Atari Falcon 030 Unbelievable Donation & Repair Part 1 (Fixed + Extras (060))
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The first look at an absolutely incredible donation to the channel!!!! The Atari Falcon is a rare system and super expensive if you can find one for sale!
This system was incredibly GIVEN to me by William on Twitter (@ste_mega AKA 3DOKID)
Here's the link to his website:- wmgaming.co.uk/
It's worth following his Twitter feed to see what amazing systems he's tinkering with!
Part 2 - • Atari Falcon 030 Unbel...
Part 3 - • Atari Falcon 060 Unbel...
#atari #falcon #repair #rare
Part 2 - ruclips.net/video/-4RtB7mLBPI/видео.html
Part 3 - ruclips.net/video/xrY4C5xvqFw/видео.html
This system was incredibly GIVEN to me by William on Twitter (@ste_mega AKA 3DOKID)
Here's the link to his website:- wmgaming.co.uk/
Exxos (Atari Forum / Blog / Falcon & ST Parts & Upgrades - www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/
Peter Putnik ST HDD Conversions (Many will work on the Falcon, or will work with Backwards III) - www.8bitchip.info/atari/pphdr.php
the falcon was only sold 13.000 machines. Mine is serial #7444 and is a pre-production model :) ; By the way Gadget, if you think the Falcon is expensive, try out the Sharp X68000 and its lovely games sold an arm worth :D
Great stuff, Gadget. Was amazed when I saw your post on Twitter about it. Glad you got it running so quickly. If I ever get my external 030 + ram board into beta test state, I know where I can send one for a run-out now!
@CrazyPainter1000 I own 2 : One X68000 XVI and an X68000 XVI Compact.
Imagine if someone designs a board to convert 2d to 3d graphics and upto 4k resolution and 7.1 sound.... (just a project idea for any just going into uni computer engineering)....
Couldn't have gone to a more deserving person!
Thanks =D
Two quick notes on the CT60e and Falcon. The expansion ports connectors on the Falcon are two different heights, so when the CT60e is installed it is meant to pitch down very slightly towards the keyboard, but this is made worst by the height of the power connector, along with the back left corner not being supported, so the board can very easily flex, and possibly damage the board. Also, virtually all Pico adapters will touch the RF Shield if installed, so if you use the RF shield, make sure you put some insulation on it so it does not short.
Old comment I know, but I have to say that I believe you're wrong about the expansion port connectors. Maybe one of them has been replaced on your Falcon? On both my Falcons and both my friend's Falcons the connectors are of the exact same height, and the CT60 is is perfectly level with the motherboard *unless* you push the power connector fully in - the power connector is about 1mm too low... If you insert the power connector fully you will bend the CT60e PCB.
You're completely right about the lack of support at the back of the CT60e though, I have 3D-printed a support bracket here.
Wow that is bloody fantastic of William, the only person i knew who had a falcon was a guy at work and he knew what he had so never wanted to part with it, nice that you are humble and appreciate the things you have been sent Chris many people on this platform sadly do not!
Thanks mate =D Hope you are doing well! I will always be thankful when someone gives me something, no matter what it is! =D
I remember the days the Falcon 030 hit the shops and I was about to get one but never did.
In regards to the case, someone in another video about Atari’s history said, the new case wasn’t finished in time so the ST case was used.
Lucky lad! congrats mate! great video and great job again!
Shame atari did not release this a tad earlier..true competitor to the amiga...powerful atari and it has gone to a good person to repair...These are as rare as hens teeth so to speak...best wishes and thanks for the upload.
Congratulations, mate! The Atari Falcon is an absolute gold mine of a machine. Not just in monetary value!
Absolutely
I actually wanted to buy one of these and learn about it/ review it on my channel, but after watching this brilliant video, ive seen all i need to see and learn about this system, thanks for a great video, looking forward to part 2👍🏻
Great to finally see a Falcon on the channel! They're a really sweet machine although Atari was too late to market. I picked up a Centurbo 2 Falcon with a bunch of gear and two STEs about 10 years ago but had to stash it all due to the kids needing space. So this is fun to watch vicariously!
