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Just rewatched Airplane 2. At 3:42 is that an Atari 810 I hear on is it my imagination? Does anybody know of any other movies?

That's fantastic, all working again now! Thanks for the quick response FlashJazzCat and Beeblebrox. I would never have got that in a thousand years!

Hi Beeblebrox, I've attached some screenshots of it all, Yes I think I chose the wrong one ("Ultimate"), I then tried to reflash it but couldn't.

Thanks Peri that worked, its an SDrive .CAS file the 1010 died a long time ago. I got the Spy v Spy working and it was over 330 blocks! I think my U1MB is now having issues as I thought I'd upgrade it, but that's another story.

Hi Everybody I hope somebody can help. I've upgraded my U1MB to the latest 'Ultimate' Firmware, and it seems to conflict with my side 3: cartridge (600XL with 64 KB). The firmware completed and verified no problems. When I boot it, it sometimes brings up a 'SIDE' screen and sometimes a 'SIDE3' screen and it's lost all it's ATR file support on the "SIDE3". When I try and reflash it with 'uflash.xex' it says the board is not found (even though it appears on startup and has the 1MB ram shown at the bottom. I have an SDrive Max so I copied the uflash.xex to there but still had the same issue. (also the same issue with Spata Dos X) The computer still plays all the games from the sdrive max which is good news. Any help greatly appreciated. Ultimate 1MB Firmware version 4.2 (24 January 2023)

Thanks, will give it a try, it's Spy vs Spy.

Hi everybody, just a quick (hopefully) query. Is there a combination of key strokes to get through the Ultimate & Side3 loader and get it to boot from cassette, I was showing niece how games were loaded when I was a kid. I was showing her how long it used to take (from an emulated cassette), she had never even seen a real cassette (which makes me feel really old). It seems to ignore me holding start button and go straight to the self diagnosis page. I got it working once after much playing about through the menus etc but have not been able to replicate it. Any help appreciated.

For me it was probably Sea Dragon, Fort Apocalypse, and then Preppie (in that order) :)

Hi thanks for all the help, I'm in no way an expert! I removed the USD piggy backed RAM? (MCM6810P) and replaced it back with the original single one out of the broken drive. Removed the EPROM and installed the (Happy / Lazer clone) board. Power on and I have a Happy 1050 Swapped out the WDC chip and all running fantastic. Thanks for the help once again.

Hi Doctor, No I've not fitted it, I don't want to break my only working 1050. Thought I'd take advice first lol

P.S. If I did give it a clean and try it out, do you know which side way round it would go, I would imagine that the part that said component side would be the correct way up when looking from the front of the drive. Thanks

Hi all, as you may know from my previous post 1050 my US Doubler seems to be misbehaving and not reading anything other than SD. One of the suggestions I got was to try and replace the FDC chip, In my spare (and very broken 1050 I bought from a car boot sale when I connected it something on the board started smoking) didn't have one it had an empty socket but it did contain this. I think it was called a LAZER, would this allow the reading of US Doubler disks? It's in such poor shape though I don't know if I would risk it killing the working 1050 completely. What would you recommend? I see there is a Happy 1050 in stock on 8BitClassics would that be able to read (and archive to ATR) US Doubler disks? Many Thanks in advance. Nermal

Yes that's what I thought. Thx for the help All

Thanks guys! Will have another look, will look better than my Heath Robinson add on .

Ok I've had a go, and its being weird again, 1050 will format SD but I get an error if I format to 1050 mid density or Double density in Sparta Dos X. But As I now have an APT partition (Thanks to FlashJazzCats SIDE3 youtube tutorial and the guy i bought the 600XL off) I can format it to SD skewed and it absolutely flies when loading and saving. I think its probably a media or drive thing. The media must be 30 years old now. I must say that I've never seen a XF551 in real life they look cool. All my media is about the same vintage, and I dont even want to think how expensive 5 1/4" disks are now, or if anybody even makes them.