Smack2k Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) Is there an adapter or a way to play roms on a real Atari 800 or 800 XL machine? Setting mine up and wondering what my options are to play some of the games made for it. Does the SIO2PC work on these? Edited October 24, 2014 by Smack2k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanmercer Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 If you mean supported images in general as 'roms' then yes, sio2pc will work fine and there are handfulls of sites with just about every game/software you could want including a healthy amount of homebrew stuff. For my 800xl's I only have 1 cartridge, everything else I do sio2pc via the usb variant from atarimax.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack2k Posted October 25, 2014 Author Share Posted October 25, 2014 Excellent…I have the SIO2PC USB Variant as well... Is the XL a better idea to run that the 800 (I have both) to play all the games? I love the look of the 800 so have a fondness for bringing it out.. Setting up a "retro gaming lab" in my garage and the 800 or 800XL will be one of the "always there" machines, so your thoughts are greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locnar77 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 atarimax also has programmable cartridges and I use the MyIDE2 and it works perfectly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Excellent…I have the SIO2PC USB Variant as well... Is the XL a better idea to run that the 800 (I have both) to play all the games? I love the look of the 800 so have a fondness for bringing it out.. Setting up a "retro gaming lab" in my garage and the 800 or 800XL will be one of the "always there" machines, so your thoughts are greatly appreciated! I recommend 16 meg .ATRs that have about 1000 games each on them. You can load the images with APE/ASPEQT using your SIO2PC. They are alphabetical in order, so you can quickly find what you want. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/187482-4-atari-16mb-hard-disk-images-completed/ (Hope that link works) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack2k Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Thanks Soo much I do have the licensed version of Ape so that'll be good Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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