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I have down loaded High wire but not tried to install it. Does it require Mint to work or will it run on plain old TOS?

Tried the mobile Google page. It came back Error 302 Moved. Found some at "Useful Text based Websites". Went on the "thin NPR" site.

On my Mega 4 ST project I finally had a chance to hook up the EtherNec card to my network. I had the growing pains of playing with STinG and CAB and all of that. In the end it worked and I have internet. Granted I must be careful which sites I go to or it gets too much data and crashes. The older text sites work.

Put a border around the DVD to clean up the appearance. Think it will work.

Last pictures. I plan to clean up the drive bay with some bordering.

I have a Mega 4 ST. Mine is US power supply. My understanding is you will need to swap out the internal PS if you want to use it without any kind transformer from EU to US. Also there may other issues if it is designed to work in Europe.

I don't remember the exact price since I bought about 4 things from him. Just email Bradley and ask. The one he sold me was brand new. If I had it to do over I would have tried to get the one with the tape drive hole already cut into it. At the time I was not going to put the DVD burner in it but things just rolled that way.

Thanks. Cable management and cutting holes is what I have left to do before putting the lid on it.

I have been upgrading and updating my Atari ST mega 4 for the past 6 months. I now have been adding stuff into the new Megafile case I bought from Best Electronics. Eiffle PS2 controller - Alan H Ethernet controller - Alan H DVD burner Video doubler - HD9800/GBS8200 ver 5 Still need to cut some holes so I can put the top on it.

Wondering if anyone else has updates on using this setup? Can't believe had good it works. I would like to get a better LCD monitor since the one I am using is old and cheap.

I think that is just the way his site has always been. Once you get the hang of it and with Google help I have found everything i needed from his site.

Just for grins I tried the "Best Elec" cable again with the HD9800 and got the same results I did before. Using the home built cable it is working fine so far. Have tested it on a handful of programs and it works great. I have a version of Battlezone I tried it on last night and the intro screen looks fine but when the game comes on the screen goes to a static look. Might be the version of the game I have. Will continue to montior stuff like this.

In the posting on this forum about the HD9800 or GBS8200 these scan doubler cards will allow you to play Color or Colour games on most LCD monitors with your ST. Following a simple pin out guide I built a cable that with the HD9800 works. See the posting in this forum. There are other postings all over the different forums doing stuff to work with SCART too.

Great, I tried the Best cable and HD9800 on two monitors and TV with same results of the rolling screen in color, and frozen screen in High res. Both devices seem to work fine as designed just not together.

Thanks, no I tried that too. If I really want to use the Best cable as it is designed I need to get a Multisync monitor that it can work properly with. At one point I was considering making an small connector adapter between the cable and the HD9800 to try and fix the roll. I don't get any signal off the 2 pin. My other choice would be do all the resitors and 74xx chip layout. Use the 9 pin and 12 pin and combine the signal, ect. For now I am happy using the homemade cable through the HD9800 for color and the Best cable direct for mono.

Tonight added a 3.5mm audio jack to the Mega ST case so I can hear the sounds and music along with my color LCD. Tested it with the Intro to Starfleet I.

Guitarman - The Best cable did provide a picture in both Hi res and low res using the switch on the cable. At one point I took my multi meter and did a pin out of the Best cable in each mode after changing the selector. I did not see anything to bypass the scan doubler when using the hi res with it. But to be clear when trying to use the "Best Elec" cable and the scan doubler the picture rolled and the sync was off. Using my homemade test cable I only had Low or Medium res. By not hooking up pins 12 and 9 together for the Vert and Horz sync I did not have to deal with that issue. (Other forums tons of stuff on that) Instead I hooked up pin 2 and it synced without building other circuit boards and adding resistors to help the sync. I do not get Hi res with this test cable but it works for color. So using the Best cable direct from the ST to LCD I will get the Hi res.

I did try it originally with the best VGA cable. Had great Low res picture but it kept rolling and the Hi Res froze. If I use the cable separate without the HD9800 I only get Hi res, and the color says out of range for this LCD that I have. (Viewsonic) These photos with the best cable only on my other monitor. (HP)

I am sure that if I tweak the menu settings on the HD9800 I can make the desktop larger ect. I was just glad that for $23 USD and free shipping I was able to get this device. Did also spend about $17 USD building the connecting cable. The bigger bucks was buying the special cable from Best. If I get a different monitor I might be able to use that cable for all three modes and not need this scan doubler.

I had read several other postings on a few Atari ST sites and saw several ways to use a non-Atari brand Multisync monitor. I bought the "Best Electronics" VGA cable but with my Viewsonic I only get the High res monochrome to display. Following the road many others have taken I went for a scan doubler. I chose the HD9800 ver 5 which seems to be a newer version of the GBS8200 or GBS8220 that others have documented. I did this and it worked for me on my Mega 4 ST. Not using the VGA cable I bought from Best, I built a test cable with a 13 pin to the HD9800 board connector. After playing with the 9 and 12 pin connectors and getting rolling screen I took the 9 wire and connected to the 2 Pin and it worked correctly. Atari signal wire color HD9800 /GBS-8200 V5.0 board 13 pin DIN P11 connector 6 ------green video---green wire------------"G" 7 ------red video-----red wire--------------"R" 2 ------CSync --------grey wire-------------"S" 10 ------blue video----blue wire-------------"B" 12 ------VSync---------yellow wire-----------"VS" 13 ------Ground--------black wire------------"GND" This is it and it works perfect. (Except for the normal complaints of shadowing, ect.) Settings on HD9800 at default, using RGBS at 1024 x 768 in the Menu. I tried this without hooking the yellow wire up and had distortion along the bottom of the screen. Hooking up the yellow and it went away. Tried going to different resolution in the HD9800 menu and it started have static along bottom of screen. So basically this did not require adding anything else. Built cable and wired directly to HD9800 connector. I will use the BEST VGA cable for my High res Monochrome.

I got my new cable. It works with VGA well / Monochrome High res. It tries to do color but the screen is distorted. Need to find a monitor that it will work with.

Check out Best Electronics new version of the Multisync video cable. http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/monadapt.htm#2nd

Back in early 2000's I wrote for the on-line Atari Mag "My Atari.NET". It is cool to still have access to this stuff. Attached was the first issue from October 2000. It ran from 2000 to 2005. Hope RESET can get scanned and into the Atari world again. October2000.pdf

The three links I loaded where all from the Computer Chronicles TV series.

Sorry one more time... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoNmsL74T7Y