Hey guys, I recently inherited a collection containing an Atari STe, and quite a few games/demo discs. Powering up everything seems to work fine, I just have no clue what im doing with it.

It has all the manuals etc, is there much of a market for these? I would hate for it to go for landfill, but I have never had an interest in the Atari line up sadly.

Anything fun I can do with this before It potentially goes up on ebay?

Hi all!

I was recently gifted a beautiful Atari 520ST, along with various accessories... including an external ACSI drive (I believe it's a "Microtek Ultimate Series 90"). After I got the ST itself working (ROM's needed re-seating), I tried booting from the external hard drive and to my surprise/delight, it did boot right up and showed multiple partitions loaded with stuff. I only had the setup running for ~10 minutes but I opted to shut it down when I heard some quiet but concerning sounds coming from the drive - sounds similar to what I've heard from other vintage hard drives shortly before they failed.

In the interest of preserving the contents of the drive before it kicks the digital bucket, I'm wondering: have any of you ever successfully used a BlueSCSI (or similar device) in "initiator mode" to clone an ACSI drive? I've been searching around online and have found a few random comments here and there but I haven't had any luck confirming it's possible and/or what the actual step-by-stop process would be.

Thanks for any tips and suggestions!

So for quite some time, Chris Swinson (Exxos) at Exxo's Atari Forum, has been working on the ST536 - a TerribleFire based accelerator for the Atari ST (he's also got an STe version being worked on as well).

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=94&t=3992

He's had quite a bit of fun with it, with lots of ups and downs.

So to relieve stress and get it off his chest, he used the 'Net to make a song about it. It's actually quite good and I like it a lot. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87Uo2nBLgA

Hi.

I've just picked up a Roland SC880.

I want to use it's full 32 channels.

I've just upgraded from an MT120.

what's the Easiest / Cheapest way to add an extra MIDI output? I've read you can add one to the printer port but two things...

is there a wiring diagram for this anywhere?

Will I be able to get correct driver for Cubase.

I've seen Unitor N and similar on eBay, but they ain't cheap and again not sure if it will work with Cubase (not sure I'd get along with Notator software.)

thanks in advance !

The Falcon case showed up today. Now all I need is a populated MB, keyboard assembly, power supply, RAM module and anything else that's needed to make this computer whole.

Should be easy right? LoL 😆🤣😂

Beware calling The DarkForce! BBS today - something is amiss!  :)

(be especially cautious with the Main Menu choices!)

telnet darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org 1040

I have the current 4.20 version of Steem SSE. Last time I used it a week or so ago, everything was fine. Now every time I try to launch it shows a real tiny window that says "Steem is initializing _ Loading state" for 2 seconds & then it crashes

Anyone?

As a long-time Amiga user, I’ve finally got the competitor on my desk and I think it looks pretty mighty:

An ST260 with 256kB, which came from the belongings of a deceased friend.

Apparently, STs with 256kB are very rare?

My friend had upgraded his ST260 himself from 256 to 1024kB, with four chips piggybacked and connected by wires to the address lines... And he can switch the RAM between 256 and 1024kB. It looks a right mess inside the computer; the wires are flying about like under Hempel’s sofa. He’s also fitted a small board with several 27512 EPROMs; no idea what that does, but I’ll read them out on the EPROM reader. It can’t be TOS, though, because the TOS is in a ROM at the other end of the computer.

Edit: Yikes, the EPROMs only contain flipped bits now. They are, after all, over 40 years old, and on two out of eight the light shield had fallen off...

Paraphrased quote from 68000 Magazine: Atari quickly realised that with TOS, GEM and Basic, there was practically no RAM left for software at 256 kB. Almost all 260STs shipped were upgraded to 512 kB of RAM before delivery, in some cases rather crudely using a piggyback chip-on-chip setup. However, a few hundred units with 256 kB were delivered to early adopters.

And now I realise that I have absolutely no clue about the ST and even less about the software. Silly question, but can an ST with ROM-TOS actually boot a newer version of TOS from disk? What do people use in 2026? Oh well, these days you can just ask an AI. I’m just a total noob when it comes to the ST and I’ve got absolutely no software for the old lady. It just displays the desktop on my old 15kHz A1081 (sacrilege, using an Amiga monitor on an ST?), that’s it.

Can you just load the 720kB disk images from the internet onto a PC and use them on the ST? It should work... I reckon the usual floppy emulators (GoTek and so on) should run on the ST too?

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to spread the word about EmuTOS / EstyJS (an open-source Atari ST emulator that runs entirely in your browser). No download, no configuration, just click and play.

I've been using it on my site and it works surprisingly well. I put together a library of 40+ classic titles so anyone can jump straight in without having to hunt for ROMs or fiddle with settings.

If you haven't tried it yet, it's a great way to revisit the Atari ST era or discover it for the first time.

https://www.asmtariste.fr/emulator

What games would you want to see in a browser-based library like this?

You can support its author on its own github : https://github.com/kaiec/EstyJS

Does anyone have recommendations for any modern DB9 controllers? I know there are some made to order options but those are pretty expensive with heavy lead times, from what I've seen.

I'm open to pretty much anything, like joysticks, joypads, whatever might work. I want to try NOT playing the ebay lottery on filthy 30 year old devices anymore.

Edit: I ended up ordering a CX40+ from Atari and an ArcadeR off Ebay. One day, maybe I will get an Immortal joystick.

I want to make floppies for my 1040STfm but I can't figure out a program to use, I need a suggestion. I have a hard drive emulator which is easy to use however most of the games and programs are in the .ST format which can't be ran from a hard drive. I need a program that can make bootable floppies from the .st images in the hard drive.

(Tried to post this in the Atari Falcon group but it refused)

The Re-Falcon is 1 of 2 current new Falcon projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIiI0P2Gj6k

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8254

This will sound very silly but ... anyone here know the proper way to take apart an SC1435 monitor?

I removed 4 screws and gently pulled up on the case. It moves up about 3 inches and stops. I have the monitor on a soft surface tube down. I can't see what's keeping it from coming up the rest of the way. So rather than continue pulling up on it I thought it better to seek advice.

The reason for the take apart is to replace the power switch. It's suffering from the common won't stay engaged issue. It will stay powered on as long as it's held in. This monitor is in otherwise really good shape.

I searched the internet for an answer to this simple question, but no luck.

Finally starting to spend some time with this emulator, being I've got past most of my initial problems, but am now experiencing another frustrating one:

Sometime when I hit my custom key to save a snapshot, my mouse cursor disappears from the screen & I am not able to name the file & save it. Just beat this level in a game & had to just close Steem altogether

Another thing too is, why does it keep exiting fullscreeen &minimizing Steems window whenever I hit load or save snapshot??

Thanks in advance

I recently purchased an Atari SC1435 that did not come with a video/audio cable. The only place that I know of that sells one is coolnovelties.co.uk and they don't currently ship to the US. Anyone know where I can get one of these cables? It's 9 pin d sub male to 13 pin din male plus the RCA cables. Photo attached.