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Autor calypso

Atari Falcon030 je klasa unicorn, odn., neuhvatljiv.

Falcon C-lab mkII i Falcon C-lab mkX su neuhvatljivi.

Prvi Falcon nije svakodnevni putnik namjernik, ali pojavi se na ebayu i Atari/Amiga forumima.

Autor calypso

Falcon030 je zapravo trebao biti konkurencija IBM PC kompatibilnim racunalima, nisu imali nikakvu namjeru tuci se sa Amigom. Falcon030 je baziran na Motorola 68030 CPU, tako da je negdje u rangu intel i386.

Falcon je ne samo zelio biti konkurencija Amigi, vec je presisati za dva komplja, te pokazati da moze biti konkuretan top modelima Macintosh II serije, sa skupim (vanjskim) Sound Tools audio karticama. SoundTools=Digidesing=Avid danasnji.

Falcon ima 8 kanalni 16-bit audio, CD red book frekvu sto (onboard) nije imalo niti jedno racunalo te godine, a da nije kostalo desetinu ili vise tisuce dolara. I jos vaznije od procesora, imao je MC56001 DSP koji bio san snova za A/V bransu. NeXt je godinu ranije, isto imao taj DSP, ali kostao je x puta vise.

Atari je imao i Atari PC5 seriju PC racunala, mada to je bio zadnji dah icega, mozda si na to mislio pod konkurenciju?

Kako su davno napisali u IT pressu vani: Sokol koji je prekasno doletio.

Previse je kostao da bi nekoga motivirao od Amige. On je nasao mali zivot u audio dijelu, jer ga je Steinberg i C-Lab (Emagic) podrzavali, pa su kupili dovoljno Falcon kucista i napravili Falcon mkII i kasnije zasebno pizza kuciste (ala Indy) Falcon MkX. Bilo je i vanjske audio periferije sirom svjeta.

Kolega Rodolphe je jedini u svijetu radio zadnje ubrzivac za njega.

Mi smo se znali prepirati oko TT-a i Falcona, ali TT je bio meni najdrazi zadnji Atari. Falcona sam imao kratko, jednostavno je dosao (tada) u vremenu kad sam vec imao gomilu masina i tko bi se njima bavio. Falcon + njegov CT63 je valjda i danas najbrzi Atari. Osim (nisam pratio) ako se nije pojavilo neso drugo, ali dvojim da je itko i pomisljao investirati dalje.

Bas gledam email iz 2006., kad mi je Rodolphe slao zadnji popis prodaje, jer je skupljao novce za daljnji razvoj.

e vends ces trucs.
L'argent servira aux développements hard sur atari.

ATARI

- Falcon 4/14 MB ST-RAM SIMM card with 4 MB 10 EUR
- 4.3 GB HDD 3.5 IDE QUANTUM Fireball CR 15 EUR Ready with BOOT for Atari
- IDE 40 wires ribbon cable for 2 HDD 1 EUR
- SDRAM 64Mbytes PC100 for CT60/63 2 EUR
- RAM two 1MB SIMMs for 2MB upgrade STE/MSTE 2 EUR
- TT CPU Daughter board w/ 030 (for TT mb first generation) 15 EUR
- TT-RAM board with 4 MB (upgradable to 16 MB) 15 EUR
- TT rear metal VME bus cover with SERIAL ports 1 EUR
- TT SCSI cable (from TT SCSI to SCSI-50pins) 5 EUR
- SCSI case (new state – with PSU and internal cables) 5 EUR
- Jaguar Power Supply (230V / 50 Hz / French AC con.) 5 EUR
- ST/STE/F30 keyboard to RJ11 ext .keyboard cable adaptor 5 EUR
- External floppy drive 5.1/4 for Atari 2 EUR No power supply.

