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Just fired up my copy, what a joy to play and the packaging and presentation is first class. I am running it on my 1200xl in 800xl mode and it runs a treat. many thanks for making this available.

Started with a 1010 as part of an 800xl pack and managed to snap the play key and had to swop it with the pause key. Upgraded to a 1050 when I could afford it. These days use laptop as virtual floppy drive but still like to fire up the 1050 as there is something special about the noise of a floppy loading up that takes me back 30 years. Happy days.

New to the Falcon but I have 2 stock falcons both with 14mb ram 1 with 52 mb hardrive the second with 520 mb Both working well now but did have a lot of trouble with the second machine which was cheap off the bay but needed a fair bit of work. It also came with an load of sampling hardware and software. Still feeling my way with them.

Seem to remember a lot of Rob C multi menus Didn't he start doing ST protection routines, or am I thinking of Rob Northen. Memories going.

I would have to say my 800xl bought new in 1985 complete with 1010. Still working and orginal. Even has the national Dragon users sticker I put on it to redeem my soul for jumping ship so many years ago. Of the newer stuff , my 1200xl and Mega STE.

Living in the uk, the cost of shipping stuff from the states has really gone through the roof the last few years. So when ever a friend is in the US on bussiness or holiday I ask them bring me back a few Atari bits and bobs. The point is I ask bradley to ship my orders all over the US to hotels and such like and he never bats an eye. Just gets the goods to where they need to be. The order I put in last week was more complex than normal as I wanted a hard drive for my mega ste, which he formatted for me to my partition size, got shipped over the 4th July holiday and still got it to a hotel in time. He also helped diagnose a problem with a mega file 30 at the same time. So what I am saying in a long winded way is I have been dealing with Bradley for over 10 years and he has always been helpfull and professional. Without him, my collection would not be as functional as it is.

Just the job Many thanks

Hi all Anybody got a XEGS service manual or schematic available please?

Hi Jurgen Thanks for the info, that saves me a lot of frustration as I didn't know that. Could have been messing with that forever. Nick

Well I thought it did as I had no trouble with my NTSC 800, but now Iam not so sure. However it does accept NTSC signals or it can do an auto detect. So I don't know.

Having been unable to track down the cause of the lack of colour on the composite output, in desperation I tried the 1200xl on the big Sony flat screen in the house and it shows colour. It's a little fuzzy but I think a clear pic mod would help. No idea why it works on the Sony but not the Sharpe. Anyway it works so happy days, thanks for all the suggestions.

Sorry Bob Whats the location number for the 4050 please? Nick

Hi Bob Thanks for your ongoing help it is really appreciated. The 1200 came off ebay in this condition so I dont know its history. I changed out the Gita and it had no effect. I will try the 4050 next, but the modulator symptoms you describe are spot on to what I have, if you fiddle about with the tuning you can get colour and sound, but it drifts off quickly and needs constant retune. Monitor output is rock solid black and white with sound. I could do with a feild service manual, are there any downloads?

Thanks for the info Bob There is colour on the modulator output but no audio with it. I will swop out the Gita chip with one off my NTSC 800, not sure where the 4050 chip is on the 1200 or what it does Nick

Hi bob Tried all four plugs, one does nothing,one is audio and the other two both give black and white images.tried the same on the old tube tv and got the same. Not sure what next?

83S DA 78803 133 eBay sale finally turned up, filthy and dead keyboard. Replacement on the way

Hi all Thanks for the info. I am using a four plug composite lead ( no s video) . I will check each lead in turn. I will also pull out my old CRT tv and try it on that. Let you know how I get on

Hi all I use a 1050 PSU with mine and it powers it fine. I do have a problem, maybe you could give me a bit of advice. I run my 800 NTSC via the monitor port on to composite video connected to my small sharpe LCD TV, no problems, However, when I use the same set up with the 1200 xl, I can only get black and white image. if I try to use the modulator output,I can get colour but no sound,or black and white and sound. inputs on the TV are set for either NTSC or automatic detection. I know it's either something simple or has been covered here before but I am stumped Any advice greatly received