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Atari 130XE Video Problems

Red is the new Blue

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Paul Lefebvre
Jun 10, 2022
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, my newly acquired Atari 130XE has some video troubles.

After unboxing it and hooking it up to my LCD using s-video, I saw that the default screen in BASIC is red. It should be blue:

I tried a few games and although they all look OK, you can tell the colors are not quite right.

I am impressed with the overall sharpness, es…

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