Granlunds FrankenSTein

[exxos]

Not sure if I should congratulate you or hit you over the head with a chair,, so just to be safe chair wins :lol: :chairsmack:

[PhilC]

I vote for the chair. :lol:

[Umberto1st]

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Its alive

[stephen_usher]

It's a mutant... in a good way, like the X-Men. ;-)

[agranlund]

So I've gotten some emails and messages regarding my absence from the forum all of this year.
I do apologise for not having responded, it's been a bit rough and I've had to put priorities elsewhere.

There's this beautiful H5 board and donor machine that's been sitting on my workbench for a while now and I'm looking forward to putting it together, and spending some more time with the Ataris in general, when time and energy permits.

Cheers,
--Anders

[exxos]

Thanks for the update :) hope things are not too dire... :cheers:

[Steve]

Brilliant, I was starting to worry about you Anders. Glad you are OK.

[PhilC]

@agranlund Trust life to get in the way of our retro fun.

Glad you're ok.

[JezC]

Yes, seems to happen far too often! Hope things settle down to a more normal level soon.

Glad you're back!

[agranlund]

It's funny how much a case can do.
I've been running with the top cover off for a while but as I put it back on nostalgia immediately struck and it dawned on me how much that humble little ST has transformed.
On the outside it looks exactly like it always has but it's really quite neat that I can enjoy tinkering with some of the "modern" Atari things on it today.
I never used an Atari with anything but TOS 1.x and floppies back in the days so exploring what Mint can do is great fun!


From this, with a floppy drive that would maybe work when it was having a good day:

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To something actually usable with harddrive, better resolution, multitasking operating system, and the ability to actually keep time and date :)

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Or even something slightly more "modern":

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I owe a huge thank you to Terriblefire for his awesome accelerator! :)