Gunstar Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 (edited) My 8-bit is down, and I can't fix it for a while so I've installed the Atari800Win 4.0 emulator so I can play Alternate Reality (having withdrawl symptoms) until I get my computer fixed. Anyway, I'm having trouble understanding emulated disk drive setup. First, how can I set the emulator to see more than just drive 1? I've mounted disk images into drives 1&2 (all AR the city supports) but when running the emulator/game it's only recognizing the first drive. Second, isn't there a way to just swap disk images from one drive to the other in the emulator's drive window instead of having to browse through windows everytime I want to change disk images? What I want to do is mount all the disk images I need into all the virtual drives and then just swap them like can be done with A.P.E., but there doesn't seem to be an option (even Atari800DC for the dreamcast lets me do this. I'm not using the DC version becuase AR needs to write to the disk images and you can't do that on the DC). I can't find any answers in the "help" menu at all. Please help! Edited March 10, 2008 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Dabbling in emulation now are we Gunstar? I don't know if Atari800Win is still being actively developed, but the plain old Atari800 project is and works just fine. Does disk rotation and all that jazz. No, it doesn't run in a window, but so what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highendsystems Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 (edited) Ouch Gunstar! Your Bad-AS$ 1200 is down eh? I feel for ya bro, my 256K 800XL needs a new antic chip I guess as it powers up but doesn't display. I messaged MetalGuy and his prices for repair seemed reasonable. About the emulator. Most of what I'm typing you already know, but plz follow.... You have four disk images for AR City, and character disk. In Atari Drives place and leave Disk 2 Side 2 in Drive 2. Just leave it alone after this. Use Disk one for the other three images. During game play have Disk 2 Side 1 in Drive One. You shouldn't have to switch or flip anymore till you use the char. disk, again in drive 1. BTW, by leaving Disk 2, side 2 in drive 2 when Rebooting or Restarting brings you back to the abduction screen, somehow acting as Disk 1, Side 1 in Drive 1. Dunno why, but kinda cool! There are also two sets of images for AR City, might try both.... Hope this Helps! Edited March 10, 2008 by highendsystems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 (edited) Ouch Gunstar! Your Bad-AS$ 1200 is down eh? I feel for ya bro,my 256K 800XL needs a new antic chip I guess as it powers up but doesn't display. I messaged MetalGuy and his prices for repair seemed reasonable. About the emulator. Most of what I'm typing you already know, but plz follow.... You have four disk images for AR City, and character disk. In Atari Drives place and leave Disk 2 Side 2 in Drive 2. Just leave it alone after this. Use Disk one for the other three images. During game play have Disk 2 Side 1 in Drive One. You shouldn't have to switch or flip anymore till you use the char. disk, again in drive 1. BTW, by leaving Disk 2, side 2 in drive 2 when Rebooting or Restarting brings you back to the abduction screen, somehow acting as Disk 1, Side 1 in Drive 1. Dunno why, but kinda cool! There are also two sets of images for AR City, might try both.... Hope this Helps! Thanks! it's working well enough now. I don't like it nearly as much as the real thing, but it will do until I can get the parts I need to repair my 1200XL. I don't know what happened to it, but I'm going to buy replacements of all the socketed chips and replace them until I find which one is the problem. I get a green screen and nothing else when the 1200 is turned on. I had this problem with an 800 in the past, and in that case it was a bad OS chip and CTIA chip (which I replaced with a GTIA). But it must happen if any of the chips are bad, as I had an extra GTIA and Antic and swapped them out with no luck, and the OS is a 32-in-1 that I sent back to Atarimax for testing and it tested fine too. So, I've decided, when I have the cash, to buy backups of everything and fix it by process of elimination. I'm capable of the repairs myself, I just need the parts. I have extra ANTIC and GTIA chips I've swapped out with no change, I suspect that it's either the 6520 PIA chip or the custom 65C02 CPU. Edited March 10, 2008 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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