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Commodore is not the only fruit
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Covering the ST, the CPC, CP/M, Sinclair QL and even pre-OSX Apples.
I’ve always took the road less traveled when it comes to Tech. I had a ZX-81 when everyone I knew had a Vic 20, I choose Amstrad CPC over C64 and pounced on the Atari ST when the world and it’s dog bought an Amiga.
This channel reflects my interests in retro tech.
I’ve always took the road less traveled when it comes to Tech. I had a ZX-81 when everyone I knew had a Vic 20, I choose Amstrad CPC over C64 and pounced on the Atari ST when the world and it’s dog bought an Amiga.
This channel reflects my interests in retro tech.
Was a Macintosh the best Atari Falcon upgrade?
Is a Macintosh Performa 475 a better Falcon, than an Atari Falcon? In this video we find out.
MagicMac was an Atari Emulator that ran native ST apps at 68040 speeds. We install and benchmark a performa 475 vs a stock Falcon.
A full length video on Jinnee
ruclips.net/video/j2-l-0HHs9E/видео.html
_Contents_
00:00 - Introduction
03:20 - MagicMac
07:35 - Benchmarks
11:00 - real word app performance
_Credits_
_Falcon image_
LosHawlos, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons
MagicMac was an Atari Emulator that ran native ST apps at 68040 speeds. We install and benchmark a performa 475 vs a stock Falcon.
A full length video on Jinnee
ruclips.net/video/j2-l-0HHs9E/видео.html
_Contents_
00:00 - Introduction
03:20 - MagicMac
07:35 - Benchmarks
11:00 - real word app performance
_Credits_
_Falcon image_
LosHawlos, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons
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Harlekin, a super accessory for the Atari ST
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.Месяц назад
Let's take a look at Harlekin, a power accessory for the Atari ST. Harlekin features many built in modules useful for pro as well as ordinary ST users. These include a PDA / time management tool, disk utilities, editors, debugging tools, Ram Disks and much, much, more. _chapters 00:00 - Harlekin and the file selector 02:15 - Harlekin modules 11:57 - The manager _OPL picture credits KingDaveRa a...
Latex then and now. How LaTeX worked in 1992 and 2024.
Просмотров 8 тыс.3 месяца назад
Today were looking at the king of long form content creation on the Atari ST, that's LaTeX. We find a suitable LaTeX distribution, install it and I'll show you how LaTeX documents were created. Finally we'll have a quick look at LaTeX in the modern world. _Chapters 00:00 Introduction 03:22 - Installation and first run 07:54 - LaTeX content creations 15:24 - Books and other large document handli...
Is Gemini II a Stella desktop?
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.4 месяца назад
When I first got back into the Atari ST I remembered that my Favourite desktop was Gemini. However once i I installed it I got a shock! It wasn't what I remembered. This is the story of how I found the Gemini I remembered and reconnected with it once more. This is an instalment in my battle of the desktops series. _Chapters 00:00 - Introduction & Gemini II Desktop 02:31 - The file and edit menu...
Atari 400 Mini review: Worth it?
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Today we unbox and review the Atari 400Mini a tiny console replica, with 25 games. I take you over the 400 mini's features and how to load your own games onto it. _Chapters 00:00 - Introduction and unboxing the $00Mini 03:39 - First boot 04:37 - A tour of the UI and settings 07:56 - Saving state and rewinding play 09:58 - Loading games from USB 11:40 - Conclusions, should you get one?
Mount fuji, a new front end for Hatari
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Mount Fuji is a a front end for Hatari it allows you you to edit different configurations for multiple 32 bit Atari machines and to execute them easily. Fuji allow you to quickly find, see the configuration of... and launch different Hatari Systems. Fuji is open sourced under the GNU General Public license v3.0. So feel free to have at it!. Full guide and installation instructions in the video ...
USB on the Atari ST with NetUSBee
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Today we take a look at USB support on the Atari ST using the NetUSBee cartridge slot device. The USB standard was released in January 1996 , todays question is: can we use USB devices on a computer released in 1985, eleven years before the first USB devices came out? _Chapters 00:00 -Driver Installation 04:27 - Keyboard and mouse 06:42 - Printer support 09:10 - USB Storage 13:22 - a cautionary...
