Suggestions for 8-Mb Utility Flash Cartridge?

[+Larry]

I want to make a compilation of "best" utilities for an 8-Mb flash cart. Disk Editors, copiers, Text Editors, etc. I'm going to use the MaxFlash Studio, so it is pretty flexible.

 

Suggestions for inclusion?

 

Thanks,

Larry

[Rybags]

The problem there is that many utilities need to operate under a Dos.

 

I don't know if any existing Dos allows using Atarimax carts as a virtual disk. It'd be a handy accompanyment especially for Ultimate 1 Meg users who don't also have an IDE or flash drive. Read-only mode would be easy to do, allowing writes somewhat harder because they use huge blocksize for erase/write cycles.

[ivop]

You might want to take a look at how I combined Atmas II and DOS.SYS in a single executable:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/204330-sic-cart-conversions/

 

It would be a waste of space though if you had to duplicate this for a lot of utilities.

[+Larry]

Thanks, Jon! That looks like very good info.

-Larry

[Marius]

There was this FABULOUS Ultimate Utility Cartridge that I bought from Abbuc some time ago.

 

I don't expect author to release the rom file, but if he would do that, that would be a fabulous solution.

 

And indeed. most of these utils do have a built in DOS. It is a rather genius project that cart.

[Marius]

Check here:

 

http://www.abbuc.de/~bernd/friends/mrunbekannt---koma.html

[Bunsen]

Yes, the cartridge is a true wonder. But the author never sold the cart officially, there were too many copyright issues.

[santosp]

There was this FABULOUS Ultimate Utility Cartridge that I bought from Abbuc some time ago.

 

I don't expect author to release the rom file, but if he would do that, that would be a fabulous solution.

 

And indeed. most of these utils do have a built in DOS. It is a rather genius project that cart.

 

On this cartridge, the Action, BasicXL and MAC65 runs 100% as the original carts?

[Marius]

On this cartridge, the Action, BasicXL and MAC65 runs 100% as the original carts?

 

No. I have only tested Mac/65. It works like a charm, but the switch-on switch-off capability of the original OSS supercart, does not work.