awesp Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) Hello All, I found an Atarimax 8Mbit cartridge image called 'KONA Megamodul v.5-56' that holds many good games. Once the image is burnt into a cartridge and run on a real Atari, you find that it shows a completely different menu system than the one created with the 'Maxflash Studio for Windows Multi-Cart Creation Software'. How is this done? Does anyone know what other program/s can be used to place applications/files on Atarimax 8Mbit flash cartridges? Thanks for any enlightenment regarding this. Edited February 3, 2015 by awesp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
576XE Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I like this menu too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 check the atarimax forums the maker of the carts I believed offered help not only with using his menu system but also with disk/cart emulation at one time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesp Posted August 29, 2015 Author Share Posted August 29, 2015 Thanks The Doctor. Will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Hello All, I found an Atarimax 8Mbit cartridge image called 'KONA Megamodul v.5-56' that holds many good games. Once the image is burnt into a cartridge and run on a real Atari, you find that it shows a completely different menu system than the one created with the 'Maxflash Studio for Windows Multi-Cart Creation Software'. How is this done? Does anyone know what other program/s can be used to place applications/files on Atarimax 8Mbit flash cartridges? Thanks for any enlightenment regarding this. Everything stored on a MaxFlash cartridge is software. The menu you usually see is also an atari program, that is stored by the MaxFlash studio. A cartridge works with several banks. In bank #$00 (the bank that starts when the atari is powered on) is usually the menu-program stored that the atari runs. There are coders that use a MaxFlash cartridge for one single game (like Space Harrier). In those cartridge their game code starts in bank #$00. So Atari on -> game starts. Now imagine that a coder also can decide to create it's own menu. When you can write a game that does not show a menu, you also could be creative and code your own menu. When you know how the MaxFlash carts works technically (I mean how different banks can be reached (the so called bankswitching)) and you know how to code, you are there. You could burn your creation using the MaxFlash studio in the cartridge. In that case you simply flash all raw data to your MaxFlash cart -> so you bypass the biggest part of the MaxFlash software. If you want to create your own custom menu you need to be able to code yourself, and you need to know the technical details of the cart you write for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesp Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Thanks for the info ProWizard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) I vote for your avatar for POTUS, Prowizard. Definitely Presidential potential. What's his name? Edited August 31, 2015 by russg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 I vote for your avatar for POTUS, Prowizard. Definitely Presidential potential. What's his name? Lol! His name is DirkJan. Check : http://dirkjan.nl/ Amazing Dutch comic character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) Oh and here is DirkJan as world 'ruler' LOL Edited September 1, 2015 by ProWizard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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