Nice to see the ST is getting some good hardware add ons
@joopidema
2 ай бұрын
Very interresting video. How about you share the contents of your SideCart hd folder with the rest of us SideCart users? Maybe on the Internet Archive?
@TJAtarian
2 ай бұрын
It crossed my mind to share, as oppsosed to only pointing people in the right direction, however though I'd have thought majority of ST games are pretty much abandonware in terms of copyright, i'm not a lawyer, so hosting/sharing myself a step too far for me. Those who use either should have bought the games, or be comfortable themselves sourcing and using them if not. The files are out there, either as individual downloads from atari.8bitchip.info/ or the links I shared and methods shown here. Perhaps @madigorfkgoogle9349 's suggestitons will reduce the pain on that a little.
@regisdumoulin
2 ай бұрын
You do need more ram to play HD-adapted game, not because of the STCart or GEM drive itself, but because you have GEM loaded. A lot of floppy disk loaded games do not load the Atari opening system to save memory when loading the game. With this configuration, you need to have enough RAM for the operating system in addition to the game itself. In short, it makes things easier to have 2 megs on your Atari
@TJAtarian
2 ай бұрын
+ST Memory upgrade to my purchase list at some point!
@keithbeesting
2 ай бұрын
Great video. How much ram does your ST have to run games from the hard drive?
@TJAtarian
2 ай бұрын
Hi. The one I am using is a 1040STFM, and has the standard 1mb it came with. You never know, I may upgrade it at some point. I'm not aware of the sidecart or gemdos feature needing extra ram, but perhaps I can verify by playing a 1mb only game and see if running from hard drive is a problem or not. Any suggestions what to try?
@keithbeesting
2 ай бұрын
@@TJAtarianAh ok I wasnt sure if the SideCart adding any extra RAM. Please could you try Obsession and Substation. Many thanks.
@TJAtarian
2 ай бұрын
@keithbeesting I tried those two and they bomb out , so perhaps right that more ram is consumed than normal when playing via Sidecart and gemsos drive. Some more research required, but perhaps will be upgrading my memory in near future.
@Maraka77i
2 ай бұрын
Both Obsession and Substation requires Atari STe hardware. Also most of Peter Putnik's HD adaptions play great on Atari's Mega STe system which is a 1991 released 16MHz version of the STe.
@TJAtarian
2 ай бұрын
@@Maraka77i I had tried them both and indeed would not load. When sourcing the ST I have, I went for similar model to one I had back in the 90s. Perhaps I'll add an STE to my collection at some point - never had one!
@madigorfkgoogle9349
2 ай бұрын
few suggestions, use ST High setting or even VDI mode in Hatari for more real estate, also maybe it would help to use some disc copy utility like Kobold or M>Desk, makes life more easy, also do not forget to assign 4MB RAM to your "virtual" ST.
@TJAtarian
2 ай бұрын
All sound like great suggestions. I haven't played with Gem properly for ages, so perhaps could make this a little faster / work with less steps unattended. Will feedback when get the chance.
@madigorfkgoogle9349
14 күн бұрын
@@TJAtarian BTW, I DLed the ICD image from your link today, same as you use in video, and in the first drive in the root there is a folder Kobold_3.5FR, so you had the Kobold all the time. Well it is a FR version, so maybe have a look for EN version if you dont understand French...
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