20241017, lets see, when was the first entry ? 20240916 ... like "one month" ?
okay : so we have eventually
- Atari STE 4mb TOS 1.62 , sidecartridge, acsi2stm, din2vga color/mono, dell 27" vga to lcd, db9pin to usb mouse adapter + logitech mouse, rewirable to one or two button joystick retro-look but microswitches
- The machine has perfect sound now and the hard drive works
- Running 1st love still has some kind of visible scanline when the thing goes into full 50fps syncscrollmode but i bet thats the vga adapted and the screen, its "outside the drawn screen" its almost like "where it starts injecting the screendata"
- The first board after comparison didnt have just inaudible (almost) DMA sound, the YM sound is MUCH more quiet we heard now after leaving the volume on the speakers but switching boards (machines) the chiptune sound was a lot louder too, the DMA sound crisp clear however,
- The acsi emulator didnt seem to wanna so we assumed TOS 1.06 b/c it didnt list that on the github page, and for once lucky, we got our hands on a cheap set of 28pin TOS1.62 chips (*heavenly trumpets*) so there was nothing to it but open up the case, gently (GENTLY!!!!) remove the chips (i must say the boards from the ebay guy look like they come fresh from the factory there's not a speck , even the chips look polished and gleaming, then slot in the TOS1.62 (apparently lo-hi can be distinguished by the number 179 on one chip and 180 on the other , needed to put on glasses to see that tho. After which WE STILL GOT TWO BOMBS (lawl ?) ... the thing is, after a few resets it suddenly booted into drive C : , ONCE !, then not anymore, hence if it worked once, it COULD work twice !, so after much searching we put it back into the other one and there it got "drive c not found (in german)" so we had to assume the partition was corrupted on the sd card and what dya think. Rewriting it with pi-imager ... it worked !
- The gemdrive wont work tho, BUT thats a 128gb card with one partition so its possible thats to do with TOS 1.62 we havent tried all combos and due to the fact that we accidentally wrote an image with a different driver now we actually dont know if it was TOS1.06 or the card was already corrupted, but not maso enough to reopen the case just for that. Maybe try when we slot the more powerful psu into the current working machine, just to check and know - understanding is key, right
- But this is the STE the boy would have wanted, definitely ... add that 27" screen i dont think he woulda believed it back then.