6 Jul
2021
6 Jul
'21
12:53 a.m.
Whilst I am not an Atari "expert" I still own an STE and a have owned a Mega
which died and a TT which I sold.
In hardware terms there is very little difference between a Mega and an ST. As far as I
know, given the same memory, all the games work on both and they really exercise the
hardware.
The first obvious difference is 3Mb of memory but that shouldn't cause problems.
The second is that I would expect a Mega to have a blitter. Not all did but could the
space occupied by the blitter be a problem.
Lastly has the Mega had any modifications made? That could also cause issues..
.. and I assume TOS finds the drives on both machines
Dave
G4UGM
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Subject: Atari ST & MegaFile with Minix?
I was playing with ST Minix (v1.1, based on PC Minix v1.3). I didn?t have any
luck with Minix (neither the boot program nor the kernel) detecting the
MegaFile (60 or 30, both the same outcome) on the Mega 4. Both MegaFiles
worked fine with Minix on the 1040ST.
So there must be some difference (timing?) between the ST and Mega.
There are some usenet posts speculating on the cause of this, as well as
contradictory user reports on whether it is known to work or not. So I?m not
sure what to make of this.
But Minix is pretty tight in 1 MB RAM, so I would like to understand why it
shouldn?t work on the Mega 4.
Any Atari ST experts on the list who can shed any light on why this might be
the case?
ok
bear.