[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

Picked up these carts this morning

 

Droids (Boxed) eBay Auction -- Item Number: 180657740248

NiteStrike (Boxed) eBay Auction -- Item Number: 180657745502

 

And these recently:

BC's Quest For Tires eBay Auction -- Item Number: 170623185448

Microsoft Basic II (Boxed) eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230591621818

Astro Chase (boxed) eBay Auction -- Item Number: 110664655350

Pool 400 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 170620756676

BattleZone eBay Auction -- Item Number: 180640106176

[810 boot-error]

Could also be IC A110, best way to know is to use an LED Logic Probe or an O'Scope and check the signals when trying to access a disk.

When you power on your Atari, does the 810 attempt to seek to a track? If it does, then the write commands are working and would suggest the read circuitry is faulty. If not A110, then maybe LM311 could be at fault. I've had a scratched head before that caused mis-reads, but it did read the sectors...

[800XL: Composite video problems on LCD HDTVs?]

I'm assuming you mean settings of the TV? In in the US (NTSC), went over the TV menu options but no such settings (or others that seem to make a difference).

 

Yes, on my Sharp HDTV you select the Input first, then choose the Color System under the Options Menu...

[Atari 8 bit Eprom Burner]

HackerBook has one on page 50.

 

It can burn four types 2532(4k), 2732(4k), the 2516(2k) and the 2716 (2k).

The burner uses game ports 1 ,2 and 3.

 

This is one I built years ago and worked great for me...

 

Jay

[Ultimate1MB preorder starts]

Just sent a PM too...

[800XL: Composite video problems on LCD HDTVs?]

Try changing your color settings from Auto to NTSC (USA) or PAL (EUR)

[Atari 8Bit BBS Online]

It worked for me earlier this morning...

1) check the "Allow Outbound connections"

2) do not check the IPV6 option

3) uncheck the Require DTE option

4) set BobTerm to Ascii, 1200 baud

5) Press return to enter terminal mode

6) type ATDI bfbbs.no-ip.com 23 and hit return, it should now work for you too

 

Jay

[Player-missiles in Assembly]

My 6502 may be a bit rusty, but how will your draw loop ever exit when it's done?

[Hooked on 8-bit carts]

Extract the ods file from the zip and rename it with .zip instead of .ods ...

[IDE Plus 2.0 - preorder starts today]

I would like 2 of these please , one for XL with ribbon cable, one for XE

 

Thanks,

Jay

[Ultimate1MB preorder starts]

Put me down for 2 quality boards too please

 

Jay

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

I'd still ask for a $20 to $30 partial refund, couldn't hurt to try...

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

Hee hee I guess it is. But I prefer a euphemistically-legitimized term such as "leverage."

I find the listing was a dishonest representation, to take pics of smashed up broken stuff, and not show those parts.

 

Well, that's what ebay will tell you if the seller reports it, trust me I know, I found out the hard way

 

I agree, that was dishonest representation by leaving out details of the actual condition. Very misleading...

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

I'd tell him this stuff is junk and that you either want a partial refund because of that, or or a full refund + he pays shipping, or you're going to BOTH leave a NEG and open a claim for "significantly not as described." He damn well could have taken pictures of those cracks and breaks, and he deliberately chose not to, and misrepresent the items by not fully disclosing the condition, via those tactics.

 

But in his feedback, he got a neg from some COMPLETE IDIOT who was trying to leave him positive feedback. That's one thing about Ebay that sucks is they don't let you screen out newbies....this bozo only had feedback of 2!

 

 

You can't tell a seller that you will leave NEG feedback if he won't issue a refund, that's extortion!

You have to word your message to a seller with a round about way instead...

[Poll: What do you consider the ultimate Atari-8 disk drive?]

There's also the 810 with "The Chip" ...

 

 

I have an 810 Archiver. Is that the same as "The Chip"? I opened it up and looks like it's just a ROM upgrade.

 

I have to say that I prefer the 810. It doesn't have the performance of the other drives, but it looks so cool and retro sitting next to my 400. I really need to get another to stack on top of it and complete the look.

 

Perry

 

Yep, that is one in the same :-)

I use mine to recover bad floppies, besides making back-ups...

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

Also, if the seller is one of those who stands behind the general "AS-IS" (passing the buck, not my problem anymore) statement, it could be like pulling teeth

[How many of us have real A8 Machines?]

(1) Atari 800 - Impossible, Internal "The Pill" with 128k homebrew ram upgrade

(3) Atari 800 - Stock

(1) Atari 600XL - Parts

(1) Atari 800XL - Rambo XL

(1) Atari 800XL - 128k

(1) Atari 800XL - Stock

(1) Atari 800XL - Parts

(1) Atari 130XE - 320k upgrade

(2) Atari 130XE - Stock

[3.5" Drive Project]

For my 3.5 floppies, I just connect the SF314 to my ATR-8000, alot easier to modify the cable instead

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

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Been looking for this one for a long time, in the revised edition, and in good shape.

 

Now on eBay: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 110667244850

[Poll: What do you consider the ultimate Atari-8 disk drive?]

There's also the 810 with "The Chip" ...

 

I like all my 8bit drives:

(6) 810 stock

(2) 810 Happy

(2) 810 "The Chip"

(2) 1050 stock

(2) 1050 US Doubler

(3) XF551 , no mods

(1) Trak

(1) Induis GT

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

I got this recently:

 

1040ST's: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 160552859508p

 

One turned out to be a 1040STE

Just need to see what's wrong with it...

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

Considering the average Atari 800 user started in 1979 at age 15, that would leave most die-hard 6502 guys in their 40's...

 

Wow! How many 15 y/o's did you know who could afford an Atari 800 in 1979?

I bought my first Atari 800 (16k) in 1981 for $699 and a 32k ram board for another $100.

Back then I was only making $350 per month in the USAF...

[WTB: Hamsoft and/or Hamtext Carts by Kantronics]

Looking for the Hamsoft and/or Hamtext Carts by Kantronics for the Atari...

 

Thanks,

Jay

[IDE Plus 2.0 - new IDE host adapter]

I could use two

[Leaderboard for Atari 8-bit]

Heh heh. I'm not sure my dongle, like so many things, still works.

But I did open it up many years ago. Here's some pics.

Paperclip probably been cracked. But I don't think it would be easy to make a fake dongle, it is a printed circuit board and a chip.

 

I have one of these too, it was a freebie in an ebay auction. Seller thought it was a port tester?