Good news!

[Pengwin]

After my last 800XL recently bit the dust (it could just have been loose components, but I'm not too technically minded to the insides of computers), I have managed to aquire a new one from eBay for only £15.

 

Even better...it's in better condition than my old one and I think it's a later model (my old one had the buggy basic).

 

Spent all last night playing Archon and Ultima III

[Rybags]

Ripped from another site - to find which revision you have:

PRINT PEEK(43234)

If you get 162 you have Rev A

If you get 96 you have Rev B

If you get 234 you have Rev C

 

There were also bugs besides the old move code bomb - rev B padded programs with 16 bytes of unneeded data every time you SAVEd.

 

Pretty sure Rev A had a bug where an INPUT statement without arguments would lock up the machine.

[Pengwin]

Just tested, I now have Rev C. My old one was Rev A

[Rybags]

I don't think any XLs after the 1200 had Rev A.

[drac030]

Pretty sure Rev A had a bug where an INPUT statement without arguments would lock up the machine.

 

Rev. C has similar bug in the DIM statement. This is a bug in the syntax control table, not the interpreter code itself.

[deathtrappomegranate]

I don't think any XLs after the 1200 had Rev A.

And the 1200XL didn't have built-in BASIC at all.

[Ross PK]

What're you going to do with the old one, get it fixed or keep it for spares?

[Pengwin]

What're you going to do with the old one, get it fixed or keep it for spares?

 

I was thinking of eBay, I'm sure it can be repaired, just that I'm not that knowledgeable about the inner workings.