Chatty75 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Hi Everyone, I recently purchased a working Atari Stacy 2 which I have just got around to testing out today, apart from various software disks that I got with the machine I also have a collection of old ST games which I was hoping to run on the Stacy, nothing too graphically intensive as I already knew that the system had a monchrome screen. The problem I am having is that none of the games appear to run through the bluescreen mono display on the unit, I can get to the option menus but then the screen goes black (as if it has switched off) and all I can hear is the audio from the game in progress. My question to those of you who may have a similar machine is have I missed an option somewhere in the operating system, or is the Stacy just incapable of running standard Atari ST games through the mono screen? As I had always read that the Stacy was essentially a portable ST and also that it has a joystick port on it I just assumed that it would run my games okay. Any advice you can give me would be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 STacy can run ST 'high' monochrome mode only games on its built in mono monitor. If you want to run everything else you can, but you will need to connect an external color monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Falcon Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 (edited) Hmm, I played many monochrome games on my stacy without any problems on the internal screen... So be sure that you really use monochrome games which use ST-HIGH resolution... Anyway the Stacy is a nice "portable" video game console... If you have a scart cable, you can copy tons of nice games (e.g. dbug harddisk versions of original software you own) on it and connect the stacy to your TV... that beats out every sega genesis Edited March 25, 2009 by Atari_Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Hi. I've got a STacy too. Wonderful machines - I've been having a ball getting to know mine, and exploring mods/upgrades for it. One option is this - the STacy has an extenal color monitor port on the back plane. I've tried it - it works fine. With a monitor like the SC1224 plugged in, the screen shows up there, but the STacy's mono screen is disabled. Oddly enough, sound comes from both the external monitor and the STacy's internal speaker. To play games on the STacy's mono screen, the game itself must support ST-High. Fortunately, there are quite a few games that do this. Here is a partial list: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 8 Ball Alpha Waves Balance of Power Balance of Power - The 1990 Edition Ballyhoo Battlezone Beyond Zork - The Coconut of Quendor Black Cauldo, The Bob Winner BorderZone Borrowed Time Brataccas Bunny Bricks Bureaucracy Checkmate Chess Champion 2175 Chess Player 2150 Colonel's Bequest, The Conquests of Camelot Corruption Crystal Castles Crystal of Arborea Cutthroats Deadline Deathstrike Donald Ducks Playground Electronic Pool Enchanter Esprit Fish! Flight Simulator II Flight Simulator II - Europ Flight Simulator II - Japan Flight Simulator II - Lake Huron Flight Simulator II - Washington Flip Side Gnome Ranger Gnome Ranger 2 - Ingrid's Back Gold Rush! Guild of Thieves, The Hanks' Quest - Victim of Society Hellowoon - Das Geheimnis des Zauberstabs Hero's Quest Hippo Backgammon Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hollywood Hijinx Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 1 Holye's Book of Games - Volume 2 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Infidel Ishar - Legend of the Fortress Ishar II - Messengers of Doom Ishar III - The Seven Gates Of Infinity Jewels of Darkness Jinxter King's Quest - Quest For the Throne King's Quest II - Romancing the Throne King's Quest III - To Heir is Human King's Quest IV - The Perils of Rosella Knight Orc Lancelot Leather Goddess of Phobos Leisure Suit Larry - The Land of the Lounge Lizards Leisure Suit Larry 2 - Goes Looking for Love Leisure Suite Larry 3 - Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pecto Loom Lurking Horror, The Mac Pan Magnetic Scrolls Collection, The Manhunter - New York Manhunter 2 - San Francisco Maniac Mansion Megaroids Millipede Mind Forever Voyaging, A Missle Command (High res version) Mission Moonmist Myth Nord and Bert Not a penny more, Not a penny less Ogre Oil Imperium Ooze Oxyd (high res version) Oxyd 2 (high res version) Pawn, The Perfect Match Perry Mason - The Case of the Mandarin Murder Planetfall Plundered Hearts Police Quest - In Pursuit of the Death Angel Police Quest II - The Vengeance Psion Chess Scapeghost Seastalker Secret of Monkey Island, The Sherlock Holmes - The Riddle of the Crown Jewels. Silicon Dreams Sorcerer Space Quest - The Sarien Encounter Space Quest 2 - Vohauls' Revenge Space