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  1. Posted

    I see mostly a broken power switch. Best Electronics has a new one, and most likely anything else you need. Use the evil Goo to search Atari Best Electronics and you will find them.

    The Web page is a mess, that'sounds a known fact. Brad Koda (the owner) is a great guy. I have met him personally. One thing to remember is that Brad is a busy man and he can get annoyed by repeated stupid questions and such.

     

    It's possible the switch is broken but it looks to me like the entire PCB got moved out of place and it's not lining up anymore.

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    Looks like it suffered some shipping damage.

     

    I had one that was in worse shape. Take it apart and see how bad it is. I bet the board is loose and some of the mounting posts are busted. I had one in worse condition that I fixed using M.E.K. and melted it back together.

     

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    After

     

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    Now I sure hope they can make a gold kit for (my 2) the CX53 Trak-ball controllers, as they too, have the carbon contacts on the buttons and the bubble contacts on the fire buttons have all failed on them, I hope they can do something with them so I can use them again, and, for a "lifetime" at that!!!

     

    You can use the gold plated rubber Aux pad button and the gold plated number pads on the CX53, they are the same parts. Also I replaced my switches on mine with these dome replacements from console5 (awesome seller)

     

    https://console5.com/store/self-adhesive-dome-switches-10mm-quad-4-leg.html

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    I've got this trak-ball that is erratic. When moving the ball slowly, the cursor jitters around the screen. See video for proof. This is an older unit. It's got some brass rollers. I've replaced the bearings, and all of the ICs except for the one at A1. Still is jittery. Not sure why.

     

    It looks like it's had some rework done to it. One of the ICs was soldered right to the board while the others were socketed. I've unsoldered that IC and installed a socket and replaced the IC.

     

    Anyone know what's going on?

     

    https://youtu.be/D553md3WgII

     

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  9. Posted

    I kinda stumbled into the 5200 and it is now my most played Atari. By the later 90s, I'd outgrown the 2600 some time before and still had it, but it was left at Mom's house. Sega was my thing then. I used to go to flea markets and used 2nd hand shops. We didn't have internet then, so hunting in the wild was the only way. One evening, I swung past a flea market that was packing up. I stopped in for any possible last-minute deals. I found a 2-port 5200 w/ Pacman abandoned where a seller had been, so I took it home. Digging around in the used shops, I turned up a power supply and a couple other carts: Missile Command, Pole Position, Centipede. At the counter, the owner started asking me about my "finds" and mentioned having a bunch of dead controllers for 5200. I always used to tinker w/stuff and had fixed things for him in the past, so he made me a deal. If I could make the controllers work, or at least half of them, then I could have a pair for my system. It took a lot of tinkering, cleaning, and then figuring out out to put them back together, but I got almost all of them working and had myself a set. 20yrs later, I'm still here. :)

     

    Also have a Tandyvision One from an uncle. I never had a problem with the controls either for most games. I loved the autofire on Astrosmash, Shark Shark was cool, and I think the Centipede port was the best I'd ever played. I'd had some Colecovisions as well 2nd hand, but didn't get along with those controls at all, other than the Super Action sticks.

    The Intellivision Centipede was even better than the 5200??

     

    Yeah I was not a fan of the Colecovision controllers. Although, I first played that machine after it was well past it's prime.

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    I grew up with the 5200 also. I was born in 82 so I was pretty little when we had it. My parents mainly bought it for my sister, but I did wind up playing it more than the rest of my family later on. My parents say I was even better than them and my sister when I was that little, but they must have really been bad, haha.

     

    Anyway, I did love the machine and I'm glad it was my first system. I didn't mind the controllers back then, except for when they stopped working and my dad had to always fix them. I have pictures of my opening my birthday present and it's Dig Dug. My favorites were Dig Dug, and Keystone Kapers.

     

    We gave it to my cousins when I got a NES which I regret. They say they spilled soda on it and threw it away. Kinda pisses me off.

     

    I got the Atari bug again in the mid 90's and started going to thrift shops. Lots of 2600 stuff but it took YEARS until I found any 5200 stuff. It's a lot more rare to find in the wild. I remember when I first saw the controller again at a garage sale back then and got nostalgic over it haha.

     

    Now, I've rebuilt my controllers with Best's gold kit. I also A/V modded one of my 5200's and the picture is pretty awesome. It's a shame there aren't more native games for it, and more original games.

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    Another thing I plugged the 850 into the computer and then the floppy into the 850 and then the Atari wouldnt boot from disk.

     

    When I have the floppy connected to the Atari and the 850 connected to the floppy the computer boots from floppy.

     

    I even swapped cables out. Is that normal?

  21. Posted

    So I got an 850 off ebay. I can't seem to get it to work.

     

    I've been trying to get it to work with my wimodem232 wifi modem.

     

    I had built a cable, but couldn't get it working so I purchased both the Atari Modem cable and the Atari Terminal cable.

     

    I have my wimodem plugged into the Atari Terminal cable which is plugged into Serial port 1. When I go into terminal mode in bobterm at try a ATI command, nothing ever appears. I also tried the Modem cable and go no results. I do notice the screen makes a high pitched noise which changes tone when I change the baud rate. I switched all different baud rates and terminal modes and I get nothing.

     

    When I use the chameloen terminal I try the 850 with generic modem and it detects something and goes to terminal mode but no response back there either.

     

    Is there any software to determine if the 850 is working correctly?

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