AkaiAtari

Thanks guys for the info. I've been looking at Exxos' site so will get hold of him. I've also got a mate who's an electronics engineer and has a few EPROM programmers so that might also be an option. Is TOS 1.04 available to burn your own EPROMS?

There've been a lot of complaints over the years about midi timing and that it's not as accurate as, for instance, control voltage. Many musicians who've used Atari in the past with applications such as Notator swear that the timing is tighter on the older Atari than the modern day interfaces. Probably because the midi connections are an integral part of the hardware. Norman probably uses older 12 bit samplers as they give a much nicer effect than the modern bit crushers and a lot of the editing software is Atari based.

Hi - first post in the group. I'm a musician by trade and recently have been involved with recreating a lot of 80's type music. Long and the short is I've ended up with a bunch of old equipment such as Akai and Emu samplers and some old FM machines in order to get the raw sounds that I can them sample into my Mac. I cadged an old Atari 1040 STf from a local recording studio which comes with SoundDesign which allows me to talk to these old samplers and transfer files. The machine was supposedly DOA with the finger being pointed at the power supply. First things first - this machine hasn't been used for many a year and looked like it had been stored in a dustbin along with 20 years worth of sweeping up. I stripped it down completely, even removing all of the keys, and gave it a good clean up. When putting it back together I though I'd see if it would boot up. No joy so I unscrewed the power supply. Thought I'd give it one more try and it booted up fine. However if I tighten down the two screws that go in from the top then it won't start. Relax them off a bit and it starts. Strange one and I was wondering if anyone has an idea of this behaviour. So when it runs everything functions including the floppy and it runs fairly well. However it is running TOS 1.0 (1985 displayed on the info screen). There are six chips arranged in two banks of three under the power supply. Ideally I would like to upgrade this to 1.04 as there is some Akai specific software that appears to be written for 1.04 and 1.06. Looking online I've found the 6 chip set available from the States for around £25 which seems reasonable. What doesn't seem reasonable is the £25 for postage. There are options in the UK but these are two chip solutions. Are these viable for the STf with the two banks of 3? Thanks in advance.