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Grizaptimus

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  1. Well I have not had time to do much testing, but the HD does seem to be bad. With the HD connected Falcon will not boot, with it disconnected I get no drive icons whatsoever on the desktop.

     

    Thanks for the quick responces!! looks like i need to grab a CF card and adaptor.

  2. Hey there everyone I originally posted this on atari-forum but got no responses, anyway.. some time ago my falcon quit reading any disks. Being a poor college student I did not have the cash to get a replacement drive so I stuck it in the closet for awhile. Anyway I was able to get my TT back from my parents, so I figured why not try the Falcon's floppy out on the TT. Low and behold the drive works just fine, so I decided to try the TT's drive out in the falcon, errors errors and more errors.

    Because of this development I am now thinking that it might be the floppy controller in the falcon that bit the dust. Is there anyway that I could confirm that it is the floppy controller, or narrow it down further?

     

    tldr: Both Floppy drives work in TT, neither does in falcon. what can I do now to help track problem down?

  3. @allen: I want to say yes but i'll need to delve back into the closet, I did get some really good carts though, Mac/65 w/ddt, Action, Basic XE, Microsoft Basic 2, SpartaDOS X, R-Time 8, and a rather interesting cart with a switch and a barley legable home made label called "Cart Clone"

     

    @kogden: that sounds unfortunate indeed. Is there anywhere or anyone who sell some of these modded PSU's? I would love to be able to make some myself but im not quite there yet.

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  4. A few years ago my dad came into a large ammount of atari 8-bit stuff from one of his old friends. Knowing that I was into anything atari he gave it all to me. 2 130xe's 800xl bunch of cart's and such. excited it try it all out and much to my dismay none of the systems work. Very disapointedly i put it all into the closet and forget about it.

     

    About a week or so ago i decided that I could wait no longer for my 8-bit fix and grabed a 130xe off e-bay. on a lark a tried the other 130xe's and 800xl with the new power supply and low and behold 2 of the three work!! Looking back i have no idea why i dndt even consider that it could be a PSU issue.

     

    I was about to give mtself a face-palm, but then i got distracted with "Midnight Magic" and ive basicly been playing that solid all week, current high score: 272290

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