Grizaptimus

Well I found a couple of demos that fit the bill called "Ballsong 1 & 2. they are very similar to what I remember except I remember there being a full grid on all 5 of the visible surfaces.

Sweet thanks for the lead I will now search with much zeal!

When I was quite a bit younger, There was this program that My dad would always run. All I remember about it was There was a Green or Tan room. with this white ball bouncing around to a tune. Thanks

I took apart the keyboard assembly. Cleaned the Mylar sheet and the contacts under it, and put everything back together. but Alas still only the same keys work. the maylar sheet looked clean, and the contacts underneath looked a shiny golden. So any other sugestions or new Keyboard time?

How visible would the tarnish on the keyboard PCB be? I could not see any tarnish bur cleaned off the contacts with alchohol anyway.

Thank you all very much for the advice!!! I will take appart the keyboard and try some of your sugestions. I will let everyone know how it all gows!!

Well I got the BASIC cartridge to work... I guess I just didnt have it all the way in... Oops! Got the READY prompt and tried to start typing... It appears that only the Q, I, O, P, K, V, N, Space, Delete, TAB, and all Numeric Keys work. All the others dead. Are there any known Issues with the 1200XL keyboard that could cause this type of behavior?

Opps! forgot to mention that the BASIC cartridge was the one that would not boot. All I would see is a solid green screen

I reasently found my Atari 1200XL on the closet, and wanting to get back to my computting roots I hooked it Up. Here is where the fun began. Got it all hooked up and turned it on. It seems to boot just fine loads up 4 of my 5 cartriges. If I try to boot it without anything it just holds at the blue prompt with no "READY" on the screen then it just loads the "Spinning Rainbow Atari Demo thing". Ohh ya and the keyboard does not seem to work. Trying to troubleshoot with my limited knowledge. I opened up the case to check the connections. they looked fine no corosion and still held firm to the pins. I would very much love to get the old girl running agian as I am poor at the moment and it woould be quite difficult to get another 8-bit. Thanks...