rustynutt Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Nice job seeing the project through. I picked up a PAK with German TOS 2.06 & an 020/6881 chip set. It looks functional. Only numbers I see are LS and PAK 20 on the underside. Glad you posted photos and a decent thread, will help later on down the road. I have an ST with a socketed CPU spot from where a T-36 use to sit. (kick myself for letting that go!). Also have a Mega ST. Once the Falcons get sorted out, will turn my attention to the PAK. That is, after I repair your Expose card Retiring end of this month, expect big things. Big screw ups as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 Nice job seeing the project through. I picked up a PAK with German TOS 2.06 & an 020/6881 chip set. It looks functional. Only numbers I see are LS and PAK 20 on the underside. Glad you posted photos and a decent thread, will help later on down the road. I have an ST with a socketed CPU spot from where a T-36 use to sit. (kick myself for letting that go!). Also have a Mega ST. Once the Falcons get sorted out, will turn my attention to the PAK. That is, after I repair your Expose card Retiring end of this month, expect big things. Big screw ups as well I've got a T25, but no T36's. Oh wow, I'd almost forgotten about that Expose card. Never did get it working then? I hope you do get it working, shame to see great hard ware go to waste. Oh Alan H. over at AtariForum has a PAK 2 (with the 68020) as well. Might want to get in touch with him sometime and compare notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Okay, I've got it back together and it seems to be working okay. Here is a short video, sorry for the low quality - some el cheapo camera from Amazon. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/109324088/STacy%20video%2001.AVI.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Okay, uploaded this short video to YouTube as well. Again, sorry for the poor quality and I'll try to add more video's later on. It's enough to give you a short look at the beaST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 Okay, here is a 2nd video. Again, nothing production values here, but I switched to a Pandigital 8" tablet and it seemed to be a little better quality video. This video does show more of me actually using the STacy, and it's desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 This is the 3rd video I made - it was actually filmed during the day (I'm a night owl by nature and profession) so again, the quality seems to be a little better. You can see the modified speaker grill, 1.44 meg floppy disk drive, and Ultrasatan much better. http://youtu.be/KklGhAogvnU PS Very little audio on this one, what's there is inadvertent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jens Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Aaah - you're showing off!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Aaah - you're showing off!!! The STacy is taking all the limelight here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jens Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Would've guessed that! Great work, especially the nice use of those radiant colours for the casing. Did I see some light black there beside the evil black and the pitch dark black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Good video, you did a nice job with that. I was reading your progress all this time so it was cool to see the finished machine. You're gonna have a lot of fun with that! I think it is safe to say you have the coolest STacy in the western hemisphere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Would've guessed that! Great work, especially the nice use of those radiant colours for the casing. Did I see some light black there beside the evil black and the pitch dark black? Nah, that was "neutral" black. About as far as I could go in that direction. You do realise I'm only using black until something *darker* comes along, right? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Good video, you did a nice job with that. I was reading your progress all this time so it was cool to see the finished machine. You're gonna have a lot of fun with that! I think it is safe to say you have the coolest STacy in the western hemisphere Thanks! Been a lot of work (all fun) with lots of help from the Atari community. That machine wouldn't be what it is today without everyone's help. Don't think I can keep/hold the title of coolest STacy though - keep an eye on Alan H.'s work over at AtariForum - he's gonna rock our little Atari worlds with some of the stuff he's eventually going to put out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jens Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 (edited) Seeing this project I'm thinking that I might rather have parted from my ST-Book and kept the STacy instead. I thought so several times before on different occasions, but I must admit that using my Dell is not that cool, but for me of more practical use. Plus I wouldn't have been able to do the the works you did on your STacy. So, not having said that before: Congrats to this fine Atari portable, DarkLord! Edited February 5, 2013 by jens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Don't know Jens, the ST-Book is probably the rarest ST model out there, and it sure is sought after (big $$$) when it does show up on Ebay. If I could ever get one at a decent price, I'd be tempted. Simbo was doing some interesting battery work 'n stuff on his over at AtariForum. Might want to check it out sometime. He's also desperately looking for an English TOS ROM set for his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 I decided to do (yet) another video of my STacy. This session shows the STacy's ability to use an external monitor, in all 3 ST resolutions. I also filmed it using the PAK 68/3 accelerator boards compatibility mode, which basically turns it back into a stock 8mhz, TOS 1.4 STacy. Finally, I showed it playing color games on the external monitor. I was in a room that wasn't all that well lit, so apologies for the low quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 Wife at work, daughter had a friend over, got some "me" time to play with my STacy. Set up on the dining room table, formatting spare SD cards, wirelessy telnetting into DarkForce, Inside the 8 bit BBS, and the YYZ BBS. Even played some Hitchhikers and Ultima III. Almost seems unreal actually using the STacy now, after all the time we've invested in it. Good times, great people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 That's great! Looks fantastic. I'll bet your daughter thinks it's a real dinosaur, eh? That'd be like ENIAC is to us - something from before we were born. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 That's great! Looks fantastic. I'll bet your daughter thinks it's a real dinosaur, eh? That'd be like ENIAC is to us - something from before we were born. Well, she's 11 now, and honestly she's pretty used to my Atari "room" full of this, that, and the other. She's been around it all her life. She's a big fan of Jaguar and Lynx games. She loves Gauntlet II in multiplayer mode too - especially the "tag" level. Her friends on the other hand...stop and gawk...run into things because they are staring so hard...make comments like, "what the heck is that???" and "I've never seen a computer like that","Yeah, but what can you do with it?", etc,... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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