[car]

Is the software still attractive to use, after all those years, or why are you going to these extremes? Sounds it's somehow intimately intertwined with the dongle, if the check routines can't simply be patched.

[car]

Going down this rabbit hole, I realize that ST hardware for musicians is still huge. And the dongles as still working as intended, apparently.

And then this blew my mind:

https://re-falcon.com

Quite the underground scene:

https://indyclassic.org

[cmrdporcupine]

I have two Falcons here they're a compelling machine and still fun to play with.

But if I were to ask for a machine repro, a new motherboard, it would be in a different PCB form factor to get it into an ITX or m-ITX case. Because it's the cases and keyboards that go, not the machine.

[steve1977]

We almost had something like that with the Medusa and Hades Atari clones.

[cmrdporcupine]

People attempted to patch the routines decades ago and it never produced a stable result.