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some other ideas rattling around in my brain. See isn’t in very good shape. If
the next article for those ideas. anyone has an old ST with a
good case, but preferably
doesn’t work, let me know. I
Looking Forward will put it to good use.

What does an old Computer geek do when he has I also have an old Mega ST
way too many old computers and way too much case that I could do some-
time to think up ideas? He decides to make some thing with but that would al-
new computers. most be too easy since it is
My new project is to take square and roomy com-
my dead Atari 800XL and pared to the ST case. May-
turn it into a Windows 10 be some day I will put a re-
computer (sorry Rick, no ally fast computer in it. If I can afford the parts.
Apples in my house). I just Not Atari related I’m also looking to build a new main
purchased a very small computer. My main computer now is almost ten
mini pc for this project. It is years old. It still works well, but I’ve started playing
4.7” x 4.7” x 1.9”. I think I around with some video editing and it just doesn’t
can fit it into the 800XL have the horse power to do it without taking a looong
case. I found an online arti- time. Hopefully I’ll get another ten years out of the
cle about how to make an 800Xl keyboard into a new one.
USB keyboard. It doesn’t look easy, but I think I can
do it. If the mini pc doesn’t fit in the case I have a I bought a “Cloner Box” that
dead 1050 disc drive that I can put the pc in. A little goes between your video
creative cabling and it would work. source and an HDTV. I have
been saving to disk some of
It would be cool to show the programs that I want to
it off by having an 8-bit keep from our cable’s DVR
emulator running on it box. You actually need to be
and then say “hey watch playing the program to the HDTV to get the video.
this” and switch it into This lets you avoid the copy protection.
Windows 10 mode. I
even saw person that put
a mouse inside an old
game cartridge. If I can get it working, I’ll bring it in
for a demo.
I would also like to try the same idea using an Atari
ST computer. The ST keyboard attaches to the
motherboard by way of a
connector. There is a
person in England that
makes a Keyboard to
USB adapter. It’s kind of
pricy would be a lot easi-
er than trying to make my
own. I’m sure that the mini pc would fit easily in the
bigger case. I even saw an article about a ST con-
version that housed an Intel i7 processor. It looked
crazy. I could use my second STFm, but the case

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