DOS 2.5 help...

[TonySoprano]

I just got my cable recently and now I got some time to fool around with some games on the Atari. I am trying out the APE software with DOS 2.5 and managed to get it booted, but how do I run games? I managed to get a few running, but many don't..i get some errors like 165 , or sometimes it locks up completely. Is there some sort of DOS guide I can read about ?? I totally forgot how to use this DOS 2.5 or MyDOS... It was like 20 years ago! oh ya I'm running on a XEGS too, so that might explain some of the lock ups.

[emkay]

Here are the standard ERROR-Messages:

 

128-BREAK key abort

132-Invalid command

136-End of file

137-Truncated record

138-Device timeout

139-Device NAK

140-Serial bus error

142-Serial bus data frame overrun

143-Serial bus data frame checksum error

144-Device done error

145-Read after write compare error

146-Function not implemented

160-Drive number error

161-To many open files

162-Disk full

163-Unrecoverable data I/O error

164-File number mismatch

165-File name error

166-POINT data length error

167-File locked

168-Command invalid

169-Directory full

170-File not found

171-Point invalid

173-Bad sector at format

255-Format error

[emkay]

Because of your Filename error :

 

 

To copy files, you have to use the following syntax

 

d:filename.ext,d2:filename.ext

 

Please take note about the comma. The Filename is allways 8 characters.

[TonySoprano]

thanks emkay, that error list will help me out. I managed to get a few games working by disabling BASIC first with the option key (wow, I forgot about that) so I think I got the hang of it.

 

The cable to the PC seems a little unreliable though, does it often fail to detect the PC? sometimes I boot the Atari and it goes staight to SELF TEST instead of DOS. Sometimes it will give me an error in the middle of listing a directory. Seems like i have to retry 2 to 3 times before it works properly.