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You can make a windows .bat file that would run altirra. You would have to put the .ATR you want in the 'disk drive' of altira before you make the batch file. In other words, you can make a MS DOS batch text file, named 'myaltirra.bat' or anything .bat using notepad. You get the notepad application by searching for it. search for 'notepad'. Then you type in your MSDOS command, like 'cd/users/myname/desktop/altirra in one line then 'altirra64.exe' in the next line, both lines with RETURNs. You save your .bat file as a text file 'myalt.txt'. Then you have to get a DOS prompt as Administrator (Windows won't let you name a file with a .bat extension unless you are Administrator.) at DOS prompt type 'copy myalt.txt myalt.bat'. Now you can go to DOS prompt and type 'myalt' and it will execute Altirra the same as if you entered Altirra. This seems not to be such a great idea. It is same as entering Altirra. 'I tried to delete this.'

The pdf is great. Only problem I saw is the page numbers are missing, making it difficult to navigate the index. But I think pdfs show the page numbers anyway. I don't know how to use my hp OJ 6500 to copy two sided documents. Maybe I could scan one page at a time and be able to connect the pdfs of each page, one at a time? That would be 45 pdf. Madi has fixed it.

From my little document. 'A fifty pin ribbon cable connects to the MIO. The red 'line' on the cable is wire #1 and goes to pin 1. Pin one is at the top back of the MIO. It is possible to put this ribbon on backwards. With the pin type headers, great care and patience should be taken to line up the holes and pins and gently push the cable connector on the pins. Removing the connector should be done slowly, probably prying with a small screw driver, first one side then the other. It is VERY easy to bend and break the head pins, great care must be taken installing and removing the cables' By 'top back' I mean the top pins row, there are two rows of pins, by 'back' I mean away from you ​if you are holding it ​so the pins are to the right

I scanned the manual. It is two sided, so I had to scan in five odd and even pdfs. I'm not sure where I'm at right now on the internet. I think the MIODOC.ZIP is here in Atariage. The .zip has all the pages, but in odd and even. So, you could print out the manual. Actually the manual is arcane/difficult. I never have read it. Someone with better knowledge than me might make sense of it.

MIOMANUAL.zip Here's scans of ICD (FTE) MIO Manual. The manual is double sided so I had to scan odd and even pages to separate pdfs. You could print out the entire 45 page manual if you wanted, I think.

Here's some info about MIO. I have the MIO Owner's Manual also. MIO can only do HDs with 256 bytes per sector. Most have 512 or 1024. The MIO is a SCSI interface. Most PC hard drives are MFM or SATA. To use an MFM HD, you'd need a Adaptec 4000A interface. MIODOC.TXT

here's a .ATR with the three BASICs, binary load on a MyDOS .ATR BASICS.ATR

most likely a defective cart. You need a second cart or computer to test that. If you can hook up an APE/SIO2PC device, then you could load a binary load BASIC from a DOS disk. That's just another way to get BASIC, won't answer the problem with your cart.

Your PS is fine, not the 'ingot'.

I don't understand the problem. ' It looks badly faded/discolored for about 1/3 of the length of the badge (just past the word ATARI' There is nothing but grey plastic between red ATARI and 130XE at end of plastic insert.

'fast fingers' will make an autorun.sys of any keyboard strokes you make. I like to compile a BASIC program with ABC compiler. compiling makes a machine executable out of a BASIC SAVEd file. Compiling makes the BASIC program much faster. Faster than you would get using fast fingers to load and RUN a SAVEd BASIC file. 'Fast Fingers' is from Antic, Feb. 1984 Vol. 2, # 11. ABC compiler is probably at ftp.pigwa.net ABC works with DOS 2/2.5 only.. But, once you've compiled it, the resulting .OBJ file will work with any DOS. FASTFING.zip ABCOMP.ATR

I don't recommend DOSXE. Here's what I did to get a directory from a DOS 2.0/2.5 disk in drive 2. goto 'SYSTEM FUNCTION' menu, like you say (A choice). Then, like you say, do A.Allow DOS 2.x access. Then to get the directory of a DOS 2.x disk in drive 2: hit 'F' Then give A2:*.* for the drive specification and 'S:' for the destination. Don't omit the colon after A2. or S: the asterisk is a wild card. You could do A2:A*.* for all A named files. Also, don't do the single quotes for the S: If you only have one drive and stick a DOS 2.x disk in drive one, then the filespec would be A:*.* You can stop scrolling of the directory list with a CNTRL 1

You said you have a working 800XL and pwr supply. Instead of guessing it is RAM, if your working one is socketed, you can trade chips until it works.

