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[Lynxpro]

Official Ninja, on Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:37 AM, said:

Basically what I did was get a ST SCART cable (had it imported for the UK) the used a SCART to YUV (component) device and it worked. I also used a EURO SCART to J-SCART adapter and XRGB2+ (VGA up-scaler) and that worked also.

What about ST-SCART cable to a SCART-to-HDMI cable adapter?

A lot of HDTVs supposedly have built-in upscaling so has anyone tried that?

OldAtarian, on Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:23 AM, said:

DarkLord, on Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:54 AM, said:

Wow... I'm not specifically talking about 1989 when I say a lot of games and software have been patched for the STe, TT and Falcon.
Where you been lately guy. Look at Dbug and klapauzius.net!

So Atari Age is allowing members to promote warez sites now? All of the games that I recognize from that klapauzius site were commercial releases and still under copyright protection. You're breaking the law if you download from them. It doesn't matter if they are modified from their original form or not.

Let's all not get into a shouting match over this. Save that bile for those cursed Commodore fans. [just kidding]

If I do recall correctly, there were some laws recently passed concerning copyright and abandonware and I'm sure most of us can agree that the vast majority of commercial software for the ST/STe/TT/Falcon out [probably 99.5% at this point] qualifies as abandonware status.

The only people buying old software these days are the completist box collectors. It's not like the fight against piracy that was so important back when the Atari platform was still alive and we were all being scapegoated by the software publishing industry [both the 8bits and 16bit Atari lines] all the while the other platforms had far more rampant piracy going on... But I digress, can the daggers be put away now? Thanks...

I'm personally interested in any info on any games that were later patched to work on the STe/TT/Falcon and/or with 68881/2 co-processor upgrades, video card upgrades, RAM upgrades, or CPU upgrades... I'm also curious - if the source code is available - if Amiga graphics/sound coding could be swapped into some of those games to run better on the Falcons out there...

Edited by Lynxpro, Fri Jan 6, 2012 1:56 PM.

[tjlazer]

I agree, lets all just put away the fighting gloves. Some people are really passiosnate about the piracy issue to this day with vintage Atari computers, others are not. If you have a problem with it, don't download warez. I think the fact that older ST games are being patched for newer STE machines is awesome. As a lot of those older games would not work well if not at all on the newer machines.

I do like the approach WHDLoad does on the Amiga. To install the patch you need the original disk. And if you want to be a pirate you can just download the whole package Suites both sides well.

[tjlazer]

As a collector of every single Atari ST computer made, I can say only get the Mega STE, 520/1040STE, Falcon/TT030 as a second machine or to fill a hole in your collection. I would get a 1040STf or 520ST system first, just make sure you get a double sided disk drive though.

The vast majority of software was created for the Atari 520ST system with single sided drives as that is the target platform.

Software publishers had to ensure all ST users could use their software so it was done to run on a ST with 512k and a 360k disk drive! You can blame Atari on this!

I noticed a lot of ST games came on 2 disks where the Amiga version came with 1.

But a lot of games were cracked and put on a double sided disk....

Edited by tjlazer, Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:49 PM.

[tjlazer]

nm

Edited by tjlazer, Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:48 PM.

[DarkLord]

IF you can get one in good shape, a STacy is nice, just to have something portable...okay,
well "luggable"...