what are the games that....

[A2600]

what are the games that are incompatible with the 800XL without the use of the translator disk??

[Goochman]

Easier to ask about a specific game than the whole list

 

Slime needs the translator I know that.

[Wrathchild]

One I used to enjoy was 'Attack at EPCYG-4' (hope I remembered that correctly

 

I think Shamus I needs an older OS too.

 

Has anyone tried patching these for the XL/XE.

Generally they're just making illegal jumps to

routines in the OS instead of through the vectors IIRC.

 

Regards,

 

Mark

[Callipygous]

The 8-bit FAQ has a list http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/preamble.html Go to section 8.4

[8BIT 1337]

One of these days I'll actually go through *all* of my games to document this, but I have found out the following so far:

 

Only Run on My 400

Shamus, Montezuma's Revenge

 

Require XL Fix

Dig Dug, Dog Daze, Drelbs, Kid Grid, Miner 2049'er, Missile Command, Mountain King, Robot Battle, Zombies

 

I'm pretty sure I have two versions of M.U.L.E. because XL Fix won't make the original game work on the XL/XE machines.

 

It's a woefully inadequate list, but it's better than the aforementioned list if only because I've verified which games *do* work and which *do not* work with the XL/XE machines.

[Callipygous]

One of these days I'll actually go through *all* of my games to document this, but I have found out the following so far:

 

Only Run on My 400

Shamus, Montezuma's Revenge

 

Require XL Fix

Dig Dug, Dog Daze, Drelbs, Kid Grid, Miner 2049'er, Missile Command, Mountain King, Robot Battle, Zombies

 

I'm pretty sure I have two versions of M.U.L.E. because XL Fix won't make the original game work on the XL/XE machines.

 

It's a woefully inadequate list, but it's better than the aforementioned list if only because I've verified which games *do* work and which *do not* work with the XL/XE machines.

 

Missile Command, Dig Dug - Should work on any machine. Are these disk versions?

Miner 2049'er - Should also work.There was a bug in an early version, but did not think it was OS related.

Mountain King -- maybe, never tried it. Other K-Byte titles are 800 only, so it could be.

M.U.L.E. - yes there is an early version that doesn't work.

Monty's Revenge - I've have played it on an 800xl. Is it the Parker Bros version or the earlier one ?

 

my two cents,

[8BIT 1337]

Missile Command, Dig Dug - Should work on any machine.  Are these disk versions?

Yup, they're disk versions. I probably should have mentioned that - oops

 

Miner 2049'er - Should also work.There was a bug in an early version, but did not think it was OS related.

 

Could be - I think I have a few versions of it. But I definitely own one that wouldn't work without XL Fix or I wouldn't have noted it.

 

Monty's Revenge - I've have played it on an 800xl. Is it the Parker Bros version or the earlier one ?

 

I have two versions of Monty and to be honest I'm not sure which one requires XL Fix but I'm willing to bet both of them don't. I think one of them is '16k' and the other is '48k' or something like that. I have no idea which, if either, are the Parker Bros. version.

[AtariDude]

I remember having this problem all the time back when I had my Atari 800XL. I finally solved it by going to office supply store and getting labels with colored dots. Anytime I got a program that required the translator, I would place one of the sticker labels on it.