Sugarland

It looks very good but there are a couple things. The sound of the ball bouncing off the blocks is too loud and long in duration. Also there are too many power-ups imo. I do like how multiple powerups work at the same time. Looks like a very good break out game that is very colorful and doesn't have flickering sprites which is great.

This is Great!! We had the same printer - Gemini Star 10x. They are great. Have two of them now. Still work, too. Want to buy one? ;')

Played for the first time just now. Got about 12100. Felt like it was a great score. Wish I had taken a photo now. Fun!! Discovered your game from this stream:

Yes that looks like the type 2 AWC. They are good! More of a firm typing experience. Edit: oh nevermind.. Was only reading the previous post and missing context.

Congrats!! That 800 will clean up nicely. That Centipede doesn't animate the centipedes smoothly unfortunately. There is at least one other Centipede that plays much smoother. Then there's Millipede also being much better than the original Centipede.

@Nezgar Thank you for all the hugely helpful information on the ROM and how it works. I read and re-read your posts a few times. I would like to flash a standard ROM to it to gain the "Chicaco" interleave and whatever else might be missing from it. I've looked and been unable to find the ROM files. Would you please post one or more here? Having this 810 and 800 together just able to play with them there's something wonderful about their presence and a tactile visceral experience that modern computers do NOT have!

You're welcome and thanks for pointing me in the right direction! What do you think of the dump file, please tell? Is it older or newer revision or is it altered, etc?

edit.. nah

Yes tried that inversion too but thanks for the suggestion.. Also tried inverted 5136 which is 123 (1230 and 0123) and nothing worked yet. =( edit: IT WORKED!! My bad I thought i tried that one. Awesome! Thank you @DjayBee

$1410 is 5136 in decimal which also fails. [[ OPENING ERROR ]]

Got the TL866II Plus and read the MBM2732A. File attached here. I see the first two bytes in HEX as 1410 which did not 'open' the drive in Archiver. =( any ideas please, Nezgar? Maybe it would be better to write a newer or better bin with a known code..? The Chip 2732 ROM from shattered Tandon 810.BIN

@flashjazzcat You haven't put out an release since last year! ? Thanks for all your hard work.

Thanks for the link to the store. $150 as an opening bid for a non-working and heavily yellowed and used 130XE with upgraded 3way OS Omnimon switcher...

Can't find your store. Link please? Here is where I tried https://www.ebay.com/sns?store_search=Kibbywibbles

Great idea. Thank you. I will search for instructions on this. Never done it before. ?

@Nezgar Thank you very much. Ahh okay so the unique code that came with purchaser's disk has the code to unlock it. Makes sense, I guess. They should have the code written on the ROM or something, lol. A Minipro TL866II Plus will arrive soon. ? Need one anyway. The Chip is a terrible name so yeah it seems people wanted to call it Archiver. I tried the two codes you mentioned. No luck. Regarding repairing the plastics, super glue in the crack and once it dries, baking soda+super glue externally works well to reinforce it. Super glue in the crack by itself is not strong enough ofc. That whole post cracked right off in shipping. It now holds well. There is more case repair to do. Need a drill to arrest the two long cracks along the top of the case. Will fill the holes with the glue+bs. Put all the smaller pieces in a baggy. Need to find that.

@Nezgar thank you for your reply! Hugely helpful. I have a few questions for you or anyone who will help, please. Never having had an 810 or 'Archiver Chip' back in the day, is The Chip the same as an Archiver? I suppose Archiver is the program and The Chip is the upgrade..? I had always called both the hardware and software as Archiver or Archiver 810. Your reply is great news since I've always wanted one. I had two friends with Arhiver 810's and the seminal brown copy screen is the stuff of legend, if I could get it to work. See below. Reading, writing and formatting on the drive seems to work normally. When I try to copy or even read any disk with "*** The 1050 CHIP V1.1 ***" software, it always says [[ READ FORMAT ERROR ]] and gives an audible IO error fart (not a timeout fart). The drive motor never spins up. I read the manual and it says to turn the drive on with the The 1050 CHIP 1.1 disk in and it will read sector $2D0 to unlock THE CHIP. Did this procedure to no change in behavior. I have no idea if the unlocking is happening. It's also confusing because when loading the software it says (after an initial IO error fart) 1050 HAPPY to 1050 to CHIP. It's an 810, not a 1050 ? It's not a happy enhancement either. Also tried The ARCHIVER! 3.02. It also gives error [[ Error in Reading Format ]] when pressing start to copy and gives Error fart. Drive does not spin up. I did try entering an OPEN CODE of 0000 and 1234 and neither worked. Error fart. However according to the manual, the OPEN CODE is not necessary if the 1050 CHIP 1.1 disk is in the drive when it's powered on..?? Sector Copier successfully copies a disk. MyDos 4.53/4 succeeds in disk duplication. CopyMate 4.4 fails to access the drive or even give a disk directory. It says I/O ERROR after giving a long sequence of high speed SIO beeps but the drive is an 810 as drive 2. Using an 800 as the computer since they like each other (lol). Loaded CopyMate 4.4 from SIO2PC-USB at 19,200. I'm guessing that since CopyMate 4.4 is made with the idea of high speed SIO and other more modern features, it doesn't work on a stock 810.. No idea. MyCopyR! 2.1 also fails to write using the drive. "WRITE ERROR CHECK DESTINATION DISK THEN PRESS START" Any ideas on these failures? Am happy to share video of the behavior if needed. PS I did repair the wiring to stock for write protect photodiode. Write protect works as it should now. The front toggle switch had broken off in shipping. Also working on repairing drive case since it was shattered in shipping.

Been a long time, 30 years, since I've mailed one too but try wrapping it in four layers of the big bubble, bubble wrap. Then in a box. Then fill the box voids with peanuts.

Would not recommend putting it all up together in one auction. Monitor separate. Intellevision separate.

It'll be a matter of swapping chips one at a time from the bad 65XE to the known working 65XE. Get your desolder and socket engines ready.

I bought this Tandon 810 a couple years ago and was told it had a 'basic' copy enhancement. Any idea what this is, please? I'm not too knowledgeable about 810's. Daughter board is stock? It has some wires poorly hacked into a 3way front panel switch: The switch circuit is patched into the connector that uses only two wires. I traced these two wires around to what might be the write protect detection? Is this front panel switch is only to enable or disable write protection? Thanks for your help!

Have you tried the 'bad' keyboard on another machine to see what happens?

Disregard. wrong thread.

Regarding privacy from these ravenous tech companies, a good channel to follow is this one. https://www.youtube.com/c/BraxMe/videos These tech giants are ruthless and extremely vigilant to farm as much as they possibly can about everything. Are they branches of a larger more encompassing system? Back to AVG.

I see mT RAM which is known to be very unreliable and fail often. Suggest you replace RAM.