dennis.salzner
fau.de
With the Atari ST sitting my living room, I get asked from time to time whether I've written software for it. I'll explain the process for everyone that has a knack for retro computing like I do.
The keyboard and mouse of my 30 year old Mega ST seems to still function, but the keyboard has been dropped many times and it’s bound to break. I found a project [1] on the internet to build an adapter in order to connect a modern mouse and keyboard to the Atari and I’m trying to recreate it.
There have been some advancements in storage device emulation for vintage Atari computers. We can now build SD-Card adapters that connect to the Atari's ACSI port rather easily.
The Atari ST Mega home computer was produced from 1985 to 1994. It uses the Motorola 68k line of chips as its main processor with a 16 bit data bus. The Atari ST Mega that I have came with an Atari Megafile hard disk and Atari SM124 monochrome monitor. In the following I describe the modifications I have made to make the computer useable in the 21st century.