USB on the Atari ST with NetUSBee
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Today we take a look at USB support on the Atari ST using the NetUSBee cartridge slot device.
The USB standard was released in January 1996 , todays question is: can we use USB devices on a computer released in 1985, eleven years before the first USB devices came out?
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00:00 -Driver Installation
04:27 - Keyboard and mouse
06:42 - Printer support
09:10 - USB Storage
13:22 - a cautionary tale of potential ruination - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Your videos really build a ST knowledge base. Your efforts are appreciated.
Thank you very much. It's good to hear
Backfeeding powered USB hubs are a menace, but they can be easily fixed without needing to open them up with a bit of insulation tape: cut a sliver of insulation tape approximately 2mm in width and place it over pin one (right side as you stare into it) on the USB-A plug from the hub. Have it as far in as you can get it then wrap the remainder down around the bottom of the plug. When you next insert it, the tape'll be pressed into place and isolate the 5V supplies of the ST and the hub.
I keep a suitbly modifed USB-A to USB-B cable around for just such cases -- it's also useful on my 3D printer to not backfeed power to that.
That's good to know. I presume the manufacturers desire to fry my ST comes from the extra profit from puttting in a diode of some type.
Your videos keep on getting better. Excellent video & presentation too. Loved it!!
Exactly what you said.
Thank you very much, I appreciate the sentiment,
Really, these videos are all high quality. I had ST old days, but mostly for me it was just games or a BBS now and then. I never had monocrome display, and the ST kind of becomes a different machine at 640x400.
Hi, i bought a NetUSBee at a geeky show (CyberLegends) in Northampton last summer for my Falcon030 mainly, but i have an STE and an STFM too... what a great product... my Falcon030 has a modified keyboard and a dicky mouse port, (not the original dark keyboard, thats safely put away, just an old repaired STFM one) i will fix it when i am feeling brave.... Plus i am part way through a BBC Micro B and an Archimedes A3000 Repairs
I got up, got ready and was about to head off to cyber legends when I found out the trains were running a bus replacement service there and back and the journey time was doubled! Next time there's one I hope to make it.
@@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit living on the Devon / Cornwall border trains are a pain at the best of times...
I wish I could do these things with my ST...sadly, it's only half gig...sorry halg MEG of memory! Wish it was upgradable!
There were a couple of upgrade kits to get the 520 up to 1mb. But they all required some amount of soldering on the board, as far as I'm aware
The memory of most st were upgradable some easier than others
The one in my ST/FM is 4MB, it was a pain to fit, IIRC there's a board that you insert over the MMU, quite a few bodge wires to solder, plus a ribbon cable to a daughterboard that has SIM sockets in it.but it was well worth it.
@@Pedro8k The STE was as easy to upgrade as a modern PC. Coming to the ST scene relatively late had its advantages.