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Atari ST First Experiences and SF354 Belt Replacement - Long Version

Added 2021-07-15 14:15:01 +0000 UTC

After searching for at least six years I finally managed to get my hands on an Atari ST! When making this video I was really excited and had a particular idea of how I wanted to make it, but a number of things worked against that. This is a non-final version of the video that is the "full picture" I originally envisioned and how it didn't go as expected.

-- Minor Spoliers Break --

I'm going to be considerably chopping this video up to make a more concise version because this really didn't go as planned. I haven't decided yet but I may make the floppy repair part of the video more prominent or even break it out into a separate video. But I'm definitely going to need to cut down a lot of the explaining at the end and possibly VO a bunch of things instead. I had to re-address so many things I had previously encountered in the video and it drags on.

-- Major Spoilers Break --

I had this version of the video ready last night and was going to post it but went back to use the computer and my SC1224 monitor had died. So that was really demoralizing because I am still so excited to use this but it keeps giving me resistance every time I try. I was suspicious this might happen as I mentioned in the video, and this one seemed a little dim, so it wasn't unexpected. The newer CRTs are, they almost get exponentially more complicated inside. There are thankfully only two boards in this one after taking a quick peek last night but I saw nothing obvious. So I'll have to get a lot more in depth to find the issue. It's very difficult to find other repair info online because there were three manufactures used for this same "model" of monitor. So there are three completely different devices called the same thing.