exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

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New chip ? :lol:

exxos wrote: 14 Jun 2022 23:06New chip ? :lol:

Hard to believe that bottom left pin is the same pin. My dad gifted me with some pliers that look like a war veteran. They've come in handy a lot.
My pics keep getting rotated which is a little confusing.

Wish I could have centered them (the pins) a little better but could've ended worse. :shock:

It's not natural to bend pins back and not have them break! :lol:

As for rotated pics, there was a post about it that sort of thing a while back viewtopic.php?f=13&t=559

exxos wrote: 14 Jun 2022 23:17 Its not natural to bend pins back and not have them break! :lol:

As for rotated pics, there was a post about it that sort of thing a while back viewtopic.php?f=13&t=559

I was expecting it to snap and was resigned to it. Got the 'curl' out of it by putting a small electrician's screwdriver inside the 'loop' and slowly unfurled it which left a kink, which I then slowly flattened with my beefy pliers.

Will have a look at that when I can breath again. :lol:

Steve wrote: 14 Jun 2022 21:57 There's supposed to be a plastic clip covering that floppy connector, perhaps it has fallen off while being unplugged?

Don't worry you can re-crimp it without specialist tools if you find it.

I already re-crimped that @Steve This is what it looked like newly opened like I was telling you. Warranty seal over the screw was intact when I got the machine but for some reason the floppy cable was like that and eventually broke giving a TOS #35 ERROR. All good now.

God, when I switched my Atari on again the screen was cyan, but this went when I switched the VGA switch to colour and then back to monochrome when the desktop had loaded and all was fine. Relief!

Whilst testing everything, I noticed something quite quickly. My Atari no longer minds what the printer is doing. It used to fail to start if the printer was switched on.

I have noticed that loading the standard monochrome desktop in TOS 1.04 has colour in there:


Anyone any ideas on this?

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 15 Jun 2022 01:50 I have noticed that loading the standard monochrome desktop in TOS 1.04 has colour in there:

Anyone any ideas on this?

Not sure what colour as looks OK ? Mono output is a single pin on the shifter which gets fed to the RGB lines via a ST2VGA adapter normally. So there is simply no colour signal even being generated.

exxos wrote: 15 Jun 2022 02:00

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 15 Jun 2022 01:50 I have noticed that loading the standard monochrome desktop in TOS 1.04 has colour in there:

Anyone any ideas on this?

Not sure what colour as looks OK ? Mono output is a single pin on the shifter which gets fed to the RGB lines via a ST2VGA adapter normally. So there is simply no colour signal even being generated.

There's a green there now.

When I first powered on the Atari after the DMA switch it looked like this:


Then when I switched my VGA to colour and then back to monochrome it went away.

Later I noticed that the monochrome desktop now has a similar colour to this in it.