Utilities for 8Mb Atarimax cart?

[+Larry]

Like many of us, I have a huge number of utilities, so thought I would take some of the most useful ones and put them in an 8 Mb flash cart. These would be for Atari Dos/MyDos systems.

 

What do you suggest?

 

-Larry

[Madi]

Will ease the search hassle for most Atrians.

[+bob1200xl]

SI2 (SYSINFO) and XRAM021

 

and, a million more. Be nice to have them on an .ATR, for those of us who don't do flash carts.

 

Many of my utilities are boot disks (DISKWIZ II, SCOPY,,,). Can you partition the flash cart for boot files?

 

Do you have a listing of candidates?

 

Bob

[+Roydea6]

I like to put McGiver's TESTV2 program into a AtariMax Cartridge..

 

 

Tester v3.2 McQuiver.XEX

Edited December 17, 2015 by rdea6

[a8isa1]

VTOC Repair, one for Atari DOS 2.x and one for MyDOS.

 

I've forgotten what I used so long ago when I had duplicate filenames. For real floppies I imagine such a tool would still come in handy.

 

I can't think of any other specific utilties so consider the following ideas a Wish List.

 

I'd like to see MyDOS on a cartridge revisited, especially without the *yank-the-cartridge-and-pray* procedure.

 

SDX 4.47 can safely sort MyDOS file trees. Was there ever a standalone utility? If so it would be a nice addition to your Atari DOS/MyDOS utility cartridge.

 

A Find/Whereis type utility for MyDOS or even just a full recursive directory list utility.

 

-SteveS

Edited December 17, 2015 by a8isa1

[+Larry]

SI2 (SYSINFO) and XRAM021

 

and, a million more. Be nice to have them on an .ATR, for those of us who don't do flash carts.

 

Many of my utilities are boot disks (DISKWIZ II, SCOPY,,,). Can you partition the flash cart for boot files?

 

Do you have a listing of candidates?

 

Bob

 

Good suggestions!

 

I don't think that there is a provision for putting boot software into the Atarimax carts -- just EXE/XEX/COM and cart images. I'll look further into it.

An ATR should be no problem, but you would lose the loader, so some loader like Dos (etc.) would need to be present. And unless a cart image has been "fixed," I don't think it could work.

 

As I think about this some more, most of these utils would work very nicely from a hard drive subdirectory, but again the loader goes away.

 

 

@Steve- Doesn't Puff's VTOCFIX work with AtariDos disks? I do remember another VTOC fixer program, but IIRC, it is not so useful as Puff's.

 

@Roy- Interesting -- never heard of that MacGyver utility!

 

-Larry

[kenames99]

I wrote a SpartaDOS directory lister some years ago. it was done in basic. I forgot what I named it but it is out there somewhere.

 

Ken

[a8isa1]

 

@Steve- Doesn't Puff's VTOCFIX work with AtariDos disks? I do remember another VTOC fixer program, but IIRC, it is not so useful as Puff's.

Larry, perhaps it does. I almost exclusively used MyDOS.

 

Both utilities had the same or similar names. At some point, to avoid confusion I renamed Bob Puff's to MYDOSFIX on my own disks so now I can't remember the original names.

 

I acquired plenty of Atari DOS formatted disks but since I never needed to write to one of those I never needed to repair a VTOC on one either.

 

-SteveS

[+Larry]

I wrote a SpartaDOS directory lister some years ago. it was done in basic. I forgot what I named it but it is out there somewhere.

 

Ken

 

Yes, did one of those, also, as did (IIRC) a8isa1. Like most of the stuff I've written, I had lofty goals (double density, copy files, etc.), but bored of it after getting it to read a SD Sparta directory. Maybe yours is more full-featured?

 

 

 

-Larry