Getting an Atari ST on the information super highway with NetUSbee
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When the Atari ST was released in 1985, the internet was only two years old and the world wide web was a mere twinkle in eye of Tim Berners Lee. The web wouldn't come into existence until 1989 four years later. So is it possible to surf the web from a computer that predates it? That's what we're going to look into today. _Chapters_ 00:00 - Introduction 01:22 - NetUSBee basic file transfer 05:01...
Sidecart, the best Atari ST gadget ever?
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Sidecart is a cartridge, floppy and RTC emulator for the Atari ST. It can load cartridge roms and floppies from bot local SD storage and the internet. It is connected to an online database of 2100 games. In this video I take the Sidecart out for a test drive. I'll show you the features of the current version and download the next Beta release and show whats coming. _links_ Sidecart web site sid...
PI 5, best PI for Atari ST emulation?
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.8 месяцев назад
In this video we take a look at Atari ST, TT and Falcon emulations on the last three generations of Raspberry PI computers, the 3B Plus, the four and the five. We take a look at what can be emulated on which platform and what the limitations are. _Chapters_ 00:00 - Introduction 02:22 - Raspberry PI 3B 03:53 - Raspberry PI 4 06:24 - Raspberry PI 5 10:12 - Wrap up and conclusions
Bulky Midi32, the best Roland MT-32 clone? Let's build one
Просмотров 8279 месяцев назад
Sponsored by PCBWAY.COM In this episode I build a Bulky MIDI-32 a Hardware Synth with real MIDI ports based on Raspberry PI and the MT32-PI project. I also show how it can be used from a real atari ST. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Unboxing 02:40 - Build walk through 09:41 - Software installation and config; 12:21 - Demo and testing Black friday and christmas deals www.pcbway.com/activi...
Total Kaos - Kaos TOS and Kaos Desktop
Просмотров 9679 месяцев назад
Today we are going to look at two products that were part of the evolution of the Magic operating system. KAOS TOS is a mega patched version of TOS 1.4, that offered tons of defect fixes and some performance improvements. KAOS Desktop was an early TOS desktop replacement written by the Authors of KAOS TOS. In this video we'll take a look over these two products and evaluate them. _Chapters_ 00:...
Taking Hatari to the Next Level: Emulating MIDI using Fluid Synth and a virtual keyboard
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Today were going to choose a software synth, arm ourselves with a sound font (or two) and make beautiful music on an Atari ST. _Links_ Arachno Sont font Download www.arachnosoft.com/main/soundfont.php _Fluid GM V3 Sound Font_ member.keymusician.com/Member/FluidR3_GM/index.html MidiKeys download flit.github.io/projects/midikeys/ _Chapters_ 00:00 - Introduction 01:59 - What is general MIDI 04:40 ...
MIDI networking and file transfer on the Atari ST
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.11 месяцев назад
MIDI on the ST wasn't just about Cubase and music. In this video I show you how to set up and configure file transfer over MIDI on an Atari ST. I also talk about _Cyber Legends V2.0_ which is on, on: Sunday 8th October 2023 _Here is the information page on the Exxos forum_ www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6375&sid=c2617c903df26f390004604f18ff8a51 _And here's a link to the venue_ ...
MagiC a multitasking OS for the Atari ST
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MagiC a multitasking OS for the Atari ST
Atari, adding an Ext2 file system to MiNT with Hatari
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Atari, adding an Ext2 file system to MiNT with Hatari
Polishing mint #1 - Unix tools, usability and NeoDesk
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Polishing mint #1 - Unix tools, usability and NeoDesk
Jinnee desktop, review, installation and configuration under MiNT
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Jinnee desktop, review, installation and configuration under MiNT
Thing desktop, installation, configuration and review under MiNT
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Thing desktop, installation, configuration and review under MiNT
Ease desktop, installation, configuration and review under MiNT
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Ease desktop, installation, configuration and review under MiNT
Atari Falcon,Hatari and Videl graphics
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Atari Falcon,Hatari and Videl graphics
How to install and configure MiNT in 2023
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How to install and configure MiNT in 2023
ARAnyM - Installation and benchmarking. Is it as good as I said?
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ARAnyM - Installation and benchmarking. Is it as good as I said?
