Just bought a Atari 800X:

[stangman517]

Subject should be: 800XL, I guess you figured that and the poster was a newbie to Atari - Yep.

Got the 800XL with two 1050 drives; the console works fine; ran the built-in tests and they all passed. Found the manuals online and I learned how to change drive numbers. I do not have the DOS diskette that came with the unit new, but found a .BAS program to format diskettes. Not sure if it properly formatted the diskette or not because I tried to save a BASIC one line program to the diskette and it reports: => ERROR- 130. Couldn't find anything on this error code, yet. I actually bought two 1050 drives, and it's my guess that one should've worked. ;-)

I type: => SAVE "D1:MYFILE.BAS" and keep getting the "ERROR- 130" message. Any help would be appreciated as to what this error means. And if the drive needs to be re-aligned or the speed set correctly is there any program/documentation on how to do this?

Thanks!

 

[fatwizard]

The problem is you need to boot Atari DOS in order to use the disk drive. Error 130 is "unknown device". If a DOS disk is in the first drive when you switch on the computer, DOS loads and then BASIC loads from ROM. You need a DOS disk to get you started. I can send you one if you like. PM me if interested.