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Couple of points, there are SD card solutions like the Ultrasatan and Cosmosex and if you don't know yet if the machine works, just buy a <5$ ST to VGA mono only cable and test it with any standard VGA capable monitor. Any PC monitor will work as long as it has a VGA port. It will only display hi resolution mono but you'll know for sure before investing more serious money

Either the 1040STe or the MegaST depending on your preference between being able to play STe only or enhanced games or the comfort and ergonomics that are possible only in the Mega series and the TT... ....or, sell them all and get a MegaSTe, you get the best of both worlds. STe features, ergonomics of detached keyboard, no more fiddling around to connect mouse and joystick and integrated hard drive on the case... I love my MegaSTe and TT, they’re the ones I use most

https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/How-to-hook-up-retro-consoles-to-High-Definition-TVs-via-HDMI i use a framemeister with my Jag

I have two NEC 1990LX or NX, they're pretty cheap... the "adapters" and described as such that I opted are these: https://centuriontech.eu/product/st2vga-black/ i found they were good enough for my needs without the extra cost of the UBEs. ive bought more things from centurion and the guy is awesome, I could not recommend more

I have two ST2VGA adapters (not the UBE) and they display fine all resolutions with the NEC LCDs

It’s way cheaper to get a NEC multisync display they go for around 20/30€

This one is clearly marked as 520STmodulator it does appear to have had some kind of composite work done

It might have been a SIPP STe that had SIMM slots installed later? Maybe the seller can answer that....? these 30 pin do require some "gentle force", but damaging 256k SIMMs is much better than 1MB ones. if the slots are inverted, putting the new meg ones or just see if they insert that way should not be a problem

Seems easy enough to check if they're inverted... By the angle it does seem like it, but I would start by removing the already present memory and reverse for the new sticks? 👍

First I thought it would be an STe with SIPPs instead of SIMMs, but these look normal to me. the sticks are inserted at an angle and then pushed to the vertical position entering those notches on the sides. photo isn't very clear, but that's what it seems to me.

If I understand you just want to make sure your data is backed up, right? you can back it up to another system using PARCP-USB and if and when the drive fails, since you appear to have easy access to RLL drives, you can just restore the data using the same cable

The best industry as a whole was suffering from high levels of software piracy. What started turning developers away was that titles released for Atari/Amiga/PC would have much higher levels of piracy on Atari than on the other platforms. i believe that since Ataris were the cheaper platform, it ended up with a higher share of people unwilling/unable to fork £30 or £40 for one game... and remember not every game was a classic. amiga users probably had more purchasing power and PC even more. Plus PCs were much popular in North America were software piracy was much lower than in Europe. and yes, Atari made a lot of mistakes that speeded up its fall... the STe if launched in 1987 and the Falcon in 1989 probably would have made much more of a difference

This seems to be 25 years out of date 🙄 There res was a multitude of factors, for example, living in Portugal I had no access to original software unless I sent for it from abroad, which for a teen without a credit card is not easy... i kept busy mostly with ST Format cover disks, some shareware but yes, there was a postal interchange of disks which at the time I did not realise the consequences. i still got some great titles like F1, secret of monkey island, cannon fodder, among others. Usually I would spend my birthday and Christmas opportunities to ask adults for this in the latter days of the ST scene and even in like 1996 I bought Proflight and some other original software since I was now working and could make those decisions on my own. I also participated in the effort to release Civilization to the Atari and drooled at Frontier 2 demo. in recent times with developers mostly gone, I did buy some original titles off eBay but I'm under no illusion that I'm supporting whoever developed it, it just goes to whoever is selling the title.

Sent you a PM 😊👍

That sounds about right IMO. you’ll probably sell it fast, some of the highest marked Falcons will be listed more than once... and the drawing board, I’d still be interested 😉

Hi, your Falcon looks indeed in really good shape and comes with an original box and accessories, so it will be easier to sell. I'm sure that many current Falcon users might be interested because they don't have such a nice, complete machine. where are you located? I might be interested in the drawing board... best regards

Check here: https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/storenew/

Good to know it's alive again. Enjoy your STe

Have you tried different memory sticks?

Those are great news happy to see that the STacy still gets some attention 😊

This is new to me... dont ST games have more than 128k in most cases?

I had no idea about this project... will read further Thanks!

Great work I really appreciate what you do for the community

The vga adapters dont use the modulator, but the 13 pin DIN monitor out

There are cheap VGA adapters for the ST The real cheap ones will give you ST high resolution, more advanced ones will give you all resolutions and audio Also find a 15khz LCD like the NEC 1990 series