How to emulate all Atari ST variants
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How to emulate all Atari ST variants
Booting directly to Hatari on a Paspberry PI
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Booting directly to Hatari on a Paspberry PI
Atari ST: How to find, install and use fonts
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Atari ST: How to find, install and use fonts
Getting and using the hard drive image for my ST Zero to Hero Series
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Getting and using the hard drive image for my ST Zero to Hero Series
More Prettification and quality of life improvments, Custom Icons, AvServer and a font dialog
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More Prettification and quality of life improvments, Custom Icons, AvServer and a font dialog
ST Guide: a hyper text help system for the Atari ST
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ST Guide: a hyper text help system for the Atari ST
Compressing and decompressing files on the Atrari ST
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Compressing and decompressing files on the Atrari ST
Yeah, but it is emulation, which is crap and not the real thing..... So, the best Falcon is still, a Falcon (with 68060, 128MB RAM etc).
I installed your image with Geneva Neodesk etc on my (real hardware) STE. I'm not sure why I don't have a neodesk control panel and can't get my accessories to show. Otherwise it's nice. Also Can Warp9 load with NVDI? Thank you for these videos and your images. I'm really enjoying having my ST up and running in a way my ST never did when I was using it in high school.
I used to love the combo of Gemini, NVDI, MiNT, etc...
They still work well together :-)
GREAT video. neat topic. i'm just learning about the atari stuff. but this is good stuff. i had a bunch of the old macs in the day. thanks.
I have been looking for MagiCMac installer on the internet. Where did you find?
But what about an Amiga emulating a Mac Emulating an ST, now that would be interesting to see, the reason I say that is an Amiga with same processor as the Mac ran faster than an equivalent Mac.
I don't get why this should be called a Falcintosh. Maybe we can call it GEMintosh, but for it to be called Falcintosh it would need to be able to replace a Falcon. Which it can't. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Falcon. What made the Falcon the Falcon are its graphics and sound capabilities and its DSP. The Performa has none of it. Sure, it can run proper GEM applications but absolutely nothing that would be written for the Falcon. Or try to run ST games on it. I doubt that any commercial games will run on the Performa. Don't get me wrong, it was well known in the early 90s that the best professional Atari computer comes from Apple, but the Falcon is and was never a computer for standard applications. It can run them and it was still a significant boost from a normal ST but it's simply the wrong computer to compare it to the Performa. The Falcon has an 030 and is limited to 14MB of RAM and to a 16 Bit bus. What do you expect when you compare it to a machine that has a 040 with 25 or 50Mhz and 4-36MB of RAM running on a 32Bit bus? If there is any counterpart then it would be the Atari TT (equipped with TT RAM). (And the Performa would still be the better choice).
Interesting video. Would have been also interesting to see the performance of full-blown 68040 equiped Performa. And what about music software (Cubase, Notator) and hardware extensions? Is it somewhere mentioned in the software documentation?
I've uploaded the install floppy images for MultiTeX to my old blog page www.overtakenbyevents.com/MultiTex-for-the-Atari-ST-Floppy-Images/
Some interesting things about the 475. As well as being expandable to 1MB VRAM and supporting 8bit at 1152*870, they actually aren't capped at 36MB RAM, they even take 64 and 128MB simms for up to 132MB, or technically 260MB with a SIMM Saver (which won't fit in the case). Lastly and most importantly, they have a software controllable CPU clock! It was recently discovered that you can bump them up to higher speeds by poking certain registers. 33MHz is easy, 40 is possible and I've got mine to 50MHz including some hardware mods. Its a brand new discovery, so we're still improving the software.
I did see something about this very recently, that was a resistor / jumper hack. You're saying that this is a software fix? that's amazing. Do you have a link to a forum page or a blog about it?
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruitVery recent, as in last week and a half. No soldering required, purely software. RUclips doesn't like people posting links, but my last video upload is applicable.
Does anyone know if a Mac LC II could have run an Atari ST (520 or 1040) emulator and play games at native 60800 speeds? Games that were made for the Mac (Sim City 2000, Lemmings etc) were better on the Mac. But in the late 80s / early 90s, the ST had a much wider variety of games. Particularly arcade style games that were underrepresented on the Mac like Double Dragon, Super Hang On, Gauntlet II etc).
The LC II is pretty slow but is supported. The RAM is on a 16bit bus meaning 32bit reads need two accesses. They're about 15% slower in CPU benchmarks than the 32bit RAM Mac II with a 68020 and 28% slower than the IIcx, which is also a 16MHz 68030. But there are reproduction upgrades available and if you already have the machine, no harm in trying :) Make sure you get the logic board recapped as a matter of urgency if you haven't. They leak corrosive electrolyte and destroy traces, especially in and around the sound circuit.
