From what I've read here, out of the 100,000 or so that were made, That only about 119 or so 1200XL computers survived to this day, That's a bit sad and so that makes our computers some rare stuff indeed.
I think Bob has the other 99,881!!! LOL
No, it's actually the fix for the iPhone4's "Your Hand Shorts The Antenna and Kills Your Phonecall Because You Hold The Phone Like A Normal Person" issue.
I picked up a case of the Atari Home Computer binders on one of my visits to Best when in San Jose for a Sharks game. Brad is very nice to talk to and has an incredible warehouse full of stuff. Not a good place to go with money in the wallet!!! I didn't know he had the Field Service binders. I'll have to get some of those too.
I hate spare time and being home sick. But, it is to your advantage!!!
Attached is an English version of the "ATR Image Size Corrector" from Christian Wyk. I went through with a hex editor and relabeled everything in English. The results dialog window still shows the results in German but all other labels, tabs and options are in English. Enjoy.
ATRImageCorrector.zip
I think it's true that in the US we saw the full XEGS. I do know the gun was sold separately to use on existing 8 bit hardware.
In Europe and UK, I think these were what was available. It was all separate. ***Notice it is not called the XE Game System
And.....Check this out!!! A 65XE based XE Game System. Looks to be Eur/UK also.
No different than the Nintendo Entertainment System being commonly known as the NES. I think XEGS and XEGM became widely used because it was easier to advertise. By the way, XEGM (XE Game Machine) was for the unit that was sold without the keyboard and gun, for those who don't know.
I do agree though, acronyms can sometimes be very annoying.
Get a floppy with the hard drive drivers on it and see if you can get it to show up that way. Run the driver software from the disk or boot with the disk in. It could just be the driver on the HDD is corrupt.
Make sure the cable is wired right. I had a monitor cable that was wired for composite luma (video off of pin 1) and, wired that way, will only get B&W. The video cable has to be wired to pin 4 for composite color.
I also have a couple of cables that has 4 connections. One of them is made for the Atari 8 bit but the other is for a Commodore, and gives the same results you list.
Here is a gallery of pictures I took from CGE. There are a lot (160). Make sure to sort by date ascending so they are in order taken.
CGE 2010 Picture Gallery
I also took a couple of videos. One video is a walkthrough of a portion of the museum.