option to build them.
Many thanks!
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6 hours ago, MasterMotorola said:
I have always enjoyed using Master Tracks Pro 3.6. Queen used it in the early 1990s on a Mega ST and my friend had a downscaled IBM version simply called "Trax."
Got it! Many thanks!
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14 hours ago, chorlton655 said:
Steinberg Cubase is by far the best sequencer on the ST if you can find a copy and it’s very easy to use. Alternatively Concerto by Microdeal is a great alternative.
Music Studio lets you use YM sounds with MIDI but not DMA. Music Maker 2 lets you use DMA sounds but I’m not sure about YM.
Many thanks!
I'll check them out!
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12 hours ago, Larry said:
It is worth keeping, but since you have a 1050 Happy, it is a little redundant. That said, is it a real Happy with the pcb or a DIY (lot of those out there). I'd be interested in buying it, if it's genuine and will work with my 810 side board. If you want to sell it, send me a PM.
Larry
I don't have a 1050, actually... I was just reading up on them and thought that it looked really cool.
Considering that I only want to use it as a stock drive, I would be willing to part with the Happy upgrade. As I was saying, I don't know much about it, but the last time I looked in the drive I noticed a little daughter board (if I remember correctly) that was labeled something like "Happy Computer Company".
I will take the top off of the 810, snap a pic and PM you tomorrow.
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Hello to my fellow Atarians!
I've had and loved ST's many times in the past, but only ever for games, word processing and general playing about. The same goes for musical instruments, composing, etc. Now that I have recently gotten my knuckles around an ST and an STE, I would like to use them for music on a hobbyist level. All of that being said...
Can anyone recommend a decent MIDI sequencer that isn't overly complicated? I would probably want to run it on the STE 4MB RAM & TOS 2.06 if possible.
The other thing I would like to ask - Does a sort of visual composer exist that would allow me to use notation to create some form of chiptune that uses both the DMA sound and YM2149F simultaneously?
Thanks in advance!
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Hey, all...
I have an Atari 810 that was Happy when I got it and apart from it being somehow faster disk access than a stock 810, I don't really know anything about it. Is it worth keeping in there or would it be better to convert the drive back to stock?
I have read up on Happy 1050's and those are definitely nice. I'm just not sure if I would put the Happy part of this thing to proper use.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
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I have a Happy 810. I don't really know too much about that whole Happy thing, though.
Yes, I know, that should go in the 8-bit area... just sayin'...
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3 hours ago, TGB1718 said:
I got my STE by accident, the guy advertised it as a 520ST with internal floppy disk, so I thought it was a 520STFM,
I got a load of other stuff with it (not ST things), it came with 1MB of memory, so I thought it was upgraded, never
noticed the tiny 'E' after the ST, I had it several years before I opened it up to clean the floppy head, I then noticed the
RAM slots and the penny dropped, I had some 1MB SIMMs from old PC's, so upgraded to 4MB, guess I was just lucky
I know I didn't pay much for it, about £35 back in the mid 1990's
Nice!
Funny thing is that the town I grew up in is only about 30 minutes (by car) from the southern edge of the Silicon Valley area and this is only the 2nd time I have ever seen an STE in person. We had one Atari dealer in our county and it was a toy store (Teddy Bear Toys in Aptos, CA, USA). When I would go in there, he only ever had the 520STfm in stock. He would get an order of STE's in and they would be gone that same week. I never got my hands on one until now and I had to bring it over from England!
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Man... only five?! 😶
OK, in no particular order...
Rescue on Fractalus
Zork 1
Star Raiders
Jumpman
Lode Runner
My list will probably change tomorrow... 😉
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2 hours ago, bfollowell said:
So, did you wind up finding one here in the U.S., or did you adopt a U.K. model?
Also, rather than going with TOS 2.06, maybe you'd want to consider a dual-TOS board with 1.62/2.06, for the best of all worlds in terms of compatibility.
Either way, congratulations on your find!
Heh heh... I took your advice and adopted a UK model. I found one with a possible bad PSU and pounced, as I would have needed to replace it anyway.
Being that I needed to replace the TOS as well, I was just going to make the jump to 2.06 and leave the compatibility to the 520ST (TOS 1.04). Do you think I should still dual TOS this bad boy?
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8 hours ago, Android8675 said:
Grats Louis! I haven't been on AA in a few months.
-Andy
Andy! I hadn't been on AA for 2-3 years (just got burned out on everything online) until just recently. Nice to be back in touch!
