+remowilliams Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 I was somewhere in the middle of testing some equipment and just generally playing with things and eventually wound up with an ST 'super setup' on the desk. Run ST, Mac and MS-DOS all in one setup. Even switch between TOS/DOS by simply hitting Alt-Ctrl-Backspace. Figured I'd post a pic as there are probably a lot of folks who have never heard of the Supercharger, let alone seen one. Monitor master / LCD not shown. Excuse the slightly yellow 1040, its a test unit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredder11 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Thanks for posting, it looks a nice setup for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Remo w....I think i have seen a supercharger, if you are referring to that recepticle standing ontop of what looks like a supra...I can't remember who marketed or manufactured it (Talon does not come to mind) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted April 25, 2009 Author Share Posted April 25, 2009 Remo w....I think i have seen a supercharger, if you are referring to that recepticle standing ontop of what looks like a supra...I can't remember who marketed or manufactured it (Talon does not come to mind) Yes, its the box on top of the Supra. It's very likely that if you had seen one it probably did not say Talon. As far as I can tell Talon Technology Inc, was the US distributor. In the UK it looks like it was sold by Condor Trading Ltd. The unit itself looks to be manufactured by Siemens for Beta Systems Computer in Germany. I've got to say I'm very impressed by the units performance - given the time it was released of course, and given that all I/O and all video from the unit is passed over the DMA port. A unique way of doing things for sure. It even manages to play Artic Fox on the IBM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiliteZoner Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Remo w....I think i have seen a supercharger, if you are referring to that recepticle standing ontop of what looks like a supra...I can't remember who marketed or manufactured it (Talon does not come to mind) Yes, its the box on top of the Supra. It's very likely that if you had seen one it probably did not say Talon. As far as I can tell Talon Technology Inc, was the US distributor. In the UK it looks like it was sold by Condor Trading Ltd. The unit itself looks to be manufactured by Siemens for Beta Systems Computer in Germany. I've got to say I'm very impressed by the units performance - given the time it was released of course, and given that all I/O and all video from the unit is passed over the DMA port. A unique way of doing things for sure. It even manages to play Artic Fox on the IBM. Did Talon ever release the mini-vga board? How well does Artic Fox run? I would imagine that is CGA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Ugh. I've seen the original Arctic Fox on an IBM. Butt-ugly, it is! Stick with the ST version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted April 26, 2009 Author Share Posted April 26, 2009 Did Talon ever release the mini-vga board? How well does Artic Fox run? I would imagine that is CGA? I have never seen or heard of the VGA board being released. Yes, Arctic Fox was running in CGA and well enough for you to drive around and shoot up your enemies in a reasonable fashion. I was quite surprised. Stick with the ST version. Indeed, while a very cool test if you actually want to play the game go with the ST. Since the Supercharger is a pretty obscure piece of equipment, and I've never seen the manual anywhere - I have scanned it and imaged the Utility/OS disks for it and will attach them here. SuperCharger_1.4.Manual.pdf SuperCharger_Utility.OS.Disks.1.4.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) I remember the name condor...(in relation to the supercharger)...So it must be Wasn't there another pc emu for the ST (PC DITTO or something like that), i think it was sold with o/s disks and a 5.25 inch floppy drive Edited April 26, 2009 by carmel_andrews 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I've got one of those spectre CGRs (with the mac roms in it), are there manuals somewhere for it? and do I need any special software? thanks, Charles www.evg2000.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) I've got one of those spectre CGRs (with the mac roms in it), are there manuals somewhere for it? and do I need any special software? thanks, Charles www.evg2000.com Spectre GCR info here http://www.geocities.com/clu-da-bard/spectre.html PC Ditto was the PC emulator for the ST - it shipped on 3.5 inch floppies. I remember benchmarking it at 1 MHz, compared to the original PC which ran at 4.77 MHz 8088. The Atari 8-bit was faster! Edited April 26, 2009 by Forrest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Spectre GCR info here http://www.geocities.com/clu-da-bard/spectre.html thanks for the info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredder11 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Yes thanks very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolfe Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 I was somewhere in the middle of testing some equipment and just generally playing with things and eventually wound up with an ST 'super setup' on the desk. Run ST, Mac and MS-DOS all in one setup. Even switch between TOS/DOS by simply hitting Alt-Ctrl-Backspace. Figured I'd post a pic as there are probably a lot of folks who have never heard of the Supercharger, let alone seen one. Monitor master / LCD not shown. Excuse the slightly yellow 1040, its a test unit. Greetings, can you talk a little about how it works with various software? games? music? et al? Do you get full sound with the Mac and DOS environments and is it fast enough to run games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiliteZoner Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I was somewhere in the middle of testing some equipment and just generally playing with things and eventually wound up with an ST 'super setup' on the desk. Run ST, Mac and MS-DOS all in one setup. Even switch between TOS/DOS by simply hitting Alt-Ctrl-Backspace. Figured I'd post a pic as there are probably a lot of folks who have never heard of the Supercharger, let alone seen one. Monitor master / LCD not shown. Excuse the slightly yellow 1040, its a test unit. Greetings, can you talk a little about how it works with various software? games? music? et al? Do you get full sound with the Mac and DOS environments and is it fast enough to run games? I had very little trouble running the old Mac games on the GCR. I even had Prodigy up and running on my Mega. