candle Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 i won't make any comments, just few pictures 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Fantastic. Put me down for one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Oberhäuser Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 I assume the board with all the wires on it is the keyboard interface? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Sweet! This is the best use for an ST case & keyboard I have yet seen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowCoder Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Can someone explain what this is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Wow! I have an old nasty 520ST that's pretty much useless because it doesn't come with a built in disk drive that I would gladly sacrifice to make one of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 As long as you're not destroying a working ST to do this, you won't hear me grumble, but...why stop there? I'm assuming you're using the case for the increased room so get a Mega ST case and have the separate (and much better!) keyboard as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Can someone explain what this is? i'm going with an Atari 8-bit living in an ST case. At least that's what i'm hoping it is, 'cos that's fecking awesome! =-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Would it be possible you be able to build an adapter for a 1040 ST-Keyboard that would use the two Joyports so that the connected XL/XE has 4 ports again, like the 400/800? That would be cool M.U.L.E. XL/XE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 heh it would still requre a hacked game this is 1040ste keyboard i would like to thank to tf_hh for giving me this st case - in poland they are almost impossible to get, and if i even would get one, then it would be whole unit, which i wouldn't destroy keyboard works with atmega48 chip receiving data from IKBD controller, translating it and interfacing back to the POKEY main reason for this was that i didn't want to have pc keyboard with my atari, and i don't have any working keyboard at all for my xe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 this is very interesting idea.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 *looks at dead STe in corner of room* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 hmmm... I have an STE lying around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastRobPlus Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 ...For the ultimate challenge, see if you can modify it to accept 5 ¼ disks in the drive slot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Finally - a suitable housing for IDE Plus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 FastRobPlus: it doesn't have any drive slots ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 It is a great project, and I'm waiting for Fox-1 to kick in... But... when I was an ST user, I loved the looks of my XE computer more. So it would be more awesome to put an ST in a XE case But great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
31336haxx0r Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 How much for a ST to XE keyboard converter?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Hello Sebastian You're using an ST case, but no MIDI interface? Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dropcheck Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Okay now that explains it. And here I thought all you did was go to work, come home, go to sleep, go to work, come home, go to sleep etc...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Lenore, i'm working from home office so its more like get up as Lena does (4-5AM) play with her, tend to her when her mother is working, work on the tasks my employer assigns me in the mean time, put lena asleep, eat something, scratch my ass, work some more, play with lena again, wait for her mother to take over, work again and fall down to bed around this time (11pm) sometimes i'm swamped with my job, others i ignore everything and devote whats left of my time to whatever i find entertining - and this was the case case conversion took 10-20 hours of effective time, and keyboard interface was just few hours to get it working at all (just upper case with no shift/control/console keys) and another two hours to add these missing features now i have to learn 6301 assembler and write custom keyboard handling routine i could load to mcu memory just to get around IKBD implementation "features" as its handling up to 2 keys pressed at once ONLY, three if you press ALT as one of the keys, other combinations can only be 2 key the other way around would be to redo whole ikbd controller as an replacement board just for the sole reason i have keyboard i'm using without any controller - it came that way, so i have to do something about it - either buying original one from underground, or making my own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcon_ Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 (edited) Excellent just excellent! I love it more because to be honest I seriously have thought this idea lately too. But you did the case backing, which I didn't consider. I have been thinking recasing my XL and whether to keep the stock kb or translate a bigger(pc) kb. Lots of room in that case now! Right on! Edited August 16, 2012 by falcon_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Someone in the US wanna buy these two and send me one? eBay Auction -- Item Number: 390454895579 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 PM sent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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