Tt0130 n tt01330/b computers

[Kissarmy82]

Why I cannot find any of these For Sale on the net, No info tt0130/b, Any help Gamers? Thanks

[pixelmischief]

Are you talking about the Atari TT/030? If so, it is because sales of them are quite rare. There are about as many in the wild as there are people who simply want to hang on to them. You can find them from time to time - I sold one here last week - but it is a rare sale indeed. Your best bet is to watch eBay and make sure to set the "Location" to "Worldwide", as all things Atari 16/32 are more common in Europe than in the US.

[Kissarmy82]

What did u sell your for? With shipping in American dollars? Also how more rarer is the TT0130/B ? Thanks

[pixelmischief]

I sold it to Poobah. I'll leave it to him to decide if he wants to disclose the amount.

[doctorclu]

Fun machines. I've had two. I called them the equivalent of the Atari 800 for the Atari 8 bits in that the TT030 has all the expansion slots. Plus it has raw power. All and all, the TT030, which you can pile on Video cards, piles and piles of memory (had one of mine at 256 mb ram at one point) is bottlenecked by:

 

1) What can use regular and fast ram.

2) What is Compatible of the ST software as most software was written specifically with dirty hardware tricks for earlier hardware.

3) Juggling screen resolutions.

 

Oh BTW, some really boss screen resolutions, good luck getting the right monitor adaptors to make you of "TT-High Monocrome"

 

At the end of the day the potential is a lot of the time wasted on a computer that already had a small library being part of the ST platform (in comparison to the PC and Mac platforms) which is then reduced by the hardware limitations and odd tug of war between at least four operating systems!

 

Or that was my experience with the TT030 from 2001 to 2005.

 

Oh, and everyone loves the Falcon and F#$% the TT030 when it came to hardware upgrades.

 

Blah. If you don't find a TT030, you've dodged a bullet. Cool computer, but one frustrating bullet in the long run.

Edited October 16, 2017 by doctorclu

[leech]

While I love my TT030, I tend to agree with this. It got a hell of a lot more useful as years went on though, because al ot of software was patched later to work on them. But yes if someone were to give both the TT030 and Mega STe some VME love that was affordable and easy to get, they would be more popular. Definitely the best stock machines to get work done on though. Stock keyboards for other STs, including Falcon is terrible.

[Bikerbob]

So your saying a Mega STe if you can get it would be your overall best choice? VME is an upgrade?

 

Quick question while people are reading is the difference between UK and US TOS just symbology ?? or anything else? I am Canadian, we use UK english, but US symbology?

 

James

[guus.assmann]

Hello Bikerbob,

 

Yes, only difference is symbols.

And any keyboard will work, just maybe give an unexpected character on the screen....

 

BR/

Guus

[+slx]

I bought a (slightly used) TT030 with 16MB TT RAM and 4 MB ST RAM and a VME CrazyDots graphics card as my main computer from app. 1991/2 to 1996. I considered it superior to an early Windows 3.11 Pentium 66 from a user interface point of view and superior to a Mac pricewise.

 

Don't count on playing much as described above. Text adventures and many "puzzle-type" games will work but don't play much better than on an ST. Most action games won't. I can't recall any dedicated TT games, Here's a list of compatible games.

 

Without a graphics card you're limited to either dedicated Atari monitors, hard-to-find "multiscan" VGA monitors or ECL monitors which AFAIK are becoming rather rare (and are heavy beasts for the original 19"). With a graphics card you can use normal VGA monitors but unless that card is already in your TT, it won't be cheap.

 

At the end there was a decent operating system (MAGIC, there are other multitasking options available AFAIK) spreadsheet (TEXEL), Word Processor (Tempus! Word?). Hardware was reasonably expandable via SCSI although I didn't try SCSI CD-ROMs. Before the Internet I used it for FidoNet for which there was decent software available as well. Some of the "hot" stuff from the early 90s such as "fax modems" or "videotext" have become obsolete like FidoNet.

 

I gave up on it and changed to Windows 95 because even very early WWW browsing rather sucked on the Atari.

 

While it was the pinnacle of the Atari 16/32 bit line in some regards, it feels less "intimate" to me than the 8-bit line as I never really learned about its innards and how to program it. Today it feels strange to have to fiddle with multiple boot configurations, "accessory" programs and lots of extensions for stuff we have come to take for granted, such as a system-wide clipboard, concurrent file copying or a shell.

 

Have a TT if you want to experience early 1990s GUI computing and/or late Atari computers, a case design from an era when the rectangular boxes hadn't won yet but don't be disappointed if you find you don't enjoy it as much as an 8-bit, ST or Amiga.