Nice pickup!!! I wish I had the foresight to have started re-collecting this stuff 10 years ago! I bet they were much cheaper and some real bargain were available.
Falcon 30 missed marketed it was too late, they should have had it out earlier and forgot about making the STE.
I have my STE still, good all round machine that I used it’s MIDI a lot and played games tho remember looking at the Falcon 30 in magazines, never saw the light of day as PCs took over
Honestly Chris no one one deserves this more mate. When you posted this on Twitter I was so happy for you. The case definitely looks like a retro bright gone wrong. I had an STf that went the same way.
Thanks, much appreciated =D Yes, does look retrobrite gone wrong! It's improving with each time we get sunlight (which isn't much at this time of year lol).
Only just started watching the video but have to say that despite never liking the ST one bit. I was too much of a silly Amiga fan boy. When this came out, everything changed. I wanted this! Oh what a beast it was and so under appreciated. I do amateur music production and this was a power house for that. Big bloated apps suddenly behave under that 030. Anyway going to continue watching now, really chuffed for GadgetUK! And massive respect to the donator who has 3DO in their name so I instantly like them for that.
Thanks =D Yes, it is a bit of a power house! I can imagine Cubase running really well on it!
I'm also an Amiga fan boy, but I have to admit that out of the box, the Falcon was more powerful than the A1200. I did not like the operating system of the Falcon though.
Also, the Amiga 1200 was easier to expand with more memory and faster CPU.
"The cat owns the house" Never a truer word said lol.
Haha =D Our cats do what they want, never listen to instruction lol
"Technically the cats own the house. You'd be their tenants."
Very sweet! I've intentionally stayed away from Atari due to lack of space here for any other systems, but it has caught my eye in the past. Very generous gift. :)
Very generous indeed! =D I know what you mean about space, something else in my collection may have to go, to give the Falcon space!
Great to watch this again in its modified form, and you're still a lucky b@stard! :)
I wanted an Amiga when I was a youth, but could only afford the 520ST initially, but really enjoyed it and spent a lot of time doing C coding on it and wrote a few accessories for it. Eventually I moved onto the Mega ST4 and after that I started working in IT and they were deep into Unisys B series Unix boxes and eventually PCs so I never got to buying the Falcon, but I do remember lusting after one. At £2,000 I don't think I'll ever get one, so well done to you!
Thanks for watching, and re-watching! Much appreciated =D I am over joyed with this system!!! =D Mega ST4 was a nice machine, always wanted one of those back in the day!
Aaaaaaahhhh, the ST's colour is completely different. You wouldn't want to swap the case :D I had a Falcon 030 back in the 90s and used it with Cubase Audio to produce music, before jumping on the Mac bandwagon when Apple bought Emagic and Logic was out... That's a beast. I had made the CLab mod for the audio timing... it was a dream.
That brought up so much nostalgia.... I'm missing my TT030 and my Mega STE tooooooooooooo :(((
Every case where I connected a ribbon cable the wrong way round has resulted in magic smoke for me. You were very lucky!
Yes, in retrospect it was a dangerous thing to test! 99.9% of the time with IDE cables, you will get away with it.
That is the one machine that I have tried to get that I have not been successful in getting. My hat is off to you. Congrats!!!
Thanks =D
You did a lot of fantastic work !
Thanks a lot!
Awesome gift!
You are giving it the care such a rare computer deserves.
WOW! The Falcon. Now this really is a gem of a unit and glad you have it in your pad Chris. Very kind for the donor to offer you this piece of history. 8^)
Anthony..
=D Indeed! William is amazing for donating this to me!!!
Re-watching because GadgetUK is so darn happy :)
Wow you really lucked out and whoever gave you this is one generous person indeed! It is one lovely machine, having the 060 and HxC in it aswell! wow. I would love to have this driving all my midi stuff. Thanks for uploading the video :)
The Falcon was the ultimate computer Jack T's and his sons of "the new Atari" home computer division (not to be confused with the original Atari, where many key people worked on the Amiga. Or to be confused with Atari Games who made coin-op games) came out with.
