BJolly

A Falcon to RGB monitor adapter was produced for those programs that don't work in VGA mode (the one I have came with the Falcon along with the VGA adapter). Whilst the VGA adapter is readily available I haven't seen the Falcon to RGB adapter on offer in the same way. Still there must be some out there & possibly someone producing / selling Atari gear may have them available or be willing to make them?

There are or were dedicated Falcon to VGA adapters available. Try an Ebay search or search online for one. Building your own could be cheaper if you know how to do it. Good luck with your new Falcon!

Try using 2015! What happens? Then save a new file from a text editor or word processing program. Click on the new file from the desktop then use the Show Information option. What date is shown - 2015 0r 2023? Next: disable temporarily ALL time and clock setting programs except SETKBD.PRG (including from UltrSatan if possible) and disable Xcontrol Acc. Reboot & set the date to 2023 then try saving & checking a new file & it's date as before mentioned. If it is correct reboot after enabling Xcontrol. Check dates again. Add in or eliminate programs & date setting progs one by one in a step by step procedure to identify possible software source of problem or possible program conflicts. good luck!

I had a similar problem with my TT recently. Try SETKBD.PRG in your auto folder. It's a reset proof clock setter and Freeware. It helped sort out my problem and will accept year 23 etc. A nice feature being that it allows you to set the date in either DMY or MDY format. SETKBD3.PRG

Correction: UISIII replaces the system file selector even from the desktop. However there may be some Gem or semi gemmed programs that use their own custom file selector rather than the system file selector. Superbase Professional comes to mind as one of them.

Yup Universal Item Selector - UISIII - completely replaces the system file selector within all GEM programs. It allows mass selection of files & their manipulation - as well as much more! Very handy especially on single tasking systems & works well with Hotwire 3.

Roger Burrows of Anodyne Software has kindly made their Extendos 4 suite of CD Reader & Writer software freely available. Go here: Anodyne Software's Home Page It was the bees knees back then - updated in 2019

Here's a list of various CD's with advice on software available to access CDs on Atari. It's from 1995 so now quite out of date. The software mentioned is often now released as freeware. Atari CDs Listing.txt

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia the program to access this was called SARA. Also The Atari Compendium book CD and Atari Computing mag released a CD with the articles / contents of all of the magazines after it closed down.

Using a program called "backward" The Falcon can be configured to be backwardly compatible with masses of programs and games that run on the Atari ST range of computers.

Yes! Just setting up my TT & resurrecting my Atari Hardware system after 16 + years. I really appreciate that some very useful atari web sites - like yours - are still up and running. 😎

Yes I just tried it. Nice coloured icons on my TT. Thanks Moulinaie!

Ah! Just checked and you may need a graphics card to run Color TT.

Yes I think Tos 3.06 is the last. For coloured desk icons and windows @moulinaie has provided a way to get those in Tos 3.06. And very nice they look! He's on this thread. here's the link to his web page: Color TT (pagesperso-orange.fr) .

Here's Timeworks Swiftcalc version 1.0. Just recovered from my Gasteiner 100 Hard Drive. SWIFT.zip

Here's Hotwire 3 and the manual for version 2. hotstuff.rar Hotwire 2 Manual.rar

I posted Hotwire 3 and a text only version of the manual for Hotwire 2 on Atari Forum: Codehead Software - Atari-Forum Hotwire is a program launcher and much more. It integrates with Multidesk to load & manage multiple Desk accessories and Multifile. I used it a lot on my ST's. Under emulation Gemulator on a PC it didn't function very well. I couldn't move & edit entries easily. However I've started using Geneva as the OS on Gemulator and Hotwire now seems to work just great again. recent versions of the Steem emulator have improved emulation and Hotwire works a bit better than on earlier versions.

Thanks for preserving those disks. Not my really area but I suggest searching on line for information about: 1. Cleaning floppy disks 2. "Lubricating" or otherwise enabling a floppy disk to spin freely This is assuming your disk drive is working just fine and can work with disks formatted as this one is. You could try the disk in a different drive to see if it spins more freely? With these old floppies - the longer we leave em before preserving the more likely the files n data can't be fully accessed - if at all. And any "cleaning" attempts may accelerate any wear & tear damage unless carefully done (the same may apply to old floppy disk drives).

OK 3 of those have IMG files on and they display fine. twdsgid1.msa contains .dtp files which I think are the template files potentially more interesting for Desktop Publisher. The disk that appears damaged - some or all of it's contents mat be salvageable especially given your hardware. There are people on Atari Forum & maybe here with interest in disk preservation who may be able to help. Knife ST is a very useful and powerful program for this kind of thing - First if at all possible get a back up copy or image of the disk.

Yes the disk works. Thanks for sharing it. The disk contains IMG format files and these can be viewed in both Gem View & Image Copy so they should be available to use with a variety of ST programs including Desktop Publisher. I ran a slideshow of the files in Image Copy as the quickest way of checking them - all fine, I think. Other files on the disk lack a suffix file identifier so I don't know what they are? SwiftCalc 2 said to have some interesting features, would be good for it to be preserved. I haven't seen it around & don't think it's easily available.

Hey. Thanks for the link to a new version of UltraSatan. IMO you're right it's a matter of opinion & personal taste which version of the device people prefer. The same goes for "driver" programs and I & many others do appreciate your work in this area.