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 Subject: A New MIDI Atari?
Author: GD (171.a.002.brs.iprimus.net.au)
Date:   06-07-2003 19:59

Hi Everyone,

This is just a quick post. Im an engineer with an interest in the atari sequencing, particularly cubase & notator. Ive been playing with the idea of a new machine for a while (the ST isnt getting any younger) and was wondering about the reaction of some of the members of the board. My idea has been to produce a custom pci board to plug into a standard motherboard. I have a MIDI interface, a boot ROM and a Compact flash interface on it at the moment. Ive got it plugged into a intel 845GL board with inbuilt video. Im running embedded dos on it at the moment with stonx in the flash.. however the idea is to put it all in flash, hopefully replacing stonx with something better. Then the compact flash will replace both floppy and harddrive... making it pretty economical.

So my questions are these?
1. Do you think there is a market for the above card to be produced and packaged in a ST-like case (better keyboard tho!) for musicians?
2. Im basing it on an intel board and Ive sourced a good quality 101 key keyboard. Any religious objections?
3. Is PAL/NTSC output going to be a requirement for musicians? What do others using cubase cart around with them? I use a monitor with adaptor... but I dont know anyone else still using the atari where i am. If this is a requirement my feeling was to move to an itx board with tv/out... but I wanted this to be cheap and quality. For the most my experience with VIA has been poor.

The major obstacle Im having at the moment is software and which direction to go. Im only interested in single TOS due to cubase timing. So for that reason Im not interested in mint. I would prefer whatever I put in it to be GPL'd. Im not happy with single TOS as it stands at the moment. My single biggest gripe is screen resolution & color depth. We need at least 16bit 1024*1280 IMHO. For this im drawn to emutos and the idea of fvdi and hacking XaAes to run on top of emutos? is this practical? Its a lot of work. Should something be released based on TOS2.06 or will it sink like a stone?

Flames, please,
GD
PS Im calling it the 'jammer' ATM.





 Topics Author  Date
  A New MIDI Atari?  GD 06-07-2003 19:59 
   RE: A New MIDI Atari? new mintboy 06-08-2003 03:09 
   any alternatives to x86? new replicant 06-08-2003 17:18 
    RE: any alternatives to x86? new Nate Downes 06-10-2003 04:00 
    RE: any alternatives to x86? new Alex 06-11-2003 16:44 
     RE: any alternatives to x86? new replicant 06-11-2003 17:56 
      reality and possibilities new Alex F. (not Alex) 06-11-2003 19:24 
       RE: reality and possibilities new replicant 06-11-2003 22:55 
        RE: reality and possibilities new Alex F. 06-11-2003 23:22 
         RE: reality and possibilities new replicant 06-12-2003 00:59 
    RE: any alternatives to x86? new Alex 06-11-2003 16:45 
     RE: any alternatives to x86? new Johan Klockars 06-11-2003 16:57 
     RE: any alternatives to x86? new Nate Downes 06-11-2003 17:20 
     don't get overheated; that's a x86 thing to do! new replicant 06-11-2003 18:09 
      RE: don't get overheated; that's a x86 thing to do new Ragstaff 06-12-2003 15:07 
    RE: any alternatives to x86? new replicant 06-11-2003 18:13 
    What about the PegasosII G4-1Ghz for 499,- EUR? new Henri 06-13-2003 17:56 
     RE: yummy new replicant 06-13-2003 18:43 
      RE: yummy new J.O. Aho 07-06-2003 18:15 
    RE: any alternatives to x86? new J.O. Aho 07-06-2003 18:02 
   RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Alex F. 06-09-2003 01:24 
    RE: A New MIDI Atari? new replicant 06-09-2003 02:39 
     RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Damion 06-09-2003 02:52 
      what type CPU? new replicant 06-09-2003 04:55 
       RE: what type CPU? new Damion 06-09-2003 23:16 
      RE: A New MIDI Atari? new tero 06-09-2003 18:31 
       RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Damion 06-09-2003 23:26 
        RE: A New MIDI Atari? new tero 06-10-2003 18:14 
         RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Damion 06-10-2003 22:45 
          RE: A New MIDI Atari? new tero 06-13-2003 14:55 
           I DO want to continue new replicant 06-13-2003 16:59 
            RE: I DO want to continue new Johan Klockars 06-14-2003 00:37 
             RE: I DO want to continue new replicant 06-14-2003 01:16 
            RE: I DO want to continue new Tero 06-17-2003 21:09 
           RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Johan Klockars 06-14-2003 00:07 
            RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Tero 06-17-2003 21:41 
             RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Johan Klockars 06-19-2003 02:57 
     RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Alex F. 06-09-2003 13:17 
      RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Damion 06-09-2003 23:31 
   RE: A New MIDI Atari? new GD 06-09-2003 10:06 
    RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Ragstaff 06-09-2003 13:47 
     RE: A New MIDI Atari? new velvetfr 06-09-2003 15:17 
      RE: A New MIDI Atari? new Alex F. 06-09-2003 16:12 
    RE: A New MIDI Atari? new tero 06-09-2003 18:50 

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