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    Default Atari 600XL find & questions

    For 3 years I have lived right down the street from a Salvation Army but never found a thing there. Yesterday I brought a few bags of old clothes down, and when I went inside there was a boxed Atari 600XL and 1010 cassette player! $20 for everything, which isn't great but they are both in excellent condition with original packaging, foam and everything. I'm happy.

    Well, I got out my Atari 400/800 carts and started playing, but half of them stop working after about 5 seconds. Are they not compatible with the 600XL or is there something else wrong? :huh:

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    Nope, the 600XL is compatible with just about all the 400/800 carts. My guess is that you have dirty connectors in the cartridge slot or on the cartridges themselves. Try cleaning both and see if that doesn't help.

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    Have fun with that cassette player if you ever try to use it :P I had a 1010 when I first got my Atari 800XL, and I nicknamed it "The Black Hole" because all the programs I spent so long typing into the computer vanished into the cassette player never to be seen again.

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