The moment you connected your mouse and ad with an explosion in the beginning popped up and I had an OMG thought but only for a brief moment. Packaging is extremely important, nothing worse then finding parts bouncing around in the enclosure. I have been lucky but I did receive a delivery where FedEx had to add tape to the box because the box was falling apart due to not being properly sealed up and in part a rough transit but everything was bubble wrapped with lots of padding but the box a horror show.
I work at FedEx so I can say how very important it is to properly pack up whatever you send in a box. The packages just fly through a sorter belt and anything lose inside will get jostled around. Plus taping is very important especially on the bottom because loosely opened packages do get damaged. That's why I try to take care of every package I handle... :)
TOS 2.06 bombs when there is no drive connected. The workaround is to set TRK00 to log 0 and then it goes to empty desktop. It would be great to do some patch for the 2.06 TOS.
Really different and interesting faults this time 😁👍😎. Do you know if there is a source of 3d printing sources for the mouse buttons? My original one is missing the left one.
Need to fix my kbd too but am too pressed for cash atm, recapped my ST, put in a pc floppy drive and modded it to fit properly, expanded the RAM to 4MB and fixed everything up, then stupid me accidentally let the back of the kbd touch the metal shield so there was a spark and now a part of they keys are dead... no burnt traces so assuming the controller ic got busted :(
Dang it, wasn't the LS244 (at least the MiniPro chiptester says it's okey).. gonna try swapping the 6850's to see if that helps, only checked the schematics briefly but it looks like the other controls just the midi ports which I've never used anyways so with a bit of luck....
The moment you connected your mouse and ad with an explosion in the beginning popped up and I had an OMG thought but only for a brief moment. Packaging is extremely important, nothing worse then finding parts bouncing around in the enclosure. I have been lucky but I did receive a delivery where FedEx had to add tape to the box because the box was falling apart due to not being properly sealed up and in part a rough transit but everything was bubble wrapped with lots of padding but the box a horror show.
I work at FedEx so I can say how very important it is to properly pack up whatever you send in a box. The packages just fly through a sorter belt and anything lose inside will get jostled around.
Plus taping is very important especially on the bottom because loosely opened packages do get damaged.
That's why I try to take care of every package I handle... :)
TOS 2.06 bombs when there is no drive connected. The workaround is to set TRK00 to log 0 and then it goes to empty desktop. It would be great to do some patch for the 2.06 TOS.
Really different and interesting faults this time 😁👍😎. Do you know if there is a source of 3d printing sources for the mouse buttons? My original one is missing the left one.
Not certain if this would work, but on thingiverse there is a complete model of an Atari ST mouse here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:4640541
Need to fix my kbd too but am too pressed for cash atm, recapped my ST, put in a pc floppy drive and modded it to fit properly, expanded the RAM to 4MB and fixed everything up, then stupid me accidentally let the back of the kbd touch the metal shield so there was a spark and now a part of they keys are dead... no burnt traces so assuming the controller ic got busted :(
As you could see in the video, it could very well be the LS logic chip which isn't an Atari-specific chip.
Dang it, wasn't the LS244 (at least the MiniPro chiptester says it's okey).. gonna try swapping the 6850's to see if that helps, only checked the schematics briefly but it looks like the other controls just the midi ports which I've never used anyways so with a bit of luck....