The idea of the Falcon was......let's try to beat out our arch rival, the Amiga. The computer that was totally revolutionary when first introduced in 1985, but that since this new Atari as they did at Commodore previously, built everything on the cheapest possible quality parts, on a shoe string budget, it took them 7 years to catch up. But they were forgetting something. The year is now 1992. The Amiga & the ST's prime days are long behind them, and both platforms are nearly dead. The PC has ultimately won the war, though it took them a while to really make it in the home market, or for things besides purely business applications.
So the Falcon's prime motivation was.......with this we can finally beat the Amiga. Ohh boy. It was about bragging rights. The original Amiga team had long left Commodore. "We finally have better graphics & sound". Sure, at a time when, no one cared! Too late! The system didn't last more than 1 year. The Amiga was already basically dead at this time.
Keys were originally dark gray (same color as the letters on a regular STf(m)/e keyboard), but they turn brown due to yellowing. Keyboard is electrically identical to the one from STf(m)/e.
It totally DOES look like an Atari ST! Looks almost just like my old Mega ST. :) So crazy. Great video!
I think he means the 1040ST
I had an Atari ST and always wished for the Atari Falcon!!!!! Excellent!!!
I knew a few ST owners and they all lusted after the Falcon. They were really hard to get hold of. Just getting them in stock when new was a minefield hunt. Lots of "call for prices" and then no stock and then it went tits up and what was made was all there was ever going to be. A really rare computer.
@@ClayMann also remember when I had my Atari STe and dreamt of a 10Mb external hard drive for it! Those were the days eh?
Amazing donation - I've only ever seen one of those once in the flesh at a retro game convention in Portland. That 060 is worth quite a bit these days too.
=D
I absolutely LOVE those skewed F-keys!
A lot of those small fans have 2 arrows in the plastic moulding around them, to indicate the direction they turn, and which way the airflow blows.
Also, if you peel up the sticker, in the middle is a small well. Sometimes there's a small plug you need to pop out. You can then put a few drops of sewing machine oil down there, and it will help them go faster and quieter.
Wow, Falcon is super interesting. Great video, thanks for posting!
Thanks mate =D
Congratulations! It even has a port of Chourensha68K, one of my favourite shooters on the Sharp 68000! Looking forward to part 2
That trace you fixed is the clock trace to the expansion port. Your Falcon would have been completely dead in 060-mode before you fixed it. I had the exact same problem with my CT60e-equipped Falcon, which had the same trace broken in exactly the same place.
Thanks! Yes, I suspect you are correct! I never did follow that cut trace to see where it went - I really should have done!
That is a great donation i look forward to more video,s on the falcon .
Best episode ever.
=D
Never seen you so happy, congratulations. :) Yeah Jaguar pads work which is cool, you can even get a Pro one at AtariAge, saw someone on a forum suggesting some old ass joysticks for the Falcon's relatively modern 15-pin port. :\ Strange for sure about Falcon controller support in homebrew how it could be more robust.
Always amusing to see your future self comment over what you're currently saying Ie. "No you're wrong past self", like time travel. ^_^ Yeah pretty decent performance but look forward to seeing performance go up. :D
It deserves a Noctua fan upgrade. Sure is a nice piece, you are very fortunate.
I think he is happy🤔😁
Gratz with the donation, nice to see!
I am! Very! =D
Couldn't resist any longer. Have. To. Watch! So so envious. One of my fave looking machines. I'd drool over the Falcon in the ST mags in the day. It had so much potential.
=D I still can't get enough of it - it's a great machine, I feel so priveledged to own one! At the same time I am kinda affraid to use it since parts are kinda unobtainable. Since Best has a monopoly on parts, wanting £2000 per custom...
