w1k Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Hello, today one good boy give me beautiful Atari 1040STfm and monitor ATARI SC1224.. i have no diskettes, no hdd what new hw extensions exist? or can i forma PC diskette and use it? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 You can use 3.5" DD disks (I can't recommend HD disks, to me they have proven to be very unreliable in DD drives) and format them on any PC from the command line ("format a: /n:9 /t:80") - or use the Simon Owen's fdrawcmd.dll and Pera Putniks Floppy Imaging program to directly write .MSA and .ST disk images on the PC. Other than that, Lotharek offers the HxC2001 SD FDD emulator which can replace the disk drive entirely. And zaxon AFAIK still produces the UltraSatan, a SD HDD replacement drive (for which more and more games are being patched) - a RAM expansion is recommended for these patched titles. Thorsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 (edited) thank you, i now making diskette.. another question? i have 1040ste.. on pouet.net i must download st or ste files? but ste files is .PRG.. its OK? just rename it to .MSA and copy with FloImg1? edit 16:41.. .PRG file works fine.. but i have no sound. here is photo, i love atari comps: Edited December 30, 2011 by w1k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 STE programs will not run on the regular STs, pouet.net has a special category for ST - pick that one! .PRGs are just copied to the disk by drag and drop, the image program is for disk images in .ST and .MSA format only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 (edited) Thank you.. edit 17:01 last question: where i can find new software? system info tools, copy programs, programming, etc, thanks Edited December 30, 2011 by w1k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 The Atari SC1224 monitor you apparently have has sound built in - just turn the knob that doubles as the power switch a little further. Loads of software can be found on planetemu.net (a French site), and freeware on e.g. ftp://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/ and ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Check the Essential Software list at Atariforum: http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16525 Also, if you want to replace the stock 720k floppy drive for a 1.44meg floppy, Ralcool (Sean) is still selling his kits. Have to be able to solder a bit though. http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=18847 HTHs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 thank you tommorow i go buy diskettes question: i have tos 1.2.. can i easy flash it to 1.4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 thank you tommorow i go buy diskettes question: i have tos 1.2.. can i easy flash it to 1.4? No, I'm afraid flash upgrades are not possible. You'll have to open up the Mega1 and physically swap out the TOS chips. As long as you keep the same number of TOS chips to upgrade, its really not that hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 ok, i wait about that.. i looking for PC remake games like pop, prehistorik, etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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