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Use flux please 😊

Who would you recommend that provides an Atari ST refurbishment and upgrade service? I have an Atari ST 1040 STF that I would like to upgrade it as much as possible, well past common sense and economic viability 😂

An alternative for using mt-32 pi is using the munt emulator. It can be used both with Hatari and real hardware. I have been using munt on a Pi400 connected to a STE. It works well. But you need a classic midi interface of some kind connected to the Pi400. So Munt do the same thing in software and can also be used from Hatari. If you would like to try mt-32 stuff out before building anything.

The pi Mt 32 is truly awesome. Thank you for the cool demo. Also cool you DIYed that puppy. If I had any time at all I'd make sidecart, pi mt32, and stereo replay all rolled into one.

Lovely 😍 will all games sound better? 😃

Some professionals are still using the Atari ST because of the Midi

I had an MT32, wishing I had not loaned it out now. May have to get one of these.

I was wondering if it would be possible/practical to fit one of these internally? I presume the MIDI signals and power supply could come directly from the ST motherboard, and then it would just be a matter of mixing the output with the existing stereo output on the STE?

So ST had 3 voices + 1 noise generator + 64 (128?) midi voices |-) But world decided tu waste computer memory for storing samples... and created AMIGA 😛

Great way to showcase the ST and its MIDI capabilities! I never had an MT-32 either so I put together the emulator with a ClumsyMIDI DIY board a few years ago. I like the one you chose since it has buttons. Great job!

I don’t know that bad setting sounded like a bad ass metal riff

Great video! Was lurking at a Roland MT32 for a while. Good and cheep alternative.

Start with the lowest profile components first - so resistors and diodes before capacitors!

If you want, you can plug the synth keyboard into the MT-32 Pi and you will have a Roland Synth sound from your synth without the cost of a Roland Synth. I use a MIDI Controller keyboard (does not produce sound itself) plugged into my PC which then passes the notes to the MT-32 Pi but I could plug the keyboard direct to the MT-32 Pi (if I had a plain MIDI cable instead of USB to MIDI) and turn the keyboard into a synth of sorts.

Your first example could have been better. You turned on the keyboard after the music had started being sent to it which means it would have missed the patch messages to tell it what instrument sounds to use (assuming the game sent them). EDIT: It's the same when you got the MT-32 running with Ultima 4 and switched to Synth mode. The MT-32 sounded better because it received the patch information but the Synth mode reset to MIDI instrument 1 which on the General MIDI standard it uses is a piano so all the notes were using a piano even when they are meant to be a brass instrument etc. because the Synth did not get that patch information to say what instruments to use on each MIDI channel.

The MIDI ports were the entire reason I got an Atari STE back in 1994, although I had seen and used them since the 1980s at friends places gaming. So yeah between 1994 and 2000 I was using Steinberg Cubase v2.0 with an extra MIDI OUT adapter on the modem port, and a Philip Rees Little 2M to give an extra MIDI IN on the main MIDI port. Flawless rock solid performance that desktop PCs and Macs could only dream of!

MT32 and other fixed soundfont library cards are not what creative people used FYI, MT32 etc produce wedding band quality sound at best due to lack of ability to change the instrument sounds available. Really only for nostalgic DOSers not musicians who used stuff like Ensoniq Mirage and other proper synths.

Well, I was about half finished with one I was going to build for you , but yours is much nicer (I didn't use a pcb I just made my own with a breadboard) I've been waiting for you to play Ultima IV with the mt-32 pi. Sierra games like Space Quest are great with MIDI, I made a list of MIDI ST games that support MIDI, posted on the forums somewhere. But I have another Idea and use for the parts that I think you'll like, I'm only going to leave this open as I'm far from finished with the project but I'll let you know when Its ready a(it will be an open source project) Also I have been working closely with Cryptodaddy on the Pi-storm. Progress on the STe is good, but the regular ST is having some issues.

Great stuff, I had an MT32 years ago. And your solder skills could be improved. :)

Try karate kid ;-)

it is a pity Lucas adventures do not play MIDI music on the ST.

Very interesting that this machine supported using an FPU with a 68000 CPU. I've known for decades that the '881/'882 could be used in 'peripheral mode' but have never seen it actually implemented.

Nice hack. Get some flux. 😂

BTW, the soundchip of the ST is a Yamaha version of the General Instrument AY-3-8910. Not a bad chip but it was released in... 1978! Besides the ST, it was used by the IntelliVision and Vectrex consoles, the MSX line of computers as well as a few British budget computers. The STE added an extra sampling channel.

Do you or anyone offer Ram upgrade as a service?

I remember at the time reading about the Sierra games being able to use the Roland MT-32 but I never got to hear them - until today! But it's surprising that Sierra decided to support this considering they used at most EGA graphics on their ST ports (they never bothered using the palette of the ST). As far as the Ultima series goes, my all-time favorite soundtracks are those from Ultima III (which is MIDI compatible on the Atari ST)

Really enjoyed that. Just getting the list of bits together myself now so I can build one 😊

I just finished installing this upgrade into my bone stock 520ST and all I get is a black screen with a white border. I would like to try adding the pullup resistors. What value did you use? I can see where you soldered the middle one but cannot make out the one on the left. Where should I solder that one to?

which configuration ??? freemint, easymint ??? xaaes, naaes ? cache on/off ??? is it 32mhz videl clock ??? i can get 960*608 on vga with 256 colors (dont have rgb) i get basilisk running under easymint until the apple desk comes then it freezes .... with freemint it does not start ... falcon 060 14+512mb ram, 68882 fpu, ssd and vga only, netusbee and gotek floppy

Need to put HATARI on it now, or was it NoSTaliga for the PPC machines? Can't remember that far back, but one of them should work.