Oh, but in CPU performance, the LC II performs about 3.5 times faster than an 8MHz 68000 Mac, so it might be fine for running 68000 Atari stuff if there isn't too much overhead for chipset emulation.
You specifically mention games. The problem is that most games accessed the hardware at really low levels and so won't work under Magic. A well behaved GEM game might, but they were few and far between.
hmmm, what about something a little more but still very cheap like an LCIII.. 32bit, similar to the Performa.. would be a cheap Falcon..??
@@pperk97 Good point. And still has the same form factor as the LC and LC II.
Well the falcon is quite underpowered but I am surprised of how badly the performa performs (pun intended). From your real use tests it seems like the difference in performance is just on the CPU and bus speed. In the early days there was an accelerator for the falcon (mighty sonic/eagle I think) that was really cheap (but being a broke student I couldn't afford) and would give 32Mhz 030 and TT RAM to the falcon. Something like this would make your Mac seem really slow in comparison. Of course like others said it's more like a TT and less like a falcon but I get your point as well.
It's hard to explain, but it does feel so much faster. I think the 040 architecture and the 80ns video memory are key
I've always wanted to get an iMac running MagicMac to replace my old ass STe, but I was returning to university and needed a Windows PC for programming classes. Had I've known about Virtual PC, I would had held off getting a Pentium PC for school and save up more for an iMac to run both MagicMac & Virtual PC. And yes I know MagicMac is more for running serious GEM applications than games but there was also an ST emulator called NoSTalgia for the fun stuff.
I think NoSTalgia is one of the best names for a piece of software ever.
Love this so much!! I like running just the opposite...Mac OS on my Falcon (with an 060 in it). It's one way to get more late software for the software-poor Falcon. Running Warcraft II on an Atari makes me smile.
Absolutely; while the Amiga had the upper edge in terms of arcade perfect ports the Atari was king of MIDI and emulation.Hats off to specular emulation :p
Haha, yes. I'm with you on that. I wanted my Atari to show its potential. Once I'd moved on I didn't really need any of the old software, which was, for the most part, underwhelming. The fixed width font in almost every app and most programs disregard for multitasking caused by the lowest common denominator approach grated!
@@thetechnoshed well, I dont think that there was any software area where Falcon was held back by native software that you would be better of with emulated Mac, other then some games. What runs on MagicMac runs fine on Falcon under MaciC. MacOS did not have preemptive multitasking back then, Falcon had 3 chices, MagiC, MultiTOS or MiNT/FreeMiNT. And fixed font width? Majority of productivity software had option for outline/vector fonts after 1993, so what are you talking about? Yes, if you used program from 1987....
I'd bought a second hand Quadra 840av off a work colleague, then ran MagicMac on it. But it wasn't as compatible as I'd hoped so sold the Mac then used the money to buy a TT and TTM194 monitor off an advert in Atari World magazine.
Could one run FreeMiNT on a "Old World" Motorola 68k Mac? I despise MacOS versions prior to Mac OS X as they were prone to crashing due to MacOS's cooperative multitasking. I'd love a way to run a preemptive multitasking OS on an "Old World" 68k Mac
There are 68k Linux variants that run on macs :)
it's an interesting question. MagiC obviously runs, well, Magic. But since it supports the unified file system idea and it's preemptively multitasking, you can get the MiNT experience through command line tooling.
ST's also! Mind you 68K Linux started on some dodgy platform called the Amigo or something similar
Sorry, but this time I have to disagree. While MagicMac was indeed some kind of "savior" for ATARI folks and was presented even in various ST mags as one, the MagicMac was actually not a Falcon replacement. It was ST/MegaSTE/TT030 replacement. First of all Falcon can have larger VRAM then your Peforma, second no, Falcon can do more then 640x480@8bit out of the box, and with some overclock way more then that... Third, Falcon is not just pure faster ST, Falcon has much better audio system your Performa has not and does have DSP which can speed up a lot of operations that will outperform Performa with 68LC40. Fourth, adding a FPU to Falcon was fairly easy, rather cheap and almost a mandatory upgrade (I didnt know any Falcon owner who didnt have the FPU), the Performa 475 did not have this option but to be fair, you could run MagicMac on any 68030-40 Macintosh. Edit: also it is not true that ATARI abandoned Falcon one year after its release, it was abandoned before the sales started.
