JagChris Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 What is the best simple rom pack for the atari 8 bits? It doesn't have to be everything just most of the major ones or some of the major ones from every category or alphabetically. I tried to download a rom pack and it was zips within zips. I'm not unzipping all that that's nuts. i got one with my SiO SD but it was so disorganized along with tons of file corruption so I just deleted it and want to start over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erichenneke Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) Go here and hit the "Download All" link up at the top of the list. That will give you a zip file with everything in it. It's updated regularly and everything works. http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=0 Edited February 18, 2022 by erichenneke 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 Thanks. Much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 Having trouble downloading. I'll try again later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 A similar collection is available from Fandal, https://a8.fandal.cz/games.php (upper right "complete zip"). 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erichenneke Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Having trouble downloading. I'll try again later.Did you get it to work?Sent from my KB2005 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted February 26, 2022 Author Share Posted February 26, 2022 5 hours ago, erichenneke said: Did you get it to work? Yes. Was able to download it today without much issue. Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted February 27, 2022 Author Share Posted February 27, 2022 (edited) On 2/26/2022 at 9:51 AM, erichenneke said: Did you get it to work? I have a question. I noticed the legendary Goonies game says (130XE) next to it. Do I need 128k to run this? Edited February 27, 2022 by JagChris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 17 hours ago, JagChris said: I have a question. I noticed the legendary Goonies game says (130XE) next to it. Do I need 128k to run this? I know I originally played it on an 800XL stock machine back in the day 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erichenneke Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 18 hours ago, JagChris said: I have a question. I noticed the legendary Goonies game says (130XE) next to it. Do I need 128k to run this? The version that explicitly says "(130XE)" in the file name needs 128K memory. But the version on the GAMES065.ATR image runs on 800XL just fine. http://mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?dl=065 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 Ok I grabbed that one. The pack also seems to be missing Atari Planetarium so I'll grab that also. And any other planetarium program available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 (edited) Found planetarium. Among other things it has a DS store file. What is that? Edited February 28, 2022 by JagChris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 3:28 PM, JagChris said: Among other things it has a DS store file. What is that? You can ignore/delete it. It's a byproduct of the file being handled through a Macintosh machine at some point. On a Mac, it can store information about the directory. On an other OS it's useless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Homesoft is perfect for a good selection of games, updated, cleaned and sorted. You'll find other useful links (applications, other games, manuals) in Topic for newbies or veterans returning to Atari (section 3). Multiload disk version (ATR) of The Goonies needs 64KB. It's single load version (XEX) that needs 128K. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 And let's remember that disks are disks and roms are roms....Disks are not roms.. Sorry...Used to moderate a PSX new channel on Usenet, used to get young kids coming on asking where they can get PSX romz, grrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 3 hours ago, Mclaneinc said: And let's remember that disks are disks and roms are roms....Disks are not roms.. I know, that bugs the crap out of me too, but I wasn't going to say anything this time. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 36 minutes ago, bfollowell said: I know, that bugs the crap out of me too, but I wasn't going to say anything this time. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. Not just you Bri, some people do want roms / crt's and I'm sure the op was one of them. I just find it a little disrespectful to the system if you don't even know what type(s) of software it runs. It also helps people find a lot more good software if they bother to see the types it uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 (edited) dunnoh... maybe they should be called media packs / code packs / data packs... anything but romz / I was just thinking about random access packs of the past who knows could they be 'mix packs'? My 80's Atari 'mix' pack... Edited March 2, 2022 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 So I grabbed a few files that the pack didn't have that I mentioned. Such as the SSI stuff. Along with Star Raiders rom. I'm still looking for Montezuma's Revenge but haven't looked very hard yet. I thought it would be nice to pick up some actual 8bit carts at the Portland Retro Gaming Swap meet. I was shooting for Star Raiders. Maybe Archon, Pitfall II or whatever they may have had. Every other time, except when I'm there looking for them they've got tons. But the pickins were nearly non-existent for anything A8. Until I ran into this wild man @swlovinist and he happened to have, and only have A8 Star Raiders. He gave me a great deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 On 3/2/2022 at 1:38 AM, Philsan said: Multiload disk version (ATR) of The Goonies needs 64KB. It's single load version (XEX) that needs 128K. What's with the two different versions? Did Goonies come out on cartridge as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Homesoft converts cart images and disks to executable files, fixes the OS requirements, sometimes adds loading screens and generally fixes all the things that can make finding a working copy tricky. Sometimes these changes need more memory to run that the original. Cart conversions are an obvious one, there is no bank switching on an XEX file but carts can be made to do that. As an extreme example, there's a Home-brew game Called AtariBlast! which requires 1M of RAM to run the XEX but on a cart, it only needs 16K. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azoriano Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 I get the Atari computers failed over time even though they were doing well for a long time. I want to know since they stopped making them, It wasn't due to lack of Liking from buyer, but commadore, sony and other builders came and went. I fee like Atari just wasted to much cash and didn't improve the brand. I read that a german company bought the company, if so why haven't they gotten the company back into fun computer building? I would buy another one if they reintroduced the Atari computer back into the world, modernize it. but never turn it into another IBM clone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 You can read about Atari’s history at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari The original Atari ceased in 1998, the assets owned by Hasbro from 1998-2001 and Atari has been a French company ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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