[Revenge Empire ST Ports Season 4]

On 8/19/2020 at 1:25 PM, Machine said:

Hey Gaz-

When you get a chance, let me know what the shipping increase is and I will shoot over the difference.

No sense in you eating all the costs, it really adds up when you start paying for everyone.

Thanks

Tom

Same here!

 

[Good PCB Manufacturer?]

I've had good luck (knock on wood) with both PCBWay and JLCPCB. 

One useful quirk of JLCPCB is they are associated with LCSC.  If you have a PCB order with JLC, then go over to LCSC for some components, they will give you a decent discount on faster shipping.

On the down side, best pony up for DHL or fedex, or you will be waiting for a while on your boards.

[TT High on LCD Panel (ECL2VGA) Adapter]

Hi all,
With Tenox's blessing, I've done a small run of his excellent ECL2VGA adapters.

"An adapter that allows to run TT High (1280x960) on a standard VGA LCD Panel is now available for sale. It essentially replaces TTM 19x monitors on a standard flat panel."

You can get more details at my website
Legacy Pixels Shop

[SIO sockets bulk order]

If there's still time, I'll do 10

 

[A couple Steam games - all gone]

Some keys left over from a Humble Bundle purchase

 

Company of Heroes 2

Bioshock Remastered

FTL

 

 

[TT MegaSTE clock battery]

On 6/16/2020 at 7:08 PM, KLund1 said:

Thanks.

 If I store any machine, I pull the batteries. If the batteries are in it while it is my 'office', I put a small sticky note on the back showing the date the batteries were installed.

^ THIS!!!!

 

I can't count the number of old world Macs I've seen damaged/destroyed by leaking PRAM batteries.

 

[Atari Mega ST4 daughterboard]

The correct part number is C103067. It adds a 16 MHz MC68881 Floating Point Chip to the system.

 

[Anyone have a working Seagate ST-157N?]

1 hour ago, leech said:

Ha, is there literally no number on either of those?

Wonder if someone has the schematics or can measure that?

 

I was looking over the board, its an odd technology assortment.

[Anyone have a working Seagate ST-157N?]

Here's one of mine:

 

[What's the deal with Jag prices on the used market?]

4 hours ago, 82-T/A said:

Haha... so, I've probably mentioned before, but I also own a Pontiac Fiero. It was my first car. A 1987 Pontiac Fiero SE / V6 which I've since converted to a 5-Speed manual (had an automatic). I've also rebuilt the engine a couple of times, and it gets bigger each time. Started out as a 2.8, now it's a 3.2 (3.1 crank and rods with .040 overbore). Anyway... when I bought the car in 1996, the car was still considered a very cool car. Pontiac had discontinued the car in 88 because of fires. But... it was still quicker, cooler, and nicer looking than 90% of the cars my friends had. Then... by the early to late 2000s... it started getting shit on constantly, just like you say. Some kid who's trying to start a YouTube channel makes a video about Fieros, goes way overboard. Now, in the 2020s... well, it's still a Pontiac Fiero, but they're far more sought after. Even really ratted out ones go for $3,500+ now.

 

Aluminum block Caddy V8.... you won't be sorry =D

[Upcoming Jaguar Game Drive Cartridge]

"Grasshopper, you must learn patience"
"Yeah, Yeah, patience.... How long will that take?"

[ST ports Season 3 finale now available for pre-order]

Appreciate the update, be safe!

 

[MIST vs MISTER?]

MiSTer is really nice, lots of active development on the base system, as well as the various cores.

There are also periodic updates and new addon boards, the schematics are open source, so anyone with the needed skill can build boards.

 

I've been building addon boards for almost a year now, you can find out more at the atari-forum thread, or visit my website at www.legacypixels.com/mister

[What scsi drives suitable for Atari ST/Mega use?]

Uf. There is difference between 'abuse' because some just don't understand you + are even lazy to read whole threads, and 'shit' on someone - who repeatedly writes so wrong.

25 pin SCSI ? Where is such ? Or "anyone had bad luck by dropping thier ST" ?

