Well TOS 2.06 can do 1.44MB - as shown by the Mega STE. I think what trips everybody up is how Atari made it "backwards". Instead of the drive telling TOS what the disk is, TOS simply tries one mode and if it receives gibberish it changes the frequency and tries again. In any case, it work...

This is what mine presented before it had been initialized (firmware uploaded? Don't remember).

Wasn't a big deal to sort out.

I've ordered the Medusa. I will then use my existing HDMI-to-USB capture device(s) with it.

https://retrohax.net/shop/amiga/medusa- ... -lotharek/

I do believe it will take a lot of time for you to save the same amount on electricity costs

czietz wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 8:29 pmit massively messes with HSYNC, causing one very long line

Yeah, exactly

However, I do try to keep an open mind in case future knowledge can change older limitations that couldn't be overcome back in the day. It's boring now when Ijor has dumped the chips ;) The exact same position (= GLUE code) you _would_ enable lower border is unfortunately the same position that ena...

(It's not possible to "open the lower border" in monochrome. I'm trying to remember what it is the demo really does, but in any case it would not work in GEM) Otherwise, yes, I remember using a program myself back in the day that worked fine in GEM with lower border open. Disk access turns...

exxos wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 11:07 am Oops

Room for future expansion!

Since we've been discussing this on IRC I'll just add to the thread, for posterity, that 16 bytes is the size of the internal DMA fifo. Also, _Dbug_ has previously had severe DMA issues on this machine and got rid of them (or only mostly?) by changing to the HC CPU. The DMA chip is the square -001 m...

That one is probably for Troed, the resident fullscreen demo expert!: I also tried a recent demo from DHS/SMFX ( The Art of Profanity ) which was always failing after the first screen, now I've been able to run it twice in a row from start to finish, there are some occasional top-border fullscreen ...

Did you make any modifications to the MSTE when you first installed the MonSTEr perhaps? ("To get the blitter working") I think.

http://www.fairlite.co.uk/AtariKit/mons ... olders.txt