mimo Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 The xc12 has a pre connected SIO cable. I know for a fact that the XC12 that Spud bought from me worked perfectly as I have checked about 50 cassette games on it recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudmanno5 Posted August 27, 2008 Author Share Posted August 27, 2008 The xc12 has a pre connected SIO cable.I know for a fact that the XC12 that Spud bought from me worked perfectly as I have checked about 50 cassette games on it recently. hi yeah i remember you telling me it was 100% working. did you getting any static on the screen? cos when i use it on mine i get a lot of it, so much that it looks like the tv is out of tune? did you get any humming also or any other interfearance? regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 The xc12 has a pre connected SIO cable.I know for a fact that the XC12 that Spud bought from me worked perfectly as I have checked about 50 cassette games on it recently. hi yeah i remember you telling me it was 100% working. did you getting any static on the screen? cos when i use it on mine i get a lot of it, so much that it looks like the tv is out of tune? did you get any humming also or any other interfearance? regards No, no problems at all with it, I won't sell anything that I am not 100% sure of. if you are not happy I will take it back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudmanno5 Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 The xc12 has a pre connected SIO cable.I know for a fact that the XC12 that Spud bought from me worked perfectly as I have checked about 50 cassette games on it recently. hi yeah i remember you telling me it was 100% working. did you getting any static on the screen? cos when i use it on mine i get a lot of it, so much that it looks like the tv is out of tune? did you get any humming also or any other interfearance? regards No, no problems at all with it, I won't sell anything that I am not 100% sure of. if you are not happy I will take it back nah thats ok. update i received the atari 1010 recorder today and it was a tale of 2 halves. 1) the good news is i dont get any humming when i plud the cable/recorder in and also when i press play (after i do the full load procedure) 2) the bad news is the drive belts have totally worn making this recorder almost useless for the time being! so what does this mean? does my machine lack power to power up the xc12 tape deck by itself? shame i cant do a full test with some games. regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Hi If you're in the UK I have a stack of 1010s. I'd be happy to dig one out, test it and send it to you if you would pay the shipping. I'm guessing you have SIO cables / PSU for the 1010 so postage shouldn't be too bad. That way at least you'd have a known good 1010 to test with. Let me know. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudmanno5 Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 hi just an update here. still no tape recorder but i have now tried some carts. and the system seems to be ok with them. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiArcader Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 hi just an update here. still no tape recorder but i have now tried some carts. and the system seems to be ok with them. cheers Hey there, I recently purchased a 130XE which came with a XC12 Tape deck and can confirm that my XC12 unit also gives off noise interference and can have issues loading tapes as a result. This never ever occurred with the 1010 Tape deck I owned until the buttons broke and I dumped it. Silly me. In testing I have found that if I press play on the tape deck before powering on the 130XE the noise issue is far more common than if I press play after powering up. Dont know if thats the case for you or whether I've not used it enough yet to disprove that theory but I am getting a 1050 & 810 disk drive unit soon so tapes will be a thing of the past anyway. If I were you I'd probably just get a 1010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudmanno5 Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 hi when i am playing carts i still seem to get the humming noise when the tape deck is plugged in. when loading a tape, i always have to have the play button press down else it is likely to crash if i press play while the computer is on! regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudmanno5 Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 hi some good news. finally got the 1010 recorder and gave it a run out. the humming noise is still there a tiiny bit when you turn the volume way up (when you do the procedures before). a huge improvement!!! i will try and get hold of that chip and a proper atari psu (as my current one seems to be making a pretty loud noise now! lol ) cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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