| 520 / 1040 STf / STfm |
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520 / 1040 STf / STfm |
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Atari |
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Home Computer |
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| ORIGIN |
U.S.A. |
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| KEYBOARD |
Full stroke keyboard with numeric keypad, editing keypad and 10 function keys |
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| CPU |
Motorola MC 68000 |
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| RAM |
512 KB (up to 4 MB) |
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| ROM |
32 KB with TOS on disk / 192 KB with TOS on ROM |
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| TEXT MODES |
40 or 80 chars. x 25 lines (bitmapped graphics) |
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| GRAPHIC MODES |
16 colors among 512 (320 x 200) / 4 colors among 512 (640 x 200) / monochrome (640 x 400) this last mode needs a special monitor. |
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| COLORS |
max. 512 |
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| SOUND |
3 voices + 1 noise channel, 8 octaves (Yamaha YM-2149) |
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| I/O PORTS |
Cartridge, Midi (in, out), Centronics, RS232c, Hard Disk, Floppy disk, RGB, Joystick, mouse |
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| BUILT IN MEDIA |
3.5'' disk-drive |
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| POWER SUPPLY |
Built-in power supply unit |
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| SAME MODELS |
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The 520STF and 1040STF were same machines, apart from RAM size and floppy disk drive capacity. |
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| LARGE VIEW |
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| LEFT & RIGHT SIDES |
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**(1)** Midi In and Out DIN sockets\
**(2)** ROM cartridges connector. |
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| TWO 520 STF VERSIONS |
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The top one has 360 KB floppy disk, the bottom one has a 720 KB version. |
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| REAR CONNECTORS |
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From left to right:
• Serial port dedicated to an external modem\
• Parallel printer connector\
• External hard disk drive interface\
• External floppy disk drive interface (15-pin DIN socket)\
• Monochrome or RGB monitor DIN socket\
• Power switch and plug\
• Reset switch (the grey plastic button is missing) |
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| INSIDE |
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Like almost all Atari machines, the mainboard, power supply unit and floppy drive are surrounded with a metallic protection against magnetic fields. |
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| 520 STF MAINBOARD |
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**(1)** 512 KB RAM chips (16x41256). Provision is made to upgrade the RAM size to 1 MB\
**(2)** TOS ROM's (2x32K)\
**(3)** MMU custom chip\
**(4)** 68000 CPU, here a Hitachi version\
**(5)** The Shifter custom video chip is protected by a metallic cover\
**(6)** Glue custom chip\
**(7)** Multi-Function Peripheral (MFP) chip\
**(8)** 2x6850 ACIA chips\
**(9)** Yamaha sound chipset\
**(10)** Floppy disk controller chip\
**(11)** DMA controller chip
For more information about each custom chip, see the 'Motherboard' picture of the Atari [520ST](/museum/atari-520-st-st-stm/) page. |
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| 1040 MAINBOARD |
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All the RAM area is populated with 41256 chips. |
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| MAINBOARD CLOSE-UP |
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This version doesn't hold the TOS in ROM. |
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| ATARI 2080 #1 |
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Just before launching the Mega-ST series, Atari sold little quantities of this unofficial 2MB RAM version called 2080STf. A 4160STf was also planned but never left the Commodore research department.
Thanks to **Sveto** |
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| ATARI 2080 #2 |
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Thanks to **Sveto** |
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| U.K. AD. (1986) |
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In U.K., at 1986 Christmas period, the 1040 STF was sold £799 + VAT for the 12" monochrome version, and £999 + VAT for the 14" colour version. |
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| U.K. AD. (1986) |
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Advert said:
As the American magazine 'Byte' commented, "for some time to come the 1040STF will be the clear leader in price/performance." |
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| FRENCH AD (DEC. 1985) |
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"At the fingertip of the mouse..."