Adding an FPU to a Performa 475 is easy - the 68LC040 is socketed, you just unplug the LC chip and plug in the full 68040.
@@phipli you do know there was a huge price difference between MC68040 and 68882?
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 Yes but you didn't mention price :) and the video was talking about second hand. Plus you could part ex them at some places. For interest, buying from Micromac, a 68882 cost $39 and a 68040 cost $99. Expensive, but cheaper than a RAM upgrade 😂
RUclips deleted my reply because I mentioned prices. Short answer, about 2x. But not applicable, I was just making it clear that the upgrade was possible and was often done in the second hard era.
@@phipli No, the price of 68882 was around 50UKP and 350-400UKP for 68040 in 1996, thats why Apple used much cheaper 68LC40 on budget models. Changing CPU is not same as affordable adding of FPU in socket that is already present on the Falcon mainboard. And I was referring to video, not to what was or wasnt possible. Lets see if youtube will let this pass.
So one could run a Mac on a 060 Amiga and would run Falcon the fastest
no, same as this video is a bit misleading, the Magic Mac is NOT a Falcon replacement, it is a TT030 replacement. There are apps that do use the DSP, and stock Falcon does outperforms or at least matches even a native Amiga with 68LC60 there.
It’s an interesting topic this because a lot of us had Falcons or upgraded STs and saw Atari had abandoned us. Sooner or later a decision was needed… I went with the Mac but (iirc) 1997. So I lasted a long time! :) Got a power Mac and used MagicMac a lot until I gradually replaced those programs with Mac equivalents. Stupidly sold my Falcon and TT around 2002 I think. Stupid!! Biggest regret ever as I’ll never be able to afford one again :/ Anyhow a brilliant video 👍🏻
far better than putting it in the trashbin. Recently a redditor admitted to recently throwing out his Jupiter Ace, which is worth £1,300+ now.
Yes, it's strange how a falcon which was afforable in the day, is now a lottery winners toy!
Waw, new video, instant like.
Atari St was okay in the 68000 days, but I never saw a 68030 ST here in the USA. I believe they have compatibility issues, worse than on the Mac 68030 machines with their 68000 software. Atari tragically never made it to 68040.
There was an in house prototype of a 68040 Falcon. It was in a box that was almost identical to the song ps2 cause, apparently Sony used the Atari design in their patent submissions
OK, the most Computer of the 80's based on the 68 Motorola Chip.
Where does one find the latest version of QED to run on real hardware (Atari Falcon) with NeoDesk 4? I downloaded both 68000 and 68030 images from github of 5.0.5 that are for some reason under freemint repo and they just crash on my system. I found QED that doesn't crash but it's an ancient version 3.
I got mine from here: freemint.github.io/ It's a part of MinT but should work with any TOS version. This is a great resource for major Abandonware apps (not QED) www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=32323 and this is a searchable index and download site for old shareware / freeware disks and is very useful exxosforum.co.uk/atari/PDL/FLOPPYSHOP/
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit Thank you! That's exactly what I tried, but no snapshot build of 5.0.5 works on real Falcon - keep getting abend error (not using MinT) oh well .. will stick to a version from "back in the day"
Great video, but how do you get NeoDesk to auto-boot without loading Geneva? I like the idea of Geneva, but I am hesitant. What is it's impact on Games? I had a bad experience with MultiTOS back in the day... I am using an ST with 4 megs and TOS 1.04.
Without Geneva just install neodesk. It’s a gem app and can be set to start at boot via prefs in tos 1.04 and up
Building a tf 536 for my mega after that I plan on installing a mint partition.
It's well worth it.Did you see this one, about file systems and better unix apps? ruclips.net/video/7Eb3LAQ4yAk/видео.html
Tried running this on an intel MacBook today running High Sierra 10.13.6 and the app reports that it needs macOS 10.15 or higher to run. Is this just a 'tick box' thing in the compiler settings to make it compatible, or are you using APIs that only exist in newer macOS releases?
The API is built using a Technology called .Net Maui. Microsoft mandates the minimum version that Maui supports, so unfortunately, I have no control over this.
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit OK David, no worries. I can dual-boot that MacBook into a newer OS if needed.
Also, is it possible to output the Pi 5 to a VGA monitor?
So I’ve used adapters, not the greatest, but on both lcd and crt it worked pretty well the only issue i had was it would resize the window incorrectly every once in a while on boot
@@espasphalt is that using an HDMI to VGA adapter? Or are you using the VGA666 adapter?
