@cuttock It might not be very productive, but I wouldn't call it pathetic seeing as it's still current software and is being developed and sold commercially.
@dylboy1800 This is not a console, it's a 16 bits computer, it's neither easy neither difficult to get one in good state, you have many available at Ebay. Depending on the zone you live, you can get it at a very reasonable price or not.
I owned the Atari 520 STFM and it was a SUPERB machine (like my Amiga 500)
Did I have fun with this! That was a great omputer at the time. With the Empire game, falcon, dungeon master, A320, shuffle board cafe, pirates!, and many others!
I had one of these but the roms were so buggy it would crash all the time...writing software ( basic assembly or pascal ) for it was a pain..had more bombs on the screen..they rushed it to market too soon..I shoulda gotten an Amiga but 1000
Read your history...The ST and the Amiga are actual brother and sisters...
Atari droped the ball and could have had it all and Commodore swept up the design team. Regardless, The Amiga was better by far and the only good thing about the ST was the MIDI interface. Outside of that, it's a crying shame that no one has made an ST emulator comparable to WinUAE. I no longer care what was better or whatever amongst the old computers because I emulate them all and enjoy the best of everything.
@kpreston69 Well clearly you do care what computer was better, otherwise you wouldn't be talking a load of bollocks. The Atari had more good points then the old integrated midi port chestnut. Lets not forget the fact the Atari ST CPU that was clocked faster, had an internal PSU, handled floppy disks better and cost less to buy.
As for reading the history about the ST and Amiga being bros and sisters, can you state your sources please?
I wanted one of these so bad in the day, but never got to get one. I had the Atari 8-bit 800XL and loved it. I have everything from TRS-80 Model 1 up thru Amiga 500, just never got one of these. Was in IT until I got sick. Always loved Atari and still do!
this m usic had kind of Nine Inch Nails type overtones.. I like it ! :D I can't stand friggin fan boys ! "Ohh the Amiga was better !! No the atari was better !!" Shut up ! If you cannot wrap your minds around the accomplishments of each company & the efforts they put into making their products & are not capable of seeing the great things we have now that spawned from it then maybe you should be banging 2 rocks together to try & make fire because you missed the whole point !
The Games today are better but do the have more fun??
I was a member of the Atari club in my home town Almere in Holland and had a lot of fun with the atari systems( i stil work in the IT) i want to write a something about this time on my site helpinghandalmere.nl
I had this computer! Ah the memories and so many great games that were bloody difficult to complete not like nowadays where you get to choose the difficulty.
@nousukas Nice bunch. I have 1xatari stfm, 2xste, 1xfalcon030, 1x65xe, 1x2600, but I'm taking care about Commodore machines too. I have 2xC64c (1 was my wife's computer from her childhood :-), 1xC64g, 1xC16 (looking for RAM expansion), 1xAmiga 500. Everything with additional accessories. My dream is to get Polish: Elwro 800 Junior (something which was planned to be a part of national computer literacy programme from the 80s - a kind of "Polish BBC Micro") and Unipolbrit (a clone of Timex 2068).
@Soundgardener80 really are you serious? oh my god ... why would people need modems prior to the 'internet'? maybe they would start their own bulletin board, or subscribe to other bulletin boards, or maybe even subscribe to 'quantum link' type social networks... why indeed would anyone need a modem prior to the 'wolrd wide web'
@Soundgardener80 General Electric had a bulletin board called GEnie an early predecessor to internet it was all text except for text-artwork. Cost $18 an hour during prime time hours. Off-peak hours were $5. Not much time was spend online. A computer program went online logged in retrieved and uploaded message replies logged out and read replies and replied to off-line. It was a lot of fun. Only had a 300 baud modem. Later 1200 baud. Then 2400. Finally 9600 baud was the bomb!
@Soundgardener80 A person could call directly via computer over phone modem to someone else's computer and have keyboard conversation without need for an internet.
I had a modem in 1982 on a computer even older than this and used it constantly and they were used on older computers even before then. I have acoustic coupler modems in my collection going back to the 70's. How old are you anyway? You can't be older than 20-25 if you don't know how people used modems before the internet.
@gamewizard Haha actually im 30, had my atari st till about the age of ten and so obviously used it only for games, but tbh im barely even computer literate now, didnt pay any attention in IT lessons at school!
I sure remember phone couplers! My uncle used one with his Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K to use the UK Prestel BBS service; he sometimes allowed me to download a few simple games which was fun and very magical (I was only 13 or 14 at the time and I am 40 this year). I say magical because games came on physical cassette tape, so downloading the same thing from out of thin air seemed unbelievable and exciting. I still felt this magic aged 28 when I got dialup internet in June 2000!
Wow, I had one of these in 1987. All my friends had Commodore 64 and this was a killer at the time. Two years later I changed to "the other side" and bought an Amiga 500 as everyone else. Amiga was better in gaming but Atari had Midi interface!
