O2star
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Planet Zaxxon

So I have finally turned on my 1040ste last night. I have decided I would like to get more savvy with it. I have maxymizer ready to rock, and works great, but I would like some other basic knowledge as well. Here goes the neighborhood:

I know nothing of 1040STE operation systems. I take it I want GEM ? GEM is just a graphical interface for TOS ? How does one acquire the latest and best of these? Is it available with software or is it on chips, like the Amigas ?

Did the all 1040STE ship from the factory with 4MB of ram? Or is that just the max it takes? I didn't mess around in the OS at all to see the specs, but will today when I get out of work... Or if you want to help me out ahead of time, where can I go in the OS to see all the specs of the machine ??

I see all these fancy pants CF card reader devices (internal and external) for Amigas where you can run the whole OS off of a CF card. I imaganie that would be ideal since the hard drive is very old now. I couldn't seem to find one that is made for the Atari ST models, and keep in mind I am not some electronics mastermind, so the DIY ones would not be a good option for me. I would like to get the IDE plug n play ones.

I am aware of this one: http://afs.atari.org/satandisk.htm

But uses external power? Is that how they all will need to be run for the ST's?? And it looks to external, which I would prefer internal.

Lastly, I came across this thread that seems to have mega links and resources pertaining to all things STE.. Which I will study much further.

http://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic. … amp;t=8455

Thanks guys for any info your atari peeps can provide!!! smile

Last edited by O2star (Feb 19, 2013 4:41 pm)

anthony
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Albuquerque NM

http://www.atari.org/hosted/quickfaq/stfaq_1.htm im sorry if i seem retarded but here is a link i found i hope it helps when i have time ill find more information

505
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Germany

You could try SYSINFO.PRG to check your current specs:
https://sites.google.com/site/stessenti … ls/sysinfo

The latest TOS for ST/E is version 2.06 and it comes in ROM chips. There are also other operating systems, mainly interesting for applications/multitasking. For just using maxymiser or other chip editors any TOS version and also 1 MB RAM should do great. BTW, you will find comprehensive answers on most technical aspects in www.atari-forum.com. It is the biggest English speaking Atari forum and many of your questions should have been discussed there already. So just digg around a bit there maybe. Have fun smile

Last edited by 505 (Feb 19, 2013 5:27 pm)

O2star
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Planet Zaxxon

Yes thanks that looks like some good info..

And my favorite section from that website was if Y2K would affect my Atari.

XyNo
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Joliette, QC, Canada

CARL ON ST !!! yikes Awesome !!!
Yup 4MB is the max you can put in a STe !
Be sure to check out trackers like XLR8, TripleX and my little favorite, Musicmon 2.5e !!!
Satandisk/Ultrasatan are cool but reaaaaally expensive (around 150$ for it + 50$ for HDDriver if you want TOS/DOS partitions on your SD card !!!) and yeah the are external and need external power ! (and cant be used in Atari Falcon) :S

O2star
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Planet Zaxxon

Yea! Im gonna try !!! heh

But yikes that is rather expensive. Well, the reason I like Maxy because of the 3 regular channels and 2 sample channels.. That is a nice combo. Unless those trackers you mentioned have more channel support with that same idea? I like the idea of having synthesis and sample in one though.

505 wrote:

BTW, you will find comprehensive answers on most technical aspects in www.atari-forum.com. It is the biggest English speaking Atari forum and many of your questions should have been discussed there already. So just digg around a bit there maybe. Have fun smile

I was reccommended to stay away from atari-forum, due to it being less informative and a hassle than it is helpful.

wedanced
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San Francisco

where did you get your ste from? i have been hunting for one on ebay to no avail. that and getting an amiga for a good price is really bumming me out.

O2star
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Planet Zaxxon
wedanced wrote:

where did you get your ste from? i have been hunting for one on ebay to no avail. that and getting an amiga for a good price is really bumming me out.

I ended up snagging a 1040STE and a regular 1040ST with color monitor within a couple days of each other on ebay.. this was about 2 years ago though.. thats how long it has been sitting around for untouched ha.

Would you be interested in a 1040ST ? i think its a 1040STF, either way I would like to sell it.

AdamGetsAwesome
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Boulder, CO

Yisss!!! I'm still using floppies on my STe's but I'm looking more and more into buying an HxC floppy emulator since my disks keep corrupting http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/. Sadly the STe doesn't have onboard IDE so any sort of CF card integration isn't easy.

Check maxYMiser too, it seems to make a lot more sense to me than MusicMon.

505
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O2star: strange, I never noticed. It's a good library when it comes to all the ST tech-stuff however, so no need to register wink

Quite surprisingly lately, this ST2SD solution appeared: http://shop.inventronik.de/store/11 working on Falcon & ST.

Lazerbeat
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Tokyo, Japan
O2star wrote:

So I have finally turned on my 1040ste last night.

Cant

fucking

wait!!!

XyNo
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Joliette, QC, Canada
505 wrote:

O2star: strange, I never noticed. It's a good library when it comes to all the ST tech-stuff however, so no need to register wink

Quite surprisingly lately, this ST2SD solution appeared: http://shop.inventronik.de/store/11 working on Falcon & ST.

OMG I was waiting for this !!! Thanks for the news !!! yikes
Now that I got my hands on a Falcon030, I now have a reason to get one (damn you satan !!!)

xylo
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Holland

Damn I see a lot of people getting busy on the Atari lately, good news! More Atari! :-)

YERZMYEY
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The Rubber Man

O2star:

Hi, Oxygene,

> I see all these fancy pants CF card reader devices (internal and external) for Amigas where you can run the whole OS off of a CF card. I imaganie that would be ideal since the hard drive is very old now. I couldn't seem to find one that is made for the Atari ST models, and keep in mind I am not some electronics mastermind, so the DIY ones would not be a good option for me. I would like to get the IDE plug n play ones.
I am aware of this one: http://afs.atari.org/satandisk.htm
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You can get the device from here: http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=90

> But uses external power? Is that how they all will need to be run for the ST's?? And it looks to external, which I would prefer internal.
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The one I mentioned is internal.

Best wishes,
Yerz

O2star
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Planet Zaxxon

Oh super sweet yerzmyey!!! That's the one right there!!! I think I may get one of those...

YERZMYEY
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The Rubber Man

I'm glad I could help.
Actually sooner or later I will be trying to get one myself too. smile