[What Atari item do you wish you had?]

I always wanted the Black Box.  I do still kick myself for selling my 1090XL though ?

[How to set up SD Sparta dos hard drive?]

Make sure you have TopDrive turned off on your sio2sd.

[Help w/ 800XL and 600XL]

Does your power supply look like the one circled below?  If so, it could be damaging your systems.  When it fails it may output destructive voltage levels.

 

[130XE colors changing]

Could also be a marginal power supply.

 

[SDrive-Max, sdrive.atr question]

from:

https://atari8bit.net/wp-content/uploads/SDrive_en.pdf

 

Note: While booting the SDRIVE.ATR you can choose between loading the SDRIVE.COM control program (default), SDRIVEN.COM („NoAutoload“ version), SDRIVENH.COM („NoAutoload“ + built-in help), DOS II+ or S/XEGS RAMcart feeder of control program (SDRIVENH.COM) by holding Atari Shift and pressing keys 1 to 5.

[Another 800 with a whacking price on Ebay]

If anybody does buy it ? please dump that Omnimon 8k rom. I've never been able to find it anywhere.

[1200XL Questions: Antonia, SIDE2, UAV, PAL ANTIC]

Not sure then.  I know when I ordered mine, he said there were different versions for different computers, so he needed to know what I was installing it in.

[Divisor 0 SIO mods and SDrive, RespQt]

My SDrive-MAX works fine at DIV 0 in my 600xl with just the caps snipped.

[1200XL Questions: Antonia, SIDE2, UAV, PAL ANTIC]

Also pretty sure the 1200xl would need to be modded to use the 800xl MMU, or the ribbon cable from the MMU socket to the Antonia would need to be changed.

 

[1200XL Questions: Antonia, SIDE2, UAV, PAL ANTIC]

Yeah, It's been a while since I installed one.  The chip is not required, but the plug does need to go there.

[1200XL Questions: Antonia, SIDE2, UAV, PAL ANTIC]

The MMU is not needed with Antonia.

[New Atari 600XL owner!]

2nd the UAV.  Very simple way to get good video out f the 600xl.

[R38]

What kind of power supply are you using? Have you checked its voltage stability?  Fluctuations can cause color shift.

[Atari Yearnings... Increasing as you get older?]

4 hours ago, doctor_x said:

I had a big spurt of interest around 1994 or so - I was buying everything I could off of ebay - even an Amdek dual 3” drive system for the Tandy just because I wanted to see what the form factor of the unit would have been like for the Atari... I kind of got out of it then for a bit - possibly because I got married.  I find over the past year or so I’m collecting C64/128/Atari/Amiga and even some low end pentium stuff so I can run pascal programs without the pascal bug that occurred with speedier pentiums.. But obviously mostly Atari as thats what I grew up with.. Even paid a guy on AA recently for a 7800 with the A/V mod done - and I’m not really even much of a game player.... Craziness!

 

Does your interest wax and wane? Or is it constant?

Definitely waxes and wanes. I'm willing to bet we bid against each other a lot back in the mid 90's!  Do you still have the Tandy Amdek? I'd like to buy it if you're interested in selling. I have a controller board from a partially recased Atari Amdek unit, but the drives had been replaced with 3.5s.

[Ebay ATR8000.]

My ATR connectors are also un-keyed. You might want to check your cables, often the key is just a little plastic tab inserted into the socket.  These can usually just be pulled out.

[SDrive-MAX ATX support]

I guess it all depends on which device they are relative to.

[Incognito - Now's your chance!]

1 hour ago, DrVenkman said:

And the negative example - posted on the 12th and no update since clearing US Customs in NYC yesterday morning ... *sigh* 

FWIW I got no updates whatsoever between NYC customs and "Out for Delivery"

[ATR 8000 Repair]

I think there may be an inline fuse on one of the wires between the power cord socket and the transformer.

[ATR 8000 Repair]

8 minutes ago, scitari said:

No light. No hum. I do plan to check all the contacts. Am curious if anyone has actually replaced a PSU in one of these. Thanks!

The problem is probably limited to something between the wall outlet and transformer then.  Most of the "power supply" is built in to the motherboard.  There's really only the transformer, switch, power cord and socket that aren't part of the MB.

[ATR 8000 Repair]

How do you know it's not powering on?  Have you tested voltages anywhere or are you just going by the light in the power switch?  Hard to be sure from the pic, but check the solder on the diodes next to the power connector block. Looks like there might be cracks.

 

Would love to get a dump of that EPROM  if you have the means.

[SD-Max & Fastsio question..]

I was nearsighted all my life. Turns out its a good thing when your eyes start going.  I can still see up close almost as well as when I was young. Just have to take off my glasses for that now.

[Incognito - Now's your chance!]

25 minutes ago, Justin Payne said:

Where are you located? Just trying to figure out how long it might take to make it to the great NW.

Cali, so all the way across the country, plus one day delay once it got here for some unknown reason.

[Incognito - Now's your chance!]

Took 8 days from the NY entry to make it to my house. But it's here, Yay!

 

[SD-Max & Fastsio question..]

It would be a nice feature for sdrive to emulate some of the high speed modes that do work with a stock OS.

[Incognito - Now's your chance!]

Mine said out for delivery yesterday.  Wife picked up the mail....was a package, but it was for a neighbor.  Checked tracking, said ready for pickup at the PO......wtf? Said same this AM so daughter stopped there after class. They couldn't find it.  Said driver must have taken it back out for delivery.....hopefully it gets delivered today.....to MY box.....