4/8/2024 0 Comments Editing atari bin filesOr you could just try to find a XEX file. Or an Ultimate 1Meg device (which requires installation inside your machine). Its a plug-in device, you don't need to modify your machine. You could get a SysCheck v2.2 ECI/PBI device, since this supports alternative OS ROMs. I'm not planning to upgrade the firmware to support this - I don't think it would be worth the effort. If the original cart wouldn't work on your machine, it won't work when you emulate it using the Ultimate Cart either.Īlthough in theory I could change the Atari's OS from the Ultimate Cart using the "soft" OS method I used with the UnoCart for disk drive emulation, it would only work on 64K+ XL/XE machines and isn't a 100% reliable method. Regarding OS-B, you'll get exactly the same behaviour when you use the file from the Ultimate Cart as you would get if you plugged the original cart in your machine. Not sure why I didn't put in a default handler for 40k ROM files - it probably didn't seem right to do it for a single game, though I don't think there were any other 40k cartridges? Also, just for giggles it's fun to see Memo Pad on my 800XL, lol. I keep OSb around for the few games and software titles that weren't ever hacked or patched to use XL or XE OS versions. In my case, I use one of the slots to keep a copy of OSb, padded out to the proper 16K (OSb is only 10K so must be filled out with a hex editor with dummy data when used with a multi-OS system that expects 16K roms like the XL, XE and XEGS rom versions). The Ultimate 1MB is a memory expansion (among a number of other things) that also provides 4 different user-selectable flash-ROM slots to store the OS of your choice. So, you're saying that I can make a CAR file for an Ultimate 1MB cart with both the game and the OS to run it on the Ultimate Atari Cart? If that cart had "slots" I take it that it's a flash cart that allowed you to load dumps/ROM images into different slots. If that isn't the Ultimate Atari Cart itself, it must be one of the types of carts it simulates, like Atarimax 1MB. I take it that Ultimate 1MB is a cart type. I have no clue how that is done considering that the Ultimate Cart and a few other carts are literally my only content for the thing. AtariMania says "Load with OS-B" under "Additional Comments." Is that something the Ultimate Cart can do? I have no idea what they even mean but my guess is that it isn't compatible with whatever OS is in my 800XL's ROM and so I need to load a different OS, a version B, first. I just get a blue screen with a cursor when I load these. The next issue I'm having is with "Loas with OS-B" titles like Demon Attack and Astro Chase. Do these really need to be converted for any reason? They all worked but, surprisingly, so did all the UNconverted ROMs (except for Bounty Bob). I converted the 18 XEGS 32, XEGS 64, XEGS 128, Atarimax 1MB (Space Harrier) and Bounty Bob Strikes Back 40KB files to CAR and tested every single one. I only had 18 titles that were not standard 8 or 16KB. Now, another question: To determine what needed to be converted I loaded all 200+ titles I had into The!Cart Studio and sorted by Content Type. Thanks! I thought the Ultimate Cart would recognize if that were the case so I tried them anyway and they would fail to load with a message saying something like "Bad ROM?" A simple "REN *.bin *.car" and "REN *.rom *.car" and now they all work! I should improve it so it spots if a file already has the CAR header, and simply offers to rename the file in this case. So all you need to do is rename these files to *.CAR - no need to use the utility at all. I've had a quick look at AIRBALL.BIN from AtariMania, and sure enough its 16 bytes bigger than a plain 128k ROM dump, and the first few bytes look like the 16 byte CAR header. If the files are not a multiple of 1024 bytes, then they may already have the CAR header - they've just been named incorrectly.
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