Aluminium PowerBooks are easy to work on, the iBook G4 is the EXACT opposite 😂

Lol! You even had your "one more thing" moment where at the last second you showed Ultima IV 😁

If I remember correctly, I have a couple games on floppy that only load on my stfm with the 1.0 ROMs. I've found versions of most of them that run fine. I would have to go through my collection and see which ones. I did get my et4000 vga working in the Mega, and have been working with Cryptodaddy on the pistorm st. helping him test.

I have never been into anything Atari but I always liked the look of the ST so I added a 1040STf to my collection which does work and when I saw the Sidecart and what it could do I ordered one. I already have options for video and I have VGA monitors that can display 15 KHZ because of my Amiga Collection but I am in the process of converting them to run HDMI which I will also do with the 1040STf and I plan on converting the Keyboard an Mouse over to USB so I can place the 1040STf into my server rack where most of my Amigas are. Honestly if I really put that 1040STf to use then I will have to buy another for my Wall Displays for retro computers unless I can find a suitable case replacement then I would display the empty 1040STf Case but I could probably find a 2U or 3U Case and modify it for the 1040STf motherboard and rack mount it that way. I use a 27U Rack which is an ugly solution to hold my primary Amiga Retro Collection and use KVM Switches and PDU's to use them but this was more about saving space.

Gorgeous restoration <3 Bravo !

Nice! I had a 1040ST from 86 to 92 but I was in College and used UNIX, PC, and MAC for 4 of those years. So my ST ran the slow PC software emulator or the decent Magic Sac MAC emulator. Looking back, I loved my prior Atari 800 much more over the 5 year I used it. Sadly the ST never had the spark of the A8 series. After college I went straight to a 486 PC and never looked back... (until recently).

Great seeing you at the event! Thanks for letting me pick your brain on ST options. I have a Mega ST2 and have just started dabbling, coming from more of an Amiga background. Hope to see you at the event again next year.

what's with the last demo? on Amiga 060/50 it runs very smoothly and fust, but on Falcon it lags?

Ultima IV and Atari ST. Doesn't get any better!

Yes, installing an RF modulator that's missing is idiotic for anything other than, perhaps, a museum sample OR if the owner is adamant about experiencing his youth once again and owns an old TV.

Amazing that your wife let you use the dishwasher for cleaning the ST case! Great idea, I would have never thought of cleaning computer parts in the dishwasher. Fascinating that the ST case had a hole for the RF modulator but no RF mod installed. Great way to use the TOS switcher. 👏. Any theories on why the GLUE chip failed? These are solid state chips so I am wondering what made it break. Nice troubleshooting to diagnose/fix. Great job refurbishing this ST! I look forward to learning even more about STs by watching your videos. Thanks for sharing the experience with us. 😊

Putting the case in a dishwasher is a five. Putting the PCB in the dishwasher is a ten!

I don't think it made sense to include the Commodore 128 in the comparison because the C128 features are not available in C64 mode and the C64 software can't run in C128 mode. Actually, I consider the C64 mode in the C128 to be a flaw because if they had instead taken a C64 and added more RAM, a better BASIC, more speed, and more video modes, C64 games could have been written to check for those enhancements and utilise them, but instead, games were limited to what a C64 could do and very little C128 software was written. The C128 would have been better if it had been a C64+.

I was the gentleman you helped out getting my Atari up and running at 6:33 I've got parts on order for my system and will be building the sync fixer circuit you pointed out. I've got a lot of work yet to do. I'm unsure if it will return next year, depends on what systems and plans move forward as I have many ideas for possible exhibits. It was awesome to meet you at the show, and thank you once again for the help. That saved me from just selling the system off as the unwanted child despite it having a clear and defined place in my collection. GEM on the PC/AT wasn't the easiest to get running, the installer was obtuse and tricky to get going as it's a disk swapping nightmare that demands the A drive be a 5.25" drive as it cannot launch from any other drive. It's idea of adding lines to the autoexec is simply deleting it and putting its own in place which it wasn't clear about, but I had suspected and made a back up. Despite this, it's fast and feature rich on the PC, and I prefer it over Windows for these machines.

Happy to see that my key stem 3D model was useful for someone.

which Meanwell model/power would be appropriate to place in Falcon with CT63 accelerator?

Im very happy with upgrading my atari st with gotek from morocco btw

Watching you wire in the mains wires to the new PSU and I think you've probably triggered everyone that uses that 3 wire mains cable! Blue is always neutral, brown is always live

great work. my first Atari was a 1040STF exactly like that one. When it went to silicon heaven it had 4mb ram and twin 720k FDDs inside the case. i replaced the power and data cables for the floppy and added sockets so i could just create dual cabling for the twin drives. i vagally recollect i used Sony drives as they were lower power consumption. on top of that it was sprayed black with metal flake then lacquered. thank you for keeping them alive..

If you're in Europe, the guy behind Sidecartridge (a.k.a. Sidecart) does a PSU replacement kit based on the Mean Well RPD-60A PSU. It has a mounting plate and all the required cables, making the installation a breeze (no soldering required). I've been contemplating getting a GOEX since that gives you a preprogrammed Gotek and a mount that fits into the ST. However, I like the mount that you were using with the space for the rotary knob and OLED panel. Maybe I'll give that a go if I ever get my 3D printer working properly again.