After a busy month of August finally the blog post to
the newest family member in my retro-collection.
The MegaST2
My 520ST+ (1MB RAM) was residing on my desk as my goto-ST but the mechanical keyboard (which I already owned) and form-factor lured me to search for an MegaST
to reside next to the BBS-running-MegaSTe.
I found an working MegaST2 on eBAY Germany, which the seller was willing to ship to Belgium.
It is in a nice cosmetic condition and it was still factory sealed.
Like all my machines I try not to tear up the seal :)
Some details
The factory Blitter patch
Helas TOS 1.02 in 2 ROM sockets but at least German TOS
pairs nice with my QWERTZ keyboard.
And yes, in Belgium we have AZERTY but I can type on
QWERTY and QWERTZ also.
I already owned a MegaST keyboard which I might still use
for another project (MiSTery-TangNano) but for the time
being it will serve the MegaST2.
I was sold as broken on Kleinanzeigen Germany but the cracks in the top case aren´t too bad actually.
For those noticing the missing/wrong keys, Jurgen TF_HH has been so kind in the meanwhile to send me those so all
keys are present now except I have an E key instead of Esc , well it is pretty close isn´t it :D
And on Allegra Poland I found a seller who sells customs
2 ROM chips for TOS, so for less than the price of having
to find and buy the EPROMS,buy an EPROM burner and do all the wire-soldering myself, I have now installed
TOS 1.04 German so I can use an ACSI Harddisk device.
No messing around on the PCB with adding 4 extra sockets.
And final upgrade, replace the VERY NOISY fan with a Noctua fan, as I found described on Youtube.
And although I told myself it would be the last machine I would be , expect a blog entry soon on an Amstrad CPC 6128 project, I swear it will be the last one.