A2600 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Is the 1200XL the one with the cool atari boot up screen or does the 800XL do that too?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Originally the Atari 400 & 800 would boot to Memo Pad if not cartridge was installed or disk drive connected. The 1200XL would boot to the rainbow scrolling "fuji" symbol if no cartridge was installed or the OPTION key was not held down to put you into Diagnostics Mode. The 600/800XL would boot to built in BASIC or Diagnostic if the OPTION key was held down... the XE's would do the same... The 1200XL "Attract Mode" as I guess would be the best way to describe it was pretty, but useless and while the Note Pad on the 400/800 wasn't capable of being saved or printed, I can remember many a day when I needed to take a quick note of a telco# or msg and no pen/paper were handy, so a quick flick of the switch and I was typing away, that was a neat feature of the 400/800's... Curt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 On the 1200XL it is the HELP key that puts into diagnostics. It may turn on with memo pad. If it does, it is a case of call your nearest Atari service center...but they closed many years ago . Turned on without a cartridge or loaded drive connected then depending on the ROM your 1200XL has it will boot into a black screen with a multi color (scrolling alternating colors) ATARI on screen. If left it will then go into the normal attract mode where background and border colors alternate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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