mimo Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 I want to get more than one game per disk, like the Holmesoft disks, but with my choice. I have Ape, SIO2PC, a 1050 with doubler and Lazer. How do I go about it, using downloaded .atr images? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 You'd be way better off using .XEX files and one of the billions of DOS compliant boot menu systems around. No doubt someone has written a nice one that handles ATRs with >1024 sectors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 There are a number of ways to do this but you might want to check this thread: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74373 -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted May 30, 2007 Author Share Posted May 30, 2007 You'd be way better off using .XEX files and one of the billions of DOS compliant boot menu systems around. No doubt someone has written a nice one that handles ATRs with >1024 sectors? could you point me in the right direction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urchlay Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Are you wanting to do this for real floppy disks, floppy-sized ATR images, or humongous ATR images with hundreds of games (in MyDOS subdirectories maybe)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwhyte Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 (edited) (* dbl post *) (* pls delete *) Edited May 30, 2007 by dwhyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwhyte Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 (edited) You'd be way better off using .XEX files and one of the billions of DOS compliant boot menu systems around. No doubt someone has written a nice one that handles ATRs with >1024 sectors? could you point me in the right direction? MyPicoDOS by Hiassoft is a good one, it handles MyDOS sub directories and such, allows long file name support (actually stores long filenames in a seperate file). Works great... I haven't found an .XEX that hasn't worked yet for me. For transfering .XEX files from PC to Atari, I prefer to make a scratch image containing those .XEXs.... dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -C -d d -s 1440 -f s dsdd.atr dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -A -i TheGreatAmericanCrossCountryRoadRace.XEX -o GACCRR.XEX dsdd.atr dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -L dsdd.atr --- GACCRR .XEX 177 45089 30-05-2007 13:18:07 dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$ls -l dsdd.atr -rw-r--r-- 1 dwhyte dwhyte 368272 2007-05-30 13:17 dsdd.atr Then it's just a matter of loading up SpartaDOS or RealDOS on the 8bit, put the scratch image that was created into APE and file copy over to the disk in the 1050 that was formatted ssdd with MyDOS. Or just create the full image and sector copy across with APE to 1050. dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -C -f a -t m ssed.atr dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -A -i *.XEX -o *.XEX ssed.atr If you haven't added MyPicoDOS yet, remember to save around 15 sectors or so for it... Edited June 5, 2007 by dwhyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 Are you wanting to do this for real floppy disks, floppy-sized ATR images, or humongous ATR images with hundreds of games (in MyDOS subdirectories maybe)? I want to make real disks to go in my real 1050 You'd be way better off using .XEX files and one of the billions of DOS compliant boot menu systems around. No doubt someone has written a nice one that handles ATRs with >1024 sectors? could you point me in the right direction? MyPicoDOS by Hiassoft is a good one, it handles MyDOS sub directories and such, allows long file name support (actually stores long filenames in a seperate file). Works great... I haven't found an .XEX that hasn't worked yet for me. For transfering .XEX files from PC to Atari, I prefer to make a scratch image containing those .XEXs.... dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -C -d d -s 1440 -f s dsdd.atr dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -A -i TheGreatAmericanCrossCountryRoadRace.XEX -o GACCRR.XEX dsdd.atr dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -L dsdd.atr --- GACCRR .XEX 177 45089 30-05-2007 13:18:07 dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$ls -l dsdd.atr -rw-r--r-- 1 dwhyte dwhyte 368272 2007-05-30 13:17 dsdd.atr Then it's just a matter of loading up SpartaDOS or RealDOS on the 8bit, put the scratch image that was created in APE and file copy over to the disk in the 1050 that was formatted ssdd with MyDOS. Or just create the full image and sector copy across with APE to 1050. dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -C -f a -t m ssed.atr dwhyte@linux-laptop:~$franny -A -i *.XEX -o *.XEX ssed.atr If you haven't added MyPicoDOS yet, remember to save around 15 sectors or so for it... Thanks, but I really have not got a clue with command line, linux etc, if it's not drag and drop, I am pretty much stuffed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I used to use this little utility quite a lot back in the day. Format a blank disk, copy .exe type games to it, and then boot this disk. After booting it, swap it with your game disk, It'll ask you for a title for the disk menu and write a small boot sector program to display a menu. There's a bunch of other ways to do this, but this is probably one of the easier ones and I remember it working quite well for many games Quick_Menu_Maker__19xx____.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 The method I pointed above works great and makes nice menus. Honest -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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