mons2b

September 27, 2016

A 4160STE is simply a 4MB STE with a 4160STE badge.

Bob C

Was that badge Atari original or something cooked up after old Atari closed down?

September 27, 2016

Wouldnt single falcon owners always be stressing about trying to find replacement parts if a fault developed? Vs our Sts a lot of us will have half a dozen units , enough to keep one working a hundred years plus. (with regular capacitor replacements)

I cant ever see myself having the thousands to drop on a Falcon. Given the lack of parts most will be non functioning display pieces eventually. Maybe someone should make a hardware emulator for the Falcon then put into replica cases? I wouldnt mind that.

September 27, 2016

Thanks for the tip but I think I'd rather keep the French original keyboard than put an ST keyboard in. I want to try to keep it 'original lookin and genuine'. Thousands!? and who is Giga? No, I paid £306 to some French dude on eBay, it's a French Falcon and it's faulty, hence the low price.

ah ok thats cool. It would still be all Atari. Im pretty sure some development test units had ST keyboards so if you did fit one youd be kind of recreating that look. Anyway giga just means lots, heaps.

September 27, 2016

Good job! I actually put a STFM power supply into a STE and brought that back to life years back. Theres a place that actually makes new power supplies for the STs and they are a lot more technologically advanced., ie less likely to fail in a way that will zap your motherboard. Cant recall the name but uncle google will find them for you.

September 23, 2016

Hi all, I need a Falcon UK keyboard (not an ST keyboard), new or second hand, I can exchange a French Falcon keyboard as part of a deal if need be. Or any advice on where I can purchase one from is welcome. Best Electronics is the only place I know of. Many Thanks.

Put a standard ST keyboard in it. Not original but functional. did you have to pay giga thousands for that Falcon?

November 13, 2007

I know there was english versions of a lot of the applications you can find on the net, but I'm curious where they'd be...

Does anyone know of any good ftp/http/torrent sites that have ST apps (not games) in english? It took quite a bit of data mining to actually find a copy of GFA-Assembler in english. What I'm looking for is Hisoft FTL-Modula2, Hisoft Forth, the Dragon Group's 4xForth and a few others...

are you after stuff like word pro's or spreadsheet stuff or only programing apps?

October 31, 2007

Too big border (small pic) on Atari monochrome (SM 124) may be result of old electrolyt capacitors.
It is known issue. I had such problem, but can not say now exactly which ones I replaced.

Probably those in horizontal deflection and power supply.

the border i was talking about is on Atari colour monitor..

October 23, 2007

See Google groups here.

Ok thank you. Going by that link it seems increasing screen size is bad for our elderly monitors so prehaps I will leave it.

October 21, 2007

Hi team,

Ive done a search of the forum and cant find a how to guide on how to expand the image on standard atari monitor. Screen is small as is without the wasted border space. So is the technical adjustment to make it bigger very hard? Also does anyone know why Atari designed such a border in the monitor? Seems silly but there must have been some reason?

John

NEW ZEALAND

October 17, 2007

Hi fellow atari users.

I have six tos chips to put into a 520 STFM but I dont know where to put each chip. I tried several combinations going by the number on the chips but I keep getting a red screen of death on the Atari monitor.

These are factory chips can anyone tell me where to put each of the six chips in the six sockets or load a high res photo so I can see where they go?

This particular ST has the six tos chips sockets under the power supply.

Below is a picture of my 520STfm's six TOS chips. The left side of the image is the back of the computer. The bottom of the image is the left-side of the computer. I hope this helps you.

This is my current placings of the chips (note one is strangely more black and shiny). It doesnt work. Prehaps with all my tries they are now paper weights. Anyone want to sell me some old tos chips? lol. Thanks for your help guys.

October 16, 2007

They are the chips that were in the ST when it was last working.

John

Well you could put the last 4 chips in the right order and experiment with the first two. Remember if you orient them correctly you will not damage anything. (notch)

going by the previous information no one knows anything about the last four chips not the first two which people identify as US TOS. The last four are mystery chips? lol. Oh well.

October 15, 2007

They are the chips that were in the ST when it was last working.