Always prefered the Amiga over the ST, it being more capable of quality sound and graphics etc, but I can still remember loving the ST which my uncle had!
@semplew TO be honest with you, the ST's strongest point was it's capability of producing good music, it had great sound for its day,i know this because i used to make a lot of music on mine, it was the only reason why i got it. The amiga had by far superior processing power but the ST had the best sound.
@colliric How many computers had GUI in 1985 besides the Atari ST? As for A500 OS Workbench, I looked it up. Looks more like Windows 3.1 than Windows 95. Thanks for the info though.
fuck Unix... fucking linux/unix fanboys! it had more features than unix's X Windows System did at the time. They took what had been done and made it do much more stuff, especially with the more advanced A1000.
@colliric pathetic Amiga fanboy. Amiga were always laughable. Good for gaming for everything else unusable. Go to your Amiga games and don't bug guys who are creating something useful. n00b!
Pathetic Unix fanboy. Unix has always been laughable. Good for networks for everything else too nerdy. Go to your unix servers and don't bug guys who are creating something fun. noob!
@colliric LOL - Welcome to the 21st century where you can use more than one cpu core. Man you're a typical example of a dumb amiga fanboy. Nothing more to say about your laughable posting ...
@colliric the 1000 had only one cpu. You're talking about custom chips but these are not cpus ... you don't count gpus as cpus from your graphic card as well.
I have to admit that although I sold mine and got an Amiga (which I wish I'd done in the first place), I much preferred the 520STFM's case to that of the Amiga 500. (The one here is a bit yellowed, sadly).
I even kind of liked the Falcon 030, despite Atari having reused the STFM case because they were too tight to design a new one. I liked that "same but different" look. :-)
BTW, the music that's playing was definitely *not* generated by the ST's internal sound chip, right? ;-)
Does anyone remember Quartet a music program for Atari St?? that was a very good program as well. I didn't manage to make much music though, I found it a bit complicated to use.
@poweranglory Yes! I used the Quartet program and made hundreds of songs when I was a kid. I recently found a recording that I made on tape, and it was really quite amazingly good.
@WINANDMACNERD The ones with an RFmodulator can, but composite needs a special cable. Otherwise you need an analog RGB monitor like Atari's SC1224 to use it.
@craigybus1 Can be easily fixed with a soldering iron. Its cracked or loose solder joints in the keyboard part of the ST which the ports are attached to.
when making a video containing music published under the creative commons licence, please provide reference to the artist. In this case the song is Ghosts II (pt 8) by Nine Inch Nails
All this computers are a great milestone in the computer evolution so please shut up with your childish comments. I have the C64, Amiga, Atari ST and Falcon and a lot more old computers in my collection. All have its own plus and minus but all have its own character. Coputers now have a lot of power but they are soulless ugly slaves. They are useful but not interesting anymore.
@karadok666 I don't know what you're talking about when you say Computers today are soulless, no computer has a soul. And computers today are still just as interesting as computers of the past, if it wasn't for today's technology you couldn't have posted your comment to the internet or watch videos like this. Yes computers of the past were in some way more unique than what's around now, but think about how much technology has evolved and improved over the years.
@karadok666 same with video games. great games truly only need four directions and a red button. im only 15 yet I'm trying to learn 6502 assembly and i want to buy a c64 soon.
@karadok666 are you kidding, pc's these days are awesome just look at the graphics cards and cases that we have now, stylish and powerfull, not like the beige boxes we had then. don't get me wrong i loved playing on my brothers atari st 520. the trouble we have now is that originality has completely dried up.
waegiz37: Oh yes... I've learnt what the system hang-up is from my older brother who was devoted Amiga user ;-) Then I was ready for Windows 95 revolution in the PCs time. Atari ST is great and fashionable, for me, of course.
The most awesome thing is I have a Atari emulator and I've played 10 pins a bowling games and magic pockets to relive the old times. Ahhh I love that simple green screen and buzzing bee arrow ^_^
Yep, the atari has a phono out (its brown). on this video it is visible for about 1/10th second at 0:37. This out put may be RF modulated out so you might need a Phono to Coax cable.
You only use the DIN cable with a monitor. There is a socket on the back of the STe that looks like a phono socket. I believe that you use a cable with a phono plug at one end and a RF male connector at the other. That enables you to connect the ST to a TV. The STe comes with an RF modulator installed.
For sure STE should have TV modulator built-in. In older models you have TV modulator in the STM, STFM ones. All other like ST, STF are not equipped with modulator. So, with your STE it should be easy task - just use the modulator and a TV cable (same like for older 8-bit computers or consoles - you can buy one in every store with cables etc.).
