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Dal is aware of it.. looks to be back up again now.

Been down a few hours, SQL error, I sent a message to Dal just in case he isn't aware.

I went from Atari 2600, to STFM, to Falcon pretty much. Though never really saw any games for the falcon. Then all the mags vanished and that pretty much marked the end of it for me (no internet back then, not like it would have likely helped). PDL's vanished not long after so just no way to get any software. Atari died not long after, so the only active platform which seemed popular was the PC market. So I built a 286SX25 or 386 back in the day can't remember. Was built from peoples spare bits mostly. Got doom running on DOS played it for ages. Then a guy at work said he got his PC on the internet with windows 3.11, So I updated my machine with modem to get on the internet. One day it just stopped seeing the modem, nobody could figure out why, reinstalled many times, gave up in the end and built a new PC with windows 95 on. Back on the net, then access to online multiplayer games.. better games, more power year after year.

Cool Assume its not a raster but a 16 colour animation then. Though don't get why Atari just made it black in later TOS versions, unless something broke and they never notice and/or fixed it

Yeah, max the thing out I really like TOS206, seems lot more friendly to use. The RAM check on power up is one of the best things

I wonder if it was a raster rather than a 16 colour animation, if so, then likely it would break badly on machines with caches and random/other CPU speeds... Makes me wonder if my boosters cause the rainbow to go screwy on higher speeds, never thought to look.

I would start by checking the power rails on the LF op-amps and the DAC, LMC. If you look at the STE diagram then you should see places where +5v, -5v and 8.2v should be.

Eproms are likely the only thing which will fit. Even my dual TOS board uses OTP ROM's.

A image archive would be a cool section to add to my site if enough archives can be found to make it worthwhile.

I don't have a MSTE. I don't plan on working on an other machines other than the STFM, and STE. I still need to solve problems on the STFM 32MHz booster project so that will be the only thing I plan on working on next year. In fact I did have a MSTE on loan a few weeks ago, I had the idea to tweak the PAL code to allow the CPU to enter 16mhz on ROM access, though the PAL code which I found online, didn't work right when I programed a new PAL. So tweaking it was out of the question as the code online must have been buggy to start with. In the end, I just thought it was more trouble than it was worth.

Fast-Tos won't work with STacy ?? The V1.5 just has the Fast-TOS option for it.

Ah right, I know Darklord has a patched 306, wasn't sure what the patch was for though. I asked since you mentioned not being able to have Fast-TOS in your STacy.. If its just generic 104 then you should be able to use it ( if you have V1.5 booster that is).

Does STacy not have normal TOS104 in there then ? Don't know anything about shadow chips.. I only really work with STFM's not much else other than drifting into STE stuff...

8x 240V and 6x 110V in stock. https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/storenew/#0029 These are the last run of that design. The Falcon board will take over but also is more expensive so anyone who wants the lower cost ST one should grab one while those stocks last.

I have designed (and indeed got all the parts) to build a STM PSU and have done for several months. But again, lack of time. I'm trying to complete the smaller/easier stuff first and get that out of the way before going back to more time consuming stuff. Though its hard to know what to spend the time on. I must have about 20 projects on the go currently :-\

I shelved the idea for a MSTE PSU for the time being. I have designed one,but not built it, simply because its just not possible to fit the circuit and the transformer in the confines of the PSU case. I had a MSTE in for repair a few weeks ago, so I have produced a re-cap kit for it instead. http://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/psu/index.htm#MSTE https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/storenew/#0064 I honestly don't think the MSTE PSU needs a re-design. It seems pretty good as it is. The Falcon and ST/F/M/E PSU's have been failing for several years now. For 80s tech they are pretty good, but in terms of today's power switching they are pretty poor. I have sold a few re-capped PSU's over the past year, but none for some months now. I might just abandon those as people are going for my own built PSU now anyway. People who want a cheap fix can still buy the re-cap kits from my store.