"... 16/32 bits technology" |
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| U.K. AD. 1989 |
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Special 520-STFM bundle advert.\
Advert said:
There's no catch. We're giving you the Atari 520 STFM and £500 worth of great software titles for just £399.99.\
The twenty-three super titles include some of the greatest games and three excellent programs which introduce you to the BASIC programming language, computer-created music and the more popular computer applications such as word processing and spreadsheets... |
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| SF-354 |
Single density disk-drive |
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| SF-314 |
Disk-drive |
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| CUMANA DRIVE |
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| SUPRADRIVE |
20 Mb hard-disk |
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| 170MB QUANTUM HARD-DRIVE |
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This unit has an ICD Host Adapter. |
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| ATARI MEGAFILE 30 |
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This hard-drive has a 30Mb capacity. |
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| INSIDE THE MEGAFILE 30 |
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**(1)** Seagate MFM 30 MB hard-disk Type ST-238\
**(2)** Power supply\
**(3)** Logical board\
**(4)** Power and disk access LED's |
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| ATARI UNIVERSAL MODEM |
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The SX212 modem was one of the rare Atari peripherals that could be used with all the Atari computers range, from the 400/800 series up to the Falcon. It had both the Atari I/O ports for the 8-bit systems and a standard RS-232 connector for ST's
It was a 300/1200 baud modem compatible with the well-known Hayes 'AT' commands.\
Cable and software was sold separately, depending of the computer used. |
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| SML-804 |
Laser printer |
The SLM-804 was actually a Kyocera F1000 printer but without neither on-board processor and memory nor buttons other than the on/off switch. It was first delivered with the Mega ST but could be connected on all of the ST series computers through a dedicated interface box.\
The printer used the processing power and the RAM memory of the ST computer for printing at 8 pages per minute and 300 DPI. The paper tray held 250 sheets.
Thanks to **Francois Michaud** who donated us this printer. |
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| SMLC-804 |
Laser printer interface |
This interface allowed the SML-804 printer to be connected to any Atari ST holding at least 1 MB RAM. |
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| Emulators Online |
http://www.emulators.com/ |
Windows |
Demo of Gemulator, a commercial product from BraSoft. |
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| Toad Computers' Atari Central |
http://www.ataricentral.com/ |
Windows |
Demo of Magic, a commercial emulator for PC/Windows and Macintosh. |
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| Toad Computers' Atari Central |
http://www.ataricentral.com/ |
Apple |
Demo of Magic, a commercial emulator for PC/Windows and Macintosh. |
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| Hatari |
http://hatari.sourceforge.net/ |
Multiplatform |
Hatari is an Atari ST emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library. More precisely, Hatari is an adaption of the WinSTon source code to the SDL library. |
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| Atari Music Network |
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Atari Music Network welcomes and celebrates all vintage digital musicians no matter what their computer |
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| ATARI.ORG |
http://www.atari.org/ |
Looking for something on any Atari machine ? Follow the links ! |
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| PLOPBOX - Atari music archive and jukebox |
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listen to atari tunes directly from your browser |
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| The Atari Historical Society |
http://www.atarimuseum.com/ |
The complete history of Atari Arcade and Home games and computers. Complete site with pictures, commercials (streaming), and full text articles. Amazing site ! |
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| Aex Tb (Italy) |
Saturday 21st August 2021 |
I use a 1040 st as main sequencer with cubase 3.0... He never miss, he never crash... When i switch to pc windows based cubase i miss it soo much because soo many system crash... Now made music with pc windows is good but some time ago is a nightmare. |
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| Brosen (Switzerland) |
Friday 17th March 2017 |
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| M-C (France) |
Monday 10th February 2014 |
Hello,
20 yers ago, I made an modification inside my 1040 stf : now, it could work as a PC (win 95) or MAC (Sys 7.5 french)... Just for fun !\
After 20 years, I''d like to wake up my sleeping beauty nd show it working to my kids...\
Who''s got SCSI or IDE adaptator on asci or cartridge connector ?\
I''m looking for schematic or buying the adaptator. |
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| Doug T. |
Wednesday 26th December 2012 |
Hi - yes if anyone has a 1040 ST I would definitely like to buy it! I have some old 1040 ST disks that I would like to get information from, let me know you can email me doug@bluechairmusic.com, thanks. |
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| Jamey Orsborn (USA) |
Thursday 6th December 2012 |
I also have an old 1040 ST, along with monitor, mouse, external 30MB hard drive. Anyone interested in buying?
