Look what I just found in a bin on the way home :)

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Yay!!! I couldn't carry the monitor so I'm gonna have to figure out a way to get some video output... you guys will help me out

How come I never find Amigas in bins?

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Nice.. Seeing as your in the U.K., this is probably a good option:
http://www.logicsays.com/atari/colour/docs/scart.htm

EXACTLY WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR Cheers x

Being in the U.S. and not knowing about the missing "m" until after I found my 520STF, I have yet to see video on mine..  

Not that I really feel bad about that..

;-)

desiv

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Nice find, though I hope it's functional.

Hmmmm, it still has a Cubase disk in the floppy drive... I guess it reached the end of it's useful life

What do you think resulted in the eviction of the machine above

Actually I dread to think... probably an iMac :-/

If only someone round here would leave a Falcon 030 outside my place.

Hmmm, I'd love a Falcon 030... but they are hen's teeth here also

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I thought they used a regular RF cable output?

This is 1040F, the 1040FM is the one with a TV modulator

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I find those in the trash on the way home everyday.

Harsh

We are at war with Apple now... Atari is the vanquished foe... :lol:

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Well it has a double sided drive for sure and RGB SCART will work fine (or VGA for mono) but not composite out which is provided only on the FM too.

Well, the plan would be to get a Video->Scart connector... then see what I can do about running AROS on it :-D

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What are you doing going through people's bins, you scruffy beggar?! :O

The best thing, I was on the way to the pub to see some friends... I turn up with an ST under my arm, I actually got a round of applause... my Girl Friend was all "What is that... what are you going to do with that... it's not coming in the house", I had to convince her that it was worth something...

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Here's the Video PinOuts for it's monitor connector, can't find the actual pinouts for the computer itself though...

Atari ST Video Pinout

Dunno if this one will help any...

http://www.logicsays.com/atari/colour/docs/scart.htm

All good stuff, I'm thinking about making an AtariVideo->AmigaRGB convertor as I already have an AmigaRGB->Scart connector

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You lucky sod Matt!

We don't know if it works yet... But at the very least I now have a copy of the ST version of Cubase :lol:

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Maybe you could use your ipad instead of a monitor? This shouldn't be a problem for the "holygrail of computers"

I've got no iPad... I have no use for one :lol: they aren't for serious computer users like me

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Go back to the bin and look for the dongle!

There was no dongle (the original Atari Monitor was there, but I'm not dragging that home), no mouse either

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Shame the previous owner didn't throw the S-3000 it was connected to in the bin too.

I never was into Akais... I'm more of a Roland/Emu person... Not that I have much real hardware left anymore.. Damn you Arturia

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Sorry Karlos you have given me a lot to think about :hammer:

I always thought it was one way or the other with Apple. Completely obsessed with anything Apple or simply confused about all things Apple.

I probably did transfer a bit of my Amiga love to Apple... But I'm generally quite positive about most technology now, and with windows7 even MicroSoft have got their OS act together (though when I tried it, I am so used to XP and OSX that I couldn't find anything), in fact Windows7 is basically your only real option if you want to play desktop computer games.

If fact there are two things that REALLY P*SS ME OFF about apple, but since these topic quite rightly don't show up on A.org you never see them Since this is my thread I will take a moment to mention them:

CoreGraphic API, it's a pretty good graphics framework... Which abstracts the concepts and keeps a format and hardware agnostic view of the world... I'll even overlook the fact it has no getPixel()/setPixel() functions, the concept of the pixel is very specific and CG is higher level than that... What really winds me up is that the origin is in the bottom left corner... Despite the rest of the system having the origin in the proper place (Top Left)... I spent days trying to figure out that "bug". There is no excuse for this and I'm not happy about it.

The second point is more general... 4 years ago I was pretty convinced we would all be using SSDs in our computers by now, you will probably find me saying something like that on this very forum if you search my past posts... But as of today all my laptops have WeaternDigital 500GB to 750GB hard drives in them!?!? What gives? One word, Apple... Since they pay upfront for entire production runs of Flash chips, the rest of the world has to wait. So SSDs of any decent size are both rare and expensive, which means less people buy them which means less are made which means they stay rare and expensive... I'm not happy about that.


-edit- actually, I have another annoyance with apple... Single user accounts in iOS, I know the average iPhone/iPad user would be totally confused by the concept of a "user account"... But there are times when I give my iPhone to someone to play on an App, and it would be nice to not give them access to my Email/phone/pr0n stash... :-/

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No doubt, a Falcon or TT would be the bomb!!!


So is this an ST or STe? If it's an STe you can play Pac Man on E's which was by far one of the best Pac Man clones ever!

This is a 1040F... Basically the lamest of the 1Mb STs :-/

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Should have left it in the bin...

You sound like my girlfriend...