kd0rg Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 I have played around with RespeQT a bit and have gotten it to work, booted into a few games and demos (atr files), and booted into TurboBasic. It works great. I'm wondering how I would use drives 2 through 8 ( or more ). Can I make a blank virtual disk and save some basic programs to it? If so, how? I have read the manual but it doesn't make it apparent. Is this similar to the folder option? Now that I think about it, it probably is. Can someone give me a scenario where one might use all the drives? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Well suppose you have a game disk Side A.ATR mounted as D1:. You might have the same disk Side B mounted as D2: and then do a drag and drop swap between them when the game tells you to flip over the disk. Or you might have a blank, formatted .ATR as D2: to use for save files. Pretty much a virtual equivalent of how many folks use or used two physical floppy drives back in the day. As for D3: - D Whatever: ... that's limited only by your imagination. Format a few DSDD .ATR's and you have quite a bit of storage handy (in 8-bit terms at least) and usable just like you'd use and physical disks in an array of physical drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kd0rg Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 OK, cool. I didn't realize that I could switch disks on the fly but it makes sense. I did not own an Atari computer until year or so ago and have never really used the machines before that. I will create a few disks ( I see how to do that now ) and play around with it. Thanks DrVenkman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoSch Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I will create a few disks ( I see how to do that now ) and play around with it. RespeQt can make disk images for you. Don't forget to format them with the DOS of your choice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kd0rg Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 (edited) RespeQt can make disk images for you. Don't forget to format them with the DOS of your choice. Is there a way to format the disk image with RespeQT or do I need to do that from my 800? I want to create a disk image and add some basic programs to it that I have on my PC. I see that the disk properties window has a dropdown menu for the filesystem but not sure why as it doesn't seem to do anything if I change it. Would it be used for the folder option? Edited August 6, 2016 by kd0rg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoSch Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 You do it from your 800. Load a DOS and use its way to format a disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kd0rg Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 You do it from your 800. Load a DOS and use its way to format a disk. Just making sure I wasn't missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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