I would ultimately like my boosters to come down in price so more people would buy them. Though at the moment its all development costs. Even so, the booster market is like 5-10 people at best, So costs of producing such small runs is high. I've produced around 30 STE V1 boosters so far. Half of them are unlikely to sell so that double the price of the possible 15 that will sell. From what I see in general, if people want something enough, they will buy it. Though nobody is going to spend £500 on one either. Though mostly boosters are used to give old games a bit more of a kick speed wise. So far nobody has adapted or created any games to make use of the CPU instructions which run faster, and likely never will. As for FPGA, as I said many times before, Myself and Rodolphe was interested in using the apollo core as a drop in replacement for the 68k. But the reply we got wasn't friendly so abandoned that idea. Though there do seem to be others working on 68k cores. Really, If there is a drop in replacement which supports all the 68k instructions correctly, then I would be interested in trying it out. Likely a FPGA could do some instructions in a couple of cycles instead of 100 or so like with some math functions. If the instructions could run in effect 50mhz and higher speeds, then I think it makes things very interesting. Whereas 68k instructions could take any amount of CPU cycles to complete, I would assume a FPGA could do the whole lot in a lot less cycles. Of course at this point I am still assuming CPU only upgrade, IE still bottle neck on RAM. But one has to start somewhere. Overall I want to add IDE and fast-ram to future STE boosters. I also want to try other CPU's. The SEC version people claim 50mhz is possible, So I have briefly talked to Rodolphe about adapting it for the STE. Really its just to see if any more MHz can be pushed out of the 68k series. It is likely a long way off as I have just so many projects on the go, I just dont have time to start another one. Of course if there was a 68k FPGA which can outrun a 50MHz 68000 then that would be even better. Though as people have already mentioned , You would lose the "stock cpu" speeds. At least with the real 68k CPU you can switch back to 8mhz and it acts like the booster isn't installed. With a FPGA, its never going to be 100% like a real 68k. At least from what others seem to suggest. So in that situation a real 68k and a FPGA would be needed. All just a pipe dream really anyway.

I've done: 8x 240V. 6x 110V. I still have some things to finish off, but they should be in my store around Wednesday next week These are the last of the original ST PSU design. Since I designed a more Falcon orientated PCB there was little use in keeping 2 designs in production , so the Falcon design will also double up as the ST PSU. The Falcon design is very similar, but I have re-designed the PCB and used a much heavier weight copper. This got the regulation down to about 0.005V (5mV) P-P. IIRC the ST one was about 20mV (0.020). Though this doesn't mean much for the ST considering the regulation on the original PSU's was more like 0.2V (200mV). Anyway, the Falcon PSU will be more expensive as the PCB price doubled. I've also started using larger capacitors which adds a little more expense. I suspect the price will add around £10 extra per board. The Falcon version will also have the connector fitted. Though I am not sure how much more this will add to the cost yet as stripping /crimping/soldering cables gets really time consuming I would guess the cable part will add around £15 to the price tag. The ST versions will just be supplied as before without the cable. Falcon PSU info here. http://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/psu/index.htm#FALCPSU Don't ask me when the Falcon PSU will appear, as I don't know. Next year definitely. Busy with some other kits right now so PSU's will have to wait Check them out in my store and other items.. https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/storenew/

Not sure why my first post was cut in half.. I suggested HD10 as there is a demo. http://hddriver.seimet.de/

there is a demo here which will let you see if the hard drive is found or not. Possible you need a driver... assuming you have a HDD installed that is.

Mostly looking to see if you have a open relay email server so they can use your server to spam with. I ran a proxy server for a couple of weeks while I was testing some stuff out about a year ago, theres some site which scans IP address's and if it finds a proxy server they go and list it on their site as "free to use". I had a go at them as they got my account blocked as the server had been maxed out for over a day. They claim they hadn't listed my IP, even though it was posted on their site and they admit they scan IP's for "open proxy servers" constantly. I sent um a screenshot and didnt hear from them again. Gets me how they basically attack IP's for proxy servers and then list them without the site owners permission. Felt like sending them a bill for buggering my VPS account up.

Port attacks seemed to have gone wild over the past year, I never had any , but now on my email server I get piles of attacks. Mostly now if anyone tries a invalid SSH login, or tries to email a invalid address or something, that IP get banned for 48 hours now. I've blocked huge list of IP ranges where spam seems to keep coming from. So far it seems to be keeping the attacks down a lot.

Thanks Ron Hopefully these will start to fund the next-gen booster series

These boosters are starting to appear in stock finally! STORE LINK. https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/storenew/#0059 Don't forget you will also need the Fast-ROM board such as this one.. STORE LINK. https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/storenew/#0048

There seems to be a few people dotted about who want them. So I will get a small batch done up. Probably a batch of 15 will be more than enough for what people want.