Troed Sångberg
Troed Sångberg
Troed Sångberg
The personal blog of a hacker, dad, demoscener, cybersec professional, software engineer, futurist and above all someone who dives deep into whatever interests him for the moment.
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update 21/7: I’ll make regular builds of this, and hope to have it completely automated soon. They can be found here (link might change in the future): original post: 12 hours ago SDL2 support was merged into the popular retro graphics...
När jag fyllde år fick jag en ljusbox från Jysk av familjen. Barnen tycker den är helfestlig eftersom man kan skriva egna saker med hjälp av de medföljande bokstäverna, och den passade alldeles utmärkt på nattduksbordet. Den är, precis,...
I’ve added yet a new little description to Projects - a circuit and modification to “nudge” wakestates on Atari STs without needing to power cycle.
Back in the day, those of us who did advanced video tricks on the Atari (opening borders, hardware scrolling on hw without hardware scroll) knew that there were differences between systems, and sometimes on the same system. After some...
I’ve done an extended writeup of a little project I’ve been working on and off on for the last few months. Extending the video modes of an old Atari ST in new and interesting ways. Going from 4 colors to 16 might not sound much with...
update: See the very bottom of the post for more on where this is going. A while ago there was a discussion on Atari-Forum about what’s known as the “Stefan Nitschke 16MHz mod”. A document from 1996 describing how one can, sort of...
update 20-07-20: Since a few weeks back I no longer use any macOS systems, being Linux only nowadays. Because of that I feel that I can no longer keep this service running, due to not being able to verify that things are working or being...
The Atari ST, like other computers at the time, had Dual Density disk drives with 720KB of storage. DD for short. Since High Density (1.44MB) appeared shortly after, Atari used such drives in the more top of the lines models Mega STE and...
Today it’s exactly two months since I started on my "Elysium Basis" regime. Since quite a few of my friends have asked me to write an update on my thoughts about it - here it is. I’m still of the opinion that I have more energy. I’m also...
“it’s better to burn out than to fade away” (From Neil Young’s My My, Hey Hey - and known for being quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note) I remember my teenage years well. I also remember voicing the opinion above, along with other...
A few weeks ago I acquired a computer I never had the chance to play around with when it was new, an Atari Mega STE. It’s the culmination of Atari’s 16 bit line of computers, very compatible with the ST(E) range yet much more expandable,...
The Atari Mega STE might be the best machine of the 16 bit era. It’s very compatible with the regular ST(E) range, but in addition it can be run at a higher clock speed (16MHz, with cache) as well as a very nice case where it’s easy to...
This weekend is a long weekend in Sweden - and of course I’m away from home, hacking away at the infrastructure I’m far away from. During that hacking I needed to change a mapped port in my router, and suddenly realized I couldn’t. I use...
This last weekend me and many others were participating at the third incarnation of the STNICCC Atari ST conference. The first and original one was held in 1990 - where sadly I didn’t attend - and the second one was held as a reunion in...
update 2018-02-09: VLC 3.0 has just been released. Here’s a compatible version of the plugin (same source revision as before). update 2017-03-18: Link updated with fresh build (VLC 2.x). A few weeks ago I spent some time with the...