I'm a new Atari ST owner

[ApolloBoy]

Picked up this beauty over the weekend from a local electronics supply store for $50:

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It also included an external floppy drive and all the necessary cables except for a monitor cable. Until I can get ahold of an RGB SCART cable I'm making do with this:

[img width=700 height=525]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/ApolloBoy/DSCN0288.jpg[/img]

[Hungrymoose]

Very cool!  Get any games?

[ApolloBoy]

Very cool!  Get any games?

I didn't get any although the place I bought it from has loads of CIB ST games. I've been making some floppies instead, although it's been largely a hit or miss process. What's nice is that you can write ST floppies using just a PC, whereas with the Amiga you have to get special PC hardware or link together the Amiga and a PC using a serial cable in order to write disks. I might get an Ultrasatan later on though, which plugs into the ST's hard drive port and lets you use an SD card as a hard drive.

[Hungrymoose]

Very cool!  Get any games?

I didn't get any although the place I bought it from has loads of CIB ST games. I've been making some floppies instead, although it's been largely a hit or miss process. What's nice is that you can write ST floppies using just a PC, whereas with the Amiga you have to get special PC hardware or link together the Amiga and a PC using a serial cable in order to write disks. I might get an Ultrasatan later on though, which plugs into the ST's hard drive port and lets you use an SD card as a hard drive.

Are they 3 1/2" floppies?

[Tynstar]

That thing looks brand new.

[ApolloBoy]

Very cool!  Get any games?

I didn't get any although the place I bought it from has loads of CIB ST games. I've been making some floppies instead, although it's been largely a hit or miss process. What's nice is that you can write ST floppies using just a PC, whereas with the Amiga you have to get special PC hardware or link together the Amiga and a PC using a serial cable in order to write disks. I might get an Ultrasatan later on though, which plugs into the ST's hard drive port and lets you use an SD card as a hard drive.

Are they 3 1/2" floppies?

Yep, although they're double density so you either have to track down real double density disks or use HD disks with the extra hole covered up.

[bombatomba]

Very wicked find, ApolloBoy.  I've been on the lookout for one of these babies at a good price for a coons age now, but no luck.  Most people around here won't budge for under $150 (no box but otherwise complete) and that is for a system with no games!  Too bad about the SCART, though.  Composite is just no way to view the the TOS "green screen."  Have you priced a SCART to VGA or do you have an old 15-pin CRT sitting around?

Just out of curiosity, what games are you firing up on it?