Speaking of which, the keys should be a shade of grey - several tones lower - not brown. It's also weird that the PSU switch is black and not the ST series of grey to match the case... I wonder if that's factory.
Anyway, it's a beautiful machine that has found its way into a loving home.
So so jelly.
You lucky git, been after a Falcon for 20+ years now, even offered someone one of my C65’s and they weren’t interested
The Falcon's natural colour is plain grey, not brown... that colour is just fine :)
You deserve it bud!
Great success, fixes and a great Guy all round 🤩
Thanks 👍
Congratulations. You really deserve it. And ... I think (my idea) is that I prefer to get not working things because you feel much better with them if you get them working afterwards.
Thanks, much appreciated =D Yes, there is something very rewarding about always getting faulty stuff!
Bridget Hirst, communications manager , US GOLD SOFTWARE on why they were not producing Falcon titles:
"Show us the market and we will show you the product. Based on the last figure I was told of 7,000 Falcons sold, as Atari haven't marketed it as a games machine, games players may make upto 10% or so, this just doesn't justify producing a game".
Kevin Bulmer (Legends Of Valour) said Atari hadn't even sent his team a Falcon.
Yeah, I can understand that! It's all about how many systems are sold! Atari should have provided all the software devs with a development system and funded some exclusives to bundle / sell at launch.
@@GadgetUK164 I know with the Jaguar console, I.d software were expecting Atari to shift around 500,000 machines before the likes of the PlayStation and Saturn hit, Maxis stated they wouldn't consider it a viable consumer platform until it reached 500,000 units sold.
Guess Falcon would of been viewed in a similar light.
Yet Atari abandoned it to focus everything on the Jaguar 😭
Incredibly interesting and what a donation!!
I know lol =D Crazy, I feel like its Christmas since it arrived!
@@GadgetUK164 I’ve had my eye on them for years, they always fetch a very high price!!
Very nice to watch this, and to observe your raw emotion. Very lucky, very deserving! I too happen to own a Falcon, having owned it for a little while now, so luckily I paid not so much by today's prices, around £300. I have a very similar set up, same IDE > CF with Master and Slave CF cards, and a CT60e with 68060 and 512mb, although I still have not fitted it. It was interesting to watch you go through the motions with this. As others I believe have mentioned, the keyboard keys should be a dark grey, and note the casing is a slightly different colour grey than the ST, just a little bit darker, Falcon variants aside which are more rare.
Yeah, I remember years back seeing Falcons for £300 - back then I thought it was a lot lol. The keys are perhaps a bit brighter than they should be, I am not sure. But it came out looking really good in part 2!
@@GadgetUK164 It does look like it has been retr0brighted as you say, glad it's turning out to be a dream machine. I too remember thinking £300 was a lot. I remember just missing out on a couple of C-LAB Falcon MKXs for around the same price, oh well. Very pleased to equally be an owner of a machine I could never afford when I was younger, or would want pay the price for now. Looking forward to more on your Falcon.
Time to installed the CT60e!!
@@sarkycutt9611 Very true!
Congrats! You are really lucky guy! Thanks for a great video!
My dog was asleep, heard your cat in the video, she awoke abruptly and is now searching the house for a cat :)
🤣
OK it is of course completely up to you but my reasoning would be that you've modified the insides to improve the machine. Taking the label off and putting that cool new one on is just improving the outside. I just think it would look slicker inset like the original is rather than raised up like a sticker you've just added on top, which of course is what that would be heh
Now onto the machine itself. I had NO IDEA you could upgrade the processor and so cool that you can do the floppy drive to SD card thing too. It really is like the Amiga in those ways. Knowing it could have a 060 just blows my mind. The best I ever got on the Amiga was a 040/40 and for a while back there I was king of the world with that. Until I saw a PC running Doom of course and then everything changed lol
Amazing work, really enjoyed seeing you eagerly working on it. Can't wait to see the machine fully modded and running examples of 3D.
