calfranklin Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 How do I go about making bootable disk (on XL or XE) with downloaded game images such as .atr, .com, .bin and .xex? I have a friend helping me modify my old ST Xformer cable to work with PCXformer (which I believe will allow me to read 8-bit drives on the PC), but with this cable and Xformer software, can I convert these disk images back into bootable disks that with work like the original game disks on the XL/XE computers? Thanks, Cal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almost Rice Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 How do I go about making bootable disk (on XL or XE) with downloaded game images such as .atr, .com, .bin and .xex? I have a friend helping me modify my old ST Xformer cable to work with PCXformer (which I believe will allow me to read 8-bit drives on the PC), but with this cable and Xformer software, can I convert these disk images back into bootable disks that with work like the original game disks on the XL/XE computers? Thanks, Cal 1004589[/snapback] The .ATR file should be bootable. If you have a SIO2PC interface and the APE software on the PC you would use that image as D1:. As for the others they are probably executable from DOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfranklin Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 How do I go about making bootable disk (on XL or XE) with downloaded game images such as .atr, .com, .bin and .xex? I have a friend helping me modify my old ST Xformer cable to work with PCXformer (which I believe will allow me to read 8-bit drives on the PC), but with this cable and Xformer software, can I convert these disk images back into bootable disks that with work like the original game disks on the XL/XE computers? Thanks, Cal 1004589[/snapback] The .ATR file should be bootable. If you have a SIO2PC interface and the APE software on the PC you would use that image as D1:. As for the others they are probably executable from DOS. 1004715[/snapback] But am I able to use the PCXformer software and cable to actually create bootable disks from dowloaded disk images that will run on the 8-bit (XL/XE using 1050 disk drives)? Does the SIO2PC interface and APE software do this also? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fröhn Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Use this tool: http://www.oxyron.de/html/arc64.zip Drop a copy of a DOS 2.0 ATR to it, and then drop any kind of files and they will be added to the disk. To store the new disk, just drag the header line out to a windows directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Hi, You may want to check this topic: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74373 -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfranklin Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 Use this tool: http://www.oxyron.de/html/arc64.zip Drop a copy of a DOS 2.0 ATR to it, and then drop any kind of files and they will be added to the disk. To store the new disk, just drag the header line out to a windows directory. 1005909[/snapback] I'll check this out. I'm still trying to find my ST Xformer cable so I can modify it to work with PCXformer, but I do have my 800XL up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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