mattybigback Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Hi everyone I just got myself an Atari 800XL (PAL) in a trade and I'm so far enjoying it. I'm much more familiar with Sinclair and Commodore machines, so I'm really enjoying getting to know a new old computer. I've ordered an SIO2SD and plan on filling an SD card up with ATR images, but so far a lot of the PAL games I've found are on cassette or ROM cartridge. I know on the C64 you can extract the prg file from the tape image and put that on a disk image. Can this be done on the Ataris? I was thinking of making up a flash cart for the system to handle cartridge games, but it would be nice to do everything using disk images if possible.As I say, I'm new to the system, so assume I know next to nothing about it. I didn't know my SIO from my elbow this time last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 I know on the C64 you can extract the prg file from the tape image and put that on a disk image. Can this be done on the Ataris? The short answer is "no". Cassettes are cassettes, cartridges are cartridges, but... there are a lot of "if's". Too many to answer, but that's why the sticky topic http://atariage.com/forums/topic/176545-topic-for-newbies/#entry2199612 was created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Well, most of the old tapes and also most of the carts have been hacked or cracked in the meanwhile and converted into bootdisk or diskfile versions. You can find a lot of bootdisks (ATR images) and diskfiles (XEX files) here: Fandal: http://a8.fandal.cz Homesoft: http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php Vjetnam: http://atari.vjetnam.cz/index.php?frame=games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 I agree with Charlie Chaplin. Most of the XEX files on the Homesoft site should work fine on a PAL XL system via SIO2SD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Single stage tapes are generally easy. A menu loader can deal with file versions or they can be modified to operate as Xex files. But most games can be had as executable these days anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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