I haven't heard of a way to add BASIC to a SAVEd BASIC program. The solution that would make the BASIC SAVEd program run as a DOS binary load is to compile the BASIC SAVEd program with a compiler such as ABC or MMG compiler. The only restriction I can remember is you can't have floating point in the SAVEd program with ABC, all has to be integer. I have also a binary load BASIC A, B or C for use with a 800 or 400. I think they work on 800/400.

Here's my collection of R: handlers. I'm sure Best or B&C Computervisions has the Atari printer and modem PR: to modem and printer cables. B&C 530-295-9270 11-4 M-F PST http://www.myatari.com Best 408-278-1070 1:30 to 5:30 PM PST http://www.best-electronics-ca.com There's also Video-61 maybe. http://members.tcq.net/video61/index.html / 651-462-2500 RHNDS.zip

http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/holmes%20cd/Holmes%202/Atari%20Archives/Games/ARC/index.html Well, you have to un-arc it and then install it on a .ATR, with, say, makeatr. Oh, I put it on a MYDOS453.ATR, just boot and binary load without BASIC. BEAMR.ATR

Yes, the U4, 24 pin, at the top, is the smaller BASIC ROM and U5, 28 pin, below the U4, is the OS ROM. Page 5-5 has the chip #s switched.

You say it gets video and sound after several seconds. So, it is basically working? Does it boot to the rainbow Atari logo with no cart in? It should, at power on, brief grey screen, then a solid blue screen for about 3 seconds then a brief black screen and then the rainbow Atari logo comes up.

OK. You're using a APE interface and trying to copy a real floppy to an .ATR file using APE Prosystem feature 'real floppy to .ATR' and get the error about not being able to access a SIO port. I guess Steve Tucker might respond if you leave a msg. on Atarimax.com I am offering an alternative way to write a .ATR from a real floppy. My RW13.COM has a write sectors to a file, with an .ATR header for single or double density disk. You'd boot from a Prosystem interface with a DOS .ATR with the RW13.COM installed, and then you could write the .ATR file from your real floppy to a third .ATR, or the D1: .ATR if it has room for a 90k or 180k image. Then you'd have to extract the .ATR file from the .ATR you used. The RW13 program will do single and double density 720 sector floppies. I don't think it will do enhanced 1020 sector. I'm getting a little fuzzy, so I'm sure you know what you're doing.

What are you using to sector copy your real disk to an .atr file? Or, maybe APE menu has a sector copy feature, I don't know. My RW13.COM is slow, but I think reliable. RW13.zip

If you press START at power on, it should beep twice and wait for you to load a binary tape. You hold OPTION and START if you want to binary load a binary file from tape. Holding OPTION at startup disables BASIC. I think, if you boot with the tape on, but without START, you should go to BASIC READY prompt. You can then CLOAD or LOAD "C" a BASIC program with the tape cued. If you turn the computer on with the tape attached but turned off, it should ignore the tape and go to BASIC READY. If you turn the computer on with only OPTION pressed, it should go to the self test screen and ignore the tape.

OK. I found this site for maybe can repair your XE Game System: http://www.eightbitfix.com/ There's a link to communicate with the guy. Let us know how this comes out.

You don't need any special ability to read the marks on the drams. It is a very easy to read 'MT'. If so, they are soldered in and would require removal and replacement. The 16 small chips, two eight chip lines, on the left. I'm not an expert solderer, someone might be willing to do it. If they are NEC drams, then it is probably something else.

Have you opened it up? If it is a 130xe, and definitely if it has MT drams (the 8 to 16 small chips on the left), it is the drams.