simonsunnyboy

I'm pretty sure it was sold in the US. Back in 1998 one of my earliest contacts with other Atarians on the net was with a guy from California who owned a Falcon. I helped him a bit with GFABASIC.

Actually Vincent's crosscompiler mentioned above is not that old, it is not the most recent compiler but a lot more recent than the 2.95 you get for native Atari use. ON my Ubuntu box, I have the .debs installed: [email protected]:~$ m68k-atari-mint-gcc --version m68k-atari-mint-gcc (GCC) 4.6.4 (MiNT 20130415) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. It works well btw and should be the way to go. I combine it with Code::Blocks IDE and Cmake over here for the little Atari development I'm still doing.

I could not make libcapsimage work yet but under vanilla Ubuntu Linux, you should install the according development packages for readline and portaudio. Those provide the necessary .h files that are needed to compile Hatari.

Many oldschool demos should work because it was a challenge for coders back then to pack as much action into 512K compatible software. You should avoid pack disks though as those versions might save disk space but won't work on a 520STM due to additional RAM needed for depacking. A great 520STM compatible demo is "Dark Side Of The Spoon" by ULM btw

Still 508 etc errors....

The posting lock is off but I almost immediately got the SQL errors etc again. SOmething is still not right....

The sc68 sound player project contains C sources for an Ice packer and depacker. Both sources are translated from m68k to C so they are quite messy but should work. http://sc68.atari.org/

Many sites have mobile versions that are usable with CAB, try m.google.com. Maybe CAB can be faked to send a different user agent and mask as a smartphone to automatically use mobile site versions?

Like Elansar, I'd buy a CD edition....unless the price is beyond limits.

I don't agree, it is very playable and the lack of scrolling makes some levels a lot easier to manage.

7800 pads or joysticks do not work with any ST without modification. The wiring is incompatible and locks the IKBD (ST keyboard microcontroller) up.

On STE advantages, if you are into demos and modern scene stuffs, many fantastic demoscene releases of the last years have been made for 4MB STEs and take advantage of them. However I agree with others if it goes for old existing games, in that case a 1040STFM is likel the most compatible bet with few gains on the STE side.

A mouse driver is available. Implementation of mass storage support for FreeMiNT was started but as far as I am aware it does not work yet with the Netusbee.

Note me down for one, my original unit has failed somehow. I can't get to to connect anymore For the time being I have a Hydra but I still want to have the USB option for the future.

The RF cable is supposed to work with the antenna port. If you have some other Atari system connected through the antenna, the same cable is likely usable with the STE as well.

The 9pin end for sure is no VGA cabling. It is probably intended to connect to a Phillips or Commodore monitor. For using the STE with a TV, you have 2 options, get a proper SCART cable or if you can live with the bad picture quality, all STEs have the old RF connector so you can connect a TV set through the classic antenna aerial.

Yes, for the way Atari->PC it will work sufficiently. Openoffice will load those RTF files. However The way PC->Atari seems to fail. Atari Works implements only and older RTF standard. It still might work for very simple files with just headings, bold print and underline.

You can try AHCC which is free and will run on 4MB STs well: http://members.chello.nl/h.robbers/ Use the 68000 version for ST/STe and the 68020 version for TT and Falcon.

IIRC that softwareonly Mac emulator for the Atari ST was called Aladin.

I'd be in for one, even 2 if the price would be really significant lower than the older sources.

Before I order a copy from the shop, is the cartridge NTSC or PAL, or does it support both versions?

7-zip is available in the basic commadnline version. Most packer shells (ark, etc) support it.

This looks very interesting. How does it fit into the STE? Into the CPU socket or where? Is any soldering required?

I have updated the pack and now fixed monochrome icons are included as well. I also included a .RSC for TOS 2.x use with the monochrome icons only which works ok here too.

I created a little iconset from KDE1 icon sources for use with 16color Atari displays. It is mainly aimed for the Atari Falcon 030. The set should work with the TOS desktop and Teradesk. Export to other desktops is probably possible too. I plan to make the monochrome images better, at this time most of them are ugly as hell. Afterwards the icons on plain STs can be replaced aswell. Download etc at http://www.final-memory.org/?p=2352 Note: If Teradesk still shows the monochrome icons under TOS, copy CICONS.RSC over ICONS.RSC.