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massive backing-up session when, suddenly, my trusty 810 disc drive emitted a and a clatter and ban pas/id up completely
fidence, while I had the drive exposed I checked several other adjustments which
may be made to ensure that I get the maximum couldfrom 513,32! r erVr‘i/Iotlf/lefsat’hznccbc—gf the disc. Signal covered what had one So far I have had no fur— There is a ngetal ther problems with this wron bandgwhich translates the drive. I can access all my rotar motion of at ca stan discs, as the head is reato my; linear movemeett of well aligned and I sonab/y the head carria 9 e—this had have learnt a lot about how broken a disc drive works. Fur— All that was needed was a thermore, if it happens — piece ofstain/ess steel shim again I know what to do. one thousandth of an inch M. R. Holland, Lower Penn, but the best that thick South Staffordshire. several Atari repair shops could offer was a replace”mt '
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I decided to repair it myself. I was able to get enough shim to last me from a local .
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supplier. broken I removed the old. band and taped it into my Atari notebook. Then_l measured it up and drew its exact shape on to the new shim using the sharp paint to score ofapaih ofsassors .
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HAVE an 800XL and have just finished entering in Snowball from the Decem— bar 1987 edition of Atari I
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it all out correctly,
as there were no error it messages, .but when I ran
to my
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EACH month we will award_£1o prizes for the most Interesting letters sent to us.
meant.
realised that I had before I saved it, although the article said if you run the game and there are any typing errors it may cause the computer to crash I
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hojlels ‘eV' Essex if. s‘l??rfin‘fi’éif??icfsi . Although the program sags to cut round the outline comes up With the option to of the band which I then p ut save to disc or tape, it will in the disc drive only work with atape deck. The drive a. eared to is unfortunate but, This work but the hpegdneeded a fact.
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there any errors in the list7 Ball, Keynsham,
bought Boulderdash Construction Kit on tape because the shop didn’t have it on disc. designeda level and when! tried to save it to disc it reported “Check your drive". It has done this eversince. Can you tell me why this happens and how can I fix it? _Jamie Beszelzen, Hock-
A FEW weeks ago
typing went down the drain. All that appeared was 3 black screen with two green
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do
doesnt
something like or lsn t supposed to do, it will wander offinto Never Never Land. And no matter what you do you can't get it back. This is
alwaysapossibility when typing in data stateform part of a ments that machine code routine.
tapes 50 /.COU/d ”Of play them again. / i00k the recorderbackto Dixons who sent it awa They thYen returned it .
saying their
nothing
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wrong with it and it must be W... advise me to do? a 7050 disc / also own drive which works well,butl would like to still be able to playbudget tapes -Damien
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