I have always loved this project for its 1:1 features of the original ST. Similarly as Troed, I'm not interested in putting accelerators or fast ram into an ST machine. So I'm in for the legacy board.

I would also recommend to listen more to people here than your friends.

And yes I agree, paying $2500 for a Falcon in such condition is crazy. I just recently sold one for 800 EUR which had only some bodge wires and visual defects, otherwise working perfectly.

How nice, you seem to have one of the first Falcons produced in the Y4 factory, wow.

... or CosmosEx. Then you can remove the USB "emulation" layer as it's hooked directly on IKBD connector.

Btw, it's easier to try this stuff from the Linux console. So either connect your CE's RPi to a USB keyboard + HDMI monitor or set it up using another notebook running Linux. That way you'll see the error messages, hints what to google for etc.

A while ago I used to be the same but even though I have a big flat and no kids/wife yet, I have come to the conclusion that there's no way I'm going to ever use and/or play with everything I have. So I let my Amiga 1200@060 go, I let my unused Falcon go, I let my half-disassembled hardware go, I'm ...

AFAIK, that is the ESC bug.

TT: C302074-002 (on lid) S/N xxxxxxxxxxx (on lid) (TODO: check) REV A2? (on PCB) (TODO: check) 4 screws, insulated with cloth tape cut PCB? (TODO: check) CNY-17 I can't edit the post anymore, so here it is: C302074-002 (on lid) S/N S20207006A7 (on lid) REV A1 (on PCB) 4 screws, insulated with cloth...

I posted it also on FB (as the first thing) so that's where the buyer comes from. Initially, nobody reacted so I posted it here because I thought only hardware geeks are going to be interested. My mistake! But I tried to be fair - I compared reply times from all parties, the guy on FB really did rep...

.... aaaand it's sold.