Thanks! |
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| Paul S (UK) |
Tuesday 7th February 2012 |
The 520STFM was my 3rd computer (after previously having a Commodore C16 then a ZX Spectrum 128+). I had quite a good setup, the standard mouse was replaced with a far more accurate and comfortable Naksha model, as well as a Blitz Turbo external floppy drive and a Citizen 9-pin colour printer.\
I did a few bits of graphics and fonts for some lesser know demo groups and even a bit of Sound Tracker music with TCB Tracker, I remember getting an assembler routine that could play the mod files and incorporated that into an existing program that displayed a Spectrum 512 colour image with a scrolling message! I was so impressed with that! |
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| Mike (usa-texas) |
Saturday 1st May 2010 |
I have an atari st 1040 with color monitor sc1224 and mouse. Great condition, has been stored for 12 years. I have all manuals....how much can i sell it for? |
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| Thomsonicus (Poland!) |
Saturday 21st July 2007 |
heh, I broke quite a couple of joysticks while playing Super Street Fighter 2 on my friend's 520STfm :) |
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| Daniel (Sweden) |
Monday 27th June 2005 |
Ahh i got a 520stm myself..still got it in its original box..unfortently its not working due to some damage on a chip and also the floppy is not working and got no mouse.\
i upgraded it to 1mb and had around 1000+ discs with games and all kind of programs..have a few hundred left maybe less ;) I also got my cousins 1040STE..its working but have some damage keys on keyboard, and have no mouse. Damn i miss the good ol times :) ATARI RUULES FU** AMIGA ;)) |
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| Robert N. (Kansas) |
Thursday 14th April 2005 |
I had a 1040STf in high school. It was a great system, and that Mac emulator worked better than you would expect. We had Macs at school, and my friend and I used my 1040ST at home to run the Macintosh verison of Pagemaker to product our school newspaper. In fact, I remember it running a bit better on my 1040ST than it did on the Mac SE at school.
I went all out on my ST...had both monitors and a little switch to switch between them. I also had the Supra 20 megabyte hard drive. I think that thing cost me over $700.00 when I bought it in maybe 1997 or 1998. Ouch. |
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| Henrik Jakobsen (Denmark) |
Tuesday 3rd February 2004 |
All of my buddies had an Amiga500. I had an Atari 520 Stfm (bought it in '89). I still have it, but the external floppydrive is malfunction, so I cant use it, though I have the FD-controller interface yet. I remember the good old days, when ST forum zine was around the shops in Denmark... I also recently found my joysticks---> what a great quality they was made of! compared to daily models. Imagine how it would be like, to play summer games on new ones! |
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| Mark P (bangor uk) |
Tuesday 14th January 2003 |
Not sure how I ended back here, but a kweschun. Anyone know how the keyboard/mouse/joystick reading chip can be damaged and how to put it right? A local PC shop bizarrely had an ST-TV scart lead as one of the offered products on it's website, so now my atari is alive again in full RGB sharpness :) only half of the discs still work, but hey, it's enough. problem is i get maybe 5 or 10 minutes into a game, if that, and then all the inputs stop working. Gahh!!
Looks like the only two games I can play from now on are Dynablaster and Gauntlet II, with the printer port joystick dongle.. |
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| Jan K (CZ) |
Friday 17th May 2002 |
the Atari has 640x400 monochrome,\
640x200 with 4 colors and 320x200 with\
16 colors. Both color resolution are\
displaylable on TV . |
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| Mark P (Bangor, UK) |
Friday 5th April 2002 |
Mmm, still got one of these (1040) sitting in a cupboard waiting for my soldering skills to improve enough to finally make up a TV connection lead (tricky tricky) as the last known phillips monitor in the world burnt out years ago ^_^ Fond memories, wish I could get it going and work out a way to sync it with my palmpilot.. a machine with twice the processor speed and memory! .....hrm, hands up anyone who remembers the multitude of ST video capture devices? wonder why you can't do it on a palm... :)
On the monitor note, the official site specs box is exactly right - 320x200 in 16 colours, 640x200 in 4 colours (both from 512 palette) and 640x400 in black and white with a special monitor (why the hell TV compatibility for that wasn't available baffles me). You could stretch beyond that to higher resolutions and colours - particularly 320x240 in "512" colours - but only with very fancy programming!\
chow... |
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| Orbus (Midwest.) |
Thursday 7th March 2002 |
The 'Cartridge that could turn it into a Mac' was created by David Small, of 'Small Computing', and came in two flavors:\
The original was called the 'Magic Sac', and was nothing more than a holder for two boot ROMS from a Macintosh - Everything else was done in software, and the MS wasen't capable of reading Mac Disks (They provided a transfer program that allowed you to use a macintosh via serial cables to transfer disks.)\
The second version was called the 'Spectre GCR', and had a loop-through for the external floppy drives that enabled external floppy drives to read Mac floppies, along with much improved emulation.\
As far as I remember, a monochrome ST with 4mb ram (System address limit) could run System 7.5 - but, with less than four MB ram, you can imagine how poorly it ran it. |
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| statusbar (Vancouver) |
Sunday 3rd March 2002 |
Yes, the Atari ST had 640x200 16 color graphics mode as well as 640x400 monochrome and a 320x200 256 color mode. The monochrome monitor and color monitors were seperate, and the resolutions available to you were dependant on the type of monitor you had. I used to have both. |
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| PvK (Seattle) |
Friday 1st February 2002 |
640 x 200 graphics mode? I don't think so. 640 x 400 yes, 640 x 200, no.
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