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolfe Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I had very little trouble running the old Mac games on the GCR. I even had Prodigy up and running on my Mega. with full stereo sound and framerate? what about dos games? that would be the ultimate setup for classic gaming to be sure, if only you could get the commodore os running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joebar Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 The SuperCharger was a beta systems AG product. I knew a guy who worked there and visited their "office/lab" in Frankfurt back in the 80's, shortly before they released their long announced product. http://vic20.de/html/atari_st.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 just curious as to whether you could 'upgrade' the supercharger....i.e the processor (like stick in a 2/3/486) or add memory or was the supercharger a closed unit which deterred upgraders/upgrading 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatPW Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 just curious as to whether you could 'upgrade' the supercharger....i.e the processor (like stick in a 2/3/486) or add memory or was the supercharger a closed unit which deterred upgraders/upgrading A 286 and 386 upgrade was planned but was never released unfortunately. They did do some advertising for it in some of the STart magazines. It's too bad because a lot of us wanted the 386 SuperCharger as the PC was taking over the market and it would have been a nice way to keep the Atari ST active on our computer desks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Spectre GCR info here http://www.geocities.com/clu-da-bard/spectre.html thanks for the info I really need to finish that page. What else would you guys like to see there? Of course come to think of it, Yahoo is thinking of yanking the geocities pages soon, so I might want to jump this and get a new server. (oopsie...) Anyway, just to be frank, there were a lot of reasons why the ST was my least favorite Atari system, some personal reasons with people I had to deal with, but I held on to the ST/TT JUST BECAUSE of the Spectre. Man that was a neat bit of work. Just the idea that a 16 bit system could run another 16 bit system just as well if not FASTER was just amazing in the scope of emulators to me. And Dave Small's writings were a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I think Dave Small was here a little while back...think he mentioned something about the spectre g c r and something else 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjb Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Ugh. I've seen the original Arctic Fox on an IBM. Butt-ugly, it is! Stick with the ST version. For some silly reason I like playing those old CGA games. I picked up an XT compatible a while back just so I could run CGA games. It's all about growing older and being nostalgic. Brings back fond memories. I miss the DOS days tjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatPW Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I really need to finish that page. What else would you guys like to see there? Of course come to think of it, Yahoo is thinking of yanking the geocities pages soon, so I might want to jump this and get a new server. (oopsie...) Anyway, just to be frank, there were a lot of reasons why the ST was my least favorite Atari system, some personal reasons with people I had to deal with, but I held on to the ST/TT JUST BECAUSE of the Spectre. Man that was a neat bit of work. Just the idea that a 16 bit system could run another 16 bit system just as well if not FASTER was just amazing in the scope of emulators to me. And Dave Small's writings were a lot of fun. Nice website page about the Spectre. David Small is an Atari legend. It's really too bad he couldn't continue developing that product as it was really incredible and gave people a reason to hold on to the ST a little longer. If SuperCharger came through with their 386 upgrade and Spectre development continued, it would have been a lot of fun to continue using the ST for a few years longer. What do you mean you didn't like the ST because of personal reasons with people you had to deal with? Is that a reason to dislike a computer? That is one unusual reason. Do you mean people at Atari or something if we may ask? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelen Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) I really need to finish that page. What else would you guys like to see there? well, i have a spectre too from the flea market but i never tried it... What i would like to see is some information from waht macintosh computers the roms can be removed and inserted in the spectre GCR. And i think it would be nice to see some in action screenshots. Thanks for the great site with information ! Edited August 4, 2009 by Thelen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 Bump for an old topic with a new video 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 That's awesome Remo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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