Do post some video here! I'd love to see a high-rez version of this. I presume you are installing in a Mega ST?

@@Technoid_Mutant yes, I just got the Et4000 up and running last weekend. I also installed 4 MB ram (it was a mega 1) I haven't installed a CPU socket yet. It has a piggy back socket with an AMD 286 co processor for DOS in it right now. I have a socketed stfm so once I get the TF 536 running on it I'll give it a try. | have the Exoss version with the added memory IDE etc. I also have an ICD board that adds an FPU, usefull for MINT. I tried to order a storm but they won't be making a new batch till next year. I'll let you know how it goes and post a vid.

@@Technoid_Mutant kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJi3dniLl8eIn5I&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB

I have the schematics, installation manual, and pretty much anything you need. Hit me up on the Facebook Atari 8-bit Computers group.

I do have a grease weasel, to produce disks for vintage computers. Most floppy controllers for the PC are unable to produce an FM (Single-density) disk, so the weasel is my go-to in those cases. Prior to getting weasel I was using a PC and various vintage tools to produce vintage disks from images so long as they were double-density. You are right. Were this a vital disk, my first step after cleaning it would be to image it a few times using the flux reader, THEN try file-level recovery.

@@Technoid_Mutant I've only really used mine to image some cross format 3.5" disks from a magazine here in the UK that I thought were interesting. I was always fascinated as a kid how they made disks that could be read on a PC (IBM compatible as they were called at the time), Atari ST and Amiga as a native format on each one with different content.

If you just like the old machines that is cool but I am curious, what would you use it for? I ask this because I have a load of old computers ( I used to repair them and people would give me their old ones). I know of some things you can use them for that modern computers seemed to have abandoned. Sending a Fax with a fax card, reading 360k, 1.2, 720K or 1.4mb disks. Run old operating systems natively and the software that requires those old OS. VM machines don't always cut it, especially with games. I would love to hear any other examples of things you can only do with these old machines.

@@michaelterry1000 Honestly, I'm just autistic and enjoy old/obscure machines doing era-appropreate stuff, Or even run Modern stuff, like some form of Linux. Most of my machiens are either used as servers, or toys for OS-es (For example, my Dell Optiplex I got is what I used to dip my toes in the waters of Hackintoshing.)

@@sometime- Interesting. Thanks for the reply. I am always interested in what people do with old machines.

mx linux : debian without systemd, try it

I've not had good luck with Linux on this machine, nor on my Alphastation XP900, nor on my HP9000 D230. You might get it installed headless (no xwindows), but OpenBSD has always been my Go-to OS for vintage machines. They maintain machines for a much longer time than other distros (NetBSD and FreeBSD for example). Both of those latter work, but not with the graphics hardware on the machines. On the PA/Risc box, Linux just doesn't install.

​@@Technoid_Mutantyes, same challenges here. You could check T/2 (René Rebe from Berlin)

A gentleman never asks and a lady never tells. ;-)

Military reference. for example my favorite MRE candy bar was "Bar, Candy, Type 1, Style 3...... It was like a Scor bar but with toffee already in bits.

@@Technoid_Mutant: Maybe what you said in this second reply could make sense as some kind of military reference of sorts, but "brown in color" doesn't. You totally missed my questions about what a color word like "brown" could possibly refer to besides exactly that: a color." "Brown in color" doesn't make sense, because it's a redundancy.

The jacket is so atrophied with time that flexing it would be to shatter it. I've discovered that feature of old jackets the hard way. Even so, you can see that the razor made a jagged cut.

I suppose that would be called a "Destructive Read Procedure". 🙂

The Atari's Pokey sound chip was awesome for the time, but is only 4 voices spanning 3 1/2 octaves each. Child's play for the Blade's sound hardware.

@@Technoid_Mutant Oh right. I remember playing an MP3 on mine and it just sounded awful. I think I was using OpenBSD 4.X (so this was a while ago).

I was getting familiar with the software and didn't have NVDI setup correctly. It makes a HUGE difference in performance.

I gather it has that faculty, but I've never actually Used Wayland...

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Thanks! It has been a while since I posted video. I shot intending to put it on my Facebook page, which stubbornly displays landscape video rotated 90 degrees. Only after I shot, I realized I never was going to post directly on Facebook, bur rather Here and post links. Landscape for the next one, promise.

I had a 16mghz accelerator in mine in highschool running circles around windows pc's in 1988. TROLL BBS , 2 lines 2400 baud, 2x48 MB drives online.

Unfortunately not. The STE has a 16mhz bus clock the TerribleFire is not built for.

Check out Atariage.com and the Atari 8-bit computer groups on Facebook. A buddy of mine is a demo coder of old on the Atari, cowrote "Intel Outside". The Atari 8-bit has more than the 6502 at 1,79mhz, It has two dedicated 40 pin coprocessors for graphics, another for sound, an IO chip, a simple MMU. What Atari did to allow these chips to busmaster is to add a halt line to the 6502. Initially this was done with a trio of 74ls chips, until Atari's own "Sally" version with the halt logic integral came into production. No halt line is the major reason we never saw 6502-based machines with front panels and blinkin' lights. 8080, 8085, z80, yes, but 6502 no. With Atari's rig, any 6502 could be such a monster, but Atari used it to share the bus. Antic can directly access memory without cpu intervention and vice-versa. Antic can switch video modes at each scanline, which amounts to a really huge number of possible 'modes' additional to the documented 15 modes Atari supplied. Most of what is being done here is likely artful Antic programming (called a display-list). This demo needs 320k, which is doggone big for a 6502 program. The CPU can modify the display list on the scan line as well, then let Antic do it's thing. You can get answers to how this is done at atariage for sure.

All is well. I lost a custom IC on the Atari and sidelined the project for awhile. I think it is likely the MMU. Since however I've acquired a Hewlett Packard 9000 D230 minicomputer with storage subsystem and terminal. The past couple of months have been interesting. Processor: PA-7300LC (PCX-L2), 512mb ram, 1mb level 2 cache, ten hot-swappable fast-wide differential scsi drives, dual fast-wide LASI scsi controllers.... I got NetBSD on it, but chose OpenBSD instead, primarily due to issues with the iee0 network interface drivers/network stack. I intend to post a video on that machine in the not-very-distant future.

Hey Jeff! It’s been a year or so since your last video. I hope all is well! I sold you a Percom drive a while ago that I saw you nicely fixed up, and I appreciate the little ‘disk switcher’ bundle of wires/connector you sent me for an Atari 800. Thanks for being great in the community!

@@Technoid_Mutant I dont want to sound "pokey", but anything new?

I'd like to think so, but the truth is, even with all the souping-up, the machine is decidedly inferior to my cell-phone, by huge factors.

This is one of the only demos you can't run. It needs a full meg of ram. It might be the only piece of software for the Atari 8 that actually requires a full meg of ram.