Natalie took this video a few years ago at Funspot in Meredith. I have been obsessed with this cabinet, like probably this exact cabinet, since I was 12 or 13. I remember when they had a whole row of Out Run standup cabinets too back in the day.
I think I did much better on another visit, after the machine was moved somewhere else but I dunno where that video is. I think this one is over by the mini-golf course. Either way, I'm not great at hydraulic Out Run, but that's not really the point is it?
I'm wondering if I shouldn't have a bench power supply for this, but I have a couple of USRobotics modems and the power supplies are way different, like I think one is 19V something. I guess I just have to try them both on the smaller one and hope for the best? Neither one has any external indicator of what voltage they want even though the courier has a full printed summary of all the AT commands and detailed DIP switch settings. All of which is helpful, but how the fuck many Juice do you want coming in this hole right here? Center positive, presumably?
*This was an email that I was writing, and just stopped and basically pasted in here and embedded videos in, so it's not super well formatted or anything.
This was probably the best explanation of core memory that actually made me understand it.
I made a quick tour video for an audience of about four. Here's a brief look at the basic stuff in my office, much of which I will do better quality videos about soon. Maybe like a monthly VAST/SPACE meeting? I dunno.
Enjoy the 1992 aesthetic. Pretend it's a VHS-C tape or something you found at Goodwill.
Update: I didn't notice the screensaver during the whole desk part until uploading just now and it's my favorite thing ever.
Sinéad O’Connor - Jerusalem (AKA the nice lady who was right about near every goddamn thing)
I'm running this setup to backup some Atari ST 720K floppy disks I have. I'm interested in backups of BBS newsletters and general BBS/Early-Internet ephemera from the '80s and '90s and I'm finding cases where at a glance I can't find that specific copy of like STReport or whatever on the Archive. Also anything fun related to the specific Atari club we were all members of since this is likely the only copy of any of that.
I'm very happy with the roll-away desk surface on top of this rack:
I've set up one of the racks with some finish ply as a roll away bench surface that I can pull out temporarily to use machines like the Atari and Commodore 8-bits without having them wired into the henge all the time.
All the cables and power supplies are convenient so it's quick to just drop a machine down and start messing around:
The project I want to do turns out to be a lot more homework than just "plug it in, turn it on, go!". To use a serial port it's recommended to make a boot disk for whatever DOS you prefer and write a tool to load and configure your specific device driver. Then you can run your terminal program.
I got some reading to do on that one. I can't even figure out how to launch a thing through MyDOS.
I'm going to be working on making a few videos about how my office is set up and fix some problems with some of my machines and stuff as I polish this all up.
This was shot as I finished cabling in my in-rack video capture and face-camera. So I'm doing a quick dry-run of a couple of features of the machine I built that lives in that monitor. It's a Raspberry Pi 3 that I have configured with a menu to emulate every other object in this rack as well as manage and maintain my home servers as a KVM for all that stuff. It's connected over serial to an Avocent 16 port serial console. So from my main menu I log into that serial console and then I use that to connect over serial to my main webserver in the rack below.
After logging back out of all that I am launching the Amiga emulator for a quick run of Nebulus.
Here's what that end of the room looks like. My main workstation that's getting all the video is in the bottom of the left hand rack. Then the right rack is all the network hardware, storage, servers and stuff.
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.