John

October 14, 2007

Hi thank you for your reply. I went to google groups. But doing a search for U6 or similar just brings up random rubbish... Do you know a specific search I should do or a a hint that will get me closer? :-)

Try this: "Atari 520ST TOS U6"

7th Article down should be the one you want!

Hi nothing there that applies to my chip numbers which dont seem to be the common ones. If anyone know what order to put the below chips into ill be hugely grateful. U-2 to U-4, U-5 to U-7

1] CO26160-001 / RP23256 - 0150

2] CO26163-001 / RP23256 - 0153

3] CO26244-001 / RP23256 - 0156

4] CO26245-001 / RP23256 - 0157

5] CO26246-001 / RP23256 - 0158

6] CO26247-001 / RP23256 - 0159

October 14, 2007

Hi thank you for your reply. I went to google groups. But doing a search for U6 or similar just brings up random rubbish... Do you know a specific search I should do or a a hint that will get me closer? :-)

October 13, 2007

Hi fellow atari users.

I have six tos chips to put into a 520 STFM but I dont know where to put each chip. I tried several combinations going by the number on the chips but I keep getting a red screen of death on the Atari monitor.

These are factory chips can anyone tell me where to put each of the six chips in the six sockets or load a high res photo so I can see where they go?

This particular ST has the six tos chips sockets under the power supply.

October 13, 2007

Sorry as above. Clicked twice. moderators please delete.

October 12, 2007

Thank you. I did as you suggested. I swapped the chips around and left all the pins straight and it booted up ok. I was just stressing because I have no spare tos chips and this is my only STE.

October 12, 2007

Hi a while back I removed my tos chips from my 520 STE to see if they would work in an Atari Mega (German).

I now wish to put them back into the STE but I dont know which way round they go? How do I know which is the HIGH one and which is the LOW one? Also some of the pins were factory bent and I straightened them now I dont remember which ones to bend out!

HELP ME! :-(

January 10, 2007

Nothing special. just ordinary TOS 2.6, 1.44 Floppy and 4 MB. I also have ATspeed, so I want to put it inside. And last but not least Lacescan (free version of overscan).

Hello do you have the English driver software and or instructions for the AT speed? I have one in my Mega but cant use it due the lack of driver and instructions.

JW

January 10, 2007

Here are some tool for PC:

http://www.danbbs.dk/~rmadrm/utility.htm

And for Atari ST:

http://www.ccac.rwth-aachen.de/~michaels/index.php/atari

Can anyone post link to Tos 1.4 so I can at least run it via disk? Im really struggling with my German Tos.

JW

January 10, 2007

Well I'll be damned. The top of the case itself says 520STfm, but the board (and also the bottom half of the case) lacks anything for the RF modulator.

Would it not be cheaper to get another STFM? Ive had to do a few parts swaps to revive some machines at the expense of others.

JW

January 10, 2007

An STe version will not work.

The STe TOS version only work with STe's.

So no 1.06 or 1.62.

TOS 2.06 will work however as the latest TOS for plain 68000 Ataris.

Ok. I found the STE didnt work either when I put its Tos chips back in. I assume this is because when I removed the two Tos chips from the 520 STE a couple of sets of pins were bent out so they wouldnt contact the socket. Thinking these might be needing to be correct for the Mega I bent them straight. Since I put them back the STE its doing the white screen thing the Mega did.

To cut a long story short can someone tell me which pins to bend out so that they will work in the STE again?

JW

January 9, 2007

Ok I managed to get back to the German desktop! Thank god! Thought I had blown the Mega.

January 9, 2007

After some advice I have tried to swap some roms from a 520 STE into a German Mega 2 to get an English desktop. But I just get a white screen with yellowish border. Have I fried the computer or the Roms? I am now going to try to put the German Roms back in...

I have found some reference to "Upgrading TOS from a 2 chip version to a newer 2 chip one is quite simple, provided you change two jumpers on the motherboard (W102 and W104). The instructions on how to do this can be found here :

http://bales.free.fr/atari/files/text/tos_ste.txt"

But that link is dead! Is the reason for my white screen of nothing because I havent changed some jumpers? Its 2 chip to newer 2 chip. What jumpers? How?

JW