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Damn, I was going to suggest changing the TOS chips, but you've tried that. I guess the TOS chips weren't burned from the same dodgy image? What version of TOS are you using?

I begged, wheedled and whined until my mother finally relented and bought me an STFM for Christmas, as my Commodore +/4 just wasn't cutting it any more. I had to wait a month until I could get my grubby mitts on it, but at least I had the manual which I must have read from cover to cover ten times before I could unbox the machine. The games I remember it coming with were Space Harrier, Outrun, Xenon, Gauntlet II, Nebulous and Super Hang On, which I used to play on an old portable colour TV. Later on, I do remember being a little jealous of the Amiga owners, particularly with respect to the sound, and also the game Eye Of the Beholder, which was everything I ever wanted in a game. A friend of mine used to have a lot more money than I did, and used to get all the cool toys, and finally upgraded to an STe. The only difference I could functionally see is that bit wouldn't run a lot of the games. After several awesome years, Atari announced they were abandoning us (that's how it felt to me at the time), so I bought a 486 and played a lot of Doom.

It's great for me, as I can run the odd Amiga game without having to go and buy one. It sits with my Falcon, my STe and my STFM. It apears slightly faster than my boosted 48mhz Falcon in Steroids mode too

I used ST Writer Elite for my GCSEs. I still think it's one of the best word processors of all time

It depends how 'real' you want to get - you're probably best off replacing the caps in the PSU of any ST you buy as they're starting to get a little old for a lot of us. If you don't mind cheating a little bit, there's always the MiST. It's really low power too, if you are going to leave it on 24/7.

TOS v2.06, 14mb ram and STeroids mode, Minimig-aga plus acceleration. The MiST is sweet

Sozobon C (ordered from ST Format) Devpac Dungeon Master ST Writer Elite Xenon I/II All the carebears demos Carrier Command Deuteros

Tried ICD Pro?

Cross compilation is possible, but you have to use a very old version of GCC. http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/ You just wrap certain functions, ie #ifdef ATARI gemdos(10); #else getchar(); #endif And of course #define ATARI at the start of your program. (By the way, I rushed this example from memory so don't complain if it doesn't compile!) All you have to do is recompile it in AHCC or whatever. It depends what sort of stuff you are writing. If you are doing lots of graphics, demos etc then this method won't help you a jot.

I don't think that word means what you think it means. Mint is heee-uge, and MagiC rarely crashes - at least on my machine. I just use it so I can test-run my programs without leaving AHCC. Each to their own, I guess.

I would still vote for AHCC - it's in active development. Pure C is long dead. If you've got a problem, Henk Robbers can still help you out. I've got a couple of projects on the go in C for the Falcon at the moment (one of which is a text adventure. Parsers in C, sheesh). I tend to write my stuff in strict ANSI C using Clang as the compiler, then port it over to the ST after. I find it's much quicker and if you use #defines at compile time to select the arch you're running on, then you can use Atari specific GEM calls or use C libs on your more modern arch. I use MagiC when I'm developing as multitasking can be pretty useful.

Great link, thanks!

http://www.amiga.org/forums/ Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out

I've got a spare STFM I can harvest a PSU from, they're compatible if I remember correctly?

Hi all, I've got an 4MB STe that's worked for years. Recently, after a few minutes, it starts bombing out with random bomb rows (sometimes 4,9 and 11 bombs). I've ran memorytest with several patterns and I get no memory errors until it starts bombing out. I think it might be the power supply, what do you guys think?