Quest 3 - The Pirates of Pestulon Spellbreaker Spinger Starcross Starglider Starglider 2 Stationfall Stone Age Suspect Suspended Tennis (high res version) tex McPhilip - Road to Divinity Time and Magik Tonight the Shrieking Corpses Bleed Trinity Ultima II - Revenge of the Enchantress Ultima III - Exodus Voodoo Girl Queen of the Darned Wind Surf Willy WIshbringer Witness, The Wonderland Zak Mckraken and the Alien Mindbenders Zak Mckraken and the Alien Mindbenders (demo) Zork - The Undiscovered Underground Zork I - The Great Underground Empire Zork II - The Wizard of Frobozz Zork III - The Dungeon Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastRobPlus Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Not sure why I was thinking about this today... I wonder how hard it would be to hack a color LCD screen into the Stacy and wire up a Progressive Video Key? You could make the Stacy a color ST portable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 (edited) Not sure why I was thinking about this today... I wonder how hard it would be to hack a color LCD screen into the Stacy and wire up a Progressive Video Key? You could make the Stacy a color ST portable. I've been thinking about this ever since I got mine! There are problems to overcome though: 1. Power source - externally, or from within the STacy 2. Size - finding a size that will fit 3. LCD that will conform to the ST's output I bought this unit: http://www.ambery.com/rgbcgatovgac.html and tried it out. ST Lo-rez is fine, games also play fine on it. However, ST-med is blurry, and parts of the letters onscreen actually "drop out"... Fine if you're only going to play games, but I do a lot more with my ST's than just that. So I'm hoping that kjmann's new unit: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...142424&st=0 will work better. I've still got high hopes Edited May 22, 2009 by DarkLord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jens Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I'd like to add the games Empire - Wargame of the century (I think the predecessor of Battletanks) Die Gemäuer von Kalawaum (dungeons and that kind of things) There are quite a lot of puzzle games that I don't have the titles in mind except for Acctris (Tetris as Accessory) Reversi (Accessory as well) AtariGo Shanghai @ Darklord: Do you have all those games in your list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I'd like to add the games Empire - Wargame of the century (I think the predecessor of Battletanks) Die Gemäuer von Kalawaum (dungeons and that kind of things) There are quite a lot of puzzle games that I don't have the titles in mind except for Acctris (Tetris as Accessory) Reversi (Accessory as well) AtariGo Shanghai @ Darklord: Do you have all those games in your list? Nope, but I sure wish I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+poobah Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Not sure why I was thinking about this today... I wonder how hard it would be to hack a color LCD screen into the Stacy and wire up a Progressive Video Key? You could make the Stacy a color ST portable. I've been thinking about this ever since I got mine! There are problems to overcome though: 1. Power source - externally, or from within the STacy 2. Size - finding a size that will fit 3. LCD that will conform to the ST's output I bought this unit: http://www.ambery.com/rgbcgatovgac.html and tried it out. ST Lo-rez is fine, games also play fine on it. However, ST-med is blurry, and parts of the letters onscreen actually "drop out"... Fine if you're only going to play games, but I do a lot more with my ST's than just that. So I'm hoping that kjmann's new unit: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...142424&st=0 will work better. I've still got high hopes Do you have Stacy schematics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Do you have Stacy schematics? No, sure don't... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jens Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Are Mega ST schematics ok for the Stacy? I ask because the Stacy technically a Mega ST in a carriage box. I just don't know if the layout is different or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Are Mega ST schematics ok for the Stacy?I ask because the Stacy technically a Mega ST in a carriage box. I just don't know if the layout is different or not. Quite a few things are the same (chip wise) but there are also some different features... That internal power inverter, the SCSI card (identical to the one used in the Mega STe), it has no blitter, unlike the Mega ST, etc, RAM and TOS chips are in different locations, etc,... Otherwise, much should be the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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