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Footprint is the same, yes. I have both, 1040STe and 1040STf. I actually wasn't aware the non-f systems were any smaller, but then it makes sense if they also have external PSUs like the A500 does. Kind of like the difference in the 600xl vs 800xl, I guess where the back portion os larger on the 800xl. Either way, wedge/keyboard computers look nicer on a workstation than the bulky PC towers...

Oh, I remember reading now about that mod, after I bought my SIO2SD, the thing is fast enough without doing anything, so I never bothered. But then if I'm going to speed everything else up, may as well, eh? Is the patch included for high speed SIO in one of the upgrade boards?

Hmm, interesting. Well, I still need to get up the courage to order everything. Thinking I'll probably watch the rest of your videos before proceeding. I'll probably do a de-yellowing of the keys first anyhow. I did notice that the keyboards were different on the two models. My original one is the nicer one with springs under the keys, and the 'mylar that doesn't suck.' I haven't checked the mylar of the new one, but the top row keys actually have holes that go through the plating. Atari and their million variants...

Ha, I have done the same thing, CosmosEx sitting in a box, still haven't figured out the cleast way to put it in one of my machines. Sadly, you still basically need to track down a dying breed of VGA MultiSync VGA monitors, and they all work with varying success. Of the Three I own, the BenQ BL912 seems to have the nicest picture.

Nice, I ended up watching quite a bit of your videos last night. I think I want to try to clean up the video signal, then I will end up ordering the parts, though I will probably finish watching you put in the mods first. Am I understanding right that the Adaptus is only required in an XL?

Interesting (thanks about reminding me about the Stereo Pokey!) Wonder which has better air flow, 800XL or 130XE. Seems the issue he was having was that he packed in all the things, and it was overheating, or over taxing the bus. But all of this was in a 800XL. Guess I can ping Lotharek about it before I order them.

So... I decided finally to start my 'kick ass Atari 8-bit' quest. For a long time, I was trying to decide which model to upgrade all the bits in, finally decided on the 130XE. Planning on doing the VBXE, Rapidus, and Ultimate 1MB (I don't think I'm missing any, am I?) So got my secondary in today (would rather keep one original), but upon hooking it up I noticed some lines in the display (s-video), but then I notice there are finer lines in the other one I had (I'll post pictures of those after I put the systems back together). Upon taking them apart, here are the things I've noticed right away; The SIO connector looks all sorts of crap compared to the other one. The POT looks weird, though I'm assuming this really makes no difference, and I'm betting I could tweak this to see if I can get a cleaner picture on both. GTIA on my original one is socketed, so this would be the one easier to mod, right? The Capacitor near the power switch is looking like it needs replacement on the one I just got, should I stick with the same brand? Looks like it's a Nicon 470uf16v. The old one, I can't quite figure out what brand they are, oddly all the other capacitors are that same brand (they say WANG'S on them?). Almost looks like the power one was already replace, since it's the only Nicon one out of all of them. Thanks for any input.

I have to wonder why no one has created a scandoubler fot the ST. 15khz monitors are fairly hard to find, from what I have seen, only BenQ makes new ones that support it. And of course not all of their new ones are multisync. I now have three monitors that work, the Dell 2001FP w/speaker bar, NEC 1970NX, and BenQ BL912. The last one probably looks the nicest in Medium resolution and overall has more fine grain controls than the others. All look fine in ST high and Low. Sadly, due to these oddities, I end up using my TT030 and Falcon more often, because they just work over VGA.

I remember seeing quite a few advertisements in Music magazines back in the day for the Atari ST. It really was king in those days, it was one of the strokes of genius to include the MIDI ports with the systems.

Awesome, always liked Time Pilot. This makes me need to ask, is there a master list that gets updated of all the homebrew stuff? So many great games still being made for the Atari 8-bits, and I've been cleaning mine off and wanting to play them, and newer games would rock! (still waiting on Adventure II XE.) Gonna have to give these a try when I get a chance. Also looks like I have a reason to upgrade at least one of my 8-bits.

I just read this many year thread, because I was wondering if the 8-bit version ever came out, will be buying this when it does.

There was a crappy FPS a few years ago with the Syndicate name. The one you want is called Satellite Reign, which is phenomenal.

I got mine, didn't have time to set it up last night though. I really wish my newer TV/Receiver had S-Video, the 8-Bit just looks so much better with it... Then again, that low of a resolution on a 55" TV... nah, still looks awesome! Kind of wished I'd gotten a translucent case on mine, that sounds awesome!

Ha, that was the ending on the Amiga version, I think other versions actually had different endings (no clue on the Jag). In fact I think the PS1 version had a completely different 'I beat the mission' video.

From what I understood of the other console versions, they were sub-par hacked up ones that ended up to be quite different than the original, except for the Jaguar, which is almost a direct port from the Amiga. I beat the game on my friend's A500 a few years before the Jaguar came out. He'd fallen asleep, only to wake up to me yelling 'motherf***er!' because the ending video after the last mission was the same video as all of the other end of mission videos... But I did beat it there. I should fire it up and give it a shot on the Jaguar again. I will agree with Cannon Fodder being really difficult without a mouse, but I don't recall Syndicate being hard, just seemed to be a bit slower.

Syndicate Wars is the real sequel. It's awesome, never did win it though, but the Cheat code... was 'pooslice' I can't make that up.... my brother and I still randomly say 'poo slice' to each other.

I've bought a Dell 2100FP, NEC 1970NX and BenQ BL912. Screen wise, I think the BenQ is the nicest of them (it actually has the most fine tuning controls as well), but the Dell is cool because A) it also has S-Video/Composite (wow the 8-bit looks epic on it with s-video) and B) you can buy speakers that mount to the front. I currently run my TT030 with the BenQ, and with the ECL adapter, I have TT High as well. But the Best cable works with all three monitors, but it was much more than 18 (I think it was like 50?)

Ha, pretty sure that wasn't just the ST version, and just Ultima 3. Pretty sure I did that for the last bit in Ultima IV where you fight all the Daemons on the way to the Abyss. That and the pirate ships in the other area nearby. Wow, that constant fighting of the Daemons was tough.... unless of course you hacked your characters

They are single sided; http://www.nightfallcrew.com/17/08/2011/atari-sf-354-floppy-drive-second-release/

Yeah, people are asking some insane prices for them. Almost 800 for just the JagCD? Glad mine is still working. I even saw someone wanting 500 for Rayman...

From their website; So hopefully it's still going to happen?

I thought the later models (when they dropped the price to 99.99?) didn't come with Cybermorph, could have sworn mine didn't. But I didn't care, since I got my CD at the same time, and it came with Battlemorph.

I had always read that Battlesphere was 'inspired by' Star Raiders anyhow. Way back before it was released. Pretty much the reason I really wanted it. Though Atari could have went with Star Raiders 2000, to go along with the Defender, Tempest, Breakout, etc.

Baja Buggies was the one I was thinking of!

That's awesome! Now I know there are Doom mods floating around that let you play Doom II, but is there one that puts the music back in? A ton of reviews I've seen state that the Jaguar version of Doom is the best of any platform, except that it's missing the music.