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| Prepping the Atari 1040ST for a Vampire Install | |
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Brian Robotham
Posts 52
25 Oct 2016 16:25
| Hi all,
i just bought myself an Atari 1040ST and took it apart to see what is needed to be able to install a Vampire in it. It is quite a bit of work as the CPU is soldered to the motherboard so i had to remove it. I replaced it with a pin header then needed to use a CPU adapter board to relocate it slightly.
The lower left floppy support had to go as it was in the way and the CPU adapter i used is the one i use for the A500s. The adapter needs to be reshaped slightly which is not a big issue. The Vampire will just fit under the floppy drive and the hdmi connector can still be used using an angled connector. The jtag connector would need to be a right angled connector but overall it looks good.
here is a sequence of pictures showing the process...
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OneSTone O2o
Posts 159
28 Oct 2016 22:06
| Hello, why repositioning the Vampire with that adapter socket? Why not directly?
Don't care about the floppy support thing. It should be possible to find a different mechanical solution for that.
And to confuse you more, there are also very different boardlayouts for 1040ST
EXTERNAL LINK EXTERNAL LINK They differ a bit in CPU position and lot more.
A third one, very late version looks quite empty, using IMP chips, belo is a link into atari-forum.com, there you can discover this, unfortunatelly only small picture.
You also can look if Vampire 600 would fit into 1040STE using a kind of pins iinto the empty CPU socket, look here:
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The CPU is the square chip at right. In the one picture it has brackets on the socket, in the 2nd picture it has a ST (SGS Thompson) logo. The missing square chip on the 2nd pic in the middle is the blitter. On this board the blitter was already integrated in the SMD soldered square chip (GSTMCU) south of the blue large capacitor.
1040 STE with SMD CPU on that position, same as in Amiga 600:
EXTERNAL LINK The CPU is the square chip at right, blitter integrated int GSTMCU.
This is 260/520ST:
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This is Mega ST:
EXTERNAL LINK There are also different versions of the Mega ST board, but I think CPU is always at the same position. The different versions differ in memory layout: 1 MB, 2 MB, 4 MB, DIP or SMD DRAM.
Here are even some more variations on 3 pages: EXTERNAL LINK
Another website you will love is the dev-docs site which contains a lot of circuit diagrams regarding many ST models, STE, Mega ST, Mega STE, TT, Falcon: EXTERNAL LINK
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John William
Posts 563
29 Oct 2016 00:54
| oneSTone o2o wrote:
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Hello, why repositioning the Vampire with that adapter socket? Why not directly?
Don't care about the floppy support thing. It should be possible to find a different mechanical solution for that.
And to confuse you more, there are also very different boardlayouts for 1040ST
EXTERNAL LINK EXTERNAL LINK They differ a bit in CPU position and lot more.
A third one, very late version looks quite empty, using IMP chips, belo is a link into atari-forum.com, there you can discover this, unfortunatelly only small picture.
You also can look if Vampire 600 would fit into 1040STE using a kind of pins iinto the empty CPU socket, look here:
EXTERNAL LINK EXTERNAL LINK
The CPU is the square chip at right. In the one picture it has brackets on the socket, in the 2nd picture it has a ST (SGS Thompson) logo. The missing square chip on the 2nd pic in the middle is the blitter. On this board the blitter was already integrated in the SMD soldered square chip (GSTMCU) south of the blue large capacitor.
1040 STE with SMD CPU on that position, same as in Amiga 600:
EXTERNAL LINK The CPU is the square chip at right, blitter integrated int GSTMCU.
This is 260/520ST:
EXTERNAL LINK
This is Mega ST:
EXTERNAL LINK There are also different versions of the Mega ST board, but I think CPU is always at the same position. The different versions differ in memory layout: 1 MB, 2 MB, 4 MB, DIP or SMD DRAM.
Here are even some more variations on 3 pages: EXTERNAL LINK
Another website you will love is the dev-docs site which contains a lot of circuit diagrams regarding many ST models, STE, Mega ST, Mega STE, TT, Falcon: EXTERNAL LINK |
AAAAH! MY head hurts!! I am stick with A500 thank you very much!!!
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OneSTone O2o
Posts 159
30 Oct 2016 10:25
| I support you where I can. If you can read german, this PDF is also of interest for you:
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It contains complete hardware and operating system documentation for ST, STacy, STE and TT.
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Manuel Jesus
Posts 155
21 Nov 2016 11:29
| Got an ST ready in case this ever develops beyond discussion phase. I have even toyed around with MIDI on my Vampire 600. Nice USA NTSC Atari 1040STF, clean and grey/ white,
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Roland SC55 connected to the Vampire 600
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Ingo Uhlemann
Posts 35
01 Dec 2016 06:09
| Any news ?
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Manuel Jesus
Posts 155
02 Dec 2016 19:15
| Nope
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OneSTone O2o
Posts 159
02 Dec 2016 21:46
| Unfortunatelly...
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