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[atariaction]

your help would be great. i have tons of disks but dont know how to load them up.
thanks

[Almost Rice]

atariaction, on Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:00 AM, said:

your help would be great. i have tons of disks but dont know how to load them up.
thanks

I usually just put one in and turn everything on. Did you just get all the Atari stuff?

[Beetle]

Most games boot without BASIC. To turn it off, hold down OPTION while turning on the computer.

So do this:

turn on the 1050 discdrive
insert a disc & close the drive
press OPTION and turn on the 800XL

If your system is intact, this should work in most cases.

Greets,
Beetle

[atariaction]

Beetle, on Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:03 PM, said:

Most games boot without BASIC. To turn it off, hold down OPTION while turning on the computer.

So do this:

turn on the 1050 discdrive
insert a disc & close the drive
press OPTION and turn on the 800XL

If your system is intact, this should work in most cases.

Greets,
Beetle

THANKS iwill try that. is there a command to enter as another method? like c64= load"menu",8,1

[Almost Rice]

Beetle, on Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:03 PM, said:

turn on the 1050 discdrive
insert a disc & close the drive
press OPTION and turn on the 800XL

I forgot about the OPTION button for stock XL/XEs. the other thing I would check is to make sure the 1050 is set to D1:

atariaction, on Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:14 PM, said:

is there a command to enter as another method? like c64= load"menu",8,1

No, if it loads you hear some pleasant beeping sound through the speaker. If there is an error on the disk, you get BOOT ERROR and a more annoying beep.

Edited by Almost Rice, Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:06 PM.

[geosteve]

I used the Commodore 64 in the 80's, that command you type is to access BASIC programs that you write yourself, or read other disks contents. Even on commercial software you always had to type that line including
games or business software.
The Commodore disk drive was unique in having the 'disk operating system' software built-in to ROMs inside the drive. Most other computers autoloaded the DOS from a boot disk with specific software written on it, which consumes RAM memory. This is still used today by both current OS-X and Windows XP OS's loading a DOS from the C: drive when you turn in on, back then hard drives were still too expensive and the A: floppy drive was the common use.


Atari's computers loaded "DOS.SYS" from a boot disk, and the optional "DUP.SYS" (for disk utilities package) to see an impressive tool for accessing the drive including creating other boot disks, copying files from one disk to another or a whole disk with only the A: drive [a difficult task on the C64 ]

As for commercial disk (games etc...) the disk is autoloaded from the computer in OFF mode, as described above. To make an autoloading binary code file yourself you simply name it "AUTORUN.SYS"

Edited by geosteve, Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:08 PM.