Atari 800xl cartridge backup

[Bubbalink]

Hi

 

I have an atari 800xl computer with 1050 drive and alot of cartridges and a multicart. I was wondering if there was a way for me to backup my cartidges or multi cart cartridge to floppy disk.

[lbaeza]

Hi

Check this video:

 

Regards,

Luis

[bfollowell]

Well, pretty much any and every cartridge ever produced for the 8-bit Atari computers has already been backed up and is available for download, so I can't imagine that you would have anything that would really need to be backed up.

 

Or did I misunderstand the question?

 

[Rybags]

Flash based multicarts will usually have project files associated so you can just keep them on the PC.

 

The Atarimax flashcart writer interface (USB) I believe allows backing up most carts.

Host based backup is equally possible though if it's not a known banking scheme it could be tricky.

 

Note of course copying a cartridge is only part of it - there's no guarantee a backup will work by loading into RAM.  And banked cartridges only work unmodified if copied to a cartridge that uses the same banking scheme.

[AtariGeezer]

4 hours ago, Bubbalink said:

Hi

 

I have an atari 800xl computer with 1050 drive and alot of cartridges and a multicart. I was wondering if there was a way for me to backup my cartidges or multi cart cartridge to floppy disk.

Please post a list what you do have, there are still quite a few that have not been dumped yet...

All of the Carts from Atari Corp have been dumped though...

 

I am still looking for Ham Radio related carts...

[dancroteau41@gmail.com]

Thanks for your step by step (clear simple / great job)!!!