Atari

Hardware :
    My Falcon with the Afterburner in it
    (overclocked at 40Mhz with the bus at 20Mhz)
    and the Eclipse PCI adapter with an ATI Rage IIc video card
    (click on the photo for a biger view).
      AB040
        I have been using the AB040 since 1997. I haad a lot of problems at first mostly due to the fact that my AB040 is an early release. I had to fullyt redo my clock circuit using a 74ABTxxx buffer circuit and overclocked the motherboard and CPU (20/40 MHz). I also replace the original 68040RC25 with a 68040RC33. My flacon also had the original 68030 removed (so no going back). I also discovered that if your TOS is set to another language than GB/USA or GER, the AB040 TK drivers crash a lot. Once I switch to GB it's a lot more stable. I was even able to do some test at 50MHz but the blitter kept locking up before the system had time to switch it off from the auto folder (the falcon use the Blitter to display the Atari logo at boot).

      The ethernet adapter
        I'm using an EtherNEC with both Sting and MiNT. It works well enough to transfer files between my Macs and the Falcon(or from some ftp servers).

      The Eclipse
        I just add an Eclipse card to have good video perfomances. I'm using it in 1280x1024 in 65K colors (16 bpp). It's very fast (more that 2000% speed increase in comparison to a standard Falcon). the latest AB040 driver (TKNEW as they are called in my AUTO folder) are working well and allow me to use PCIBIOS.

      Next
        In the near future I'm going to change the power supply to use a pico PSU (picoPSU-160-XT) and replace the harddrive with a compact flash (I just ordered the latest version of HDDriver). I;m also going to try to update my fvdi version and rage.sys driver to the latest I can find (fVDI). I will also need to build a box as for now everything is laying around the original falcon case bottom. I also need to experiment with pure fVDI and replacement AES and Desktops.
OS :
      TOS 4.04
        I mostly use it for dev and 'internet' access with the eclipse and fVDI, or NVDI on the standard VGA output.
      MiNT
        My disk had a crash and I lost all my MiNT setup so I need to restart from scratch. As I haven't touch this for a while it looks like a lot of progress was done on MiNT and now support ext2fs... a lot better than minixfs. So I'll update this when I get MiNT back up and running.