A serial port mod for the Atari ST

[WARNING] Please read carefully this note before using this project. It contains important facts.

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What is A serial port mod for the Atari ST, and when to use it ?
What should you know before using A serial port mod for the Atari ST ?
How to use A serial port mod for the Atari ST ?
Known issues
Miscellanous

1. What is A serial port mod for the Atari ST, and when to use it ?

A serial port mod for the Atari ST is a mod that will allow an Atari ST computer with a DIP version of the MC68901 to double the maximum speed of the serial port. The mod require some physical modification of the original computer, including cutting a pin of the MC68901 !

A description of the mod is available on the "ST Format" #71, a scan of the pages are provided for reference in this repository.

Licence

A serial port mod for the Atari ST is published under the Creative Commons CC0 license. You can find a copy of the licence there : https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

A serial port mod for the Atari ST is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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2. What should you know before using A serial port mod for the Atari ST ?

A serial port mod for the Atari ST is made using Kicad 5.

Do not use A serial port mod for the Atari ST if this project is not suitable for your project.

3. How to use A serial port mod for the Atari ST ?

From sources

To get the latest available work, one must clone the git repository.

git clone https://github.com/sporniket/atari-st-mod-serial-port-upgrade.git

Then, open the project with Kicad 5

4. Known issues

See the project issues page.

5. Miscellanous

The original description of the mod

Report issues

Use the project issues page.