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Yes, I figured out that Disk 1 Side 2 is the boot disk. Go figure!

There are now 150 projects completed and posted to the Atari Projects website!

Boot from side 2! Go figure! Thanks for getting me up to speed. Looking forward to playing.

I would like to play Nox on original hardware (Apple IIe platinum) and have copied the disk images to 5.25 floppies using ProDOS. However, the disks won't boot. I get a "Unable to load ProDOS" message when booting from floppy. I get the same message when trying to boot from my Floppy Emu. I am relatively new to Apple II so maybe I missing something simple. Any ideas? Many thanks!

Note that the Magic Dump II binary is not available on Atarimania.

The hardware I own is listed in my profile. Generally, I have a few of each 8-bit computer along with a number of peripherals.

This would be so freaking cool! Count me in!

Count me in!

The bottom of the joystick doesn't get enough love.

Please DM me the PWD. Thanks!

Kudos to the team! Very nice to see this amazing device featured on Hackaday.

I used to get boxes of Atari stuff for $10-$20 each in the early 2000s. So glad I put my collection together then! I miss those days....

There is a 16K ATR 8000 for sale on Goodwill right now. https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/104793886

Ordered! Fedex all the way!

BASIC games are awesome!

I have participated in several Atari 8-bit computer zooms over the summer. So much fun. Everyone talked about what they were doing with the Atari and some even did some live demos of projects or games. Find a group of like-minded folks and send out an invite! Less than 10 people usually works better than a big group.

Thank you Curt for all your hard work to preserve Atari history. I learned so much from you. RIP.

Welcome to Atari! You will be glad you came. I maintain a website with over 125 fun hardware, software, and programming projects for the Atari 8-bit computers. Most of the projects can be completed in less than an hour, and each comes with step-by-step instructions. It is called Atari Projects. I hope you find it useful!

Love the ATR8000 posts. Keep them coming!

I have an ATR 8000 (64K) and recently purchased a new old-stock 5.25" IBM 360K drive for it. The drive spins but couldn't get CPM to load. I think I need to boil the belt to get the timing right. On my list of things to do this summer. Would love to get a few more standard drives for this. Am interested in what others use as standard drives can be a bit hard to find used and working.

I got back into the hobby a few years ago. I have been documenting projects as I complete them. Welcome back! My personal favorite is the Atari 800, 810, and 820 combo. I have all the others but the 800 is my first love. Have this set on my desk right now. My favorite games are Sea Dragon, Donkey Kong, Joust, and Qix.

I just did a post about checksum programs. I found a floppy disk in my collection which had a bunch of these on it including MLX from Compute! and TYPO and TYPO II. The ATR is attached to this post and posted to archive.org. MLXTYPO.ATR

I think it is fine to keep them as a window into history. No different than finding a trunk in your attic filled with love letters and documents. I have a number of disks like these and enjoy browsing the material from time to time. However, I have no plans to share them with anyone else or distribute them in any way. Some of the documents are personal letters and the like which I plan to protect. Much of it is bowling scores, baseball stats, and lists of software. Some of it is worth preserving. For example, I have several masters theses which absolutely should not be destroyed. I will probably rip and release these at some point because they are part of the scholarly record. I consider myself a responsible custodian.

By the way, the three PLAs on line 90 were causing some people trouble. I have removed two of this in the code posted on my website. Note sure why those were there to begin with since you usually match the PLA to the PHA at the beginning.

Thanks for catching this! Yes, too many PLAs. I should have caught that. Regardless, I have updated the code on Atari Projects so others don't run into the problem.