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I tried to get a demo to work, by trying old cores, booted from the v2fx124a_vga.xbf core (dated 2010)... and now I'm stuck. I REALLY shouldn't have tried that. This is an Atari 800XL with VBXE and custom VGA port, and U1MB (FJC firmware). Using FujiNet to mount .atr files, and SpartaDOS X from U1MB. It was working fine for months, so install should be fine. I could easily change cores between the "current" versions (dated 2013). Then... I used the old FC.COM to install the old vga core in a higher slot number, marked it bootable, rebooted, and my VBXE video is now split/corrupted. I'm now using composite video out for a non-corrupted display. The initial slots still have the original cores, so I need to switch the boot core to "2" for example. FC.COM is erroring: VBXE IO error DCFG.COM is erroring: VBXE IO error Documentation seems to say DCFG.COM bypasses VBXE IO and goes straight to FPGA (oh well). I found this DCFG.COM in an old copy of release-cores.zip (dated 2009) The U1MB bios now has the VBXE option grayed out, so not detected?! What else might I try to switch boot core? (I & friends are reasonable with electronics, and could setup a USB serial connection if needed) Now I've got a double screen view and unreadable text. When I run FC.COM from the newest release (from 2013) (This is me reverting to composite video output) FC.COM fails "VBXE IO error". And when I run DCFG.COM it gives same error (even if I switch the current drive). These were the old core and FC.COM I was idiotically messing with:
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I recently refurbished and upgraded this 800xl and was excited to put it back together. Turns out the keyboard does not recognize the majority of the keyboard keys, only the silver buttons on the right side (reset, options, select, etc). I swapped the keyboard: same result. I swapped the Pokey chip: same result. Does anybody have any troubleshooting advice?
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For Sale or Trade: I recently purchased a lot of four very rare Atari 8-bit game titles on floppy disks for preservation purposes. They are: Chicken Out Concentration Spy Catcher Underwater Cavern All four titles share the attributes of being Developed by General Masters Corporation and Published by ALA Software / ALA Enterprises, Inc. The programmers are unknown, except for Chicken Out which is by Bruce Adelstein. These titles are in plain sleeves, and all with original instructions, except for Underwater Cavern. Images and more info are in the thread at the end of this post. My disks and manuals were sent to Kay Savetz for preservation (and returned to me) for online archives, including a8preservation.com and atarimania.com; the latter of which ranks all these rarities as '9'. I am not a huge collector, and spent way more than I wanted to on these to share with everyone. It was completely worth it to me, but I am hoping to recoup some costs, be it in a sale, or in some fun with trades. Please PM me if interested. I have a wide trade spectrum I'd be open to, from Atari A8 parts/systems/upgrades to newer game controllers, arcade and game console related gear. Doesn't even have to be rare. I even have a handful of regular XL titles I'd consider trading for. If you are a collector of rarities and/or A8 games, let's have some fun.
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Hi guys, I just bought two of the Sophia 2 devices that I want to install on my Atari 800XL and Atari 5200. I have a RetroTINK 5X but I need some help on finding a good way to connect my Sophia 2 via DVI to my RetroTINK 5X that would then go to my TV or HDMI monitor. The reason I bought a Sophia 2 device is because I want the best picture to come out of these Atari systems. So can someone please help me out?
