Does my 800XL work?
Hi everyone,
New to the forum and the Atari 800XL. I recently (yesterday) managed to get my hands on this machine with disk drive and a bunch of games (both cartridge and disks), and the touch tablet from Freecycle. Not bad really but alas my joyful evening of playing Space Invaders has been ruined by a lack of power. Not in the house, thankfully, but with the machine.
Now I have an issue. Is it likely to be the power supply that came with it or the 800XL itself. How am I to tell?
I find it relatively easy to probe the voltages on an XL/XE power supply, as long as the probes aren't too large in diameter. With my method it is important to verify that the outer metal shield isn't connected to ground, or if it is make certain that it is the ground pins that are being connected to the shield when probing.
I hold the DIN plug and a probe with a connection between the outside of 2 pins on 1 side and the metal shield,(black circle in image) a little pressure between the 2 p