Atari MSTE - Restoration (1/4)

[@gallgreg]

Sweet machines and congrats on an excellent restoration!!

[@ceebee23]

Always loved the look of these computers.... esp. compared to the beige box PCs of the same era...

[@StRoRo]

Wonderful retrobrite results there.

[@the_omg3242]

I was into ST's back in the 80's before getting into Amiga's. Had a 1040, had some friends that had the mega's. I've never seen one of those machines though. Pretty cool design for it's time.

[@godslayer1415]

same as the TT

[@sideburn]

Has the retrobriting held up or has it re yellowed?

[@10p6]

Nice video. Can you tell me the SCSI cable orientation for the drive and board as they are not keyed. Like on the board it indicates pin 1 is on the left so the red line is on the left facing up, but the drive? Thanks.

[@AnalogThinker]

I'm too lazy to take the drive out but looking at the video around 1:51, it seems the wire with the red marking is towards the power connector on my drive (opposite of the jumper pins)... Hope this helps :)

[@boghead]

Off topic I’ve just booted my mega STE after a few months, boots to desktop looks ok, boot up automation game disk with raster effects, only no rasters and strange colours, other games all have same palette and no rasters ?, faulty shifter chip?

[@newtab1234]

You deserve more view

[@AmstradExin]

WOW A graphics Card! I had tons of MSTE and TT, never had one.

[@VideoJunkXXL]

This ist amazing, from yellowing effect Back to like new. What Paste you are using exactly?

[@AnalogThinker]

Hydrogen Peroxide cream, from a hair salon. I tried both the 40 and 60 formula. I guess you could also have a water and liquid HP in a clear bucket, as long as you have some HP and UV from sunlight!

[@VideoJunkXXL]

@@AnalogThinker i will try it, thx a lot.

[@TheManxMarauder]

I have one of these in the loft, still working order I guess

[@LOveERDos]

this atari can play game of atari st?

[@AnalogThinker]

raf soul Most of the games yes, this is just an improved Atari STe in a pizza box with internal hard drive. Only a very few games made specifically for the original 520ST may not like it (and usually the same ones that didn’t run on the STe)

[@dlfrsilver]

no capacitors replacement in the PSU ? It's quite mandatory after 15 years in storage......

[@AnalogThinker]

Yeah I ended up doing it off cam. When you are in the hobby, recap is probably 50% of our time. I actually bought crates of branded 10,000Hr Nichicon/NipponChemicon caps of all values for all my future repairs.

[@dlfrsilver]

@@AnalogThinker excellent :)