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It depends on the person, me personally, I've done the beta tester thing most of my retrogaming time, if you look at the credits of things like Altirra, Atari800Win and a few other non atari emulators, you will find my name in there like many others on various forums who spend their time testing games and the emulators. It is boring, but if we want the best emulation we must give the writers a hand and the only way that works is if the reports we pass on are as detailed and correct as possible. Sure, we get some wrong where we have not used an available feature etc, but in general they are useful. Just saying that there are folks who do the job as well as possible, it's always been my work ethic, if you take on the job then do it the best you can and see it through to the end. So yes, the weak point in this are the human interactions, but to be fair, most of them are valid with only a minority of mistakes, the worst case is when a person takes on a job that they have not thought through.

No doubter here, the naming convention is sound, it was the human intervention that was the issue

Still not tried it, hopefully it will not need everything to be pathed to the root of Altirra or if it is at the moment, this can be changed in a later revision. Cluttered root dirs are a huge pain.. Tosec has been a known pain since it's creation, I used to chat with them on IRC along with some of the content creators. The biggest issue was time taken and keeping themselves interested. Manually testing 4,000 games sounds ok, but to be the only person doing it and giving each game a PROPER test ended up with mistakes and even wrongly working versions. There's a c64 collection that matches tosec for dud files, it's called the High Voltage Collection (not to be confused with the High Voltage SID file collection). The collection was mostly the work of a cracker called Bod, he was a scene guy, but his collection was riddled with duff games, part working stuff and wrongly named stuff. I don't think Darren actually planned on releasing it, it just sort of happened. Wonder what he's up to now, last time I saw his was at a show, and he's got a job with Demon Internet (many years ago). Used to use his feet to press keys on his Amiga..And yes, the keys DID smell.

There's one little problem with the TOSEC stuff, it's badly named in many cases and a lot of the files were not gold standard checked. I like what you have done, will try it later, but its going to hit snags Paul..

@baktra I hope you saw the latest beta on the last previous page, some cassette stuff that you might enjoy.. And thanks for passing on the Turboload info, I rarely use tapes..

Pretty much the same, like when you got a musical track on some (few) games.

Health first, you can't play on the Atari if you are unwell (trust me, I know), look after yourself and come back to this when well.. Paul..

Remember to add Turbo support in the Cassette section of configure system, then find the right Turbo loader to load these, @baktra is s the person for the answer here, he / she is our cassette guru, I don't have much of a care for cassettes..

You sort of made it sound like a built in mode, when it's a profile you created.. Now I understand.. As for if that disk is boot-able on real hardware, I'd say 99.9999999%, NO.. All disks read the first sector to show in what way they will boot, that disk has no real loading code, it's purely a data disk (with protection I presume). PS @phaeron, Williams 16K carts? I have one that's 16K, a proto of Blaster, but I'm sure that worked before...It's the only 16K Williams cart I have (well that is named as one, I may have others with no naming?, care to name / point out some please?

Just read Atarimania's reply and that explains it, I was at the point of disassembling the first track when I read it, I'd tried every way to boot the disk available. Still trying to work out where this All OSB setting is and how the OP got the disk to boot when there's no real track code on sector one.

So mote it be..... (and in case you are wondering, no, I'm not)

Can't say I understand, the profile idea is just another command line switch, I've numerous profiles, and it's as simple as /profile:nameofprofile. So no real difference to what you are already doing. I shall be interested as to what the project is... As for a /vbxe switch, I must admit I was surprised not to see one considering the other available CLI arguments, but only Avery knows if he will make one or why he didn't..

To be honest, with anything that's multi drive it's normally 2 disks / 4 sides with the rare 4 - 6 disk games, but I find it so much easier to just drag and mount to the drive needed for the swap. I find the rotate side slows the process down. With the digital stuff there's no actual flipping anymore, so the drag and drop suits me.

Don't mention P, I can't do the washing up without needing go at least once.. Sadly true..

So annoying, trying to help people is getting way too expensive...Just one little free key and no doubt there will be a charge on it, just silly..

It's just the notion that folk would buy water that's been exposed to multiple humans at times of COVID etc.. Been on the ride a couple of times and agree that it would be nigh on impossible to do this as a rider of the attraction. Mind you, the level that humans do idiot things seems to be on the rise....Well, I'm off to drink my toilet water..

But from a ride that humans get wet and drip back in to that water...No thanks..

A way around that would be to make a profile with it enabled and then load that profile via the command line.

Ah, could not see them / didn't notice them.. Thanks..

Yeah, I know that pain after multiple moves over the years, getting a little old to be doing more moves The cat in the photo was rehomed after he got attacked by a very vicious cat, he refused to go out after that so we thought it was best he was moved to a new area and different faces. He's a happier cat now. We still have a big fluffy black and white long hair named Felix who gets doted on by me, my wife and my daughter.

Is it me or is there no ram chips on that upgrade? All 74 series

Hi Vladimir, Thank you for the link, just had a look at some of the files, found it a little odd that there seemed to be no cartridges in the games section. I did expect loads of tape images as Eastern Europe was the home of the turbo loader. Carts not so popular?

What you waiting for people, go get the drive... Hope you are not totally retiring from the Atari?

That's why I said it's easier to just put the basic cart in the same directory as Altirra, save's all that pathing.. Glad it's all going now.. Paul..

Ah, you are running it through a frontend via command lines.. ignore the /basic line, that's for internal basic only, just use a /cart:basiccartname Easy way, just copy a basic cart into the main altirra dir so it's always pathed.. It's the same way as it's doing it via the Altirra interface. Here's a sample command line E:\Atari>altirra /hardware:800 /kernel:osb /cart:revb.rom /cartmapper 1 /disk floyd.atr I simplified the rom and disk names.. The cartmapper switch isn't 100% needed, if you had a .car version of a basic rom you would not need to use that, if you take that out then you will get a prompt to ask what cart mapper it is, telling it ahead stops that. A car file has the needed info in it's header so negates that line.. Hopefully this gets you running.. It's been many years since I last played around with the command line part of Altirra