BillC Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I can read, thankyouverymuch. I've asked exactly about what I wrote. To my knowledge there is no disk based version of SpartasDOS_X. AFAIK RealDOS by Stephen Cardin, based on V3.x, is the most current disk based SpartaDOS compatible DOS. http://www.realdos.net/realdos.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted April 14, 2013 Author Share Posted April 14, 2013 By the way: Although I did not test it again, I remember having trouble by creating bootdisks with regular binary files using this method. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Probably because this BOOT command is meant in the first place to make the disk bootable with a SpartaDos version. It is not meant to make it bootable with a regular binary. I guess files with several load stages or files without an explicit RUN address do not work properly this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 To my knowledge there is no disk based version of SpartasDOS_X. AFAIK RealDOS by Stephen Cardin, based on V3.x, is the most current disk based SpartaDOS compatible DOS. http://www.realdos.net/realdos.html SpartaDos 3.2 runs fine from disk: http://atari8.com/node/95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 SpartaDos 3.2 runs fine from disk: http://atari8.com/node/95 I didn`t say that it doesn`t, I was posting a response about a disk based SpartaDOS_X(V.4.x). All previous versions of SpartaDOS(V1.x/2.x/3.x) boot from disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bit-Dude Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 if you want boot & load to $0800-$bfff use this:. copy your game to disk, rename game to xbios.com and boot if you want direct load to: $0000-$00ff, $0200-$06ff, $0c00-$cfff, $d800-$ffff use xbios (xbios use ataridos fs/mydos up to 16mb, catalogs, custom SIO) Awesome, just what I needed!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 new wersion: http://xxl.atari.pl/ xboot: http://xxl.atari.pl/download/xboot.obx name your program "AUTORUN" make bootable atr with your program: dir2atr -md -B xboot.obx myatr.atr directory 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bit-Dude Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Hey xxl, I am back around again. Is it possible to create a larger bootable ATR (i.e 360KB)? The data for my game is quite large, I am already at ~280KB... I would like to keep everything on 1 disc, which people can load in Altirra, or via an SD card interface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechanerd Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 new wersion: http://xxl.atari.pl/ xboot: http://xxl.atari.pl/download/xboot.obx name your program "AUTORUN" make bootable atr with your program: dir2atr -md -B xboot.obx myatr.atr directory I scanned your xbios page and was wondering if there was a way to make a bootable disk to do the following. Boot an Atari 130XE with regular BASIC kicked out without having to hold down the option key (or force Altirra to unload a cartridge mounted). Load BAISIC XL 1.03 from a .rom or .car file (I have both). It's a 16KB cart file, so it would probably be best to boot t Then load RDOS 1.4 or Mydos 4.53 or Go the autorun.sys route, but that is already being used for a serial port driver specfically written for the ATR8000 or 850 for my old BBS software. (Action Annex 3 or 4). The last version of the code was written primarily for the XE. But I also have a few Atari 800s available if it just won't work that way. A very long time ago I probably could come up with a solution but why reinvent the wheel? I know I can just force mount the cartridge in emulation on Alltirra. I can load Rdos 1.4 with a DD 180K image no less) I used to have a BASIC XL cartridge , I don't know where it ran off to. Would a .XEX file be possible? I've been away from the Atari stuff for about 20 years, I did some searching.. Have you hugged your IBM PC PXE boot code today? I did the QA on the legacy 4.01 version that went on to be GPXE. :} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Is it possible to create a larger bootable ATR (i.e 360KB)? yes, up to 16mb .atr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechanerd Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 new wersion: http://xxl.atari.pl/ xboot: http://xxl.atari.pl/download/xboot.obx name your program "AUTORUN" make bootable atr with your program: dir2atr -md -B xboot.obx myatr.atr directory Would that work to load a cartridge rom, which would then allow dos to load? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 no. xB supports "binary files" load - like DOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechanerd Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 no. xB supports "binary files" load - like DOS So the question is, how to make a proper .exe or .com or .bin from a .rom file. Add a header on it for load and not run, then call DOS I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bit-Dude Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 yes, up to 16mb .atr Could you kindly produce a blank atr of 360Kb, with only XBIOS.SYS on the image? (I can't manage to produce one myself... :-( ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 copy xbios.com to testdir/ and: dir2atr -dm -B xboot.obx 1440 test360.atr testdir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoestring Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 (edited) <delete please> Edited November 22, 2018 by shoestring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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