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  1. Anybody else here looking to lighten their collection load and part with an 810? I’m working with a possible seller but nothing yet… I’d entertain other offers in case this one doesn’t materialize. Thx kindly.
  2. Someone must be looking to lighten their load or collection a bit??
  3. Not too picky so long it’s not beaten up and possibly repairable without feats of magic. Lol. What you got? Thx!
  4. I’d take non-working good cond clean earlier model version if the price was right. Might be able to fix it. ? Thx.
  5. I’d prefer to not buy off eBay if I can help it. Had a few bad experiences. I trust our knowledgeable group here far more. Thx.
  6. 100% on both accounts. Ancient tech that’s super cheap miniaturized now. Especially China production. And have look on eBay.
  7. Lower 48 state. USA. Private message me with photos please and I can provide shipping address with payment. Thx. Sorry, not in UK!
  8. For the price it should and could easily have a working keyboard and take an original cart in its cart slot. There’s no reason at that price point that it could not be a fully working actual mini 400 and still be profitable to produce and sell. Hard pass here. Cool idea. Under featured and half baked for the hefty price. Buy 2 real used 400s for that price!
  9. Hi Gang. Does anybody have a working, good condition, clean 810 drive they’d sell? I’m looking for one for my 800. Thx kindly. Cheers.
  10. Fully. It was also completely reassembled, tested, used extensively and then let sit untouched. Maybe I’ve got some kind of power-on line surge issue or grounding/static problem in my house?? If so, why only the 3 800xls and none of the other stuff? They all are plugged into the same house circuit and multi outlet surge protector too. Use the exact same power brick on the 130xe too. No issue.
  11. Perhaps the Rewind and Alley Dog crew should try their hand at an A8 Petscii port.
  12. Compare the A8 color version with the C64 version on YouTube. I do realize it is called PETscii and not ATAscii or A8scii for a reason. We all know how much David loves his Commodores. It’s just a shame the A8 ports seems to get the least love because the size of the C64 home brew retro enthusiast scene is massive compared with the A8 scene due to the significant difference in # computers originally sold. Same as the demo scene. Some of latest C64 demos are just sick (ridiculously good) whereas the latest A8 demos are very meh by comparison. Economies of scale.
  13. Have to compliment David on such a cool new 8bit game. Very well done. It’s a shame though that the A8 port is by far the worst of any system port of this game out there by comparison. Thankful and certainly no offence to whoever ported this to A8, but can’t we get a version that’s at least on par with the C64 version (which is excellent) ? I wouldn’t personally buy a copy until this happens, as I think it’s a disservice to the A8s capabilities and community to accept such mediocrity for something that isn’t free shareware.
  14. This brings up another interesting question… What is the general consensus on continually using old original hardware vs. storing it properly but unused over time, for what would be more likely to cause eventual IC component failure? Perhaps neither, and it all comes down to the quality of manufacturing of the original ICs? Perhaps somewhere along the line, a slowly failing power supply brick was attached to all of my 800xls supplying a slowly creeping up higher voltage before I caught it and replaced it? The damage may have been done years ago, and is only being realized now as they age further and are thus more sensitive to failure? As mentioned, none of my other machines or disk drives, etc have failed yet (1200xl, 800, 130XE) and they all get used similarly. I’m really scratching my head as to why only my 3 800xls keep blowing IC’s. ?? Updated Best Power brick is near new and outputs 100% correct voltage.
  15. Just received my Fujinet. Undoubtedly THE be all end all ‘killer app’ for the A8s. Phenomenal. Thank-you to the genius team and contributors who created and are still growing this quality masterpiece. The possibilities are endless!
  16. That’s exactly what I’m doing. I don’t ruin the other boards or machines - I socket and eventually replace the ICs on those also when I can find them. I haven’t replaced any chips twice on any of the boards yet, so none of the boards are known bad boards. The IC’s are just getting old and failing on all of the boards that have higher hours with age. I only posted this originally to see if there were any more obvious culprits to save myself some time in more tedious troubleshooting as you mentioned above. Looks like it’s very likely RAM, OS, or MMU though based on the feedback, so I’ll start there and hopefully save myself some time. Thanks gang!
  17. Only thing that’s been reliable lately on them has been their keyboards. Had to do the painted Mylar fix on all the others. And I must say, the others all have much nicer native un modded video/color circuitry also than the 800xl.
  18. I’ve 3 800xl’s and as chance would have it, a rev 1, a rev 2, and a rev 3 board. Lol. One is not socketed at all, one is partially socketed, and one is fully socketed. I’m using the fully socketed board as my primary unit, and the other 2 as IC donors. It’s like playing musical chairs swapping all the chips around trying to troubleshoot and get one fully working board. At least I’m getting good at desoldering and socket installation on the donor boards. I’m running out of working donor chips fast. You know what’s weird? My 1200xl, 800, and XE machines run solid, no issues, reliably. But the 800xl’s keep crapping out consistently. I wonder if it’s because they all were used more back in the day and have more hours on them?
  19. It’s not a cart issue. It’s definitely another bad IC. Powers to a black screen. Won’t load any cart except basketball (I tried all the early release carts which I own) which I’m guessing since very early release cart it has very simple demands on the system utilization. It’s crazy and sad how fast these old machines drop ICs now even with a very good tested clean power supply hooked up. Soon we will be running on pure emulation only rather than original hardware.
  20. Sorry for the usual black screen question but I just replaced a bunch of ram and cpu in my 800xl, and it was finally working tested and great 100%. New tested power supply also. Let it sit a week and now black screen. Will not go into self test mode. Cannot hear keyboard clicks. But… it WILL play Atari basketball cart just fine! I tried a bunch of other carts including star raiders - nothing. Can any of you experienced wizards guess which of the chip(s) fried this time? I’m going to go in and reseat them all and check the sockets, but any help possibly narrowing this down a bit quicker would be appreciated! Thanks so much! Cheers.
  21. The c-240 I think is an important piece of history that serves as a consumer electronics segway bridge from analog to digital products that existed simultaneously during the ‘70s as the former then disappeared, only to make a resurgence now as we start to realize some of the limitations of digital and lost forgotten benefits of the real analog world around us.
  22. Completely agree with you on the price. They are not worth more than a few hundred bucks max. But, unfortunately they are quite rare, very unique, and one of Atari’s very first retail offerings from their early glory years. I think the ultimate unicorn unobtanium prize would have to be a working Computer Space cabinet, an Atari Mind Link Controller, or a 1400xl series proto.
  23. Surely somebody here has one of these they are done with and is taking up too much space? I can pay cash and pick up if it’s located anywhere near Pacific Northwest states. Thx kindly.
  24. And this is what I listen to the music from when I need it a bit louder than those old headphones… 100 watts of raw pure analog earth shaking old school power. I’ll post photos of my dedicated ‘Atari room’ shrine that is still under construction hopefully soon…
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