I am bidding for a 1040ST with SM124 on eBay. I am a little afraid though, because there is no return, and I don't know really what condition the unit is in. Wish me luck that I win it and that it looks and works okay. I used to have a brand new 1040STE and stupid me I gave it away. I was such an idiot.
Same here. I used to have a 1040STe with a Philips color monitor re-branded as Atari. It was my favorite computer to this day. Nothing else can capture the charm of Atari for me. Heck, I liked the 65xe even better, as far as games are concerned.
Thanks for the Memories... The ST was my favorite computer of all times. I have purchased countless computers over the years but I will never forget my ST.
Verbatim floppies work well in my Atari I glue a small bit of dymo tape over the hole. I prefer to format them on my PC because I can move programs between the Atari and PC that way.
Well, I'm not that impressed by this video. I thought we'd insert all these disks and shows what the ST was capable of... but one inserted disk, some changes of resolution and the rest is up to my imagination...
That's weird, because mine doesn't have an internal floppy disk. I checked online to see if there was a model like that, but I couldn't find any mention of one. Maybe I have something special...
My cousin gave me his atari St . But the metal bit from a floppy disc got stuck in it , so i stuck a knife in it and smoke came out . It never worked after that.
My first 'proper' computer. I bought a 2nd hand 520STFM (complete with single sided floppy drive) in 1991. Damn thing cost me £170! It's main purpose was for writing music. In it's day EVERY pro recording studio had one, running Steinberg's pro24 and later Cubase, which is still around today on PC & Mac. I still own two of these machines (& SM124 mono monitor) can't bring myself to part with them!
I don't blame you these are excellent machines and are still very useful for just writing and scoring music without all the clutter that modern systems bring along.
You've got a lot of software for that computer, I wish I had one of these, I never had one. The desktop reminds me of the Macintish desktop. If you do future video reviews of these computers and video game systems, could you please include sound?
yes that was something impressive for the time and Atari 30mb hard disks were not that uncommon at the time, and what about the falcon? I mean its a 1993 machine and it can support a 1gig hard disk and 14mb of ram I think something that some Pc's were struggling to support years later.
with drivers from 1994 i can use a 40 gb HD on my Falcon 030. In 95 Windows had problems with HDs bigger than 1,2 GB. its a shame for Microsoft :DDDDD
I networked mine through the RS232 port to a serial port on the PC. Using a small Autostart Program it would log on to the PC on which you could save and store data. It was a bit tricky at first and the saving and loading took a bit of time but for small MIDI files it was just fine.
I'll happily agree with u dude! :D indeed, good times!! I know some might say rose tinted specs, but I think that's not really the case in this instance! I can still remember me and my bro battling through all the Islands afte nailing the enemy carrier on Carrier commannd, I think it was probably summer 1992! oh god, miss those days! had so many great games for my STs, which I still have :D
Wow, they have the un-stock nicotine yellow case. Gross
10p6 1 month ago
@10p6 it's not nicotine. Cases fade to yellow over time, it's a chemical process as any computer collector will tell you.
RetroManCave 2 weeks ago
@RetroManCave Really. I have a HUGE Atari collection, and nothing I have looks anything like that.
10p6 2 weeks ago
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RetroManCave 2 weeks ago
@10p6 Look up "Retr0brite"
RetroManCave 2 weeks ago
Atari 520 St is a piece of rubbish fake of the Amiga which is 100% better
Cezi1975rdm 4 months ago
It's downfall was it's operating system. Workbench was much better and is still in use. Now version 4.1 I believe.
OzDracula 4 months ago
@OzDracula Only an idiot would use Workbench in 2011. it's pathetic.
cuttock 1 month ago
@cuttock It might not be very productive, but I wouldn't call it pathetic seeing as it's still current software and is being developed and sold commercially.
RetroManCave 2 weeks ago
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@dylboy1800 This is not a console, it's a 16 bits computer, it's neither easy neither difficult to get one in good state, you have many available at Ebay. Depending on the zone you live, you can get it at a very reasonable price or not.
I owned the Atari 520 STFM and it was a SUPERB machine (like my Amiga 500)
noobsaibot73 5 months ago
is this console hard to get and how much is it worth please say
dylboy1800 5 months ago
Did I have fun with this! That was a great omputer at the time. With the Empire game, falcon, dungeon master, A320, shuffle board cafe, pirates!, and many others!
peacepalace 6 months ago
I had one of these but the roms were so buggy it would crash all the time...writing software ( basic assembly or pascal ) for it was a pain..had more bombs on the screen..they rushed it to market too soon..I shoulda gotten an Amiga but 1000
xadam2dudex 6 months ago
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what is the title of the song?
GatlingPea32 6 months ago
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GatlingPea32 6 months ago
The ST was cool, but I still remember the day I saw Blood Money running on Amiga - I sold my ST that day and upgraded. Good times.
MrFlibble2011 7 months ago
Those were the days...