So, by you we should not be ever sarcastic with people who just don't take care about what writes in some forum ? Computers are all about accuracy. Sorry that I'm professionally deformed. Or maybe I'm who is OK, and World is what became deformed. All that correctness, "be nice" leads where ? To some pseudo equality, where all we will be same, happy and so on. That's never gonna happen. Only that good and careful people will feel that their effort is not appreciated, and those who don't care for some level of their work, writings want same respect. No, respect should come for something done properly.

Look that floppy thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/286419-difference-between-sf314-and-industry-standard-720k-drives/

I gave detailed answer, with my WEBpage, what took time and effort to be made, including time for research, time to solve WP problem. And then what ? Following post: "The DS0 and DS1 jumpers, that's pretty much it."

Sure, if you are shallow and never tested it little more, and see how can screw whole floppy content because Atari will not detect floppy change. Same like MugUks article at AF, where he tested BigDOS partition with only small data on it. All was OK, because did not go over 32 MB 'line' * after it, data corruption started with that driver and partition type. I wrote there about it, and he never corrected or removed his text.

Thank you for your great help ... Maybe one day I will see some test done too ....

 

Accurate for 720k drives. Can't speak to shoe-horning in a 1.44 as detailed, quite nicely, on the webpage.

Cheers

[Difference between SF314 and Industry Standard 720K drives]

Aside from the obvious physical dimensions what is the difference between a SF314 floppy drive and an industry standard 720k drive?

 

The DS0 and DS1 jumpers, that's pretty much it.

[Atari made TV's?]

 

 

If you look really carefully in the first picture... can you spot the hipster?

 

:rolling: :rolling:

[Brand New Atari Jaguar Pro Controllers- For Sale!]

"Your order is on the way"

WOOHOO!!!

:D :D

[Diagnosis of video problem - help required]

Sure looks like the blue output is missing.

[So... tell me about the Gravis Ultrasound?]

I havent seen one of those on eBay maybe ever. The good Soundscapes (not Vivo or Opus) sell for about $150, but the DB would be a nice addition to a SB-compatible card (the Soundscapes have terrible SB emulation).

 

Id say $200 at a minimum, maybe $400 near the top range, depending on whether there is a bidding war.

 

I guess that makes today a good day =D

 

[So... tell me about the Gravis Ultrasound?]

How about an Ensoniq SoundscapeDB wavetable daughterboard?

[Brand New Atari Jaguar Pro Controllers- For Sale!]

Woohoo! Ordered!

[Jaguar ST Ports 2.4]

No worries

[Project II - Not a sequel]

...which is just a leeetle bit alive....

[Atari ST External Floppy Connection]

I think Pera is correct, although I agree his reply was unnecessary too harsh.

 

You need to supply that current because otherwise you might not be able to pull down the signal low enough for the drive's buffers. You need high current drivers, either discrete transistors or chips. In some cases it might be solvable at the drive's side by using weaker pullups.

 

The problem is that the original floppy "shugart" bus was specified for open collector outputs. So it was common to install very strong pullups. Worst case is connecting two (or more) old 360K drives, which obviously you won't connect to an ST.

 

Btw, a high current driver is already provided on the ST for the signals coming out of the FDC, not for the signals coming from the PSG.

 

Yes, if the drive needs all the current, it won't work, but the computer won't be damaged, that's all i was saying.

Strange to put drivers on some signals but not others.

[Atari ST External Floppy Connection]

I'm sorry for writing 'harsh' - to someone who comes here with pure theory, while I wrote based on my concrete experience and solved problem.

And second post is even worse - just adding more unnecessary blah and obviously lacking experience with electronic.

It is simply that if you put small resistor it will not protect Atari, if put larger value it will not activate drive. Again: completely wrong. It is not about may it work or not. It may work, as worked for me about 1 hour. And then PSG chip broke.

And why we connected that 5.25 drive to ST ? Wanted to transfer data from it, because did not have then way to transfer it from PC. And from curiosity.

 

Sure whatever.

 

I'm glad you found a solution to your drive issue.