As for the price being high. I could see a lot of old music guys wanting that same computer setup they had back in the day but with the power to actually chew through music production almost like a modern machine but with all those years of muscle memory with knowing the old software. A lot of them probably still have all the software up in storage or the attic etc. and this is the ferrari of classic computers for music work. I could go on as I'm mad into 3D too but I've already written half a book here. Cheers!
Thanks, very much appreciated =D Yes, it is a lovely machine and is comparible to something like the A1200! It's a shame there wasn't more support for games, it could have done better I think.
Falcon with an 060 must be the ultimate Atari.
it shouldn't be legal hehe
I have a C-Lab MkX Falcon with a ct60 accelerator
on the CF adaptor you can see the triangle pointing to pin 1 on the ide so you were 100% correct re the extra pins
Extra pins look like master/slave jumpers?
In fact if you watch the whole vid (doh!) it's marked there on the board! a= slave/master, b = master/slave
"Proper" IDE cables are keyed, and both the CF adapters shown in the video have the key pin removed, so there's no question about the orientation.
On the silk screen there is a small triangle pointing to where pin 1 is
I could be wrong but that white residue is from contact cleaner, i use it and it leaves this behind once dried. but yes ipa and a toothbrush or just the latter.
The RTC with the battery is an easy fix. I actually got a rtc for a falcon fitted into my Pentium since my Benchmarq chip was dead. :) I ordered mine from Centuriontech.
you have an arrow showing direction of the cable to the cf adapter... and the original psu needs to be checked under load.. 😁 superb video... new suscriber here
Yes, you are right =D Thanks!!!
That thing where it will copy only 255 files sounds very much like a deliberate decision to only use an 8 bit integer variable to count the files to be copied. Like: "Memory is expensive and who would have more than 255 files in a directory, anyway?"
Got one boxed in the loft storage space, it was working when I last checked it maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Enjoy!!!
7:46 - these chips are 1Mx4 (1 M of 4-bit words). 4 Mbytes in total.
Wow! What a computer!
+1 this I need to subscribe to! Great stuff!
Thanks =D
wow... great video looking forward to the 060 part..
yeah can't wait for that. Its funny how I still think of the 68060 as a beast but its blitzed by modern hardware. I know that sounds obvious but I somehow manage to see both as fast, well in the 060 case, mind blowingly fast. Its hard to process just how far we've come with computing, no pun intended.
Thanks 👍
I had a ST, still have an STE and TT030 but always wanted a falcon to add to my collection. I cant beleive how expensive they have become these days, the last one I watched on ebay a couple years ago went for more than 2000 australian pesos too. This price range is strictly the domain of the hardcore enthusiast these days. My TT i've had since high school and used it for homework etc, I've never really expored if anything more exciting can be done with it. It does have 16mb tt ram and 4mb st ram and a 1gb scsi hdd. Unfortunately I never found a video card for it though.
The TT is a lovely machine too! And those are pretty rare these days!
Whoa, having a TT for your home work, that's insane! Very lucky :)
@@sarkycutt9611 i still dream of having a falcon 030 one day. I may have to make do with an fpga substitute like a Mister though
Awesome! Of course it would have been even better if we saw you do the unboxing.
I was too excited when unboxing - you would have had an ADDITIONAL 10 minutes of me saying "Oh my god, oh my god!" over and over lol.
Been looking forward to this :)
Lucky bugger.. But well deserved. Such a rare beauty. Happy for ya 👍👍
Now, that is a thing of beauty... Love it. You are so lucky. Please show us all about it. PS:- Any chance you could help me with a tricky Vic20 fault :) ?
It sure is!! What's the problem with the VIC?
By it's looks it might as well be just an ATARI 520ST customized. Not saying that it is, but the look definitely is the same.
Someone very generous worth a bit even faulty I would take all the additions out unless I know about them or if they work go back to stock then on from there
think my business partner has a few of em even. but then again the computer stores were also an atari dealership... it's not like none ever were in circulation... actual sales numbers were probably fairly low tho... it's probably like with those later amiga towers... most of em just kept sitting in the shops forever :P
Nostalgia nerds Falcon was donated to him as well :) It was in a previous donation video on his channel
Ah, yes, you are right - I remember that now!!! Funny how I had forgotten that part until you reminded me! I remember watching that unboxing video now!
