Author: Steve Stupple (tnt-11-105.easynet.co.uk)
Date: 01-05-2000 17:48
I have learn't to never say never. In the past there has always been an Atari owner that has proved that the machines can do things they aren't meant too:)
To convert to an STE, you'll need to know what is improved (e=enhanced).
For starters you have an additional 2 joystick ports, you can plug the Jaguar game pad into these for some games; Substation is one IIRC.
Next you have SIMM memory upgrade slots fitted, along with blitter, improved sound system along side the standard chip sound chip. Not forgetting the 2 RCA phono sockets for stereo sound, 4096 colour palette instead of 512; hardware scrolling...
The machine runs a smidgen faster, buggers some protection techniques (especially RNC's).
And if that's not all, the memory mapping and ROM allocations are different (that's why Romantic Robots 'Multiface ST' won't run on one)!
Mind you while you're at it, if you manage to clean the STE's sound up a little and allow access to the full 16 meg of memory by just slotting them into the SIMM slots, please let me know:)
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