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I received some 19" metal wall brackets today that the seller bent almost in half to make them fit in the box!

You're just wasting your virtual breath. Some people will rationalize forever.

for the mste, try connecting chinon pin 6 to pin 12 on the floppy connector

well that explains the missing pin 7and 8 in my notes =P haven't worked on one of those evil Chinons in several years

I'm pretty sure I posted the 14pin to 34 pin stuff on here some time ago... did you search? EDIT: OK. I couldn't find my post... Had to go into my dead tree archive.... my notes are somewhat incomplete (nothing for pin 7or 8 ) If I recall correctly, if you fly the ground, you only have to move a couple pins to put the chinon connector right on the even pins of the floppy drive. 14 pin Chinon connector <-> PC 34 pin floppy 14 <-> 30 read data 9 <-> 32 side 0 select 1 <-> 8 index 6 <-> 14 drive 0 select 10 <-> 10 motor on 2 <-> 18 direction in 3 <-> 20 step 5 <-> 24 write gate 12 <-> 26 track 0 13 <-> 28 write protect 4 <-> 22 write data 11 <-> any odd pin (ground)

No,No, NO, 1000 times No. In the United States, you must have *explicit* permission to duplicate a copyrighted work, full stop, end of sentance, do not pass go, do not collect $200. You don't know that they don't care. So it's OK to break the law if no one knows? /facepalm

You are completely correct. The point of bringing up Gorf was that the rights holders of old games do occasionally rise up from the dead and assert those rights. It is folly to believe one is safe because something is "abandoned". Amen. Copyright law is seriously jacked up in the US. It was meant to be for a "limited time" to encourage the progress of science and the arts, not a never ending stream of cash for hundreds of year. (We will all be long dead before any work produced today enters the public domain). I'd like to see it rolled back to 15 or 20 years max, perhps less on things like computer software.

There is no such thing as abandonware. Unless the owner of the copyright gives you permission, copying it is not allowed. There is no requirement to agressively enforce copyright to retain it, and there is no requirement to continue selling something at retail. If you choose to pirate some old software, weill that's your choice, but trying to legitimize it by claiming "oh its abandonware" is a fallacy. I apologize for being pedantic about it, but sooner or later someone is going to be sued over this. You never know when the owner is going to show up and ruin your day. (Gorf on the Jag....)

The way I read Jookie's site, it's all anecdotal based on the few machines he has seen, and in particular he notes that he hasn't had a problem with MSTe systems. I've never heard of a bad DMA in an MSTe before.

I think Ihave a 410 still in the box,. I'll chek and see if the belts are still good and get back to you

That's a great price for a MSTe! The MSTe is my favorite ST machine, followed closely by the MegaST (especially with an accelerator)

Some of the signals are quite fast for a breadboard. The pong design is very sensitive to timing delays.

i'd take 2 Thanks!

Hey all, I have Medusa Hades60 system (*very* rare) that I almost never get time to use that probably needs a new home. Any interest out there? Specs and pics to follow http://www.medusacom...thes-hades.html

Ego much?

I think you'll find the problem is more widespread that you assume. It's your apparent persecution complex and the arsey attitude that goes with it that pisses people off. It should be obvious that it's not the bug reporting that's getting up people's noses, but petulant remarks that followed. Are you actually implying that the author would intentionally leave a bug unaddressed purely because it was you who reported it? Because this is how it's coming across. Have you ever stopped to wonder why the people who appear to be unable to get along with you can get along just fine with everyone else? ^ This

Now that's a feature I miss... when is the last time you had to reinstall DOS on a system?

Did an install in an XEGS, took a bunch of pics for a proper install guide, but here's the real important one for now.... Where to solder the 4 wires. I picked right off Freddie and Sally. I don't normally like soldering right to chip legs, but it was too convenient to pass up.

Paid for TT030 diagnostic cart, 30 days later, no cart and no further response to emails. Had to do paypal claim. I did get my $ back from paypal.

Just out of curiosity, how are you determining that the disk was mastered improperly?

Same here. Pick a ROM, load it up, prompt for description if successfully loaded, gracefully fall out if you fail along that path.

An improved Videl in FPGA has been done already - see the SuperVidel project by Nature. However, as it's designed for CT-6x upgraded Falcons, it doesn't need drivers as such (Falcon TOS 4.x supports it natively), so software would have to be written from scratch for it to be usable on a TT / MSTe. Also the SuperVidel is a highly complex design which is consequently very expensive - it's somewhat "overkill" for the TT/MSTe. LP has suggested (over on the thread at Atari Forum) that an FPGA based ET4000 might be a good option, since NVDI already supports ET4000 on VME. That takes a lot of uncertainty out of the driver issue, though I've got no idea what sort of cost that would be - FPGAs are like the saffron of technology. So good and so many uses, but damn expensive. Yes, I ordered one of the SuperVidel cards. But I was suggesting a *normal* non-Super Videl. Less complex, the TOS infrastructure is already there, backwards compatible with the old Atari screen modes, and a line doubler to get onto modern screens.

I wonder how difficult it would be to implement the Falcon's videl in an fpga for tt/mega/mste

Bought 2 U1MB MMU adapters. Shipped fast, packed well.

The accelerator, with a little bit of cache and nothing else would be cheaper and more useful.