Rikimaru80 7 months ago
Read your history...The ST and the Amiga are actual brother and sisters...
Atari droped the ball and could have had it all and Commodore swept up the design team. Regardless, The Amiga was better by far and the only good thing about the ST was the MIDI interface. Outside of that, it's a crying shame that no one has made an ST emulator comparable to WinUAE. I no longer care what was better or whatever amongst the old computers because I emulate them all and enjoy the best of everything.
kpreston69 7 months ago
@kpreston69 Well clearly you do care what computer was better, otherwise you wouldn't be talking a load of bollocks. The Atari had more good points then the old integrated midi port chestnut. Lets not forget the fact the Atari ST CPU that was clocked faster, had an internal PSU, handled floppy disks better and cost less to buy.
As for reading the history about the ST and Amiga being bros and sisters, can you state your sources please?
rovercrew 7 months ago
had one of these fm and the ste,1 thing spoilt it was the crappy sound chip, amiga was better sorry to say, excpt the st u i was a LOT better!
rainxxxx 7 months ago
I miss the RRRRRRRRRRRRR noise mine made when it booted a disc. I can't believe my mother threw it out when I got a PS1!!
LegendaryRoryG 8 months ago
I wanted one of these so bad in the day, but never got to get one. I had the Atari 8-bit 800XL and loved it. I have everything from TRS-80 Model 1 up thru Amiga 500, just never got one of these. Was in IT until I got sick. Always loved Atari and still do!
elgatoshadow 8 months ago
Yes the greatest improvement in computer history must be Atari ST to 1040STE. Black & White to Colorrrrrrrrrr!!!
royalsteven 8 months ago
I LOVED MINE, THEN I GOT THE 1040STE. LOL
DAVERUKY 9 months ago
this m usic had kind of Nine Inch Nails type overtones.. I like it ! :D I can't stand friggin fan boys ! "Ohh the Amiga was better !! No the atari was better !!" Shut up ! If you cannot wrap your minds around the accomplishments of each company & the efforts they put into making their products & are not capable of seeing the great things we have now that spawned from it then maybe you should be banging 2 rocks together to try & make fire because you missed the whole point !
wingnut4427 9 months ago
DUHH It was NIN !!! I just saw that ! lol at least i know it when I hear it ! lol
wingnut4427 9 months ago
VERY IRRITATING MUSIC
discocreator76 10 months ago
That was a super computer! I have one under my bed jejeje... Because i don´t have the display!
siul7611 11 months ago
This brings back memorys of a good time.
The Games today are better but do the have more fun??
I was a member of the Atari club in my home town Almere in Holland and had a lot of fun with the atari systems( i stil work in the IT) i want to write a something about this time on my site helpinghandalmere.nl
helpinghandalmere1 1 year ago 4
How long does it take to boot? Does it grind the floppy drive when you turn it on? I have these problems.
sonicmonkey123 1 year ago
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podx990 1 year ago
@podx990 Guru meditation or what?
trophy242 1 year ago
I had this computer! Ah the memories and so many great games that were bloody difficult to complete not like nowadays where you get to choose the difficulty.
sniktawkram7 1 year ago
I really miss the Amiga and Atari days, those computers had character and soul.
The little green desktop FTW!
gazereths1982 1 year ago
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gazereths1982 1 year ago
I have 3 atari's at home, 2 stfm and 1 ste.
nousukas 1 year ago
@nousukas Nice bunch. I have 1xatari stfm, 2xste, 1xfalcon030, 1x65xe, 1x2600, but I'm taking care about Commodore machines too. I have 2xC64c (1 was my wife's computer from her childhood :-), 1xC64g, 1xC16 (looking for RAM expansion), 1xAmiga 500. Everything with additional accessories. My dream is to get Polish: Elwro 800 Junior (something which was planned to be a part of national computer literacy programme from the 80s - a kind of "Polish BBC Micro") and Unipolbrit (a clone of Timex 2068).
trophy242 1 year ago
Back in the days when regular computer users learned programming!
christosswc 1 year ago 3
hi, do you have atari st format magazines if so do you remember the gallery section where readers send in their artwork drawings.
madmomentsgo 1 year ago
My second computer ever after my commodore vic-20 was one of those :D
dreaddog 1 year ago
i had a 1040st and it gave me sick headaches..
diabledesbois 1 year ago
I had one of these. Good times!
Strideo1 1 year ago
Amiga OS looks idiotic compared to TOS!
epten 1 year ago
that's the one i used to have
rocksoliddude1 1 year ago
How come it has a port for a modem when the internet wasnt around then?