Gadget will currently be gratefully receiving donations of Marks & Sparks knickers, as he has clearly ruined all of his now 🤣
LOL
The 44 way IDE cables include power.
Yeah, and they cause a lot of problems when you connect them backwards.. I blew up a laptop drive attempting to connect it to a pc using a 2.5" to 3.5" ide adapter because the pins on the drive weren't labelled/numbered :-(
Those longer pins in the middle are normal, they are the key/middle pins I think? I have seen that a lot.
And you found the jumper settings for master slave :-) some laptop drives had those extra pins too, and some laptops had wider cables with a gap to interface with those pins and control the master/slave selection from the motherboard (even though I never saw a laptop with 2 drives..)
25:27 - Windose ??? How Dare You !!!
That doom port, runs much the same as original doom on a 486dx33 and ISA ET4000. Yes. Need more horsepowers.
Oh man.. in the Doom part 'is the performance good on the 030, well, it's not as good as it could be' - no way man, this is a 16Mhz computer running Doom in true 24 bit colour with real midi synth playback running on an internal general midi wavetable software. DML the author spent years perfecting it and enhancing it to be 100% efficient using the DSP as a co-processor. Just think about that, Doom runs like shite in 256 colours on a 386 clocked higher than a Falcon. I think when you said not as good as it could be, you probably meant if using the 060 I guess :)
Yes, I think you're right - For what it's running on it's amazing performance! But, when you see the 060 - wow, runs even better!
I haven't powered my Atari collection on in over 25 years! I must dust them down...
I have an NOS Keyboard for one of these! How I ended up with that, I cannot remember. Probably had a plan at some point with my STE's but never happened. Also I lusted after the Falcon back in the day. Would love to see how it does running music tracker programs and demos :)
Love the video. That Manchester accent, though...
I don't have a Manchester accent lol =D
With that Fan noise, a ferrite ring wrapped around the fans supply line close to the fan, may attenuate the screen interference down to a tolerable Level..
Great idea!
I didn't assemble a lot of those RAM boards, another company did, I think they used IPA to clean the boards which is known to make things go white like that. So they all are actually cleaned when I get them. Future batches will be done "in house" so will run them in the US cleaner without IPA in the future.. Lesson learned to everyone not to use IPA as that is what you end up with :-\
Don't worry about it, it's just a minor thing! The products you design and sell are amazing! Must be the purity of IPA, since I used IPA here to clean them too! I've had the same thing myself with batches of IPA though! If I don't point it out, someone else would for sure! The NVRAM board from you in the next video is a different story ;)
Great vid, wow a falcon to be fair I think I would be kicking myself, you lucky lucky man!
680W0W!
Thanks 👍
18:30 VDD + GND solder blob? That's been a decoupling cap.
It originally had a PCB that fits over the chip profile - with connections on VCC and GND!
@@GadgetUK164 Ah right, that was the other possibility :P But I've seen many ICs that have decoupling cap on top, soldered straight onto the legs. Hey I've seen you repair keyboard foils, have you contemplated trying to 3D print the busted tracks with conductive PLA or PETG?
Hi, just found this video. I have an Atari Falcon 030 which has been kept in a box for over 20 years. I tried to turn it on again, power LED is on and drive LED in on, but there is no picture. I was wondering if you would be able to help me find what the issue is...
It could be the capacitor on the reset line - that's a common issue with the Falcon. What video cable are you using? I assume you see the power light?
Thank you for your response @GadgetUK164. I tried to connect the Falcon on a TV and on a VGA screen with an adapter (same result on both). Power light and hard drive light stay on. Are you anywhere near London by any chance?
Got mine for £100 :D Oh and dark grey, not brown keys.
