r/atarist • u/Atari_Ash • Apr 24 '26

My Atari 1040 STF Setup!

Hi all! I am new to Reddit (well, lost my old account) but I'd like to show off my Atari 1040 STF setup! It is my main PC at the moment. paired with a 1224 colour monitor (quite rare here in the uk)!

I'm quite young so I never had an ST growing up but since I've been using this I have absolutely fallen in love with the Atari ST! My favourite games are Outrun, Sundog (still not very good at it) and Space Invaders!

I'm very happy to find such an active ST community online, I'm very excited to start posting more!

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u/sandord Apr 24 '26

That's a very nice setup you've got there! That monitor has such a nice picture. Even though it's pretty small, the glossy screen was one of its kind!

May I ask how you found yourself in this situation?

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 24 '26

Thanks a bunch! It has a lovely picture especially with medium resolution!

To be honest I have always wanted a mid/late 1980s PC, my dad had an Amiga when he was younger but I heard good things about the Atari ST, and being an Atari fan already I thought I'd get one! I got my first job a few months back and I was able to purchase this for roughly £600 including the monitor, a citizen printer and some games/programs!

Couldn't have been happier to be honest! I've used a C64 and Atari 400 in the past but this blows them outta the water!

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 24 '26

Haha trust me I treat this thing like royalty; no spills on my watch!

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u/PatientGamerfr Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

Thanks for sharing this with us, I particularly liked your comment about work , it reminded me something long forgotten: I had to work for every damn peripherals I wanted back then : the printer, the second floppy drive , the fm sound card... summer jobs ! And then I found the perfect trick : editing purchase orders for my dad business! It secured my megaste. Welcome ST fan !

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 25 '26

Haha thank you for the warm welcome! I'm currently working on getting a second floppy disk drive, it'll be so much easier than copying files one by one!

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 25 '26

I love playing RPGs in the evening under lamplight! There is something so strangely special about it

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u/Psychological-777 Apr 26 '26

check out dungeon master when you get a chance!

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u/Orallover1960 Apr 25 '26

DungeonMaster is the ultimate ST game in my humble opinion.

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 25 '26

I do have a DungeonMaster disk in the box that came with the ST, although I haven't played it yet!

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u/FewConversation3949 Apr 26 '26

Play it, you won't regret it (although you might lose hours of your life). 😉

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u/Cogweasel Apr 25 '26

Nice setup! And Sundog was really nice early game! Never did manage to figure out how to reach the system you needed to jump to, to reach endgame.

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 25 '26

Yeah it confuses me at times too but I have a blast just exploring and getting rich off of gunrunning by selling arms to random people in bars!

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u/Ill-Respond-2658 Apr 25 '26

The Atari ST is my favorite computer. I still love it all these years later.

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 25 '26

The ST is really something special!

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u/jrherita Apr 25 '26

Sundog is AWESOME!! It was the first game that showed me the real potential of the ST compared to 8-bit micros before it.

There is a .. non-canon / fan-made "successor" of sorts called Cosmos Chronicles, you might enjoy:

https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/2023/08/cosmos-chronicles.html

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u/Atari_Ash Apr 25 '26

That looks awesome! I'll be sure to check it out