A2600 Posted October 31, 2002 Share Posted October 31, 2002 Im in the process of buying an Atari 800 computer and I wanted to know how do you boot up a game cart and for was is the BASIC cart for?? Help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted October 31, 2002 Share Posted October 31, 2002 Just put the game cart into the left cart slot and turn on the machine. The basic cart is for running and writing basic programs. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 31, 2002 Share Posted October 31, 2002 Well, a bit more complicated than that - not much though If you have a disk drive most games run without the basic cart in, though there are some that require it so you need to check. All cart based games use the left slot as does Basic so you shouldnt have a conflict when trying to play a cart game. Some cart based games requires 64K (The XE Game System carts) so make sure you get a cart that requires 48K or less since you're using an Atari 800. There are a few rare 'Right Slot' carts which are mainly utilities so you prob wont ever have to worry about that slot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted October 31, 2002 Share Posted October 31, 2002 Didn't he ask how to boot a game 'cart' though? He may have also meant games on disk but since he asked about game 'carts', I just gave him instructions on running carts which is the same as any system not counting the extra slot. It's pretty simple. Seems to me that the right cartridge slot was a big waste. I wonder if there could have been anything more interesting developed to use it. Monkey Wrench was cool but that was it. I think there was one more cart made for the right slot but I can't recall what it was. Would make a great harddrive slot for the MyIDE hardrive interface. You could run your hardrive and still have the left cart slot left for games or some other utility like a DOS or clock cart or something. I wonder if Atari had somethings in mind when they designed it. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 1, 2002 Share Posted November 1, 2002 I think the right slot could've been a contender but without Atari doing anything with it may have made developers a little skeptical about it Think about it, the 800 had memory slots and an extra cart port - with a proper upgrade it shouldve been an Apple beater with expandability, instead Atari moved to the closed box world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted November 1, 2002 Share Posted November 1, 2002 Yeah, they definately should have stuck with the memory&extra cart slot on later machines for the upgradability. It would have been easier on people like me who are constantly soldering in upgrades. Same with the 16/32-bit line. The right slot also had an 80 column upgrade/wordprocessing cart, I forget the name of that one offhand...I think it could also be used for 80 columns in basic or other language tooGreat editing tool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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