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Amiga 1000. Made in Japan. And it does cool stuff like this: th-cam.com/video/XDdMoglmUbs/w-d-xo.html

Did youtube remove audio from some parts of the video? And if you havent figure it out yet, the RAM on Falcon is restricted to 14MB due to addressing limitations. Falcon has 32CPU but that is sitting on 16bit bus with 24bit addressing (same as ST). 24bit addressing means 16MB RAM addressing in total, but you need some addresses for peripherals for example. Falcon has the upper 2MB reserved for system addresses, and since you cant have more then 16MB in total, 16-2=14MB... simple as that.

A friend that I worked on music with had one of these. I used to sneak into the storage room where he kept it, just to admire it. He used to use it for assembly language and robotics programming (well, actually, it was a TT 030 -- similar case though).

I've been following the development for the last 8 months. The author's TH-cam channel (www.youtube.com/@gridleaderretro) has videos, predating the games creation, dissecting how other great ST racers worked, which are very interesting in themselves: This was the first version I got to see, very cool: th-cam.com/video/j7i6CrWSf6M/w-d-xo.html Great to see it is getting the coverage it deserves (though I still wish they would have added headlight effects at night, but sounded like CPU constraint prevented it :|)

Great video man. I bought an Asci hd emulator for my 520ste. Works like a charm and has 3 sd card slots. This is cool because it has WiFi though!

Every time I want to do something on my ST it seems you've done exactly the same ❤. So is that a pre built cable from AliExpress? How do you know it's able to take the 6A that the ST PSU is spec'd to deliver on the 5V? Love that you (again) shared a 3D model. Now I am also looking at another project, what's the betting you have a video about a BulkyModem? If not tell me and I'll share my plans by email 😂

Nice video (I do like exploring your back catalogue!) but why TOS 1.04 and not TOS 2.06 or another? And with PCBway assembly service could you (me!) get the board fully assembled including Ram chips?

How is the game? Oh, yes, Fantastic!

That is a great comparison. Thanks a lot for the effort putting it together. The development of ST took just few months. After the first release in 85 they sorted out the bugs and released the 1040STfm with DS FDD, TOS in ROM... But after that something happened. I have several questions I can not answer as most of them make no sense after a nice start: Blitter was available for Mega, but it never became a common, supported thing in games. Why it was not a standard upgrade from let's say 1987? Couldn't they add a bit better CPU instead of the original 68000? What if they just jump to 68010 running on double clock speed in '88? Why did it take so long to release the STE? What was in their mind when they designed Falcon with the crippled 16 bit bus? All in all what changed the quick development to a slow fade out?

Your audio capture of the in-game audio is horribly distorted.

has a good chiptune but your audio capture is off... nonetheless is an awesome showcase of what can be done if someone takes the time!

Extreme burnin' rubber feelings from CPC!

Can't wait to go home and try it. Btw I have been working with crypto daddy on the pistorm st and got it working on my stfm last week.. He is still working on memory timing but I'm getting %1200 on the integer math test in Gembench.

I'm sooo happy you showed me such a game! It looks perfect and I'm glad it's new release.

I downloaded that game for my STe and it's everything as fast as you can see on the video. I also have an Amiga 500 and games like this make me think the STe would have been a match for the Amiga if only it had had games developed to really make use of it's capabilities

I grew up on Commodore (VIC-20 and C-64).. so didnt have much experience with Atari back then... I learned lots of programming on my Commodores.. great graphic and sound with games companies made... weakness is that there's no built-in graphics/sound/disk commands, and to use bare BASIC 2.0 commands.. and disk load/saving was so slow on Commodore disk drives... though with Commodore-128 and C-1571 and C-1581 disk drives, the issue with disk/graphic commands and load speeds got addressed/fixed... still I'm biased towards Commodore.. I wish the company didnt go bankrupt.. wonder what could have been... alas.

I downloaded the game for my STE computer. I like that the joystick goes in port 1 so I can use the mouse.

FASTER! It is anazing 2024 has been a great year for new ST/STe games. Also check out my SHOTGUN! A fun 4-player party game also running on full 50Hz gameplay on a basic ST!

Go homebrew games!

Cool

If only atari had released the falcon earlier...it was a serious competitor to the amiga...great machine.

Music by? But no music is heard... was something muted on your export?

It's high time for the Atari keyboard layout to come back -- like, I want ")" and "(" keys on my keypad yesterday, and I want "Help" and "Undo" buttons! And like this comment if you have never-ever-ever used a "Scroll Lock" or a "pause" key. I want a layout not from the 1960s.

I do hope when Exxos finally releases this we get option to buy complete accelerators not bird-seed boards cos I can't solder for sh!t!

Excellent video... watched a few of yours last night and subbed 🙂

I bought one new for 65.00 in 1990. Hooked up and working today, my Amiga died 25 years ago.

Hi, I've just bought a 800xl and was wondering do you need to recap these computers? Never had an Atari 8 bit machine before so is there anything to look out for? What was the mod with the wire you soldered on the back of the pcb? Thanks and greetings from across the pond.

My 800xl will always have a special place in my heart as it's what I learned to program on..my friend had a 1200xl I thought it looked cool.

