Atari STacy Screen Upgrade - Part 1 After going back and forth on different options for improving the STacy's screen, I have decided to replace the screen altogether with a LED-backlit LCD screen. The biggest reason was that the EL-b... Tinkering Upgrades Jun 30, 2020 STacy
TT VME Graphics - Revisited Just recently I posted the article TT VME Bus Fix - Does it really make it faster? [1] where I compared performance before and after Atari's VME Bus Fix which all REV.H motherboards and up seem to hav... TT030 Tinkering Upgrades Jul 27, 2018 TT030
TT Cable Management and Cooling - Extreme Edition I hate cables, especially ribbon cables like SCSI and IDE. Ever since I got Thunder (and Storm) I've been looking for a solution that plugs straight into Thunder. Challenge has been to a) find somethi... TT030 Tinkering Upgrades Jul 26, 2018 TT030
TT VME Bus Fix - Does it really make it faster? So I decided to attempt the VME Bus Fix as per Atari's rework procedure. The fix saves 1 clock cycle per transfer so it just might be faster. Before I did that, I took screenshots of two benchmarks: ... TT030 Tinkering Jul 21, 2018 TT030
Mega ST Keyboard Switches They are mechanical and they are Cherry MX Blacks. I know because I finally took one out. No membranes anywhere. This is not a new discovery but something I had to verify myself because of lack of evi... Mega ST Tinkering Jul 3, 2018 Mega ST