What's the difference between APE and ...

[killersquirel]

Hello,

 

I'm just wondering what the difference between the APE program and the atari 810 emulator. Can APE load in .bin files or is it only .atr files? Can APE do more than the 810 emulator?

 

Thanks,

mike

[Shannon]

Ummm APE allows you to attach your pc to a REAL atari and act either as a really big hard drive, or a teeny weeny floppy drive.

 

But it has nothing to do with emulation, except it emulates an SIO device. You need a pc to 8-bit SIO device for this to work of course..

[Bryan]

APE allows you to load executable files directly from your PC hard drive, as well as boot from disk images (so, the answer to both your questions is 'yes'). Plus, it emulates other peripherals as well.

 

Go to www.atarimax.com to read up on it.

 

-Bry

[noteit]

You can load and save files directly to your ibm disk drives, use your ibms modem and printer.

You can make atr files with the pro cable, that you can load back to the atari, and it gives you 8 simulated drives, or use those atr files with an ibm emulator, or you can directly save bin files to your disks and load them back.

 

You need a com port on the ibm free for this.

Files load a lot faster than a regular drive. You can make backup copys of most copy protected disks.

You can use 1050 or double density drives, You can create atari drives on your ibm that hold many megs of files, and format them to what density you want, and use what dos you want.

 

You can make simulated atari drives on the ibm, and not stuck with the 810 single density format, and size of disk.

[killersquirel]

Thanks for all the answers and the links. Shannon the atari 810 emulator is a discdrive emulator for the pc. You connect the atari computer to the pc via the sci2pc cable just like you do with the ape program.

 

Thanks,

mike

[Shannon]

Thanks for all the answers and the links.  Shannon the atari 810 emulator is a discdrive emulator for the pc.  You connect the atari computer to the pc via the sci2pc cable just like you do with the ape program.

 

Thanks,

mike

 

Whoops hehe, minor oversight.