I've mentioned my general goals for this ST. SCSI enclosure, disk imaging, Spectre GCR and stuff. But there's a lot I'm doing behind the scenes like how I had to build the Practical Solutions Monitor Master hack to get video working.
One project I'm working on is documenting everything we have and I'm making internal Wiki pages for each of these items as I go.
My Atari to-do list is pretty much a best-of ST gizmos and doodads.
Practical Solutions joystick/mouse extension and switch box. This lets you switch between the mouse and a second joystick in addition to providing a too-short-by-half cable extension from the world's dumbest ports on the ST.
There are two Gravis analog joysticks. One is a MouseStick for the ST, and if I remember the other one is for PC. The MouseStick was my mouse before I got my TrueMouse USB adapter. and works great on the switchbox as a second mouse. Looks like this thing was like $200 in 2025 dollars (I saw 69 GBP in 1990)
Loads of the "Best of Class" joysticks of the time. There's the Epyx/Konix, a Suncom with the weird ball, several Wicos that I'm in the process of repairing, a couple that I actually did have. I gravitated toward "Pistol grip" type handles.
This isn't even getting into all the 8-bit stuff. Tape drives, disk drives. The XLGS, pair of 130XEs, 400
The Atari trackball that was "XL" Brown on Cream themed but which Dave modded for the ST. I need to learn what that mod was.
All of this stuff deserves a close look and modern reviews with real world use cases that aren't youtube videos. I'm not aware of modern ST magazines like there is for Amiga so I will make my own.