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Yes. This. 😎
A few messages back, I was just lamenting the fact that I have been looking for an STE since 1990 and have only seen three in person... once. After 32 years of searching and waiting, I have one. 1MB RAM & TOS 1.62 (soon to be 4MB & 2.06). 🤓
Can I get a "Woot! Woot!"?!
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Just putting this out there as a curiosity - what was the the greatest haul of Atari goodness that you ever got your knuckles around? It seems like it might be fun to check out what everybody has to say, their stories, etc. I'll start.
I have fallen rump-backward into some great Atari deals in my time, but my best one was when I was nosing around a California Grey Bears rummage sale in Santa Cruz, CA (US) and ran across a 1040STfm (w/original mouse), SF314, SC1224 and a monitor stand for $25 back in the 1990s. I asked them to hold it for 30 minutes while I went to grab the cash. They agreed, I was back in 15 minutes and went home very happy that day.
How about you?
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7 hours ago, Keatah said:
Not so much the crazy sellers. But, instead, the flunky buyers! Think people think! Rather pay 2000 on some old piece of hardware that will need repairs now and in the future? Or just get into fresh FPGA & Emulation?
Yeah... I complain about seller insanity all the time, but if people didn't pay their silly prices we probably wouldn't have to worry quite so much about it spilling over onto us.
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5 hours ago, Paul Westphal said:
Sounds like the MMU then. FYI - my hands probably touched your 130XE, as I organized all his bad GTIA 65xe’s and 130xe’s a few years back 😀
Your hands probably touched my PAL 130XE then, too. I have exactly the same NOS (from B&C) machine with the Hyundai/Hynix RAM, faulty GTIA and the whole shebeen. 👍
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Yeah, that's the trouble with buying disks online from unknown sources; the disks might be NOS, but they could have been stored in a damp basement next to a furnace for 30 years! LOL
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Not recently...
I was archiving on a Windows PC in the late 1990's and bought a 50 pack of those black, unbranded 1.44MB disks for said purpose. Interestingly, 47/50 disks were good, with the other three being factory duds.
Out of curiosity, the next 50 pack I bought were Sony (same retailer). This time I had 37/50 disks good and thirteen factory duds.
I then purchased four 25-packs of TDK disks from the same retailer and got only one bad disk in 100!
Cleaning and eventually replacing the floppy drive didn't help. I just got bad disks and couldn't help but wonder if it had anything to do with the retailers warehouse, or perhaps that resources weren't being put into the production of floppy disks as the sun was setting on their time.
In this day and age, buying floppy disks is like a box of chocolates...
At the risk of getting flamed, I will say this - in my own personal experiences, 3.5" DSHD have been the flakiest disks, 5.25" DSSD/DSDD have been the most reliable and Amigas ruin more floppy disks than any other systems I have owned.
Again, just my personal experience. 🤷♂️
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12 hours ago, Vyvyan B. said:
I've had good luck using these from Amazon, only $11 and they are properly grounded as well. You'll need a 7-pin din connector and cable, these can be built into a small project box and are quite "beefier" than even the OEM adapters.
https://www.amazon.com/MEAN-WELL-RS-15-5-Supply-Single/dp/B005T6UJBU
If you wanted to go this route, you could get one of these...
I got one and used it with an ATX PSU breakout board. I now have a 450w mATX PSU (just because I had it laying around) that can drive my 600XL, 800XL and 130XE. It's a good quality cable and 20ft. long! I just cut it down to the desirable length and had a lot of nifty cable left over for making bodge wires.
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If you DID want to replace it with a stock speaker, B&C has 8 left (NOS) as of right now:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133063072388?hash=item1efb2d5a84:g:cVoAAOSwpThc1Rpr
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Did everyone miss that she's wearing an ENCOM hat in one of the pics? She could be an evil genius in disguise! LOL
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Man... did somebody pull that out of the landfill at Alamogordo? 🤢
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I had a friend that decked out his 520STfm back in the day; 2.5MB RAM, a 4,096 color board, Tweety Board... I can't remember if there was anything else, though.
That reminds me... he didn't have a RAM expansion board, IIRC. I think his RAM chips were somehow piggy-backed. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?
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Hello!
My friend's name is Patrice Mueller. He and his then wife came out to visit the U.S. on vacation a couple of years consecutively in the late 1990's and I let them stay with me for several days. I sent him home with Atari goodies on his first trip:
1200XL computer
PS3000 monitor/drive combo
1030 MoDem
XM301 MoDem
520STm computer
I filled in a few blanks in his collection, many of which never came out in Europe. He was pretty stoked. 👍