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
My TT Gets Some Love Rework Done [1] REV.C Rework Overview [2] RTC Fix [3] VME Fix [4] Rework Procedure 3 [5] Rework Procedures 4&5 [6] Poly-Mod [7] I reckoned it would only be fitting that my TT030 receives all the rewo... TT030 Upgrades Jul 23, 2018 TT030
Atari TT030 REV.D Rework Guide Here is the REV.D and up rework guide. Note that some REV.H have the RTC fix built-in and certainly later models. REV.J and REV.K typically have the VME Bus Fix and perhaps others. None [1] [1] ht... Guide TT030 Upgrades Jun 10, 2018 TT030
Atari TT030 REV.C Rework Guide This started out as a guide for myself to do the rework down the road. This is for REV.C (PGA CPU) which is the model after the daughterboard REV.A and one before the REV.D-K ("SMT Models"). Took a lo... Guide TT030 Upgrades Jun 10, 2018 TT030
Atari STacy TOS 2.06 Upgrade Introduction [1] The STacy Expansion [2] The TOS 2.06 Upgrade [3] STacy's ROM Sockets [4] Installing the Upgrade [5] Success! [6] Introduction ** When the Atari STacy came out in 1989, the latest TO... STacy Upgrades Oct 8, 2017 STacy
Overscan - A Cheap Graphics Upgrade Here are two articles on how to increase the resolution on your Atari ST and Mega ST (STE and Mega STE are exempt). Atarian Computing has produced a small batch of LaceScan PCBs based on Ulf Ronald A... Atari ST Review Review ST Applications Upgrades Jul 31, 2017 Magazine Articles