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"reconfiguring things in software" is a non trivial task. The amiga and ST implementation of all the bells and whistles are quite different.

Awesome, glad you are up and running

The level of skill required to install the U1MB and the quality of the documentation was known BEFORE you bought the damn thing. If that wasn't sufficient for you, you should never have purchased it. No additional help, support or documentation was ever promised. Stop whining about it.

Just so we're clear, attached is a pic of a 3.5" Rodime SCSI drive. The terminators are the three red guys right near the SCSI connecter (inside the green box). I removed the bottom one to show what it looks like without them. The LAST drive in the chain needs the terminators, all the rest should have them removed.

Suppose its <ST>---<Link>---<Small Rodime>---<Large Rodime> Remove the termination resistors from the small Rodime, and make sure that the large Rodime has them. I don't know what model your drives are, but older drives typically had three resistor packs right by the SCSI connector. If they are both coming up OK individually, I'm inclined to believe both drives have the termination resistors in place. Next, you need to make sure that the drive ID's are set properly. If they are 0 and 1 (which you can verify either with the docs or seeing what they come up with when connected individually). 0 and 1 is fine, so long as they are different and not 7. Then make sure your hard disk software is configured to look for drives at both those IDs. Again, if they both show up individually, you are probably OK, but it is something to be aware of. Oh, The ID does not determine which drive is the boot drive, you set that in the software.

Say guy who dropped into the Amy thread and derailed it with "The MT-32 is shit". Atariksi 2.0????

To see, one has only to look.

You need to replace the NVRAM/Clock chip on the Falcon. It is a big 24 pin chip sized plastic block near the front of the motherboard (DS1287). The exact chip is no longer made, but you can replace it with a Maxim/Dallas DS12887A Unfortunately, it is not socketed.

The Quicksilver G4's are also nice machines, they can boot Classic OS or OS X. Also, the early SDRAM based iMac G4's can run OS 9 as well. Either of those should be available for $100 or less. I have a 15" flowerpot (imac G4) and a dual CPU 800 Mhz QS G4 in my home for wayward Macs

I'd still get the external power supply. The box is (trying) to draw too much current through the joystick port. The doubler box wont like that and may exhibit odd behavior, and the computer definitely won't like it. The joystick power tap was a very poor design choice.

So, apparently my last deal has fallen through (along with the $ i sent, but that's a story for another thread) I need a diagnostic cart for a TT030. Anyone have one they'd like to part with? Thanks! -Ken

It would be far better if you obtained a stand alone power supply for it.

Isn't this the same guy with the 'new in box' falcon, and the 'rare' happy 1050's?

Amen. You're right -- if you restrict yourself to configurations where the whole of the system is a CPU attached to a simple frame buffer and a DAC. But that wasn't the only solution available in the 80's. The Amiga, for instance, had a special DMA controller that accelerated graphics, sound processing, scrolling, etc, and greatly reduced the burden on the CPU. An admittedly limited form of wavetable synthesis came almost for free on the Amiga. The Amiga used 8 bit DAC with 6 bits of volume. The MT-32 used 16 bit Burr-Brown DAC (very high quality) and 7 bits of volume. You get into the 90s before any computer has those specs. At any rate, I'm done feeding the troll. I used this stuff back in the day, and it did the job masterfully. Commenting without that experience is simply pathetic posturing. A guy I used to work with had a sign over his desk that said "The person who says a thing can't be done is often interrupted by the person doing it."

There's quite a few extra components needed for PAL (see 1st couple pages of the Falcon schematics). The encoding is done by a 1377 (same as the STs), which 'speaks' PAL and NTSC, just needs the appropriate colorburst clock.

It's the "official" happy version of adding switches for write protect and happy mode... Most of us just drilled two holes in the case and mounted a pair of toggles.

The TV out will be useless, and the power supply will need to be replaced. Keyboard will be wrong, but the rest can be changed via the NVRAM settings.

Two for me,please

Yes JUNK, your imagination as a musician is restricted to those crap general midi type sounds. DACs mean you make any sound possible. Sure it was 16bit quality for the instruments provided but the tunes all sound like 99 bucks synthesizer demo tunes. Give one to a real musician and he would flush it down the toilet. Rob Hubbard said such devices were stunting his creativity when he moved to PC infested USA. As someone who has been paid to perform music for a crowd during the heyday of the MT-32, I humbly suggest that a) That certainly qualifies me as a 'real musician', and b) You have no clue what you are talking about. The MT-32 was a versatile, good quality device, used by many professional musicians, though some mods were necessary to get clean sounds out of it. I used it with an ST, an Octapad, a Poly-800 and a DX-7. Devices don't stunt creativity, in fact it takes creativity to get exactly what you want from older devices. Those who can't are lazy or uninspired. I see multiple threads where you rag on any sound device that isn't a DAC, so I will let that bit of fanboy-ism speak for itself. AMY is a fundamentally different technology then the MT-32. Trying to directly compare them is not useful. Could Atari have chosen a better sound chip for the ST.... absolutely.

Got a nice deal on a 7800 and games, great to deal with.

I guess you've never played either System Shock game then. System Shock was *amazing*. One of my favorite games of all time

Need to cover up those EPROM windows!

Does anyone have a TT 030 diagnostic cart that I could buy/borrow/rent? Thanks! -ken

MT-32 junk? Sigh.