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Paul Westphal

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  1. I totally forgot about Mall 205 KayBee! I think the draw for The LLoyd Center was that it was an open air mall that you could walk your bike through. It would snow and rain in the center of the mall.

    Also you could catch a glimpse of Tonya Harding ice skating once in a while, but that was a little later..

    More later in life, I spent my days off at Electronics Boutique, always searching for the greatest Sega CD game ever. Then the Jaguar hit shelves. I DID see a official Aircars being sold there.

    It was just the cart and manual, no box. THAT was telling. 🙂

  2. Hi all!

    So a buddy and I picked up two Megs ST2's. They both came with a 16mhz accelerator + switch. No Keyboards.

    We both have an Eiffel 3 coming.

    So I did some testing with games that would auto boot, with the switch on for 16mhz, and off for 8mhz, respectivley.

    HOLY TOLEDO! Buggy Boy runs like its a Genesis game and the Time Bandit demo runs WAAAY to fast. 🙂

    So at this point I'm thinking any game that is either 3D or that has many sprites on the screen will benefit.

    When the Eiffel3 comes in I will do some more comparisons and post them here. I think I'll start with painfully slow shooters.. maybe Star Wars and R*Type2..

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  3. Well I have had much experience I can share.

    I use a modern LCD HDTV that's multi-region and multi power ( 110, 220 ) that you can get from 220 Electronics.

    Its obviosly does 50/60hz and everything in between . PAL, SECAM, NTSC 4.3 and NTSC 3.58. It sees everything that I throw at it from composite from the ST. My TV also has a " autotune " feature that scans for the signal. 

    You can get composite out of the ST's if they have the RF modulator, and it will upscale to HDMI. I use a converter made by Cable Matters.

    You can get Composite out of an ST WITHOUT  a modulator by putting in a few components where the missing modulator is. Pic #1  unpopulated,  Pic#2 populated. The Mod is by Paranoid Little Man.

    There are cheap monitor to composite cables on ebay, and Hercules Workshop may have some as well.

    My TV/Upscaler combination has worked for Amiga's as well.

    I hope this helps.

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    Atari ST Video #2 ( populated ).png

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