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Hello friends, I wanted to take advantage of your experience with our 8bit computers, I have an 800xl and everything works fine, I even did an SDrive Max and it works perfectly. The problem starts when I repair an Atari 1050 (disk drive) and when I connect it as Drive 2 (D2:) and the SDrive Max is Drive 1 (D1:), I load DOS 2.5 from the SDrive Max, and when I try to Format, see Directory or any action with 1050, it sends me error 138. The Drive does the normal actions when it is turned on, it moves the head and locates it, I have changed all the capacitors such as the regulators, I have done maintenance on the mechanical part, elastic band and motors ok. But every time I try something it gives me error 138. Even if I turn on the 800xl with the 1050 as the start, since I don't have any disk with software it sends me the error "boot error". I don't know what to do with this error, please help me. Greetings from Lima, Peru. Thanks! (In Spanish) Hola amigos, queria aprovechar su experiencia con nuestras computadoras de 8bits, tengo una 800xl y todo funciona bien, incluso hice un SDrive Max y funciona perfectamente. El problema inicia cuando reparo una Atari 1050 (disk drive) y cuando la conecto como Drive 2 (D2:) y el SDrive Max es Drive 1 (D1:), cargo el DOS 2.5 desde el SDrive Max, y cuando intento, Formatear, ver Directorio o cualquier accion con el 1050, me envia error 138. El Drive hace las acciones normales al encenderlo, mueve el cabezal y lo ubica, he cambiado todos los condensadores como el reguladores, he hecho mantenimiento de la parte mecanica, banda elastica y motores ok. Pero cada vez que intento algo me envia error 138. Incluso si enciendo la 800xl con el 1050 como inicio, como no tengo ningun disco con software me envia error "boot error". No se que hacer con este error, por favor su ayuda. Saludos desde Lima, Peru. Gracias!
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atari 800xl Atari 800XL Set of Wall Mounts (3D Printable Design).
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Hello everyone , I have decided to veer away from software for a bit and have instead fired up my 3D printer and Tinkercad to produce a good set of wall mounts that are Atari Universal, as I print the first design, I will be seeing what changes the STLs need and adjusting accordingly for the different Atari computers that are out there. I have listed my design on Tinkercad, it is a remix of another design, and as such credit has been given to the original designer of the Laptop Wall Mount Set. Here is the URL for my design: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5335874 -
The box was factory sealed when I first bought it about 11 years ago. I cracked it open to test the Atari; it powered on and produced video and audio as expected and all keys worked and then I gently put it back in the box I last tested it a year ago and no change in the test results. I'll test it again before I ship it in a heavy duty box. I'm not a big fan of eBay anymore so I'm listing it here instead. Please see my eBay feedback for other Atari items I've sold in the past. User: t_bonacci Please PM me with a reasonable offer in USD. Shipping will be extra. I'm shipping from Canada and will charge exact shipping cost but be aware it'll probably be at least $80 usd to ship it because: Canada.. If you want a more accurate shipping quote please PM me your postal/zip code. **Since the original power supply is considered garbage and can damage the Atari I'll replace it with the one shown separately**
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Mille Bornes for Atari Microsoft BASIC 9/5/20 In my quest to put Mille Bornes everywhere here is an Atari Microsoft BASIC version. This game has a rather odd history; it started out as an Atari BASIC game that I got a long time ago from, I have no idea? The 1st translation I made was to the TI-99/4a in TI Extended BASIC several years back. That was a rather difficult translation and almost took a full rewrite. Recently I translated to the CoCo2 BASIC from the TI-99/4a. That was a rather simple translation since TIXB is very MSBASIC like (which CoCo uses). Yesterday I decided to translate it from the CoCo BASIC to Atari Microsoft BASIC which took only a couple hours since both are MS BASIC based. So it took 20+ years for me to translate Mille Borne from Atari BASIC to Atari Microsoft BASIC. ? the game autoboots and loads MSB 2.7 from disk. ENJOY Milleborne-MSB.atr
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Hi! I recently purchased a game called: Laser Hawk by ICD on Ebay! I am unable to get the program to load and run properly on my Atari computer! In the directions that came with the program, you are supposed to hold down the option, while loading the game! I have tried this game on my stock 130XE and my 800XL computer. Both with no luck! I can get to the game start screen, but when you press the joystick button, the game freezes on the screen! I have even tried the Atari translator disk with no luck! Any ideas or thoughts on why this will not load and run properly on my Atari computers! Thank You! ataridan
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atari 800xl Atari 8-bit Mille Borne in Altirra BASIC using Joystick
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I created this version of Atari 8-bit Mille Borne to use a joystick for use on my PSP. I have an Atari 800 emulator on my PSP but using the keyboard on the emulated Atari is, challenging. So I converted the original Mille Borne to use a Joystick. MilliJoyst-ALT.atr -