When I got the 800XL, I first used it for gaming only, but later - after it moved from the living room to room - I learned programming and got a few utilities (word processors, spreadsheets, etc..), so I used that beast for pretty much everything. There were Atari clubs, where the users shared software, documentation, tech tips and tricks, offered a few enhancement (typically RAM and language EPROMs) and generally, the community was quite big and active. Thanks to these, I got the RAM upgrade (+256 kB CopmyShop one), OS upgrade (I could choose between Atari OS or QMeg OS) and built-in custome version of TT-DOS (could be loaded into RAM at boot). All that made the machine a real powerhouse, and there were very few things I could not do on it and with it. The Mega ST2 story was very different.. I had a bunch of games, but played only a few - and I could not really get more at will, as Atari clubs were already, at that point, already fading into obscurity. No enhancements or expansions were available, to my knowledge, and even if so, they were way beyond what my parent could afford. Most of the time, we were quite short on (supply of useful and interesting) SW.. For comparison, I had 5 WPs for the 800XL, but only 1 for the ST. Same with spreadsheets - and it was even worse with programming languages. A bit of a pity, as now I know there were some really great SW titles; these just didn't pass the iron curtain that easily, I guess. LbnL the feeling of the machine made me try to use it "professionally" (e.g. I used it during high-school to write a few papers).. Truly - at least the Mega STs with the "NOT all in one" look - felt like "big" office computers, and not like home ones (I recall the "wow, so cool" when my classmate has seen external keyboard for the first time). So I do have fond memories of this beast, but compared to those of 800XL, they pale anytime.

The 1200XL had the BEST keyboard of any 8-bit computer... :)

I had an Atari 400 and 800xl growing up. I still have the 800xl. My best friend had the 1200xl, I remember it well.

An excellent video! I had a TRS-80 model I, and III and 4. Today I am still programming and I am astonished at all that could have been done with this computer what with SIX plug in cart spots, SIO, quad joysticks... amazing... especially if you are familiar with the SIO port, which was basically pre-USB 14 years before it. It's problem, 40 column text, and using a TV.... it could not be used very well in the office, which is too bad, so we never took it seriously.

I remember in '83-84 working in a place that sold C64s for $99, much cheaper than Atari and other comparable systems of the day.

The XE computers were the best looking of the 8-bits.

I’ve always found the Atari more impressive, whereas I’ve always found the C64 underwhelming overall in comparison (that muddy colour palette).

I'm looking forwards to you solving the mysteryy with these boards!

I bought an 800XL because the C64 looked just like my VIC-20 which I hated. Later I bought a used 800 and then a 130XE. But I never saw a 1200XL and none of my friends had one. I finally got a C64 when I switched to Amiga 500's and I didn't like it compared to the Atari 8-bit computers.

I HAD to have a 1200XL in 1983 and I got it. Looking back, I would have probably been better off picking up an 800 (old style) and a disk drive or a C64, disk drive and the works. But I have zero regrets. I learned a lot with my 1200XL. I still have it on display and plan to do all of the ultimate upgrades to it. It deserves no less for being my foundational home computer 40+ years ago. I probably owe my career in engineering to it.

The Atari 8bit came out in 1979 and the Commodore 64 3 years later. They both were very capable. Atari did suffer from some terrible ports of games, mainly due to Atari's lazy documentation and support for vendors, but also the marketing as well. But to be honest both machines in the right hands were very comparable. People always go on about the SID chip in the Commodore, which was awesome, but in the right hands the POKEY chip in the Atari could be made to sound remarkably similar.

In my book the Atari 800 was superior to the commodore except for multi colored sprites. Atari 800 also came out 11/1979 versus 08/1982.

The 680LC60 has not FPU but has MMU. The EC versions has no fpu neither mmu.

I have one of these and it is a freaking tank! Star Raiders must have been an incredible experience in 1980.

Atari, are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you! 😊

Back in the 80's these things were a major expense for households. Being a new consumer category, a lot of people didn't realise that if the machine didn't sell enough units, the shops would soon stop selling software & accessories.

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Damn. $899 in 1983 equates to $2,849 in 2024. Insane!

The Apple ][ series was way more expensive than the C64 and the Atari 8-bit series, yet it was still successful.

I settled for an Atari 400 back in September of 1982 and eventually upgraded the memory, but really wanted an 800, however, it was out of reach financially. I recall the 1200XL showing up and I remember the negative reaction from myself and many others for a few reasons. First, was the dropping of 2 of the controller ports. Second, some cartridges from third parties would not PHYSICALLY fit in the cartridge port. Third, was dropping the RIGHT cartridge port. Although it was never used, the promise of it was being 'cancelled'. Fourth, and most importantly, so much software that was written for the 400/800 and broke the rules, (NOT Atari's fault) did not run. The 'translator disk', if I recall, was NOT available for quite a while, maybe even until the 1200XL was discontinued. Finally, the 1200XL did not have any of the slots that the 800 had for add on boards, such as an 80 column card. On the positive, the 1200XL keyboard was AMAZING, the video signal seemed to be better and of course, the styling was more up to date, but didn't match any of the existing peripherals. So, by the time the 800XL debuted, the software houses got their acts together and started making games or patching their games to work with the XL models. The 1200XL was shunned and nobody wanted it until much later when people realized what a diamond in the rough it actually was.

Atari PCBs always had beautiful layouts.

Atari always surprised with "interesting" design choices. In this case the angled joystick ports or the deep inside the case cartridge slot, presumeably to make normal sized original Atari cartridges not stick out of the case (like the 800XL). Would have been nice, if you had shown the difference between the 1200XL and 600/800XL silver function keys, as the 1200XL seems to have a lot more of them.