d8thstar Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 i'm about to pick up an XE system and was wondering, are 400/800 carts compatible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 Check Andrew Krieg's list: Kreig's 8-bit list 800 only carts are marked by an asterisk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted October 11, 2001 Share Posted October 11, 2001 Looks like none of the carts made for the right slot were made by Atari (must be why that slot was dropped on later hardware). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 11, 2001 Share Posted October 11, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Nukey Shay: Looks like none of the carts made for the right slot were made by Atari (must be why that slot was dropped on later hardware). It certainly was an interesting idea, but given its limited usefulness I'm not surprised it was dropped. I wonder what Atari intended to use it for. They must have had some products planned for the right cartridge port to spend the time and money to develop it. It probably didn't help that the 400 didn't have a right cartridge slot, giving developers less incentive to create carts for it. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted October 11, 2001 Share Posted October 11, 2001 Though this is a complete guess, given that the Atari executes cartrige code pretty well before anything else, my guess is that it might have been intended for future upgrades. For example, had it existed at the time, they could have made R-Time 8 a standard cartridge for the right slot (as opposed to a pass through, which would have reduced costs), and kept the left slot for regular cartridges. Or perhaps it could even have been used for a system expansion -- containing a patched OS designed to run out of the cartridge, plus maybe extra RAM or an upgraded CPU or something. It was an 8-bit slot, had direct access to the system, so I can see this being a possibility. Again, though, this is utter speculation based on what I could come up with for uses for that slot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted October 12, 2001 Share Posted October 12, 2001 So what if any carts are Right Carts. instead of left cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted October 12, 2001 Share Posted October 12, 2001 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/s...section-44.html Note : the previous link shows the Impersonator as a right cart, but mine is a left cart (it is inserted after loading a cart dump to fool the computer into thinking that the actual cart is in). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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