Back from holidays and some new additions to my collection

An unannounced holiday, just what I needed. And now I'm back with new energy and new additions to my Atari collection... almost. I have to collect a huge amount of Atari magazines and books this week (for free) as well as a TT (4MB ST-Ram / 4MB TT-Ram) with the huge 19" screen and two laserprinters :-b for only €50! Sweet...

I want to start (along with all my other intentions) scanning as much magazines, books and other usefull information and publish this on the internet to share with fellow Atarians. I assume copyrights won't be a problem anymore... otherwise I will get noticed :).

Stay tuned for some news on available scanned Atari information as well as on my other work with the beloved Atari's.

Mint troubles, but networking up and running

Two weeks later I disabled Mint temporarily but have networking up and running!

Why I disabled Mint? I had it up and running, but the networking part was troublesome and I kept getting errors on bootup related to one of the external modules. Networking is critical for me, I want to transport files easily over the network. I'm using a DaynaPort Pocket SCSI/Link together with the Anodyne Software drivers. So I didn't hunt down the problem and just set up Sting under Single TOS. It was a breeze together with the Anodyne drivers.

Next I installed HighWire to check out internet browsing on the Falcon. It was a bit troublesome, but in the end all was fine and I played with it a bit. Still need to check out configuration options to tweak it to my preferences, for instance default font settings are hard to use.

During the setup of Sting and HighWire I stumbled upon quite some posts on different fora concerning installation issues. I'll try to write a quick guide with example settings and post it here for reference for those Atarians who are struggeling.