jasenr Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Hello, I was just wondering if there were any Atari XE badged monitors? I saw a pic on the internet that looked like a red Atari logo on a monitor... Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Westphal Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 There was a couple of prototypes produced, but never made the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 The stickers on the side of the Light Gun were one way to mark a monitor as Atari... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 (edited) It was pictured on the back of the Atari 130XE boxes, along with several other proto devices that never made it to production (thermal printer, floppy disk drive). Edited May 21, 2016 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Payne Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Very sad that it never happened. Having a monitor back then was a big thing. When I got my 800 back then I actually only had a b&w tv. I kinda userped the 13" color tv from my mom but I actually knew someone with a monitor for their 800. Such a sweet setup and I don't think the kid really appriciated it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Disappointing, since there was already a monitor for the ST line that could have worked with the XE's. Considering the company was struggling though, something had to suffer. It's more of a surprise that Atari never produced a monitor back in the heyday of the 400/800, when it was their only computer line. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mytek Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 (edited) In the early 90's I made very little money, or at least not much left over after normal living expenses, so my first color monitor was found at a flea market (still cost me $50). I remember it was kinda odd looking, like something that was intended to be mounted in another cabinet. But beggars can't be choosers, and in those days that was a great price for anything that could display in color. Anyway I rushed home and hooked it up only to discover that it had a severe screen burn of a couple of lines of text in the center saying "Please insert card and then enter your passcode". Need less to say, that wasn't one of my better flea market finds. However things got brighter when a month latter a friend of mine gave me a commodore 1702 that had stopped working (he had a better money situation than I and simply bought a new replacement). Well with a bit of luck I discovered what the problem was and got it working again. It turned out to be a beautiful monitor for my A8! I ended up putting an Atari emblem on it (I forget from what?) and for me it was the closest thing I'll ever have to something that looked like it could have been an XE monitor. - Michael Edited May 21, 2016 by mytekcontrols Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Best you can do is get an SC1435 and put 1084S guts in it (they're both the same Philips monitor inside) having drilled out the blanked off holes for the Y/C jacks. Someone once did this and it looked pretty good. Or leave it as is and hook a VBXE up to the RGB port. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I had a cream coloured Taxan 12" monitor with a smoke-coloured anti-glare plexiglass screen for my 800. It doesn't get more 70s than that easily and an Atari label would not have looked out of place on it. Maybe Atari didn't sell monitors because TVs could do 40 columns, they didn't offer 80 col and even used 13" Trinitrons for their own offices. Gesendet von meinem iPhone mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Best you can do is get an SC1435 and put 1084S guts in it (they're both the same Philips monitor inside) having drilled out the blanked off holes for the Y/C jacks. Someone once did this and it looked pretty good. Or leave it as is and hook a VBXE up to the RGB port. Let's not do stuff like that to SC1435s because they're rare and ST and Jaguar owners still have an interest in them. Better to do it to 1084S models because there's obviously more of them out there and then you can remove the curse-ed Commodore branding and substitute Atari branding if one is so inclined to do so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Let's not do stuff like that to SC1435s because they're rare and ST and Jaguar owners still have an interest in them. Better to do it to 1084S models because there's obviously more of them out there and then you can remove the curse-ed Commodore branding and substitute Atari branding if one is so inclined to do so. Heh, yeah, but I'm not advocating changing the branding or outward appearance of the SC1435 in any way (it already matches the XE well enough): all it's getting is the Y/C jacks which IMO it should have had all along anyway. RGB is still there, so it remains 100 per cent compatible with the ST and Jaguar and anything else which output 15KHz RGB. You could even - if a technical wizard - populate the vacant spots on the original mainboard with the necessary components to facilitate Y/C operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari030 Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Like this. Done it a few years ago. It looks pretty good using Chroma/luma.So does the 600XL. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 You could even - if a technical wizard - populate the vacant spots on the original mainboard with the necessary components to facilitate Y/C operation. I was planing on doing this myself but I could never find a parts list. The only other option is buy the Philips version and make a parts list from that. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari030 Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 There was discussion about that over at atariforums. It would be a painful exercise doing that, I think. It was only the 1084s that had chroma/luma from what I understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 A little bit time consuming but not really that hard. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 This is my favorite CRT monitor: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/247508-modding-the-jvc-tm-a13su-monitor I'm thinking of painting one to match the XL scheme with a brown bezel and white case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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