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Unknown VME from a MegaST
Posted: 12 Mar 2025 22:12
by Tophe38
Hello,
In a MegaST2, I found a expansion board on the VME bus.
It outputs 2 DB9 (1 male, 1 female).
The card is pretty simple. The main chip, SCN68681C1N40 is a "Dual Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (DUART)"
It takes its power from the free connector on the motherboard.
The board name is BNC 100 ST V3.0 8815
It come from a UK MegaST2, TOS 1.02, without blitter :evil:
Here a picture :

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Anybody knows it ? It seems to be a Germain board (red sticker on top).
Re: Unknown VME from a MegaST
Posted: 12 Mar 2025 23:13
by atari030
Re: Unknown VME from a MegaST
Posted: 13 Mar 2025 06:42
by artik-wroc
Re: Unknown VME from a MegaST
Posted: 13 Mar 2025 10:52
by rubber_jonnie
Unless I'm remembering wrong, if it's from a Mega ST then it's Megabus not VME and IIRC they are not cross compatible.
Re: Unknown VME from a MegaST
Posted: 13 Mar 2025 13:20
by alexh
Yes this is a Megabus card
Re: Unknown VME from a MegaST
Posted: 16 Mar 2025 20:27
by Tophe38
Hi,
Thanks for all you replies.
I received this MegaST2 and a SH205 from a person which keep it in the house of his parent. He remember he was playing on it with friend, but don't remember where his father bought it and why. On floppy, beside some games, I found Magic Sac and PcDitto (and some dos applications)
This machine come from France, but it's UK (TOS and keyboard).
And looking at artik-wroc web pages, I notice the same green badge (well, simple paper), instead of Atari badge.

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But mine has nothing print, only green (and from memory, nothing was erased).
I inspect the SH205 before power on, but nothing critical. None of my ST boot it.
Re: Unknown VME from a MegaST
Posted: 17 Mar 2025 09:06
by alexh
You can buy replacement MegaST case badges from atarifreakz.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165382170073
They are sold out of Mega ST4 badges though :(