atari 800xl Uno for the Atari 8-bit in Atari Microsoft BASIC
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Uno for the Atari 8-bit in Atari Microsoft BASIC I wrote for the Atari 8-bit in Atari Microsoft BASIC. But I did later translate the program to the TI-99 (see Games/Mygame section). Not a lot of people knew Microsoft wrote a BASIC for the Atari 8-bit line. Fact is Atari Microsoft BASIC was going to be 'the' BASIC for the Atait 8-bit line. The only thing that stopped from being the de-facto BASIC for the Atari was that Atari had a requirement that the BASIC had to fit in a 8k cartridge. Microsoft couldn't ever get their BASIC below 12k and so Atari went with a company, which would later be called OSS, that could make a BASIC that could fit. Anyhow, a little while after the introduction of the 800 Atari released the Atari Microsoft BASIC first on disk then in a cartridge format (it still didn't all fit in 8k though). Unfortunately Atari Microsoft BASIC never caught on for various reasons such as the cost, lack of compatibility with standard Atari BASIC, it consumes more memory than Atari BASIC and a need to have either the disk or cart to run any MSBASIC software. Setting aside the above flaws the actual software is rather nice. It's much more standard to other BASICs then Atari BASIC , It's faster than standard Atari BASIC and has a lot more commands then standard Atari BASIC even ability to set up integer or real variables. the Uno game is simple as I just wanted to have a demonstrator for MS BASIC. You play against 3 computer opponents. the game is in graphics 1 with the a little P/M graphics for the Discard card. to play: bottom 4 lines are the letters for your cards segregated by color; red, yellow, green and blue. last line is Spl which is the change color cards. the types of cards beside the colors are 0-9 D=draw 2, S=skip and R=reverse. under Spl are C=change color and F=draw 4. when the human plays you choose Sort, Play and Take. Sort just sorts your cards. Take will take a card from the pile. Play will play 1 of your cards. in Play you type the card you want to play by following the prompts. the game plays a standard game of Uno except; Uno call is automatic and has 1 in 9 chance of 'forgetting to call' penalty which is also automatic. when you Take a card you can not play it even if the card is playable till the next round. So I wrote an Uno game in Atari Microsoft BASIC just to see what it could do and was pleasantly surprised. Here is game I wrote download from the Atariage site (you will need an Atariage account to download) . -
the TV game 9/4/20 This is another one that is only loosely connected to the TI99. A couple weeks ago I had a backup drive crash with a lot of my retro-computer stuff on it. Fortunately I have found most of the stuff elsewhere but while looking through my old Atari software I found one of the oddest role playing games ever, 'the TV game'. Way back in the 80s me and some friends of mine came up with a role playing game where you took on the mantle of a network TV primetime programmer. Our 1st iteration of the game was on paper and my friend's TI programmable calculator. well it wasn't long the game grew past that and I wrote a small program for the TI-99/4a to help. that didn't last too long before the game out grew that too (I needed random access disk files by that time) so I wrote a huge suite of programs with databases, charts, printouts and such on the Atari 800xl. This is that game. You use the show creating program to create TV shows then put them on a weekly schedule. the other networks (3-5) do the same. all the schedules are put through a ratings program that spits out reports of that weeks ratings, shares and ranking. you adjust your schedule then do the next week. after a set amount of weeks all added up and a winner is declared for that season. Me and my friends play this game on and off for quite a few years. sometime there where just 3 networks, sometimes as much as 5. one year we even video taped our version of the emmys for the game while being a little inebriated. the files are in .txt or .bas form. PLEASE don't ask me details of how the game works though. you are on your own. it's been almost 20 years and we rarely wrote down instructions as we made up a different set of rules every time we played. included is the programs written in turboBASIC XL, lots of the reports, the databases with some of the shows we created and all runs on an Atari 8-bit with 64k. this is posted for entertainment purposes only. the programs seems to all work but i'm too lazy to run a full season to really test it. The game is posted on Atariage so you need an Atariage account to download it. The-TV-Game
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Hey all, I'm an old Atari fan since the 70's. Sadly my Atari 800 disappeared long ago after a series of moves, and as I get older I find myself missing it a great deal. I do still have a few cartridge games for it. Interested in buying an Atari 800 in excellent condition. Must be fully working, and include AC adapter and preferably video cables as well. Box and any original materials would be a nice bonus but not a necessity. Would also be nice to have some original Atari joystick/paddle controllers in good shape. Condition means a lot to me, so the cleaner the better. Please let me know if anyone has such a computer to sell. I'm in USA. Thanks.
