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Oh yeah, do it all the time on my Miggy's and they still multi-task just fine (030 & 060 equipped Amigas that is). But speaking of the backwards thing: you just brought up a pinnacle of backwards technology: the mp3. Especially in this day and age of TB sized mass storage and the GB's we now work with in RAM. No excuse for listening to mp3's at all today - but we know where a lot of peoples standards have gone throughout the decades and a lot of peoples listening skills have been compromised to say the least. I'm on the fence with this MP3 thing. Granted, they vary greatly in quality, and it's not just "bitrate" as I've heard crappy 320k and "good" 128k files. Sure, I understand the criticism of them - and jpegs - but most people's ears just aren't that sensitive. Lots of "techie" types will crap on MP3s - but they can't sing a single note or hold a tune (tone deaf) and I think that's the real test of one's ear. If you're a good singer is a good listener. If they don't sound "clicky" or the volume is too low or high, and the tweeters are tweeting, the subwoofer is woofing, and the midranges are midranging.....I don't understand why they're so criticized, if they're encoded "correctly." At the same rate, you can look at a beautiful JPEG and some "spec guy" will shit all over it because it's "not raw" and is "lossy" even if it looks beautiful. They ALL don't, but many JPEGs look great and many MP3s sound great, at least to me. I guess a really sharp HDTV display can be criticized too, since it's not "raw." Plus, some people have 500GB of MP3s and wouldn't want to buy more drives to store their music!! But I take your point! I was unaware that Amiga and ST could play MP3. I remember reading some (non-techy) article that said "it would be a handful" for a 386 to play one....they were boasting of the "power" in an iPod (or something) and trying to relate it in terms of "PCs not that long ago couldn't (or could barely) do this..... Article may have been way off base, then. I agree in that it appears most people either cannot hear or are not interested in hearing full quality without flaws. I gave a few years listening to mp3 before I gave up on it for good, because as well as being a poor representation of the source, I found it actually physically hurt my ears at low to moderate listening levels on a quality setup. MP3 is thin, brittle and fatiguing to listen to, so I now only listen to lossless codecs like FLAC, APE etc. I will admit that my ears can easily hear those so called mosquito tones, that apparently only teenagers can hear and I am forty next month. However unlike the teenagers of the past ten years or so, I have not damaged my hearing with loud music and heavy bass etc, plus I always wear decent ear plug protection at concerts or anywhere where the sound is too loud. I am a musician and can sing in tune but have a thin uninteresting voice, but I do have good intonation on everything I play or do, and have well trained ears that can accurately analyse a mix and arrangement and recreate or improve it. I definitely listen more closely and more critically as a musician, than before when I was just a listener for pleasure. In some ways this is both a blessing and a curse, because I enjoyed music more when I understood and heard less! Also these days I listen on a variety of audio setups and systems, including high end and low end stuff. My home studio monitors are UK hand made Quested S7 active monitors, which even Abbey Road have. These monitors do not gloss over the flaws like a domestic HiFi speaker would; you get warts, gems and everything.......very accurate and detailed!

I recently bought a Mega STE 4MB + 68881 FPU for £52, which is a lot cheaper than they normally sell for; a usual price is £100 to £150. Also two of my three 4160 STE came as a whole lot with IDE interface, VGA + SCART cables, external floppy drives and software etc for a mere £72 back in 2008. Most of what I have cost a fair price or was a bargain, although my two Falcon 030 were £200+.

Haha it is impossible to keep things neat and tidy, when retro work is in full flow! I'm a very clean and tidy person, but if I were to upload a photo of my main room right now, you would think a hoarding tramp had moved in! Oh and you should have covered the naked STacy up to protect her modesty...

Without checking properly (it's late ya know!), I would say mine are 1990 to 1991. So like I say, I doubt mine are rare and authentic.

Ahh you mean the new FireBee... Official FireBee Website

I too own three 4160STE micros complete with authentic metal badges, but I doubt they are developer models. Perhaps the developer ones had hard drives full of special software?

It's sat in the box it came in waiting for me to use it, which I definitely will. I've been preoccupied with my Falcon since last year, but I do want to try the HxC in one of my dual TOS STE micros to do some gaming. Any reason why you prefer the red ones? The firmware needs updating for starters as it will be quite old now.

Thanks for the info as I have a HxC SD Floppy Emulator board in red I think, which I want to share between four types of computer; Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3; Amstrad CPC6128; Atari STE and Atari Falcon 030.

I've not got any drives working via my ICD Link 2 yet, but that is more down to my lack of experience with SCSI and the ST.

Looks really nice.....apart from the keys but that is like anything else next to something newly painted! My friend once had his old red Cavalier car re-painted on one section by a Rolls Royce specialist, and they did such an amazing job it made the rest of the car look horrible! I suppose for your ST keys, you could just cover the key letters and symbols with some protective tiny sticky lablels, and then Retrobrite the keys back to their original colour. I do like the colour shade you have chosen though.

Best method is to backup using more than one format just in case, although I do not always remember to do this!

Beautiful photo! Well my Atari motivation is low when the room temperature is 36°C and climbing, in a wooden constructed dorma. Have a great time relaxing and I we will see you soon on the forums raring to go!

Photochrome comes with a little slideshow player, that plays everything you put inside the folder with the slideshow app.

This game reminds me a bit of the old 80s Jumping Jack game I had on my ZX Spectrum by Imagine. You had to jump through the moving holes on each platform to reach the top of the screen, without getting crushed at the sides of the screen. Such a simple game but a lot of fun and one I still return to occasionally. So yes I would like to play Downfall on my Falcon 030 or STE.

Check out this forum thread here for photos of it in action on both CRT and LCD TFT monitors, plus all the cables and adapters used. Supera Color HD Discussion and information with results Photos of it in action with a LCD TFT monitor

Try this, I own two and they are great and work with NTSC or PAL and have the RF input as well. Geniatech Supera Color HD http://video.ezinemark.com/super-color-hd-tv-tuner-review-1-2-mac-pc-lcd-monitor-ps2-vga-s-video-inputs-45311b3fe10.html[/media]"]http://video.ezinemark.com/super-color-hd-tv-tuner-review-1-2-mac-pc-lcd-monitor-ps2-vga-s-video-inputs-45311b3fe10.html

We will be glad to help out where necessary, to get your files uploaded.

True but I did mean with the permission of the publisher / author of course.

It would be nice if the article however small could be included here and over at Atari-Forum.com as well.

I forgot to mention that both my £1 drives are 18.2GB in size.

I got two good condition Fuji SCSI-3 80-pin drives marked as Compaq last year for £1 each plus postage, so under £10 overall. They work really well with the Falcon 030.

....or once games are exhausted, well any type of software that some of the newer Falcon owners may not have seen.

Here here!

To be honest I am a long time ST user since the 80s, and used a Falcon in 1992 very briefly but only owned one (now two) since last year. So I find your videos a very useful guide as to what to check out on the Falcon. So basically anything that pushes the hardware and involves shooting, driving, arcade conversions or clones etc, plus maybe a few good looking and fiendish puzzle games. Thanks!

I just finished watching the 2011 Spanish F1 Grand Prix and then my very next click brought up your pic...perfect! Yes I like it a lot!