Tempest Posted September 5, 2002 Share Posted September 5, 2002 I think I asked this before, but I don't remember if I got an answer. Is it possible to modifiy an Atari 800 so it has 64K and will be compatible with all the XE software? I love the look and feel of my Atari 800, but it won't play all my XE games. Currently I'm using an Atari 130XE, but damn are those things ugly! Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 5, 2002 Share Posted September 5, 2002 I think you did ask and the answer was no. I just got an 800 recently and was checking into which games don't work with it and it looks like there's only about ten. Mitch http://atari7800.atari.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 I think I asked this before, but I don't remember if I got an answer. Is it possible to modifiy an Atari 800 so it has 64K and will be compatible with all the XE software? I love the look and feel of my Atari 800, but it won't play all my XE games. Currently I'm using an Atari 130XE, but damn are those things ugly! Tempest Matt, If you can find a Mosiac 64K ram card it will actually give the system 52K of RAM, also interestingly enough, the BIT3-80 column card, when enabled also gives an 800 4 extra K of RAM. The bigger problem is not so much the memory, its the OS, many of the XE games will only work with the XL/XE OS mapping and bankswitching on larger games, unfortunately there is nothing you can do short of mod'ing your 800 to death into a frankenstein 800XL to get compatibility... you'll just have to keep an XL or XE handy for certain games that the 800 can't tackle. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_J-64 Posted September 10, 2002 Share Posted September 10, 2002 I have an atari 800 with 288k and wish there was away to make it XL/XE compatible Ive allso have a speed chip in it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 10, 2002 Author Share Posted September 10, 2002 I wonder if it's possible to do some kind of dual boot OS? Probably not, but it would be neat. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 10, 2002 Share Posted September 10, 2002 I wonder if it's possible to do some kind of dual boot OS? Probably not, but it would be neat. Tempest It would be possible, CSS had an upgrade for 3 OS's; 800/(XL/XE)/Warp+(?THEIR VERSION?-not sure if that's what it was called or if that's only with APE...anyhow, on my XE, I can use the translator and use the XE OS and APE's Warp+(or whatever it's called), I know there were other OS's for the 800 as well, but none I know of for XE compatiblity...but I think it could be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 Currently I'm using an Atari 130XE, but damn are those things ugly! You've hurt its feelings!!!! then get an XEGS, that thing is pure stylish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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