- Internal Floppy Side Selector (connected on 14pins con.) 1 EUR To boot on Side B of a 3.5 disk
- Atari calculator (new in the plastic box) 5 EUR COLLECTOR
- Atari Keyboard plastic contacts under keys (bag) 1 EUR
- Atari 1 x 7800 joypads 5 EUR
- Quickjoy game joystick with Autofire and ST/CPC sel. 1 EUR
- Cartridge with MAC ROMS for SPECTRE 5 EUR
- CD-ROM : TOS2WIN (1996) 1 EUR
- CD-ROM : Service DEMOS (ST/STE/Falcon) –12/1997 1 EUR
- CD-ROM : Atari Mega Archive Volume 2 (may 1995) 1 EUR
- 35 disks with software (utility and others) 1 EUR
- Official shop sticker (88*20 cm) ‘Atari Service’ & under 10 EUR COLLECTOR
‘Factory Authorized Network’ (all on silver with blue letters & a red Atari logo on left)
- CD-ROM Drive IDE - Samsung SC-148 - 48x 5 EUR


GFA BASIC for French people

- GFA basic 3.0 : classeur complet en français mais sans le disk.
+ Compilateur GFA 3.0 : classeur en français (pages en rouges !) sans disk
+ classeur de mise à jour des 2 cités plus haut vers 3.5E avec le disk.
Le tout à 20 EUR
- Developper en GFA Basic sans disk - 256 pages - 10 EUR (l'intro est super : on y apprend que l'auteur à débuté sur le Basic de l'atari 400 !)
- Trucs et astuces en GFA BASIC 372 pages sans le disk - 10 EUR
- Graphisme en GFA - 872 pages - 15 EUR
ou le tout GFA pour 45 EUR.


PC & co

- MC68882RC25A (FPU PGA case for Amiga boards) 10 EUR
- AGP S3 Trio 3D –1998 1 EUR
- AGP ATI RAGE XL with 8 MB – 2000 1 EUR
- PCI S3 Trio Virge/DX card with 4 MB – 1997 1 EUR
- PCI card MPEG2 decode Creative Encore DXR2 -1997 2 EUR (w/ disk & VGA loop through cable)

- PCI card Modem 56K Olitec (chip Rockwell R6785) -1999 2 EUR
- PCI card Modem 56K Conexant (chip R6785) - 2000 2 EUR
- PCI card 10Mbit Ethernet (chip RTL8029AS) - 1999 1 EUR (2 available)
- PCI card SCSI - Adaptec AHA-2930CU – 2000 2 EUR
- PCI card SCSI-2 Ultra - Adaptec ASC-2916N 8 EUR (1 Ext. HD-DSub50 + 1 int. Dip50 + 1 int. HD-DSub68 (LVD/SE)

- PCI card SCSI-2 Ultra Wide - Adaptec AHA-2940UW 5 EUR (1 Ext. HD-DSub68 + 1 int. Dip50 + 1 int. HD-DSub68
- ZIP drive (// port) + 6 100MB cartridges w/ PSU & cable 10 EUR
- Slot 1 Pentium 2 MMX 333 Mhz card 1 EUR
- ATX PSU (115-230V) 300W 5 EUR
- ATX PSU (115-230V) 300Wwith AC switch & thermo control 8 EUR
- HDD Ultra-SCSI Wide - IBM UltraStar 9.1 GB – 7200tr/min 10 EUR (2 available)
- USB Wireless (IR) Multimedia Keyboard (ifree GT3001) 10 EUR
- 4 SIMM SDRAM 32MB-PC100 5 EUR
- 1 SIMM SDRAM 64MB-PC100 1 EUR (not compatible with CT60/63)

- ISA bus Sound Blaster AWE30 card 1994 1 EUR
- ISA bus Sound Blaster card (chip YMF719E-S) 1998 1 EUR
- ISA bus IO card (// + Floppy + HDD Winchester) 1989 1 EUR
- ISA bus Model card (chip USR PD17238PJ) 1996 1 EUR with disk
- MCA bus SCSI card 2 EUR
- MCA bus VGA card 2 EUR
- MCA bus Network card 2 EUR

- Cable SCSI DIP-50 to 1 x DIP-50 1 EUR (2 available)
- Cable SCSI DIP-50 to 2 x DIP-50 2 EUR
- Cable SCSI u-sub-68 to 2 x u-sub-68 – Ultra 160 5 EUR
- SCSI-2 HD-D-Sub50 terminator 5 EUR
- NEXT logo sticker 1 EUR