Hi,
I just got ahold of my first 130XE. It seems in good shape and my preliminary testing (Atari Writer Plus, a few carts, SpartaDOS 3.2g etc.) shows no problems. Until, that is, I tried to run the disk version of Mac/65. Now I've tried this with multiple ATR copies (mostly from Pigwa) and when I run mac65.com it loads for a while then the screen gets garbled (large multi-coloured jumbled text). The machine is still responsive in that I can type commands and I can tell it is doing them (i.e. CP to DOS and then DIR) because the disk drive runs and the garbled text changes. I didn't do any electrical testing but I opened up the 130 and looked for bad components and broken solder joins etc, everything appeared to be fine. I've got the 130 hooked up to a Commodore 1702 via the RCA jacks in the front as my cable is composite only. I've used this cable and monitor with my 1200 without issues. Any ideas? Do I have a bad chip or is there some config I need to do before I run Mac/65?
Thanks,
Doug