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trapperkeeper asked for the bottom of the machine and for other sides of the box.

Nohow, i made three mistake (repetition) when i made the list; the console gives the games in random order and this list enlists several games with multiple occurrences, but different titles, so i've found three games twice. I was curious too, how can it be 131, but eliminated the redundant entries only today. I did not use the console with this supply at all. It gives 15V in all settings, it must be faulty.

While our family is a Commodore family - Dad's first computer was a C64, i wrote my first program on his C128, my first own homecomputer is an Amiga 500+ - but my first own machine - shared with my little brother - was an Atari VCS clone in 1991. It came with a cartridge with some games (i only remember Slot Racers, Tank Plus and Outlaw) and two poorly constructed joysticks which were broken immediately and we had to use QuickShots instead. Unfortunately one day the cartridge has given it's soul back to it's manufactors, so the machine has left home and the brazilian NES clone, SuperCom 72 came instead. While we managed to get back most of our retromachines in these decades (my brother found our C64 around Szeged, a city nearly 200km away from us, i found his A1200 at a local "Amiga-killer" and we "bought" back our C128 for a webshop; now only the family's first Amiga is missing but we are on it's tracks), but we had no hope for this one, as we thought that it was taken back to the shop where it must have been thrown out as unrepairable and obsolete. However, we were wrong. It turned out that even with the cartridge dead, the machine itself contained games too (we were like 3 and 5 years old, we have never removed it) and Dad did not gave it back to the shop, but sold to another family. (It was a misunderstanding, only the new console came from the shop.) And my brother accidentally ran into this family a year ago because some kind of purchase. They mistook him for our father and after clarifying that he is his son, they told him that they have bought a "game machine" from Dad, but they have no idea where it is. A year has passed and my brother - out of pure coincidence - ran into their FB want-ad of an Atari VCS clone. He contacted them and asked if it is the same machine and it was: they bought it from our father roughly 30 years ago, without a cartridge and joysticks (broken joysticks as it actually turned out). Everything was in it's place in the story and the setup. So as unbelievable it is, my first machine ever has returned after 30 years. They always say, it's a small world, well sometimes it really is. Here is the console: The box: While the story was that they got it without joysticks and Dad told them where to get new ones, the shop only had QuickShots and similar joysticks and these are "factory" joysticks and they are as broken as ours was: We got a supply with it, but it gives 15V with all voltage settings, i dared not to use it: Fortunately it's cable was detachable so i could plug it into my supply. Also fortunately, my Sony Trinitron has RF, so i could use it. (Originally it was used with a Videoton.) I have found 131 games in it. Unfortunately neither Slot Racers or Tank Plus (our favorites) are in the machine. It has Outlaw, but my brother hated that, he always lost in that game. But there is Berzerker (which i do not remember if we had in the cartridge): I think i should write some kind of conclusion here, but i could not come up with anything, so that's it.

I just got another 1050 and put it's belt into mine. So, after a decade i was finally able to boot up DOS on my 130XE. Thanks everyone in this thread.

@F#READY, @1050: Okay, i won't clean the head with contact spray. @1050: Unfortunately there are no such shops around here. @spookt: That would be great! Thank you!

Don't worry, i did not sprayed it directly onto the head, i sprayed it onto a ear cleaner stick and then i rubbed the head with the stick.

Thank you for your answer, you have found the problem: it is the belt. It's missing from the drive. I don't know what happened to it. Is it possible to replace it, with something in household? Or the best is, if i order one from Best Electronics? I'm living in Hungary, the otherwise not big price will be tripled, until the package arrives here. Or can i salvage something from an 1010? I have an 1010 tape which i'm not using.

Hi. I just put together my 130XE/1050 combo and tried to boot up Atari DOS 2.5, but only got a repeated BOOT ERROR. I've first checked the head, if it's clean, but it was (but i cleaned it with contact spray anyway). After that i noticed, that the "spinner" is not spinning. I put a bit of WD-40 on it, but did not helped, apparently it's not stucked. I've found some info on the net, that this could be a voltage problem, that the "spinner" does not get the 12V it needs. The transformator label tells me, it outputs 9V. I measured it and it outputs 0V, but the drive powers up, the head is moving, the Atari sees the drive. How can that be possible? Can anyone tell me, what should i do or check?