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Good review

Great tutorial sir. I have the OLED Gotek from the same seller Jon (I met him, top bloke) but with the OLED in the drive bracket. Wish I bought this now as it's not easy peering down the right-hand side.

Hi I got lightning usb on my megast , mega ste and tt this usb hardware does support hot swap usb so I can use it, remove it and put one back and its mounted. But on netusb I only got it to work when its connected at boot can you confirm your setup supports hot swap between pc and atari

Can you share the cab setup and cab ovl you use ?

Is there a written version of this tutorial somewhere?

This video is 10 times longer than it should be (and it should be a PDF cheat sheet anyway)

Welcome back! Glad to see you didn't need to get a dremel out.

could you do me a copy of that ST ram disc ? ill pay you , great video lots of info for my st 1040 in a box that got packed away with rest of computers from the 80's thank you

Is it possible to mount the GOTEK as an external drive through the floppy connector?

A clean solution! Lovely work!

Yikes! Well done! How on earth did you fit those dupont connectors through that gap? I had always assumed it needed a cut-and-resolder job.

At about 5 mins in your video you mention ( I think ) about using Hatari to copy the HDD drivers to a floppy (on a PC) via an external FDD. Are external FDD recognised by Hatari and Windows 10? Are there an models of external FDD to buy that you know of that will work with DD floppy disks and Hatari. Sorry if this is a bit of a Noob question, but I'm new to all of this.

There’s a better solution that’s only came out in the last few weeks, it’s called a GoDrive and means you can keep your floppy drive also

when lifting the top off an Atari ST you dont need to bend the case, to get around the floppy drive bezel you tilt it off and on. no bending needed.

Great work. Love that top mounted display / encoder box. Also appreciate the "reverse-ability" of the path you went for installing.

Another great video from you! Great help for me on this. I've seen all your videos. I'm currently running Hatari STE at 4MB. I installed SpeedGDOS per your video and it installed fine however, it takes me to folder that has fonts and SFPD document. Not certain where to go from here to complete this. I would be grateful for any help. I'm very much a novice. Thank you!

Is that OLED display the same as the one on the BulkyMIDI-32 device? If so, you might be able to fit that inside the case now that the floppy is gone with some sort of switch?

I bought Putnik's driver a long time ago, and I've been using it with the Ultrasatan drive. Don't remember the version, but for sure it could see multiple partitions on a card, and at the same time it allowed choosing which to boot from. The new driver lets you divide a single SD card into multiple virtual devices, to bypass 14 drives (each 512MB max) limitation of TOS. 1.01 does not install icons for hard disks on the desktop so only the C: drive is visible, but you could still install the rest of them from the GEM desktop. Windows used to have a limitation of 1 partition per removable drive, but not TOS.

Great videos ! I’m up and running thanks to you. Then I hit a snag. I loaded Centipede , played the game with no problems. Now I can’t get Hatari to stop loading it. I’ve uninstalled everything, rebooted, and when I load hatari after reinstalling. The game starts playing again. Any thoughts sir? Thanks for all your content!

looks like an interesting system

I just want to thank you for your videos, they are high quality, instructive and very useful. I downloaded your neodesk image. Here is my MEGA st with the STGA adaptor and E4000 ISA card at 1024X768 256 color. My SCSI tower has 2 SCSI II HDD, 2 CD players and a ZIP drive for file transfer with my PC. I'm having issues with neodesk and NVDI with the ISA adaptor (runs fine at the EMUTOS desktop just not NEODESK). I built a TF 536 for it and plan on using MINT (and contributing to the project) once I get it installed. Again , Thak you for the wonderful content, It's nice to se the old atari th-cam.com/video/6gTEEUbbUi0/w-d-xo.html

Love the breakdown of the specs of the machines. I stand to be corrected as my memory banks are a bit fuzzy, but did the ST not have a palette of 512 colours?

I would love to see a similar test with the various Amiga emulators, or maybe DOS/Windows 95. Very enjoyable video.

can u make a tutorial for the retroarch core how to setup/run games

i noticed memory wasn't the same under geneva/neodesk steem emulator, width a 4 meg st. Word Up and works did not want to load saying memlry was the problem ... is there a switch or something that i am missing?

STe initially had tos 1.6 (reported as 1.06 due to a bug) ,then 1.62 (fix for something I forget)

hi there, ok, did the same thing you did. speedogdos, neodesk and geneva. tells me the file jar____ need to be run first. neodesk wont start. help.

Yeah, but it is emulation, which is crap and not the real thing..... So, the best Falcon is still, a Falcon (with 68060, 128MB RAM etc).

I installed your image with Geneva Neodesk etc on my (real hardware) STE. I'm not sure why I don't have a neodesk control panel and can't get my accessories to show. Otherwise it's nice. Also Can Warp9 load with NVDI? Thank you for these videos and your images. I'm really enjoying having my ST up and running in a way my ST never did when I was using it in high school.

I used to love the combo of Gemini, NVDI, MiNT, etc...

GREAT video. neat topic. i'm just learning about the atari stuff. but this is good stuff. i had a bunch of the old macs in the day. thanks.

I have been looking for MagiCMac installer on the internet. Where did you find?

But what about an Amiga emulating a Mac Emulating an ST, now that would be interesting to see, the reason I say that is an Amiga with same processor as the Mac ran faster than an equivalent Mac.