Soundgardener80 1 year ago
@Soundgardener80 really are you serious? oh my god ... why would people need modems prior to the 'internet'? maybe they would start their own bulletin board, or subscribe to other bulletin boards, or maybe even subscribe to 'quantum link' type social networks... why indeed would anyone need a modem prior to the 'wolrd wide web'
swk38 1 year ago
@Soundgardener80 General Electric had a bulletin board called GEnie an early predecessor to internet it was all text except for text-artwork. Cost $18 an hour during prime time hours. Off-peak hours were $5. Not much time was spend online. A computer program went online logged in retrieved and uploaded message replies logged out and read replies and replied to off-line. It was a lot of fun. Only had a 300 baud modem. Later 1200 baud. Then 2400. Finally 9600 baud was the bomb!
grandpied 1 year ago
@Soundgardener80 A person could call directly via computer over phone modem to someone else's computer and have keyboard conversation without need for an internet.
grandpied 1 year ago
@Soundgardener80
I had a modem in 1982 on a computer even older than this and used it constantly and they were used on older computers even before then. I have acoustic coupler modems in my collection going back to the 70's. How old are you anyway? You can't be older than 20-25 if you don't know how people used modems before the internet.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard Haha actually im 30, had my atari st till about the age of ten and so obviously used it only for games, but tbh im barely even computer literate now, didnt pay any attention in IT lessons at school!
Soundgardener80 1 year ago
@gamewizard
I sure remember phone couplers! My uncle used one with his Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K to use the UK Prestel BBS service; he sometimes allowed me to download a few simple games which was fun and very magical (I was only 13 or 14 at the time and I am 40 this year). I say magical because games came on physical cassette tape, so downloading the same thing from out of thin air seemed unbelievable and exciting. I still felt this magic aged 28 when I got dialup internet in June 2000!
EgoShredder 5 months ago
I had an Atari ST and STE but this guy seem to know nothing about how to use one.
webboffin 1 year ago
Wow, I had one of these in 1987. All my friends had Commodore 64 and this was a killer at the time. Two years later I changed to "the other side" and bought an Amiga 500 as everyone else. Amiga was better in gaming but Atari had Midi interface!
fredrik999z 1 year ago
What's the name of the song?
EggManStudio 1 year ago
Always prefered the Amiga over the ST, it being more capable of quality sound and graphics etc, but I can still remember loving the ST which my uncle had!
semplew 1 year ago
@semplew TO be honest with you, the ST's strongest point was it's capability of producing good music, it had great sound for its day,i know this because i used to make a lot of music on mine, it was the only reason why i got it. The amiga had by far superior processing power but the ST had the best sound.
dlads2010 1 year ago
Whats the name of the song?
EggManStudio 1 year ago
classic i remember wanting one of those but got commodore instead :P
truesivad 1 year ago
Hmm, they had a GUI for their operating system? Nice.
justin76pa 1 year ago
@justin76pa so did Amiga, it wasn't that uncommon.. in fact the A500 OS Workbench was the real OS microsoft copied when it made Win95.
colliric 1 year ago
@colliric How many computers had GUI in 1985 besides the Atari ST? As for A500 OS Workbench, I looked it up. Looks more like Windows 3.1 than Windows 95. Thanks for the info though.
justin76pa 1 year ago
@justin76pa pretty much all the 16bit comps did, only PC didn't
colliric 1 year ago
@colliric amiga os stole it from unix ... f*cking amiga fanboys ...
r8qt7 1 year ago
@r8qt7
fuck Unix... fucking linux/unix fanboys! it had more features than unix's X Windows System did at the time. They took what had been done and made it do much more stuff, especially with the more advanced A1000.
colliric 1 year ago
@colliric pathetic Amiga fanboy. Amiga were always laughable. Good for gaming for everything else unusable. Go to your Amiga games and don't bug guys who are creating something useful. n00b!
r8qt7 1 year ago
@r8qt7
Pathetic Unix fanboy. Unix has always been laughable. Good for networks for everything else too nerdy. Go to your unix servers and don't bug guys who are creating something fun. noob!
colliric 1 year ago
@colliric LOL - Welcome to the 21st century where you can use more than one cpu core. Man you're a typical example of a dumb amiga fanboy. Nothing more to say about your laughable posting ...
r8qt7 1 year ago
@r8qt7
HAH that was only possible due to the Amiga 1000, the first comp that did that!
colliric 1 year ago
@colliric the 1000 had only one cpu. You're talking about custom chips but these are not cpus ... you don't count gpus as cpus from your graphic card as well.
r8qt7 1 year ago
@r8qt7
yeah but that is where the idea came from....
colliric 1 year ago
@colliric Wrong. You can put card with co processor since Apple II, thank to ISA controler trhu DMA
Damdoshi 1 year ago
@colliric Yea... that might have something to do with their radically different target markets....
You have to look at linux for a consumer focused *nix OS and actually, its the best today.
bobbystar101 1 year ago
wow it's like an old mac os, looks cool!!!!
machinator1978 1 year ago
I have to admit that although I sold mine and got an Amiga (which I wish I'd done in the first place), I much preferred the 520STFM's case to that of the Amiga 500. (The one here is a bit yellowed, sadly).
