Atari-Jess Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 How. I am getting fustrated. Im trying to boot from a disk on the XEGS I am using a 1050 and ive tried my Ranasystems 1000 I cant figure it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 How. I am getting fustrated. Im trying to boot from a disk on the XEGS I am using a 1050 and ive tried my Ranasystems 1000 I cant figure it out. What is the disk, and what is the behaviour you are getting? BOOT ERROR scrolling down the screen, just nothing, self-test, basic or missile command coming up instead? Are you sure the disk is bootable (if it's a commercial game it most certainly is.) ? Help us help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 I get self test, or I get basic either way I cant figure out how to boot any of my DOS and I dont know how to load a game from any of my game disks ive tried run "D:spaceshp" but I just get error 130 cause I have no clue what Im doing. So I want to know the procedure to load bootable DOS disks, how to see whats on a BASIC gamesdisk without previously knowing so just basically anything about diskloading for the XEGS alone Id use my 800XL but it doesn't have composite video.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 ok i think ive figured it out and it loads DOS now... I did press the option button and held it but I guess I was just holding it weird? Who knows, but ive got it now... thanks for the help ^-^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 and how do I get BASIC to load from a disk? I mean I cant just load to a BASIC cart (well I can but I dont know where it is) and BASIC is already built into the XEGS ANYWAY I just would like to know how to boot a disk in BASIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 and how do I get BASIC to load from a disk?I mean I cant just load to a BASIC cart (well I can but I dont know where it is) and BASIC is already built into the XEGS ANYWAY I just would like to know how to boot a disk in BASIC I imagine (I don't own a XEGS) that you plug in your keyboard, put a disk with DOS in the drive and turn the computer on. Don't hold Option since that disables BASIC. That way your computer boots up with DOS and BASIC is enabled. You should get the BASIC READY prompt. You can now load a basic program with LOAD"D:PROGRAM.BAS and then RUN. To see what's on the disk type DOS (assuming DOS 2.0 or 2.5) and then use option A to get a disk directory. Then I believe you can return to BASIC by using option B. BTW: type DOS from BASIC will blow away any program you have loaded into RAM, unless you are using a MEM.SAV file on your disk. I believe there is an option in the DOS menu to create the MEM.SAV file. The MEM.SAV file lets you swap out the ram that the DOS menu usually destroys and swap it back in when you return to cartridge (B). Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Yes, once you plug in the keyboard, it acts just like any other XE. -Bry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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