[6 switch woody with protective cover?]

Hi all

 

I have just got a 6 switch woody with what looks like a protective cover over the switch area. 
 

Or possibly the plastic has started to delaminate…

 

Did these come with a protective cover on them?

 

As can be seen in the last photo it is starting to peel away. 
 

As an aside the RF picture quality is really great on this!

 

Thanks!

[Black 2600 Junior voltage regulator]

Voltage regulator is now firmly in place thanks to a nut and bolt from a ZX81 that no longer needed them. 

[Black 2600 Junior voltage regulator]

Photos. The case on this is a real dust magnet. 
 

 

[Black 2600 Junior voltage regulator]

I will take some more photos later but definitely has Atari on it (just to right of the power switch):

 

 

[Black 2600 Junior voltage regulator]

Thanks! I will desolder and reposition the regulator so it doesn’t melt itself!

 

I did have a look at photos of the odd one that appears on eBay (where they posted photos of the underside) and most clearly have RF shields but some don’t so I guess its a relatively common issue. 

[Black 2600 Junior voltage regulator]

Hello all

 

I have just got my first 2600 Junior in black but the regulator is not attached to the metal of the PCB, nor is it lined up properly to allow it to be held in place by a nut and bolt.

 

Is this normal or a manufacturing / repair defect?

 

Also - no RF shield. Has they abandoned them by the time these were released?  

 

Many thanks!

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

That is an impressively clear screen output. ?

 

How do you do it?

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

Mine boots every time on the fixed version but if I go ‘down’ several levels to load a game it fails - so if I select Games / A to Z / A and then a game starting with A it crashes. 
If I move a game I want to load to the first level of menu it loads fine. 

[Dungeon Hunt – a new game for the Atari 8 Bit!]

There is a copy of this for sale on eBay in the UK at the moment. 

[Atari 800 lotharek SD2IEC multi-disc games]

Turns out I was over thinking the whole process. ?

 

Just put all the discs in a separate folder called Phantasie II, call them D1, D2 etc. (so it is easy to see which is which on the LCD screen) and then use K2 to move between them at run time and K4 to mount. Simples!
 

Spent way too much time setting up multi-disc .LST files etc. on the C64 so I can play Wasteland. 

[Atari 800 lotharek SD2IEC multi-disc games]

Thanks. Its one of these:

 

https://www.lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=237

 

Sorry - spent too much time with C64s recently!

[Atari 800 lotharek SD2IEC multi-disc games]

Hi

Does anyone know how to work multi-disc games on the lotharek SD2IEC connected to an Atari 800 (not XL)?
I have managed to put the four discs of Phantasie II into disc slots 1 to 4 (select the correct disc and then press 1, 2, 3 or 4. Simple once I worked out how!) but when I boot from disc 1 it soon asks for disc 3 but nothing I have tried so far allows me to mount disc 3 and load the rest of the game. 
Any help appreciated thanks!

[Atari 800 Space Bar not working]

I have put a little grease outside the white part that has split and although the key now feels different to the others it springs back happily into place! The others that were sticking have had the same treatment and are fine. 
Hopefully this is a reasonable long term solution. ?

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

The joystick works and any file I drag up a few levels works!

 

Now I just need to figure out how multi load works... 

 

Managed to get the four discs for Phantasie II mounted in D1 to 4 (I think) but switching between D1 to D4 on the SD never seems to work - it keeps asking for side 3. 
Do I need to press some other key somewhere? A manual for this thing would be so useful!

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

2 hours ago, gamer-stu said:

Glad that you're mostly there! It should work completely on a 48k Atari 800. Did you happen to use the fixed A8 loader linked above? The only problem that I encounter is that "X" doesn't execute an image from the loader like it should. Only the joystick fire button works for me.

Yes I used the fixed loader thanks. Will give the joystick a go. 

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

Thanks all. It is now largely working!

 

I bought the card preloaded from Lotharek and pretty much everything loads now apart from the Disc Images \ Alphabetical list. 
As soon as I drill down this far the keyboard stops making the ‘I’ve been pressed’ noise and it soon locks up. 
Might just be a limitation of the 800. When I get chance I will move some of the files up a few levels and see if they work then. 

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

6 hours ago, gamer-stu said:

IIRC, there are communication speed settings within the SIO2SD options. My 800xl could operate at the faster baud settings, but I had to turn them back to get the SIO2SD to work with my 800. I wonder if it is related to that? 

Thanks. Looking at the website there is sio high speed off and speed settings of 1 to 16 with 6 being default. 
Any idea how to access these settings? I have not played with any of the config settings beyond following the video on line that shows you how to set it to autoboot the loader program. 

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

55 minutes ago, Roydea6 said:

Somewhere in the forum threads there is a topic about a fix for the SIO2SD and the Atari 800.  I will look for it and if found I will put a link here. SIO2SDFIX Under the FILES option.

 

 

Superb thanks!

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

28 minutes ago, Rybags said:

So it probably works then.  What if you mount an ATR and boot that?

 

Possibly the boot menu for executables you have isn't compatible with the older computer.  Or maybe you don't have enough Ram?

Put Basic in and ? FRE(0) - you should have over 37,000

Thanks. It says 37902. 
 

I will need to watch the instruction videos for the SD (no manual) to figure out how to change how it boots. Will do that tonight. ?

[Atari 800 - SIO2SD not working]

Having got a mostly working keyboard I decided to try my SIO2SD (fromhttps://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=58) out and it doesn’t work. 

First question - should it?

 

If it should where do I start diagnosing the issue? It works fine with my 800XL. 

I have cleaned the connector pins on the 800. 
I have got a pacman cartridge and that runs fine on the 800 so I assume it is mostly working. 
 

The SD boots up and shows the menu but then dies if you press a key:

 

 

[Atari 800 Space Bar not working]

My keyboard is back from being repaired and the space works nicely now! The whole keyboard was taken apart, the space bar fixed and all resoldered together. 
 

But another day another issue -  the H key is now starting to stick down. I popped the keycap off and looking at the plastic part that moves up and down both corners are cracked. I assume when pushed down it splays out and wedges in place? A couple of the other keys are starting to do the same now. Argh. 
 

Any suggestions?!?!? 

[Atari 800 Space Bar not working]

On 10/11/2019 at 9:42 PM, ACML said:

Yes, I see.  What can you do to hold the pin in place with the pad lifted, that is the question.

 

1)  You might try hot glue to hold the pin in position and then solder a 30 gauge wire from the new pin to the other pin on the lifted trace.  Glue may not hold to PCB

 

2)  Super glue trace back on PCB? 

 

3)  Replace the lifted trace with a thick solid wire (20 gauge or thicker) between the lift pad/new pin and the pin at the other end of the lifter trace (laid flat on PCB where trace was).  Now its thinker and more robust, just hot glue the new 20 gauge wire segment to PCB.  Now it might have enough mass and surface area to hold. 

 

The bunny ears were not intentional but I found that a stiff piece of wire bent over gave the best contact. 

[Atari 800 Space Bar not working]

I wimped out. I have put this is a box and sent it off to somebody who will do a good job of sorting this. These are just too rare and expensive in the UK to risk it further. 

[Atari 800 Space Bar not working]

I went the bunny ear route for one side. ?

[Atari 800 Space Bar not working]

12 minutes ago, mimo said:

And you may get hit with import duty ?

 

Yes. It could end up costing more than the 800 itself!