littleman jack Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 I tried running the atari800 emulator in Linux (Debian) for the first time in a few years. Previously I've had no trouble. I hit a snag that I've never encountered before and wondered if anyone has suggestions. When I tried running a rom and then an atr file, the message "cannot run, you need a real atari os" appeared. So I looked into the settings and it appears the os roms are missing in this version of atari800. Where do I get os roms? I looked in Atarimania but I can only find DOS files. Where do I find the os roms? I think my older version of atari800 must have had the os roms included. Thanks for any help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sub(Function(:)) Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 http://atari.vjetnam.cz/index.php?frame=roms 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, Sub(Function(:)) said: http://atari.vjetnam.cz/index.php?frame=roms Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 I think this emulator always needed the roms, so you probably have them somewhere but maybe lost your original cfg file? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 From the command line, try this: cd ~ find . -iname '*.rom' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baktra Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 The most recent releases of atari800 have the Altirra OS built-in, so even without original OS ROMs, lot of software works out of the box. On the other hand, obtaining original OS ROMs is still the very much preferred option. Since the original OS ROMs are still copyrighted, they cannot be shipped with atari800. If the emulator worked before, you most likely have the OS ROMs, just need to configure atari800 to find them. If you didn't use the emulator for years, it is possible that the format of the configuration file has changed dramatically and you need to configure the emulator from scratch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 6 hours ago, zzip said: I think this emulator always needed the roms, so you probably have them somewhere but maybe lost your original cfg file? 6 hours ago, ivop said: From the command line, try this: cd ~ find . -iname '*.rom' 6 hours ago, baktra said: The most recent releases of atari800 have the Altirra OS built-in, so even without original OS ROMs, lot of software works out of the box. On the other hand, obtaining original OS ROMs is still the very much preferred option. Since the original OS ROMs are still copyrighted, they cannot be shipped with atari800. If the emulator worked before, you most likely have the OS ROMs, just need to configure atari800 to find them. If you didn't use the emulator for years, it is possible that the format of the configuration file has changed dramatically and you need to configure the emulator from scratch. I used the emulator years ago, on a different computer with a different version of Debian, so any configured files and roms from before are long gone. I also used altirra at one point, so I might be confusing altirra and atari800. In any event, thank you for the advice and suggestions! I think the next step now is to get the roms and configure my current atari800 emulator and then get playing. I prefer to use my real Atari 800 with disks and cartridges but, with a limited supply of games and money, I sometimes need to play in emulation. Thanks for the tips and info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFSL Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 So this site and tool exists: http://www.wudsn.com/productions/atari800/atariromchecker/help/AtariROMChecker.html And if you scroll down there are useful links --- one of them leads here: http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/nir_dary_cds/ROMS/ROMS_OS/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted May 8, 2022 Author Share Posted May 8, 2022 On 4/20/2022 at 11:32 PM, MrFSL said: So this site and tool exists: http://www.wudsn.com/productions/atari800/atariromchecker/help/AtariROMChecker.html And if you scroll down there are useful links --- one of them leads here: http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/nir_dary_cds/ROMS/ROMS_OS/ Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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