Atari 800XL

The 800 successor: SALLY, the MMU and 64 KB, with the OS and BASIC built in.

Open the Atari 800XL in Retro Bench
Also
800XL
Year
1983
CPU
6502C (SALLY) @ 1.79 MHz
RAM
64 KB (eight 4164)
ROM
OS ROM 16 KB, BASIC Rev. B 8 KB (built in)
Video
ANTIC + GTIA
Sound
POKEY, 4 voices
OS
Atari OS XL

Chips

ChipWhereRole
SALLY 6502C (Atari XL/XE CPU, C014806)U8CPU for the 600XL, 800XL and 130XE. HALT on pin 35, R/W moved to pin 36.
ANTIC CO12296 / C021697 display processorU7Display list processor: fetches screen data by DMA, halts the CPU, makes the NMI for VBlank and DLI, refreshes DRAM.
CTIA C012295 / GTIA C014805U17Color, luminance and sync out, player/missile graphics, triggers and console keys; divides the color clock for ANTIC.
POKEY C012294U22Four-voice sound, keyboard scan, eight pot (paddle) inputs and the SIO serial port.
6520 PIAU23Keyboard, cassette 1, IEEE-488 data (PET)
MMU C061618 (memory management PLA)U3Address decoder: chip selects for GTIA, POKEY, PIA, OS ROM, BASIC, DRAM and cartridge.
FREDDIE C061991 (XE DRAM address controller)DRAM address multiplexer on the 130XE.
4164 DRAM 64K×1U9-U16Main RAM (8 chips = 64 KB)
27128-pinout 16K x 8 ROMU5, OS ROM 16K x 8 (C061598-29 on the photographed board). The FSM schematic draws a 27128 with pins 1 (VPP) and 27 (PGM) at +5 V.16K x 8 ROM or EPROM in the JEDEC 27128 pinout.
2364 Mask ROM 8K×8U4, BASIC ROM 8K x 8 (C024947A-01 on the photographed board)BASIC and KERNAL ROMs (C64); BASIC and KERNAL (VIC-20, PET); character ROM (C128)

Ports and connectors

Power rails

RailExpectMeasure at
+5 V4.9-5.1 V (±2 %)atari-power pins 1, 4, 6 (power DIN); ANTIC pin 21; GTIA pin 27; POKEY pin 17

Symptoms