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It's a PAL version of the cart. I live in the UK

Here's some pics of the cart: http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/759/eidf.jpg http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5640/lcjf.jpg http://imageshack.us/photo/photo/546/2lfw.jpg/ It's got a pinkish / peachy colour on the cart.

Hi, I picked up a Supervision 4 in 1 cart today. I've looked everywhere and can 't find a description that matches the one I have. It has on it River Raid 2, King Kong, Pitfall and Space War. I can find different variations, but not this one specifically. Any info on how rare it is and a rough price range on how much it may be worth would be great. Lee

Well I contacted the seller a few hours ago, and he basically said the same thing that beamer mentioned. He had a Happy Upgrade for his 1050 drive, and apoligised for not mentioning this before I bought them. He did say that if he can find it, he'll send me his Atari 1050 Happy modded drive for just the cost of the postage. He's not sure if it'll work, but it's mine if I want it. For the price of £10, I think it's worth a gamble, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he can locate the drive. If not, then I might just invest in one of those Happy board upgrades from the link beamer left above.

I've worked out what disk it was, and it is now in the bin. It was a Transdisk 2.0 utility disk that caused the problem, and I could clearly see though a little gap where the black disk had been scrapped off and put onto the drive lens. One quick question if anyone knows, I've got around 100 disks from a seller, and around 70% of them work fine, but the other 30% don't and just come up boot errors. Those disks with the boot errors are marked up as 'Alpha Load' on the top of the disk and have a large amount of games on each side of the disks. Is there a way to boot these disks, because every disk marked up as 'Alpha Load' does not work, but every other disk that is not one does work.

Great news everyone!!! I got the Isopropyl today and cleaned it throughly using Q-Tips / Cotton Buds, and the amount of black dirt that came off that lens was amazing. Dirt came off when I was using a different alcholol, but not that black and not that much. Put the disk in the drive, kept my fingers crossed.....and it booted up! I am sooo happy! Thanks for everyone's help, I really appriciate it!

Well I've got some Isopropyl Alcholol coming tomorrow, so I'll give that a clean and hopefully that will work. From what I can see, it's formatting the disk (from the head moving up and down and making the sound it does when it would normally format a disk). It's when it gets to verifying the disk and reading the disk that it fails. I'll update everyone tomorrow evening when I get the alcholol and clean it.

Rybags - I tried that, but when it finished formatting, it error'd out on the changes on line 60 (the 690 - 710 change), it wouldn't do the read. russg - the head is moving perfectly fine up and down the rails. I've witness this when it was trying to format the disk using the basic commands that Rybags gave me. If move the head to it's furthest travel and switch the unit on, it will move the head all the way back to where it would read the first sectors on the disk.

Hey, I typed all of the basic stuff in above, and performed a format which seemed to work, but when it got to the read part, I think it failed. The info that came up when running the above code were as follows: FORMAT STATUS 144 READ SECTOR 1 STATUS 144 READ SECTOR 2 STATUS 144 and the READ SECTOR _ STATUS 144 continued down to Sector 30 and ended. It was doing the read sector really really slow though, like 2-3 seconds before moving onto the next Read Sector message. When it hit around sector 20, you could hear the drive moving as well as it was trying to read the data on the disk. I'm hoping someone can let me know what the above may mean.

Guss - It's definatly not the Atari 800XL with the fault. I connected my original Atari 800 48k unit to the drive, and exactly the same thing happens. I've used 2 different SIO cables to check if it was the cable that was faulty, and again the same thing happened with both cables. As for checking the voltage, I have no kit like that at all, and wouldn't have a clue what to do anyway! lol Rybags - If you have that, then that would be great. I'll definatly give that a try to see what happens. I'm not 100% sure, but if you leave the drive empty with the level down and switch on the Atari 800, and I right in believing that it would come up fast boot error's? If so, then my drive is not doing that. It's doing the exact same thing (really slow boot errors') whether or not there is a disk in the drive.

