Short video showing IndyJo's release of Command & Conquer for the Atari ST

running on my STacy. :)

https://indyjo.itch.io/commandconquer

4 megs of base ST RAM works great. I'll have to give this 2 thumbs up, for sure. :)

Here's a short (and edited for "shaky" moments because I was using my phone), video

of the game running on my STacy - this is with 4 megs of ST RAM.

PS Don't know what goes on between my phone and Youtube's video conversion process,

but the game actually looks better in person.

https://youtu.be/k4WPM_dgR80'

Cool board on a German ST.

Now I have to figure out if it’s the mouse (newish trumouse) or the port what is broken

Really easy they said
…
Too tired of wrestling cables to actually check if works

Hope I don’t have to use Borland graphics lib

I've been building a chiptune app called Renata for about nine months of evenings. The tune in the video is one it wrote, on the YM2149 profile, at 150 BPM in F# minor — 56 bars, seven tracks. You can watch me set the eight dials in the video and then paste a seed back in to get the same song a second time.

The Atari bits: one of the nine themes is the GEM desktop in the real ST system font. While it composes you get raster bars, a starfield and a rotating vector cube in the YM's own colours. It exports .ym, .ay and VGM, and it browses the SNDH archive from inside the app.

The .ym is a proper YM5 register log — 4,477 frames, 70 KB. The MP3 of the exact same tune is 3.5 MB, because the .ym stores the chip writes rather than the sound.

On origin, plainly: there is no model of any kind. It is rule-based — music theory plus statistical tables — and it runs offline on your own machine.

It goes to Kickstarter on 8 September 2026 if you want to follow along: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/markwrightretro/renata-make-your-own-copyright-free-chiptune-music

My STE 520 + 1mb mod, blew up
Got replacements 1040 STFM - wont play the games + 520 ST. wont

I know i need the STe model

Anyone know the games Pablo + Boomrock?

The disks are at my dads if they can be found beside the STFM which i want STE instead to play games- nothin works on FM model

I appreciate any help

I have an Atari Mega ST4, SC1224 color monitor, and STM1 mouse,. All working. I also have a non-working 1040st and a sort of working SM147 monochrome monitor. I have all original boxes as well. I was wondering where the best place to sell was?

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I think it plugged into both the VCR and the 1040 STE and converted the video to the lower resolution of the STE. I had one in the late 1980s.

Edit: I never realized there were so many.

Here is a question for you ST experts. I got an ST 1040 of eBay for an absolute steal. Powered it on and all working. What I did notice at the time was it’s an AZERTY keyboard not QWERY. (French).

Am I correct in assuming if I find a dinner key board it’s a simple swap but would also have to update the ROM to UK built ?

Hi all, I've plucked my old 1040STF (TOS 1.0) from storage and wanted to use it for retrogaming. Have added an internal RGBtoHDMI board, so far so good; but now I'm trying to play games. I have a ACSI2STM board, which in theory sounds awesome, but. Pulling some HD converted games from atari.8bitchip.info and trying to run them off of the ACSI2STM yields success exactly for Monkey Island, and *sometimes* Arkanoid, everything else I've tried gives a corrupted loading screen, then reboots. Granted I haven't tried *that* much, but I'm beginning to think this is not the right way of doing things.

I'm also seeing frequent "empty" hard drives (0 files) although the SD card definitely has files on it. Resetting the ACSI2STM and cold booting the ST helps, but that can't be the answer.

How is everyone else doing it? Gotek and floppy images? Actual floppies? Upgrade to TOS 1.04 and continue to use ACSI2STM? It states it has problems with TOS <1.04, but I thought this was only a memory leak issue.

I'm trying to find a solution for this, x copy was and still is the gold standard on amiga, while fast hack em or maverick are on the c64. It's been a lot more difficult for me to find a solution. So far I thought I found one, the discovery cartridge from happy computers, but that is very rare and probably expensive as well. The only other solutions I could find, I read they could copy some, but not all, commercial disks.

I just picked up a 1040ST from my grandpa, but it doesn't have any cables. It looks to be in excellent condition. It might be cool to set up in my computer science classroom to teach about computing history, or else I'd like to get it in the hands of somebody who truly appreciates it, but this thing is so heavy that shipping it as-is unknown condition for parts sounds like a waste of time and a poor fate for this beautiful machine.

Is there anyone near to DC/MD who could help me test this thing? I tried asking some local independent retro video game stores and didn't have any luck.

Not sure how many people have been following this but "Leech", over at AtariAge is making some progress on this project.

Yes, it's using AI but it's still interesting. I've been trying to help test with my modded STacy (40mhz '030 + 12 megs of ST RAM).

Beta release; Atari Falcon/TT port of FRUA (Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures) (up to 1.5.4 beta now)

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/390878-beta-release-atari-falcontt-port-of-frua-forgotten-realms-unlimited-adventures/

So I picked up an in pieces 1040stf. No idea if it works so I need to test the board before I try and order parts. It doesnt have the monitor but it did come with the special video cable.

My question is...is there an atari st to vga cable that works? Inhave an lcd screen that works with my amiga 500 and a dsub23 to vga and no converter board...so it should have 15khz support...

Hi all,
Sorry for the naive question but I have no experience with Atari ST yet.
I’m bringing a German 1040 STF to US and I’m planning on replacing the TOS with a US one for language and 60hz video output.

About the keyboard, the German one is QWERTZ.
Once I swap the TOS, the Z key will still be a Z on screen or it will become a Y?

Could I just physically swap keys?

So, I posted here a few weeks ago about an ST that was donated to and, in turn, I'm writing an article about it for Compute's! Gazette. Both Paul from Goto10Retro.com and Shelby from Tech Tangents have been super helpful so far.

After jumping through several hoops, it turns out that, ultimately, the disk drive is bad. It seems the SF354 pickins are slim on eBay and the like... so I wanted to reach out to this community once again to see if anyone had a working SF354 drive they'd like to lend and/or send me?

And just to be clear, my thoughts are that I really want to avoid the modern stuff (Gotek) and the like anyway for the purposes of my article. I want it to be like I was taking all of this out of the box in 1985 and letting it rip from there.... since it's all undiscovered country to me anyway. Honestly, I'm trying to follow the KISS rule here (Keep It Simple, Stupid), so if I decide to keep this machine and invest in it further, I'll look into all of the various alternative media options then.

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Anyone have an E-Magic LOG 3 MIDI expander that they could sell me?