Issue 50: Dec 2004
Features
- | Foreword
- | Tip of the day
- | CT60 - A Heated Question?
- | Printing Envelopes
- | Merry Mosh 2004 At Cheshunt Computer Club
- | Computer Valeting
M@ilbox
| M@ilbox ATW question I have an Atari ATW800 Transputer Workstation without some chip of the IO system board. Can you help me to identify the chips? I have marked the lost chip on the GIF attached. Thanks a lot. Gianni, Italy Shiuming Lai replies Gianni, I passed this onto Steve Sweet at the Cheshunt Computer Club, he dismantled a stock Mega ST, which is the basis of the ATW's I/O controller, and could not find anything resembling what you describe. Perhaps you could take a larger, higher resolution picture showing the entire printed circuit board, as this one is not very clear. Vintage Atari music production Quick question - I'm researching an article about Atari production software. Was there a program called Creator in the mid 1990s? Joel McIver, England Matthew Bacon replies Yes John, there was indeed a software title called Creator available during the 1990s. Creator was a pattern-based sequencer by German software developer C-LAB (later known as Emagic which is now part of Apple) for the ST/STE range of computers. Creator - and its big brother Notator - became heavyweight packages used in professional recording studios around the world until just a few years ago. For further information, check out the following links: Notator user group http://www.notator.org/ Article on Notator at Tim's Atari MIDI World http://tamw.atari-users.net/notator.htm Buy Notator from £149.00 http://www.atari-workshop.co.uk/products/music_software.htm Broken 2600 I have three Atari systems I have a XE and a STE also the elderly 2600. My 2600 has recently died. I have checked the PSU it seems fine. I wonder if you know anyone who could repair it? Or where I can find another one. I have about 20 games for it. If I can't get it fixed I might have to sell the games. Hope you can help Rob Hellier Shiuming Lai replies It's practically impossible to tell what's wrong without seeing it, but the guts of the 2600 are simple enough that anyone with some basic electronics skills should be able to give you an overall diagnosis, if not outright fix. You just need to find that someone! Failing that, there are hundreds if not thousands of bargains on used 2600 consoles on the internet, how about trying our classifieds section to see if anyone has one for sale? It would be a pity to discard those games, or indeed miss out on the many new games being developed today, some modern classics are available at AtariAge, http://www.atariage.com - you may even be surprised at the current level of activity on this cult machine.
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