Yes, when the Atari 800XL is switched on, the disk spins, but the drive head doesn't move and slow 'BOOT ERROR' messages appear on the screen. I'll have to hunt down some isoprophyl alcohol and give that a go. I've tried a different Atari power supply, and that didn't help things either. I can't try and format anything obviously as the disk drive is not reading disks, so the drive speed and formatting is out of the question at the mo.

Hi, I have to apoligise first off because I put this in the wrong topic originally, so thanks to Fox-1 for pointing that out for me. Anyway..... On Friday my Atari 1050 Disk Drive stopped working. One minute it was working perfectly fine, but then i went to boot up another disk and nothing. This is what the drive is doing: When I turn the Atari 800 XL on with the flap up on the drive and with no disk in it, it will throw up lots of fast continuous 'BOOT ERROR' messages as it normally would, and no loading LED light on the drive. When I turn the 1050 Drive on with the flap down on the drive with a disk in, the drive head will move down to the end of it's travel (end near the SIO ports), and the LED loading light goes off. As far as I know, normal. I'll then turn the Atari 800XL on, the drive will do nothing. The Atari 800XL will do nothing for 1-2 seconds, beep on the TV screen, then show 'BOOT ERROR', another 1-2 seconds, beep on the TV screen and then 'BOOT ERROR' again. I've opened the drive up and cleaned the little Octogen shapped drive head with a Cotton Bud / Q-Tip and some rubbing alcholol and got a bit of dirt off, but that hasn't helped one bit. I've left the top of the drive open to check what the drive is doing. It's spinning the disk ok, and the drive head is moving freely up and down when switched on and off with the Atari 800XL off, but when I switch the power on to the Atari 800XL nothing happens. The drive head doesn't move, even though the disk is spinning. Just really slow slow 'BOOT ERROR' messages. Has anybody on here got any idea what the problem could be? I'll be gutted if my drive is knackered (which it sounds like it is!) Thanks for any help you guys can throw my way. Lee

Hey Guys, I'm on the brink of ordering another 1050 drive from Ebay, but before I do I just want to ask if anyone has anymore ideas on how to fix this issue. I've left the top of the drive open to check what the drive is doing. It spinning the disk ok, and the drive head is moving freely up and down when switched on and off and when entering a disk. When I switch the power on to the Atari 800XL though, nothing happens. The drive head doesn't move, even though th disk is spinning. Just really slow slow 'BOOT ERROR' messages. Any help would be great.

Thanks Kylev, I tried to book up a Dos 3.0 disk, and at first it was reading it, then boot error...loading...boot error...loading...stopped. I then reset it, and now it's back to the slow 'BOOT ERROR' with the disk in or out.

Hi, Today, my Atari 1050 Disk Drive stopped working. One minute it was working perfectly fine, but then i went to boot up another disk and nothing. This is what it is doing: When I turn the Atari 800 XL on with the flap up on the drive and with no disk in it, it will throw up lots of fast continuous 'BOOT ERROR' messages as it normally would. When I turn the Atari 800 XL on with the flap down on the drive with or without a disk, it will do nothing for 1-2 seconds, beep on the TV screen, then show 'BOOT ERROR', another 1-2 seconds, beep on the TV screen and then 'BOOT ERROR' again. I've opened the drive up and cleaned the little Octogen shapped drive head with a Cotton Bud / Q-Tip and some rubbing alcholol and got a bit of dirt off, but that hasn't helped one bit. Has anybody on here got any idea what the problem could be? I'll be gutted if my drive is knackered (which it sounds like it is!) Thanks for any help you guys can throw my way. Lee [EDIT] - I've since cleaned the heads again to be on the safe side, and now it reads a disk or two, but all the rest that were working before now show up a continuous 'BOOT ERROR' messages, whilst the drive is clearing reading the disk. I have no clue what's going on.