TheAtariKing

One more thing, most of you are too stupid to answer simple questions. What clued me in on this is when some of you responded to my posts with RF modulator crap when I was talking about RGB. I guess I will just have to figure things out myself, I always do.

Then I guess I joined the wrong forum. I do not worry about "getting banned from forums". I can always start my own forum. Most of you that join forums are followers or "sheep". I on the other hand am a leader or a "wolf". Why do you think I started working for myself? It is because I found out if you work for someone else you are a loser, no matter what fancy title they give you. THINK about it, the rich people that run and control this planet work for themselves. The only person here that is a winner or a "wolf" is the person that started and owns this forum. The rest of you are losers or "sheep". BYE.

PS: NOONE has ever provided any proof or evidence to back up their claims. I am a good person and people that know me will tell you that. They may also tell you that I am an asshole, and that I am a strange person. But, does this make me a bad person? No, it does not. I have been with the same woman for 16 years. Believe me, if I was a bad person she would have kicked me out long time ago.

Well, this has gotten way off topic. Also, have you guys ever heard of the "snowball effect"? It is where one trouble maker tells a lie about someone to another person. Then that person tells the lie to another person, and before long everybody has heard the lie and believes it. Most people are more willing to believe a lie then to believe the truth. When I use to work for other people (now I work for myself), I would often observe people doing this. There is always at least one trouble maker in any group. The first week on any job I always looked for the trouble maker and would set up a defense against that person. On the internet it is harder to do this. But THINK about what kind of a petty person it takes to post the kind of information that has been posted just in this thread alone. Then imagine that same sick, petty person making these kinds of posts all over the web. I tracked down that trouble maker and had some people I know deal with him. Posting lies about people on the internet can get you killed ! It is the worst thing that you can ever do to a person.

I can understand why people still use the Atari ST and Amiga computers, because their graphics and sound was way ahead of their time and are still great today. But, 8 bit graphics and mono sound, I got tired and bored of that in 1983. Why do you think I sold all of my 8 bit computer stuff and used the money to buy the parts to build an IBM clone? It is because the IBM had much better graphics and at higher resolution. Then when the Atari 520ST was released I traded my new IBM clone for an Atari ST computer system. I never looked back at that 8 bit crap.

No, I will not order the HD circuit from exxosuk. I will just have to wait for the firmware to be released for the Gotek USB floppy drive. I buy these drives for less than $19 (free shipping). I have already installed a Gotek drive in an external Atari disk drive case. It looks very nice. In the mean time, I will follow the instructions that came with TOS 2.06 and install an Epson SMD-340 high density disk drive and solder the E6 jumper pads. I think that the E6 jumper hooks up the floppy disk controller chip's clock pin to the 16 MHz clock on the 1040 STe motherboard. I am not sure about this, so I will follow the trace using my multimeter. If this is not the case, then I will have to feed the 16 MHz clock to the chip with a wire. I will only be using high density disks on this Atari 1040STe. So, I am not worried about the 720k read / write function or the 7 MHz clock going to the floppy controller chip. I mean, why would I want to mess with 720k disks when both my Atari 1040STe and my classic Pentium 3 pc reads and writes 1.44 mb disks? I have two high density disk drives in my classic Pentium III pc that I built years ago. It still looks brand new, even after all these years of heavy use (I build very high quality computers). I use Winblows 98SE on this pc. I can stick an Atari ST disk in one drive and copy the contents over to a 1.44 MB disk. Since all Atari ST computers with TOS 1.4 or later can read and write pc format disks, there is no problem. It's like those stupid people that still mess around with 8-bit computers, when we have 16/32 bit computers. I just do not get it. I mean, when I bought my Atari ST computer back in 1985 I never looked back at the Commodore 64 or any of the other 8-bit computers of the time. Who in their right mind would?! In the same way, if your Atari ST computer can read and write high density disks, why mess with 720k disks? As the Goblins in World of Warcraft say "GET REAL".

Then I guess the installation procedures that comes with the TOS 2.06 roms is wrong. What exactely does jumper pads E6 do? The other 3 jumpers close to the roms are for the different types of chips used. An Ajax chip is not needed if your floppy disk controller chip is revision 02-02. I do plan to use a Gotek drive instead of the disk drive. Just waiting for someone to release the firmware so I can reflash the Gotek drives. So, if a Gotek drive will work at the standard 720k disk format after reflashing the firmware, then I am not worried about high density. I use a Gotek drive in my Amiga 500 Tower and I really like it. Never had any problems. I can even boot up my custom Workbench 1.3 and my productivity software. I use an 880k disk drive as DF1 when I need to work with actual disks. I plan to do the same thing with this Atari 1040STe computer.

According to the installation procedures that comes with the TOS 2.06 roms, the Atari 1040STe already has the circuitry on the motherboard to handle high density disk drives. You just have to have a revision 02-02 floppy disk controller chip plugged in (which most 1040STe computers do) and you have to solder the E6 jumper pad. You also have to replace the 720k disk drive with a high density disk drive. The Epson SMD-340 is a direct replacement for the 720k Epson drive, just swap the face plate and eject button.

I am installing TOS 2.06 and I will jumper the Atari 1040STe motherboard for a high density disk drive. Can any of you provide a picture of the jumper setting on the back of your Epson high density disk drive. Thanks. Oh, my floppy disk controller chip is revision 02-02.

I have 1 Epson SMD-340 and 3 Epson SMD-300 high density disk drives. I know that the SMD-340 will work as a HD disk drive, but, will the SMD-300 also work as an HD disk drive in an Atari 1040STe computer? Since I am replacing my TOS roms, I figured I might as well replace the 720k disk drive with a high density disk drive.

If you decide to throw away the motherboard because it is bad, I would be willing to buy it from you. I will repair it, then refurbish it and use it for my Atari ST Tower project.

The DMA chip in my Atari 1040STe is a 40 pins IC with the number C398739-001A printed on it. So, from what I am reading here, I guess I have a good DMA chip.

Thank you for sharing this.

I finally got the feet removed. It took me about 30 to 45 minutes to remove each foot. It was almost like they had bonded to the plastic. I used 99% alcohol and about 200 cotton swabs. But, I did get all of each foot removed, cleaned up the case, and applied new feet. Looks much better now.

Well, do you know where I can buy the roms already done?