I even kind of liked the Falcon 030, despite Atari having reused the STFM case because they were too tight to design a new one. I liked that "same but different" look. :-)
BTW, the music that's playing was definitely *not* generated by the ST's internal sound chip, right? ;-)
NotATube 1 year ago
Does anyone remember Quartet a music program for Atari St?? that was a very good program as well. I didn't manage to make much music though, I found it a bit complicated to use.
poweranglory 1 year ago
@poweranglory Yes! I used the Quartet program and made hundreds of songs when I was a kid. I recently found a recording that I made on tape, and it was really quite amazingly good.
estevens1234567 1 year ago
The Atari St was a good machine had some great games as well.
poweranglory 1 year ago
C64 took to long to load games. and you have to keep putting codes in.
gamezonic 1 year ago
auf dem Tisch steht ein .......
gnaatan 1 year ago
Dose the 800 and the ST have the same video output?
WINANDMACNERD 1 year ago
@WINANDMACNERD The ones with an RFmodulator can, but composite needs a special cable. Otherwise you need an analog RGB monitor like Atari's SC1224 to use it.
NightSprinter 1 year ago
Just dug my old ST out of my dads loft. Worked fine apart from the mouse port. This was cured by wedging a lego brick under the mouse cable...
craigybus1 1 year ago
@craigybus1 Can be easily fixed with a soldering iron. Its cracked or loose solder joints in the keyboard part of the ST which the ports are attached to.
deepblue69uk 1 year ago
Aesthetically the nicest-looking machine Atari produced. Kudos to the designers!
MrDintheD 1 year ago 3
It recalls nice memory's.........
nenadaudio 1 year ago
when making a video containing music published under the creative commons licence, please provide reference to the artist. In this case the song is Ghosts II (pt 8) by Nine Inch Nails
DaveBtotalvr 2 years ago 3
Atari ST had the style. There ain't no 'guru meditating' in this beauty! ;-)
waegiz37 2 years ago 2
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@waegiz37: Yeah, because there was nothing inside the bastard except air, smoke & mirrors. Daft ST bastard
TheTubeRuler2009 2 years ago
@TheTubeRuler2009 Still an stupid Commodore - Atari war idiot?
All this computers are a great milestone in the computer evolution so please shut up with your childish comments. I have the C64, Amiga, Atari ST and Falcon and a lot more old computers in my collection. All have its own plus and minus but all have its own character. Coputers now have a lot of power but they are soulless ugly slaves. They are useful but not interesting anymore.
karadok666 1 year ago 45
@karadok666 I don't know what you're talking about when you say Computers today are soulless, no computer has a soul. And computers today are still just as interesting as computers of the past, if it wasn't for today's technology you couldn't have posted your comment to the internet or watch videos like this. Yes computers of the past were in some way more unique than what's around now, but think about how much technology has evolved and improved over the years.
Lachlant1984 1 year ago
@Lachlant1984 I think my commend was pretty clear ;)
karadok666 1 year ago
@karadok666 same with video games. great games truly only need four directions and a red button. im only 15 yet I'm trying to learn 6502 assembly and i want to buy a c64 soon.
stupidcrapcanyonlake 8 months ago
@karadok666 are you kidding, pc's these days are awesome just look at the graphics cards and cases that we have now, stylish and powerfull, not like the beige boxes we had then. don't get me wrong i loved playing on my brothers atari st 520. the trouble we have now is that originality has completely dried up.
MrXclio 7 months ago
@MrXclio "the trouble we have now is that originality has completely dried up" This is WHAT i am talking about. :)
karadok666 7 months ago
@waegiz37: Lots of bombs though, you deluded ST pufta
TheTubeRuler2009 2 years ago
waegiz37: Oh yes... I've learnt what the system hang-up is from my older brother who was devoted Amiga user ;-) Then I was ready for Windows 95 revolution in the PCs time. Atari ST is great and fashionable, for me, of course.
trophy242 2 years ago
The most awesome thing is I have a Atari emulator and I've played 10 pins a bowling games and magic pockets to relive the old times. Ahhh I love that simple green screen and buzzing bee arrow ^_^
royalsteven 2 years ago
was this the last computer form ATARI
Kristin98cole03 2 years ago
@Kristin98cole03 No. The last was the Falcon 030
karadok666 2 years ago
can anyone make a vid of the row of bombs on a atari st? I will sub to them.
MacintoshPlus1MB 2 years ago
I still have mine too and it works
zarabow 2 years ago 2
The best computer ever :-)
trophy242 2 years ago 22
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It's a old computer it never will be the best.