@@samuelbanya i’ve had success with both, just not a huge fan of pihats. Now that i think about it Ive only used the vga666 on pi4 my bad
I wonder how the newer Mister clones will emulate the Atari computers.
I would imaging pretty well. though I'm not sure if the Falcon DSP is implemented properly.
Would you be able to provide a copy of that entire Raspberry Pi image? Would love to try it out first.
Only via a converter. I haven't tried on personally though.
How would you get the files for the NetusBee if you did not have the UltraSatan?
It would need a floppy disk and there not easy to create on a modern PC or Mac, with out an old floppy device.
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit That is my problem - I need to get an Atari formatted disk to get the NetUSBee files into my system. The USB floppy drives (for PC) only format 1.44 megabyte disks (I have one) which is not the 720K Atari disk. I like to get the NetUSBee going first but, don't know anyone with Atari computer who can send a disk.
@mikecaster4612 where do you live?
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit Located in Redford, Michigan, just west of the Detroit border. Since my last comment, I have ordered an UltraSatan and a Gotek unit since I feel that I should have one as a second connection to my PC.
Nice video, but there are easier ways to split the TOS ROM such as using the Hi-Lo-Byte-Split python script. I bought some EEPROMS for £3 each and I'm going to program them using pi-eeprom-programmer, which as you might guess is a EEPROM programmer for the Raspberry Pi that uses the GPIO header.
There's all these great OS options for the Falcon, but zero fun or interesting software to run on it.
I've owned all the models apart from the TT and even two Falcons. I first saw a Falcon 030 in a pro recording studio in 1992, but on my next visit the owner had got rid of it and gone back to his trusty ST. In 2010 I had a full blown fully upgraded Falcon 030 14MB 60ns, with all the SoundPool interfaces etc and Steinberg Cubase Audio 2.06, but I can see that being an early adopter that studio owner would have had major headaches getting it to run reliably. Mine was fine apart from getting a suitable SCSI hard drive for the audio files. Once that was obtained it ran ok.
all still great machines, emulated or real
Uh, no, the internet was not 2 years old in 1985. It got its start more like 15 years before that for things like email, FTP, and newsgroups, but the WWW didn't come around til 1991, not 1989. There are like 8 billion websites with this information, did you read any of them?
Yes I did. Here are a few key dates, from some of those billions of web sites Some key dates: 1991: The World wide web, started by Sir Tim in 1989 and made public in 1991. 1983: The internet forms as TCP/IP proliferates. That's why 1st of Jan 1983 is used as the Birthday of the internet. 1982: TCP/IP, foundation of the internet was standardized Pre '83 it was ARPANET and DARPANET, not the internet.
Towel day is missing in the calendar.
The note for Arthur Dent does say Author Dent Birthday Buy him a new Towel! But it's not scheduled for 25th of May :-)
I'm struggling to get floppy images to boot, just freezes
@logronoide, is tis a known issue?
You awakened neural pathways that have lain undisturbed in me for about 30 years! I remember using that! And I loved the 68000 Hisoft assembler and debugger!
The ST was a great platform for music and development. it's a pity most ST content o RUclips is games. I was always rubbish at playing them!
A Beautiful tool. Always wanted it but cash was sparse. Atari ST had such cool software. Cubase, Notator, GFA and Omikron Basic, Tempus Word, NVDI, KSpread, TurboAss, PureC. Software was really user friendly back then (on all platforms), before career-project managers took over.
You sound like a dev! It'd be great if it wasn't for those pesky product managers!
I'd love to have the enthusiasm to revive the platform on which I learned 68k assembler, GFA-BASIC and C coding, proper GUIs, electronics and soldering, office programs like Texel and Signum!3, MIDI music production, Notator Logic and so much more. Looking back, my eleven years or so with the Atari Mega ST4 were pretty great (hardware-blitter chip, Turbo030 with 50MHz and 4MB fast RAM, two graphics cards, NVDI, MagiC, external ACSI hard disks and yes, Harlekin). MagiC!Mac even helped me onto my first Apple PPC machine, made me appreciate MacOS and later OS X (macOS nowadays). Making good money with coding and Linux administration, I learned about server-side stuff and actual IBM mainframes while shaking my head at the MS-Windows crowd. I had an Atari TT with a 19'' monochrome monitor and some proper SCSI hard disks for about a while and sold it for triple the price I paid. That's a long story in and of itself. Looking back at the Atari TOS and its many bugs, conceptual flaws and idiosyncrasies, its drive letters, its worse-than-DOS filesystem, I wonder why I didn't ever check out Amiga. Then again, I'm reminded of Amiga's horrible color monitor, its flurry of custom chips and weird graphics, and its lack of MIDI ports. My Atari stuff still works, but I'm so glad to live in a time when I have Linux, KDE, seemingly endless RAM and storage, Unicode, versatile and robust filesystems, USB in all its forms and global connectivity. I'm glad to be free of the restraints of 8-bit Amstrad or 16-/32-bit Atari. Thank you for your Harlekin video, it really brought back some memories. Cheers!