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Hello guys. Selling an Atari 800XL boxed. Have tested and boots to operating system. Open to offers or would swop with cash for Atari Lynx P.I.T.S. Many thanks!
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Good day all this is my first post and hopefully it’s not redundant. So I Had my faithful 800xl running smooth but was in dire need of decent graphics. This site was a great source of info and I found/ordered the UAV. I did the install. Not too tricky. However, since then I have not been able to get her to boot. Using this gorum i did some testing with differing results. RAM hasn’t changed, tried no bios/bios, cart boot etc... I’ve seen a blue screen, a screen with vertical lines. Sadly though I have yet to hear the warm bleeps of the xl booting/loading floppy. What am i misding?
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======================== EDIT: These items are no longer available. ======================== I recently came into possession of a decent sized collection of Atari gear. I grew up playing games and computing on similar Atari hardware so I'm somewhat familiar with the gear. Despite most of the gear being in excellent condition, it was destined for a trip to the electronics recycler. Recognizing the historical significance of the gear, I snatched it up to ensure that it can live on. I'm looking to sell and redistribute the gear to the community of enthusiasts here to ensure that it can be preserved and enjoyed for many more years. I spent many hours cataloging, testing hardware, photographing everything, and uploading photos. I've done my best to test and verify the functionality of most of the gear in this listing. You can see a list of everything that I have here: https://bit.ly/2qeRtAA Each item includes link to an imgur.com posting with photos. Most items also include a note about the condition of the item. Sorry, it's not the most convenient way to view everything in one shot but it works for me. I didn't include prices on my spreadsheet as I don't really have the time to determine the value of each item. In many ways, the value is really determined by the community here anyway. I would simply ask, if you would like to make an offer for anything on the list, make it a reasonable offer. Also, keep in mind there are shipping costs. Some of the larger items may incur significant shipping costs. I can certainly offer local pickup for anyone in my area. I'm located in south central Pennsylvania (York, PA area). https://goo.gl/maps/bWMy8WTxebmbAu54A Contact me via email or PM if you're interested.
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I am on the west coast, Los Angeles. I want to buy an Atari 800XL or 130XE. I need to make sure it will work with an s-video cable. In Atari 800XL versions produced before August of 1984, this cable will not work. This can also be checked with the version of Atari BASIC (This would be listed as Rev C but not all Rev C versions support S-Video) Thanks!