HTFDUDEHTF 2 years ago
@trophy242
The most powerful computer ever built.
dobri7975 1 year ago
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TubeDestroyer2010 1 year ago
Yep, the atari has a phono out (its brown). on this video it is visible for about 1/10th second at 0:37. This out put may be RF modulated out so you might need a Phono to Coax cable.
jeromezone 2 years ago
can anyone help me i just found my dads old atari 520 STe and is there any way to connect the atari to a tv without the thirteen pin DIN cable
facedownfilms 2 years ago
You only use the DIN cable with a monitor. There is a socket on the back of the STe that looks like a phono socket. I believe that you use a cable with a phono plug at one end and a RF male connector at the other. That enables you to connect the ST to a TV. The STe comes with an RF modulator installed.
deepblue69uk 2 years ago
yes, there are adapters. i have a thirteen pin cable to SCART cable.
felixbrix 2 years ago
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BigKamikase 2 years ago
I never hooked an ST up to a television. Check ebay for an atari monitor. I may have extras if you can't find any there.
wdcallahan 2 years ago
Yeah but people your forgetting only some models had the phono out many didn't and you had to use the 13 pin.
dapperchap 2 years ago
For sure STE should have TV modulator built-in. In older models you have TV modulator in the STM, STFM ones. All other like ST, STF are not equipped with modulator. So, with your STE it should be easy task - just use the modulator and a TV cable (same like for older 8-bit computers or consoles - you can buy one in every store with cables etc.).
trophy242 2 years ago
i did it :) some sort of yellow video cable! unfortunately my mum had sold the joysticks a week before i got it to work!
XxJWPxX 2 years ago
i got 2 Atari STs in the loft i should find them and see if they still work i had tons of games and programs for them
majesticlarge 2 years ago
can i buy one?
aNESgamer 2 years ago
I am bidding for a 1040ST with SM124 on eBay. I am a little afraid though, because there is no return, and I don't know really what condition the unit is in. Wish me luck that I win it and that it looks and works okay. I used to have a brand new 1040STE and stupid me I gave it away. I was such an idiot.
dvamateur 2 years ago 2
I Hope You Get An Atari St In Good Contdishon And In Good Looking Atari St Too I Hope :)
Kristin98cole03 1 year ago
i used to have one of these , so awesome for midi
jmm1233 2 years ago 2
Same here. I used to have a 1040STe with a Philips color monitor re-branded as Atari. It was my favorite computer to this day. Nothing else can capture the charm of Atari for me. Heck, I liked the 65xe even better, as far as games are concerned.
dvamateur 2 years ago 2
Thanks for the Memories... The ST was my favorite computer of all times. I have purchased countless computers over the years but I will never forget my ST.
cnewtonc 2 years ago
Verbatim floppies work well in my Atari I glue a small bit of dymo tape over the hole. I prefer to format them on my PC because I can move programs between the Atari and PC that way.
hollandturbine 2 years ago
LOVE IT...... thanks so much for this video... i loved my Atari ST.
fiswis 2 years ago
The Screen looks like a Macintosh
DeanderDean 2 years ago
ahh, one of my very first computers. Mine blew up when I tried to upgrade it to 1MB RAM :(
Schming 2 years ago
that sucks
planefreak3 2 years ago
You are not supposed to solder on the mainboard while the power is still on. ; )
Ahle2 2 years ago 2
We have one of these in our computer lab at school! we still use it occasional for the use of the midi ports.
user12119 2 years ago
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mariosonic190 2 years ago
Well, I'm not that impressed by this video. I thought we'd insert all these disks and shows what the ST was capable of... but one inserted disk, some changes of resolution and the rest is up to my imagination...
SlightlyDeath 2 years ago 2
Oh that brings back memories. I had a Mega ST 2 in the 90´s! HAHA 158kb used in 7 files....... Man that´s great! *rofl*
ExpressDriver 2 years ago
Atari STfm 520 was my first computer :)
Simok2 2 years ago
I didn't know they made 520STFM's with internal disk drives...
Hulsie 2 years ago
That's the only way I knew them to be.
tropicalcatdetective 2 years ago 2
That's weird, because mine doesn't have an internal floppy disk. I checked online to see if there was a model like that, but I couldn't find any mention of one. Maybe I have something special...
Hulsie 2 years ago
You have the first edition Atari ST. Later STFM models had a built in 3" disk drive. Yep, it's quite rare!
NotMarkKnopfler 2 years ago
i still have a 520 ST with external floppy, 1040 STE, and my big love the Falcon 030 - he looks like new and he works like hell :)
karadok666 2 years ago
i've never seen one without a disk drive??? and i've seen a fair few!!
all Atari ST's had floppies??????!!!!!!!
fiswis 2 years ago
Apparently not. I have two that don't (purchased from the same place at around the same time). I'll take pictures of them and post a link soon.
