walter_J64bit Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 What are benefits of having MyDos on a cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Like anything on cart - more available RAM (assuming it's bank-switched and only overlays 8K at most). Instant availability upon power-up/cold start, and more crash-proof since the vital code areas aren't overwritable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 What are benefits of having MyDos on a cart? There are two of these. IMO, the best by far is the 1-Mb (bit, not byte) flash cart from AtariMax. Boot the flasher image from APE and program the cartridge. Be aware it is not significantly faster than a hard drive, but if you want a cart for Dos, this is the way to go. The cart can always be reflashed for other Dos or whatever. Steve has a very nice label for this one, too. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urchlay Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Can a cart-based MyDOS or other DOS load those "emulator only" bins that load at $0700? Actually maybe that's a dumb question... the DOS still needs low RAM for variables and disk buffers...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Can a cart-based MyDOS or other DOS load those "emulator only" bins that load at $0700? Actually maybe that's a dumb question... the DOS still needs low RAM for variables and disk buffers...? I'm not much of a game player, but AFAIK, the cart loads MyDos exactly where a disk boot would. So if regular MyDos won't load it, neither would the cart. Once upon a time, there was a MyDos RomDos for the 800. I think Mathy might have some info about it on his site. (?) As I remember, it would load some stuff that regular Doses choked on. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Hello Larry It's in the letters Charles Marslett wrote to me as an answer to the letters I wrote to him. I put both letters on my site at http://www.mathyvannisselroy.nl/mydos.htm Greetings Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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