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Hi, I have a 800XL computer with a 1050 Floppy Drive connected correctly to it. When I hold the "Option" button down to boot from the floppy drive the computer goes into "Self Test" mode. I select all the tests and it runs it, passing all ROM and RAM as well as sound and keyboard tests. It still goes into "Self Test" when pressing Option and not booting from the floppy drive which has DOS 3. Anyone know why this is happening? Is it suppose to be like this? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks Joe
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Thought I'd share my recent 800xl repair log from a different site, re-posted here in case someone needs help in repairing their 800xl. Although I grew up with a Commodore 64, I have a soft spot for Atari 8 bit machines. My mission in life is to save them all from going into landfill. I spotted this grimy Atari 800XL on Gumtree very recently as untested, it came with an Atariwriter Word Processor Cartridge. I met the friendly chap selling the item and we did the exchange for the computer at Town Hall steps, which is a popular meeting place in Sydney. Taking the machine apart, I was happy to see that the machine was fully socketed and that the PCB was in excellent condition despite it needing a good clean. Actually, I was almost expecting a fully socketed machine because I also had a made in HK 600xl which was fully socketed as well. Another pleasant surprise was the brand of DRAMs used ( OKI ) instead of the mT variety, which have a bad reputation for reliability and were used extensively in the Atari 8 bit and C64 line. I had a close friend of mine over after work and we went through the troubleshooting together. Unfortunately, not much happens after power it up. A black screen most of the time and sometimes an intermittent picture, obviously this is a sync issue. Sometimes I manage to get a screen that looks like this. This is a good sign. At least I know the CPU, ROMs and DRAMs are working to some extent to produce this screen. Luckily I have a fully socketed 65XE to swap parts to and from. I also tried a known semi good GTIA for troubleshooting purposes, which was bad on one output only but otherwise produced a nice clean picture in a working machine. Replacing it doesn’t change a single thing so I consult the schematics, the signals go directly to a hex non inverting buffer ( 4050 ) so I switch my logic probe to the CMOS setting and start probing the chip. Output 6 ( lum0 ) is good, lum1, 2 and 3 were all bad and all outputs were floating. I wanted to check the CYSNC line ( composite sync ) and that was also floating ( no signal at all ). I short the input and output pins of the 4050 ( pins 15 & 16 ) with my logic probe briefly which restores the picture to the screen. Replacing the chip completes the job!
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Trying to debug another 800XL that has issues with the color circuit. Yes, it's another one - ordered this one as a spare so I had something to check against while fixing the other one, but when I got it I found that this was an 800 XLF revision 3 board instead (actually says XLF on the actual board). With an entirely different problem related to colors, what rotten luck :-( There's some noise in the color signal and while it looks strange, the adjustment of the color pot also has a wierd effect that I'm not sure if is normal since the other one I have is not an XLF. I get vertical banding, when adjusting it seems like I'm opening colored curtains before it goes B&W (see youtube clip below, some interference with camera) instead of shifting the color spectrum. Have been trying to match this to the schematic I found by SOBOLA, but I think there are quite a few changes leading up to my revision 3 board since his revision 1. Not sure if it matters, but I've been looking at the Phi 2 signal though it might be a totally wrong place to end up. Schematic connects phi 2 for ANTIC behind 74ls08 with GTIA getting signal directly from SALLY - the board however connect POKEY, PIA, ANTIC and GTIA via 08 pin 3 only leaving FREDDIE connected directly to SALLY pin 39. Is this normal, I could understand it if they were simply bridged but seems like completely separate on PCB so thinking schematic doesn't match up.
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Have been fiddling with an Atari 800XL I bought a couple of months ago from someone in England, so it's a revision D PAL unit that I'm using over composite (from retrocomputershack) on my LCD (no space for the old CRT thingies) with one of Lothareks PSUs. Have been looking at the posting on http://atariage.com/forums/topic/230225-colors-ntsc-vs-pal/to help debug some color issues I'm having, essentially the wrong colors substituted in the middle of the spectrum. I can adjust R38 back and forth and it'll either go totally out of whack or B/W, don't have a scope though so I've tried using small increments. The closest I get on the startup screen is what I can only refer to as DOS blue though my XLF, extreme jailbars aside, looks more like teal. I've replaced all 4146 RAM chips (mostly dead MT4246 originally), GTIA, ANTIC, 4050 with CD4050BE, PAL crystal, 2N3904 transistors as well as all electrolytics without any significant changes to the colors. Picture below is from SALT 2.05 running via a SIDE2 cartridge, have also tried using a basic script to show all colors and hues where I'm seeing the same "repeat" of colors in the middle. Anybody got ideas any ideas on how to explain this? NB! LCD works with ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Dragon 32, Atari 520STFM, Amiga 500/600/1200 with some duplicates (which is probably why I've got storage problems). Never seen anything like it so I think it's something to do with the circuit.