Hulsie 2 years ago
The vertical slot you see on the right side of the machine at 0:54 is where you put in the floppy... unless you want to use it as a piggy bank :-)
rraphaelj 2 years ago
du'h... i know rraphaelj.. thats the point i was trying to get across. as far as i was aware all ST's came with internal floppy drives.
fiswis 2 years ago
Sorry :-) Didn't get the point first... my brain is still computing in 8bit mode LOL.
rraphaelj 2 years ago
My cousin gave me his atari St . But the metal bit from a floppy disc got stuck in it , so i stuck a knife in it and smoke came out . It never worked after that.
op2hudson 2 years ago
:'-(
Hulsie 2 years ago
gutted for ya..... :(
fiswis 2 years ago
merci pour la présentation du ST
cool...
toua451 2 years ago
my friend has one of these and i realy want this or the amiga 500
DVD2409 2 years ago
doesn't get 5 stars because you couldn't figure out which file to open to run a game -_-..
sspoke 2 years ago 3
lol :D
reinoreiness 2 years ago
ha0ha00ah
akis231 2 years ago
Who cares it still has 5 star anyway
BronzenRevolver 2 years ago
Cool ! the days of Lemmings, Treasure Island Dizzy and Super Cars....
turrican1024 2 years ago
My first 'proper' computer. I bought a 2nd hand 520STFM (complete with single sided floppy drive) in 1991. Damn thing cost me £170! It's main purpose was for writing music. In it's day EVERY pro recording studio had one, running Steinberg's pro24 and later Cubase, which is still around today on PC & Mac. I still own two of these machines (& SM124 mono monitor) can't bring myself to part with them!
TheTux 3 years ago
I don't blame you these are excellent machines and are still very useful for just writing and scoring music without all the clutter that modern systems bring along.
Ryoga2K 2 years ago
I saw a couple of Neochrome files on that disk! Sweet!
Schnitz1 3 years ago
but the computers were quicker (to boot anyway!! :)
dancecrave 3 years ago
This was a great computer! I had some back in time. I still have some, in fact ;-)
trophy242 3 years ago
was my first 16 bit machine.i thought it was the dogs bollocks until i saw my mates amiga.
LAGERL0UT 3 years ago 7
art & film director... one of the greatest programs ever. anybody remember it?
slimjunks 3 years ago
You've got a lot of software for that computer, I wish I had one of these, I never had one. The desktop reminds me of the Macintish desktop. If you do future video reviews of these computers and video game systems, could you please include sound?
Lachlant1984 3 years ago
I had a 520STFM, 1040ST, TT, and a Falcon. This brings back memories.
I believe "FM" stands for "Floppy Module" and "E" for the 1040STe stood for "Enhanced" due to the Blitter chip.
Boy does this bring back memories. We even did the 1MB RAM-Stack upgrade. Yay.
The thing that brings back most memories is the fact that this thing had a SCSI-1 connector in the back, which mean a 40MB HD! w00t!
KenshinM4C 3 years ago
STFM had a floppy and a 'modulator' (the RF modulator that allowed you to hook it up to a TV) ... that's what FM meant. They had STF models too.
mattrix007 3 years ago
yes that was something impressive for the time and Atari 30mb hard disks were not that uncommon at the time, and what about the falcon? I mean its a 1993 machine and it can support a 1gig hard disk and 14mb of ram I think something that some Pc's were struggling to support years later.
Ryoga2K 2 years ago
with drivers from 1994 i can use a 40 gb HD on my Falcon 030. In 95 Windows had problems with HDs bigger than 1,2 GB. its a shame for Microsoft :DDDDD
karadok666 2 years ago
I networked mine through the RS232 port to a serial port on the PC. Using a small Autostart Program it would log on to the PC on which you could save and store data. It was a bit tricky at first and the saving and loading took a bit of time but for small MIDI files it was just fine.
rraphaelj 2 years ago
My first computer. Oh my what was it great (for that time). And the games are classics.
royalsteven 3 years ago 2
Oh, Deanpook,
Sorry man, I forgot to say, thanks for the overview on this classic machine aswell! :D
charlieflint 3 years ago
I'll happily agree with u dude! :D indeed, good times!! I know some might say rose tinted specs, but I think that's not really the case in this instance! I can still remember me and my bro battling through all the Islands afte nailing the enemy carrier on Carrier commannd, I think it was probably summer 1992! oh god, miss those days! had so many great games for my STs, which I still have :D
charlieflint 3 years ago
i always remember it was hell of a job getting the mouse in
gymfreak1978 3 years ago
oh yeah lol had forgotten about that. it kind of rammed in next to the joystick connection. great computer though :o)
Retroloving1337 3 years ago
The bombs, the freaking bombs!!!
:D
FhargaZ 3 years ago 2
I have an emulator that can emulate atari ST I use it in windows vista
is called "gemulator 2000"
xXjose130Xx 3 years ago