I don't get why this should be called a Falcintosh. Maybe we can call it GEMintosh, but for it to be called Falcintosh it would need to be able to replace a Falcon. Which it can't. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Falcon. What made the Falcon the Falcon are its graphics and sound capabilities and its DSP. The Performa has none of it. Sure, it can run proper GEM applications but absolutely nothing that would be written for the Falcon. Or try to run ST games on it. I doubt that any commercial games will run on the Performa. Don't get me wrong, it was well known in the early 90s that the best professional Atari computer comes from Apple, but the Falcon is and was never a computer for standard applications. It can run them and it was still a significant boost from a normal ST but it's simply the wrong computer to compare it to the Performa. The Falcon has an 030 and is limited to 14MB of RAM and to a 16 Bit bus. What do you expect when you compare it to a machine that has a 040 with 25 or 50Mhz and 4-36MB of RAM running on a 32Bit bus? If there is any counterpart then it would be the Atari TT (equipped with TT RAM). (And the Performa would still be the better choice).

Interesting video. Would have been also interesting to see the performance of full-blown 68040 equiped Performa. And what about music software (Cubase, Notator) and hardware extensions? Is it somewhere mentioned in the software documentation?

I've uploaded the install floppy images for MultiTeX to my old blog page www.overtakenbyevents.com/MultiTex-for-the-Atari-ST-Floppy-Images/

Some interesting things about the 475. As well as being expandable to 1MB VRAM and supporting 8bit at 1152*870, they actually aren't capped at 36MB RAM, they even take 64 and 128MB simms for up to 132MB, or technically 260MB with a SIMM Saver (which won't fit in the case). Lastly and most importantly, they have a software controllable CPU clock! It was recently discovered that you can bump them up to higher speeds by poking certain registers. 33MHz is easy, 40 is possible and I've got mine to 50MHz including some hardware mods. Its a brand new discovery, so we're still improving the software.

Does anyone know if a Mac LC II could have run an Atari ST (520 or 1040) emulator and play games at native 60800 speeds? Games that were made for the Mac (Sim City 2000, Lemmings etc) were better on the Mac. But in the late 80s / early 90s, the ST had a much wider variety of games. Particularly arcade style games that were underrepresented on the Mac like Double Dragon, Super Hang On, Gauntlet II etc).

Well the falcon is quite underpowered but I am surprised of how badly the performa performs (pun intended). From your real use tests it seems like the difference in performance is just on the CPU and bus speed. In the early days there was an accelerator for the falcon (mighty sonic/eagle I think) that was really cheap (but being a broke student I couldn't afford) and would give 32Mhz 030 and TT RAM to the falcon. Something like this would make your Mac seem really slow in comparison. Of course like others said it's more like a TT and less like a falcon but I get your point as well.

I've always wanted to get an iMac running MagicMac to replace my old ass STe, but I was returning to university and needed a Windows PC for programming classes. Had I've known about Virtual PC, I would had held off getting a Pentium PC for school and save up more for an iMac to run both MagicMac & Virtual PC. And yes I know MagicMac is more for running serious GEM applications than games but there was also an ST emulator called NoSTalgia for the fun stuff.

Love this so much!! I like running just the opposite...Mac OS on my Falcon (with an 060 in it). It's one way to get more late software for the software-poor Falcon. Running Warcraft II on an Atari makes me smile.

I'd bought a second hand Quadra 840av off a work colleague, then ran MagicMac on it. But it wasn't as compatible as I'd hoped so sold the Mac then used the money to buy a TT and TTM194 monitor off an advert in Atari World magazine.

Could one run FreeMiNT on a "Old World" Motorola 68k Mac? I despise MacOS versions prior to Mac OS X as they were prone to crashing due to MacOS's cooperative multitasking. I'd love a way to run a preemptive multitasking OS on an "Old World" 68k Mac

Sorry, but this time I have to disagree. While MagicMac was indeed some kind of "savior" for ATARI folks and was presented even in various ST mags as one, the MagicMac was actually not a Falcon replacement. It was ST/MegaSTE/TT030 replacement. First of all Falcon can have larger VRAM then your Peforma, second no, Falcon can do more then 640x480@8bit out of the box, and with some overclock way more then that... Third, Falcon is not just pure faster ST, Falcon has much better audio system your Performa has not and does have DSP which can speed up a lot of operations that will outperform Performa with 68LC40. Fourth, adding a FPU to Falcon was fairly easy, rather cheap and almost a mandatory upgrade (I didnt know any Falcon owner who didnt have the FPU), the Performa 475 did not have this option but to be fair, you could run MagicMac on any 68030-40 Macintosh. Edit: also it is not true that ATARI abandoned Falcon one year after its release, it was abandoned before the sales started.

So one could run a Mac on a 060 Amiga and would run Falcon the fastest

It’s an interesting topic this because a lot of us had Falcons or upgraded STs and saw Atari had abandoned us. Sooner or later a decision was needed… I went with the Mac but (iirc) 1997. So I lasted a long time! :) Got a power Mac and used MagicMac a lot until I gradually replaced those programs with Mac equivalents. Stupidly sold my Falcon and TT around 2002 I think. Stupid!! Biggest regret ever as I’ll never be able to afford one again :/ Anyhow a brilliant video 👍🏻

Waw, new video, instant like.

Atari St was okay in the 68000 days, but I never saw a 68030 ST here in the USA. I believe they have compatibility issues, worse than on the Mac 68030 machines with their 68000 software. Atari tragically never made it to 68040.

OK, the most Computer of the 80's based on the 68 Motorola Chip.

Where does one find the latest version of QED to run on real hardware (Atari Falcon) with NeoDesk 4? I downloaded both 68000 and 68030 images from github of 5.0.5 that are for some reason under freemint repo and they just crash on my system. I found QED that doesn't crash but it's an ancient version 3.