On some F030 boards the clock patch is required for CT060 to work... there are many variants of clock patch and some are better, some are worse. You can find a comprehensive info here: mikrosk.github.io/clockpatch/
Peter Putnik's game conversions work best with his HDD driver, and they require a clean boot. So you have to have a separate boot partition (his driver allows you to switch boot partition) or use a boot manager, like XBoot III.
Prices of Exxos gadgets, for me are quite high - e.g. his STf 4 Meg RAM expansion is 60GBP + 5GBP for a ribbon cable, I bought a similar expansion in Poland for less than 20GBP. Only thing I bought from Exxos was a bunch of old, partly incomplete, dirty, and yellowed STf keyboards - I knew their condition, the price was very good, and it was a fair deal. I've cleaned them, repaired, retrobrighted, and they all work fine.
As for the soldering quality, I think he has some health problems (allergy?) and he recently avoids soldering, I also think, he has to avoid any solvents for the reason.
Thanks, I've already sorted it (weeks ago) - part 2 is already up on Patreon, and part 3 will follow in a few weeks.
Petari (ppera, Putnik) also have and sell his own harddisc driver for all 16/32bit Atari computers: atari.8bitchip.info/pphdr.php
Were these Atari's compatible with software for the 130XE?
No, they run 16 bit or 32 bit code, following on from the Atari ST range. You "might" be able to emulate an 8 bit Atari like the 130XE though with a fast enough 030 or 060 processor in a Falcon. Something like this would run on the Falcon, but probably needs an 060 CPU. demozoo.org/productions/153288/
This one too might be better - atari800.github.io/
☠️BLACK BARON☠️ Designers started DTP and Layout with TrueColor on 21" monitors in !true color! at that time ... they were all waiting for this new wonder 68CPU "early PowerPC" machine ... until I heard the news. Commodore + Amiga smashed it ... the Bill+Steve factor in teamwork. Instead, I received an MS-DOS machine with green monitor "terminal commands" as a present from my father. I was so utterly frustrated at that time after GUI and UI and a fully customizable Desktop user interface with GEMINI and a trashcan on my screen and my first DTP experiences as a graphic designer. No support for my HP Laserjet with lots of Atari shareware fonts I started collecting for DTP purposes. Instead I got a "Typewriter" printer from dad. Totally nonsense concept and idea.
Do you do repairs for other people? I have a consolised neo geo mvs with graphical errros. I'd be willing to pay for it to be fixed and I'm quite happy for you to make a video about it as well? If you're interested let me know. Thanks
I cannot do customer repairs sorry! You could try @A3rgan on Twitter!
@@GadgetUK164 No problem. Thanks for the adive
that blitter was a little to little to late to compete with the amiga wich had one from the beginning software for the atari used the blitter very rarely because no one else had it so it wasnt suported
Yea, too bad that blitter And other STe capabilities was not utilized by game developers :(
They could achieve Metal Slug like games if they did... e. g. m.ruclips.net/video/FMrdjrrtxWo/видео.html
Am soooo jealous as I only ever saw one of those in 1986, I think, while working in a Saturday job selling computers.
It may have been an Atari transputer... seems so hazy now.
Falcon was released in the early 90s
@@sealance We used to be an Atari dealer, I never saw one! I think we had gone over to PC's which may explain that?
@@hoojchoons2258 i dont remember the exact year but it was probably 1992. I think most dealers had switched to pc by then
@@sealance Yeah the date on the board is '92. I'm sure we were still doing strong sales on Atari & Amiga back then but I may be wrong! PC's took off quite quickly! Indeed I remember us all playing network doom on a Pentium Pro!
Nice! I have a Falcon myself, bought it about ten years ago for about 350 Pounds. Sadly i have almost no software... Is there a possibility you could share yours?
I cannot really share the software, but its all available online!
them dual CF card things never worked for me..
Can you get games that takes advantage of the 030 inside of it 🤔
Yes, I show more in the next video! Although, they benefit even more with the 060!
