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Milan040: 25 mhz 68040, up to 512 megs of RAM (ST-Ram is taken from main memory), TOS should be 4.8 iirc, AT form factor mainboard, four PCI and three ISA slots, IDE onboard for up to four devices. The 040 can be swapped for a 50 mhz 060, if you can get hold of an adapter board, and if your mainboard supports it - if you're unlucky you'll have to exchange some chips. There are jumpers on the mainboard to push it further than 25 mhz which means higher CPU performance as well as the 040 runs at board speed, the 060 at twice the board speed. My Milan 060 has an S3 Trio graphics card with two megs of memory, drivers exist as well for ATI Rage cards. A Milan is pretty much a GEM machine. Fine for graphics, text processing, internet and such. It can be run under MagiC Milan or MiNT, just as under Linux and maybe BSD. Christos: 64 mhz would be reached with a 060 upgrade and 32 mhz board speed.

As you can clearly see, Best is best.

Usually one gets a floppy holding HdDriver when purchasing it. If your dealer just installed it to the hard drive, and charged you for it, ask him if he could send it back to you. If not, ask Uwe Seimet to sell you a copy.

Ok, fine. :-)

I tried it without luck on a win2k system. Although both sides seemed to see each other I wasn't even able to get a drive map. I know it worked flawlessly between my Falcon and a win98 computer back then...

Well, Mr. Darklord, I really like telnetting to your bbs, although I have to admit I rather use a slightly more modern system to do so, just as Mac OS 9 or Windows 2000. I tried everything from Macintosh System 7 to Mac OS X 10.4 and Win98se to WinXP with different clients. Also tried my Falcon, but unfortunately the telnet program used with it wasn't too stable. For quite some time I had an Atari setup as a webserver for my not so overexaggerated Atari page. I think one day I'll try MiNT with an Apache to do so again.

Well, this might be. I dunno. Don't have any Linux systems running. Just know about Slip.

With a nullmodem cable it is possible to use a slip connection to network your Mega/STe with a Linux PC and take the latter as a router to the internet. As your machine has relatively fast serial ports (modem2, serial2), this is quite nice a possibility. I'm not too certain, but you also may be lucky enough to mount your Atari hard disk in your PC with Gemulator.

Well, I'd not consider one of my computers as my main system, as I often fall in and out of love with one of them, but I have several systems for special purposes: An MSI PC as my fileserver, a Power Macintosh 8600 as my mailclient (Outlook Express for Mac OS is still one of the best mailclients imho), and for surfing (if already switched on), my Falcon for different Atari specific stuff, mp3, home-ftp holding Atari software, and for reading forums which don't need JavaScript (so not for AtariAge, unfortunately), my Win PCs for gaming and surfing, my other Macintoshes for webstuff and such. Yeah, it's a lot of web specific stuff, including www, im, irc, e-mail, ftp, whatever over here.

A Mega/STe will not guarantee TOS 2.06 - it can well have 2.05 which shows no Atari logo or RAM-test on startup. Also, some bugs have been patched for 2.06. I used to run Cubase on my Mega/STe, and I really loved the combo of a faster processor and an integrated, fast hard disk.

Great job with a great result!

I hope no one gets bored as I like to state the following: A PAK3/ FRaK2/ Panther in VHDL would be nice to have in any Atari ST.

To fit a Magnum ST card into a STacy you need to move some things into the batteries' place taking those out. I'm referring to a sentence I read in DOIT or Chips'n'Chips or something. While you're at it you might want to drop a PAK3 into it as well.

Toys added.

Updated.

About the number of chips all I can say is: When exchanging the TOS chips the guy who did it for some of my Ataris over the years just did not find two-chip-sets, so he used six-chip-sets.

Yeah, chat on IRC or ICQ and listen to mp3 files at the same time is just fine. And we just talk about a standard Falcon. Mine has 14 megs of RAM, runs @ 32 mhz and has a 120 gig hard drive, is running MagiC and unfortunately atm has networking issues I wasn't able to solve up to now. You can run higher resolutions using software as Videlity or Videl Inside if you like. Overall it's a nice GEM machine as well as a nice demo- or gamestation

The PAK/3 (ProzessorAustauschKarte - processor replacement card) is quite rare but extremely nice. Maybe it might be successful to ask Heise in Hannover about it as they invented it (iirc as a project within the c't magazine). It works for Atari, Amiga, Macintosh and maybe other computers with 68k socket. I think there has been a patched TOS 1.04 (KAOS works as well), or a patched TOS 3.xx to use it on an ST. With a FRaK/2 (FastRamKarte - fastram card) and a Panther (ISA slot adapter) you could have up to 64 megs of ram and a graphics card (Mach or ET4k). I'm not certain about TOS versions for PAK/1 or PAK/2 though. You might want to d/l the PAK-pages on http://wrsonline.de/ to get more information about the PAK/3, you just might encounter problems when trying to find the patched TOS 3.xx.

Cashes and FastRam do the trick. On my 32 mhz FX-Card accelerated Falcon I just have ST-Ram, on my 32 mhz Mighty Sonic accelerated Falcon I have FastRam as well. The first one naturally is a lot faster than a 16 mhz Falcon, but the second one plays mp3 files (in ST-Ram) while still feeling about as fast as a TT when doing things beside that.

With an appropriate graphics card and an enhanced driver it might even be possible to use two TTM monitors on one TT at the same time.

The TT uses an ECL signal for the TTM which is not VGA compatible. However, you can switch the PTC to normal VGA or ECL use, so it might be possible to build a switchbox which uses the full ECL signal.

Try or think yourself what is worthwile regarding Falcon games by looking at this list.

I'm quite certain he is going to set up an Atari ST cluster with all those machines!

You can find it in your inbox where I put version 4 some days ago.

Just now I opened DropStuff (dating from 2001) for the first time, and it wants to see a serial number in thirty days from now on... DropStuff for Windows (I use version 7) allows Stuff (default) or Zip as archive options. Exe is the output for self-extracting files. If your are interested in using an old Mac you might think about a beige PowerMac 7xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx or G3. I really like them, and they do have floppies (maybe except for the G3 models). They usually work with Macintosh System 7 to Mac OS 9, with the G3s also being able to boot into Mac OS X, but not into System 7 and often not even Mac OS 8. My main Oldworld Mac is a PowerMac 8600 with G3 upgrade card, 512 megs of ram, four gig hard drive running Mac OS 9.1. I also have a oldish iMac G3 and an iBook G4 (which needs fixing), but they lack the floppy drive. On the 68k side I have a Macintosh IIci which atm refuses to even use the proper starting sound thus telling me it has problems (which I didn't manage to find up to now). If you want to you might also use an emulator to play around with archive types on a 'Macintosh' system. Right now I use System 7 and have direct access to my Windows drives with SheepShaver.