Mega STE

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MegaSTE.JPG The Mega STE was released in 1991 and was designed to replace the aging Mega ST design. The enhancements found in this machine were mostly a mixture of features from the standard STE and the TT designs and included:

  • Software switchable CPU speed between 16Mhz and 8Mhz for enhanced compatibility.
  • Increasing the colour palette from 512 to 4096, albeit while still only allowing 16 colours on screen at once.
  • 8-bit DMA Stero sound output through RCA connectors.
  • Much easier to upgrade RAM thanks to 30-pin SIMM slots.
  • Genlock support.
  • A much improved version of TOS, with versions from 2.0, 2.05 and [2.06]] available in it's lifetime.
  • TT style case with detachable keyboard and base which also acted as a monitor stand.
  • Support for a 1.44Mb floppy drive, which was added to later models as standard.
  • Internal SCSI hard drive support.
  • Appletalk compatible network port.
  • A VMEbus slot.

There were three models available with 1Mb, 2Mb and 4MB RAM. The 1MB model lacked the high resolution mono monitor and built in SCSI hard drive.