Falcon NVRAM Battery replacement (the hard way) – 2011 Fox-1
Atari Falcon – NVRAM Battery 01
The MK48T87B-24 is a battery powered RAM I.C. It stores some BIOS values and also makes sure the real time clock keeps running when the computer is turned off.
After some years the battery • • • » read more »
Dual PIA modification for Atari 800 (C) 1995 Peter Bell
PIAMOD 800 – Screenshot 01
Bootable disk (ATR / 7-Zip): PIAMOD 800
Document and Data files (ODT/JED/PLD / 7-Zip): PIAMOD 800 – Peter Bell
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MegaSTe ACSI/SCSI parity and termination power
The internal hard disk controller of the MegaSTe doesn’t support SCSI-2, or Fast SCSI, devices. A solution to get those SCSI devices to work isn’t that difficult to accomplish. Like I did on my Atari 8-Bit, it’s just a matter of adding the required • • • » read more »
C.S.S. Black Box SCSI parity and termination power modification
CSS Black Box Components
SCSI-2 (or Fast-SCSI) hard disks require a parity bit on the SCSI bus. Some have a jumper to en-/dis-able this feature but others (like many IBM’s) don’t. Most Memory Card Readers also won’t work if that data • • • » read more »
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