I remember being blown away by this. Incredible!!
It seems to have struck a cord. It was a great tool
Great, thanks to your video I can use the NetUSBee to back up files without using the floppy drive. I don't have to mention how slow the floppy drive is - this device can beat me swapping out the floppy disk. The floppies are also rather space limited. I have ordered one.
WOW I forgot I used to use Harlequin until you showed it! lol Though I think I used an earlier version provided on a cover disk.
Man, how many memories, this was one of the tools I used to use back these days. I had completely forgotten it.
Harlekin was simple best thing ever on ST!
BTW, I think that you made one small mistake - Harlekin system font editor works okay w NVDI. One can load any font from GEMSYS folder as 'GEM font with Fontheader' and save back edited font as same type. My ASSIGN.SYS default font is modified Monaco (8p SCREEN.SYS \ s MONACO*.FNT) and it works perfectly well with NVDI5/SpeedoGDOS. Also, check your Vectors (HARLEGFP.ACC must be in the root for Vectors panel to work, but it's easy to move from ACC folder to root, adjust Vectors/save, and then move it back to ACC folder). Best thing about that feature is that I made my ST text handling - MS DOS 5 CP 852 (Latin 2) & CP 855 (Cyrillic) compatible. Ha! :D
Thanks for that info, I read the manual wrong. It mentioned it did its own rendering and bypassed NVDI.
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit My pleasure. My 'Vector' settings are: VBL / Line A/System Font OFF / VDI Additionally, my 'Vector' AES/VDI is off because I use Teradesk for both Geneva and MiNT and also for plain emuTOS, so that I have uniform environment and file dialog regardless of kernel/AES.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the video! Harlekin was my absolute favorite ST software - they don't make them like they used to :D For me, most useful feature was sort table in combo w system font&keyboard editor. It allowed me to have almost perfect sorting for Serbain/Croatian texts, and we have few extra letters (č,ć,đ,š,ž). I was doing a ton of text processing/setting (read: Calamus) - this was a life saver. I still have Harlekin in all of my Hatari boot imgs - pity it doesn't work well w MiNT/XaAES (at least version that I have). Thanks one more time!
Pozdrav Vladimire! I mi smo koristili Harlekin za osnovne potrebe a Tempus za konvertovanje između različitih kodnih rasporeda kojih je bilo na pretek u SFRJ! :) I onda smo dozvolili da nam razbucaju Jugoslaviju... :(
you are very much welcome. It's strange every time I do a video that I assume is esoteric and won't appeal to people, it finds an audience :-)
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit 👍 Thing is, over here, in ex-Yu and most of the EU, Atari ST was mostly used by professionals, with Music and DTP as major markets, also devs and science folks. As there was no any sort of support, we were on our own to figure how to best configure ST as a workstation for a given job.
Atari ST was a computer I saw, and wanted badly, but couldn't get. Was a mere child... But enjoyed the video thoroughly! Keep making these videos! I wish there is a Baremetal install or at least a distro of Hatari I could run with demos and games (where copyright has expired, or is abandoned)... Any ideas? Always feel there is little out there compared to Amiga channels. Still, I rock on with my Atari 130XL computer. And the various things I can now pair with it, like the Atari SIO2SD, etc.
What platform are you on? If it's Mac or Windows have you had a look at this? ruclips.net/video/Qz4iEh8EcBo/видео.html Ames and apps are relatively easy to find with a google search
and yet people cant get AV (red white yellow cables) video from a analog aux signal using a app, samsung still does better with old tvs
This is great! I'd definitely be interested in a video detailing the same process with hardware MIDI controllers. Would it be set up the same way?
Tanks for this I'll have a look into it
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