M@ilbox
ATW
question I have an Atari ATW800 Transputer Workstation without some chip of the
IO system board. Can you help me to identify the chips? I have marked
the lost chip on the GIF attached.
Thanks a lot.
Gianni,
Italy
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Shiuming
Lai replies Gianni, I passed this
onto Steve Sweet at the Cheshunt Computer
Club, he dismantled a stock Mega ST, which
is the basis of the ATW's I/O controller,
and could not find anything resembling what
you describe. Perhaps you could take a larger,
higher resolution picture showing the entire
printed circuit board, as this one is not
very clear.
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Vintage
Atari music production Quick
question - I'm researching an article about Atari production
software. Was there a program called Creator in the mid
1990s?
Joel McIver,
England
Matthew
Bacon replies Yes John, there was indeed a software title called Creator
available during the 1990s. Creator was a pattern-based sequencer by German
software developer C-LAB (later known as Emagic which is now part of Apple)
for the ST/STE range of computers. Creator - and its big brother Notator -
became heavyweight packages used in professional recording studios around
the world until just a few years ago.
For further information, check
out the following links:
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Broken
2600 I have three Atari systems I have
a XE and a STE also the elderly 2600. My 2600
has recently died. I have checked the PSU it
seems fine. I wonder if you know anyone who
could repair it? Or where I can find another
one. I have about 20 games for it. If I can't
get it fixed I might have to sell the games.
Hope you can
help
Rob Hellier
Shiuming
Lai replies It's practically impossible
to tell what's wrong without seeing it,
but the guts of the 2600 are simple enough
that anyone with some basic electronics
skills should be able to give you an overall
diagnosis, if not outright fix. You just
need to find that someone! Failing that,
there are hundreds if not thousands of bargains
on used 2600 consoles on the internet, how
about trying our classifieds section to
see if anyone has one for sale? It would
be a pity to discard those games, or
indeed miss out on the many new games being
developed today, some modern classics are
available at AtariAge, http://www.atariage.com
- you may even be surprised at the current
level of activity on this cult machine.
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