Looking for cart dumps

tmp · April 15, 2018

I'm working on a multicart (a fun project i've picked to learn new things) and I'm looking for cart dumps for the following bankswitching types because it's quite boring to implement them without actually being able to test them ;-)

|  5 | 800/XL/XE |   32 | DB 32 KB cartridge                            |   |
|  9 | 800/XL/XE |   64 | Express 64 KB cartridge                       |   |
| 11 | 800/XL/XE |   64 | SpartaDOS X 64 KB cartridge                   |   |
| 21 |    800    |    8 | Right slot 8 KB cartridge                     |   |
| 23 | 800/XL/XE |  256 | XEGS 256 KB cartridge                         |   |
| 24 | 800/XL/XE |  512 | XEGS 512 KB cartridge                         |   |
| 25 | 800/XL/XE | 1024 | XEGS 1 MB cartridge                           |   |
| 26 | 800/XL/XE |   16 | MegaCart 16 KB cartridge                      |   |
| 28 | 800/XL/XE |   64 | MegaCart 64 KB cartridge                      |   |
| 29 | 800/XL/XE |  128 | MegaCart 128 KB cartridge                     |   |
| 30 | 800/XL/XE |  256 | MegaCart 256 KB cartridge                     |   |
| 33 | 800/XL/XE |   32 | Switchable XEGS 32 KB cartridge               |   |
| 35 | 800/XL/XE |  128 | Switchable XEGS 128 KB cartridge              |   |
| 36 | 800/XL/XE |  256 | Switchable XEGS 256 KB cartridge              |   |
| 37 | 800/XL/XE |  512 | Switchable XEGS 512 KB cartridge              |   |
| 38 | 800/XL/XE | 1024 | Switchable XEGS 1 MB cartridge                |   |
| 39 | 800/XL/XE |    8 | Phoenix 8 KB cartridge                        |   |
| 44 | 800/XL/XE |    8 | OSS 8 KB cartridge                            |   |
| 46 | 800/XL/XE |    4 | Blizzard 4 KB cartridge                       |   |
| 47 | 800/XL/XE |   32 | AST 32 KB cartridge                           |   |
| 48 | 800/XL/XE |   64 | Atrax SDX 64 KB cartridge                     |   |
| 49 | 800/XL/XE |  128 | Atrax SDX 128 KB cartridge                    |   |
| 53 | 800/XL/XE |    8 | Low bank 8 KB cartridge                       |   |
| 54 | 800/XL/XE |  128 | SIC! 128 KB cartridge                         | p |
| 57 | 800/XL/XE |    2 | Standard 2 KB cartridge                       |   |
| 59 |    800    |    4 | Right slot 4 KB cartridge                     |   |
| 60 | 800/XL/XE |   32 | Blizzard 32 KB cartridge                      |   |
| 67 | 800/XL/XE |   64 | XEGS 64 KB cartridge (banks 8-15)             |   |
| 70 | 800/XL/XE |   64 | aDawliah 64 KB cartridge                      |   |

any help is appreciated, thanks

Rybags · April 15, 2018

Seems a lot of stuff is just .ROM and not .CAR (which can help as they have the type byte in the header).

You can run .ROMs in Altirra and try the possible type to work out what it should be (a wrong type will normally crash fairly quickly).

Generally the specialty types are over 16K size except the OSS ones (all are banked?)

There's more than one OSS type though I don't know if individual programs ever used multiple formats.

2K, 4K carts (there are some like Atari's Computer Chess, Basketball (?), and Gridrunner) - these will occupy the entire 8K space and mirror multiple times.

Whether all cart types sequentially populate their file in the exact order that you'd burn to an Eprom, I don't know.

tmp · April 15, 2018

I've already done the "low hanging fruit", downloaded some cart collections and sorted them by type but I still miss any file for those in my original post

the ones I have at least one file for are

01-8kB
02-16kB
03-OSS 034M 16kB
08-Williams 64kB
10-Diamond 64kB
12-XEGS 32kB
13-XEGS 64kB
14-XEGS 128kB
15-OSS M091 16kB
17-Atrax dec 128kB
18-Bounty Bob
22-Williams 32kB
27-Megacart 32kB
31-Megacart 512kB
32-Megacart 1MB
34-SXEGS 64kB
40-Blizzard 16kB
41-Atarimax 128kB
42-Atarimax 1MB
43-SpartaDOS X 128kB
45-OSS 034M 16kB
50-Turbosoft 64kB
51-Turbosoft 128kB
52-Ultracart 32kB
55-SIC 256kB
56-SIC 512kB
58-4kB
68-Atrax 128kB
69-aDawliah 32kB
99-JRC 64kB

Edited April 15, 2018 by tmp

Kr0tki · April 16, 2018

Go to the "Hooked on 8-bit carts" thread and download the "Atari 8-bit ROM list" spreadsheet that I posted there (it's close to the end of the thread). You can then search for entries according to the "mapping" column, and there are download links for most of the entries.