All games shown at the end of video are for plain, vanilla, 68030 Falcon (not 68060).
Hi, I have an old Falcon030 (1995) which hasn't been used for about 20 years. The monitor is long gone but it fires up when plug it in. I'd like to connect it to a monitor to see if actually still boots. If some one could point me in the direction of a cable and monitor I'd be very grateful.
See this page:- www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/store2/ Search for the "FALCON 030 3 IN 1 MONITOR ADAPTER" on there, you can use that to connect to most VGA monitors.
PS: If it hasn't been used in 20 years, chances are the RTC / NVRAM chip is going to need swapping out. It may cause it to not boot if the RAM side of it has failed due to the battery.
@@GadgetUK164 thank you, i'll get one/
I have a falcon love to have a copy of that cf card great work enjoy the falcon. Can you set up the cd drive .
I would need a SCSI CD / DVD ROM drive - might be hard to find one =/ I cannot share a dump of the CF Card as its a licensed version of HDDriver!
@@GadgetUK164 hopefully one day someone may donate one I have a scis yamaha cd drive which yet to set up on my falcon. Look forward see more videos on the falcon as I'm learning all the time thank you for messaging back cheers justin
It's impressive that 16 MHz 030 can run DOOM at these speeds.
I think in no small part due to usage of the DSP.
@@GadgetUK164 Yeah, probably. Since my friend's 486 wasn't doing much better. I am not sure about its clock frequency, but it could be 40 or 50MHz.
More (a lot) details about Bad Mood (Doom project) at www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=24561
Btw I would like to see Doom running on 386/486 side by side with Falcon running Doom... :)
I think the author, Doug Little (dml), did a tremendous job squeezing every last bit of Doom to make Bad MooD. Key routines, graphics, sounds were re-written in assembler and 56001 (DSP code). Profiling the game in Hatari showed which optimisations to make. An incredible feat. :-) dml has also re-written parts of Quake 2 for Falcon, insane!
Ehh, I wouldn't plug the drive the other way, you can damage the motherboard if something is wrong there. Lucky it's an IDE drive and not a SCSI drive, because you would have even burned up the cable :)
Yes, that was in retrospect one of the stupidest things I've done on my channel - especially when you roll onto part 3 and I pointed out the ICs are like $1000 each (if you can get Brad to get one out for you...). It came with that cable the wrong way around, I was just re-testing that to check behaviour and prove it, but as you quite rightly pointed out (and I was aware - which makes it all the more stupid) - when IDE is flipped, ground goes to some of the signals... That said, it was a calculated risk, as we've all connected IDE up the wrong way accidentally dozens of times over the years. It can cause failures doing that though, as we saw in the Ravi A4000 board repair I did where the IDE had died for that reason.
@@GadgetUK164 Ooooh, tell me about it... I've connected SCSI the wrong way a couple of times only to see the middle wire burn out of the cable and the cable split in 2 along its length :D That was frightening :D:D
Does the fan connect to J22 next to the fan
Should have finished watching the whole video I see you found it lol
=D Thanks for suggesting it though!
Congrats.... I am not an Atari user, never was. The Falcon is too expensive, so I might just stick to 8bit. I think there are better choices for 16bit computing than Atari. At least for me peesonally.
Wow, about £1700 on eBay just with an 030!
=O Crazy price I think lol!
but just think the old music guys and new ones will happily pay 1k-5k for classic old music hardware. 2K for a 030 in good condition suddenly sounds reasonable in that field.
@@scotttait2197 I had the Amiga with the MIDI interface addon and mono 8bit sampler addon hehe Octamed was all that I remember could handle MIDI and samples. The ST had the mighty Cubase and a list of other great software just light years ahead of the Amiga but I do remember people complaining the ST just could barely handle it so a 030 would be a huge help. I know this model had really advanced audio with some custom DSP but not sure of the details.
Falcon can play/record 16 audio 16bit 48KHz channels plus DSP realtime effects.
There are some Mod trackers that support up to 128 channels! :D iirc