Atari 800 Cartridge Rom

Atari 800 and 5200 Atari released a series of 8 bit computers (400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL, 130XE, XEGS) and a video game console known as the Atari. (Total titles available: 5488) Want even more options? Browse by genre, rating, and more with our advanced rom browser! To browse Atari 800 ROMs, scroll up and choose a letter or select Browse by Genre. If you're feeling adventurous, try the advanced rom browser.

As a community has grown up around the 8-bit microcomputers of the 1980s, there have been some beautifully crafted rebuilds of classic machines to take advantage of newer hardware or to interface to peripherals such as keyboards or displays that were unavailable at the time. Often these have taken the form of small boards, or boards that are designed to follow the form factor of the original machine, and fit in an original case.mytekcontrols has taken a different tack with his Atari 800 build, he’s produced an Atari clone designed to take the most popular upgrade boards produced by the 8-bit Atari community, as daughter boards. And he’s followed an existing form factor, though it’s not one from the Atari world. Instead, of the type you may well be familiar with from the world of PCs.He’s calling it the 1088XEL, because with a popular 1MB upgrade board fitted it boasts a generous 1088k of memory.

It sports the original five Atari LSI chips, and manages the task without resorting to surface-mount construction.The forum thread linked above is a long one that makes for a fascinating read as it deals in depth with the design of an 8-bit micro clone. But if you want to skip straight to the hardware, start at about.We’ve had more than one 8-bit Atari on these pages over the years. Most memorable though is probably.Thanks Lenore Underwood. Posted in Tagged,. rossumur’s first computer was an Atari 400, and after riding a wave of nostalgia and forgetting the horrible keyboard found in the Atari 400, he decided it was time to by putting an entire library of Atari games on a single microSD card.SD cards have been slowly but surely replacing disk drives for just about every old computer system out there. You no longer, and your.

The Atari 8-bits have been somewhat forgotten in this movement towards modern solid state storage, and although, this implementation is a pretty pricey piece of hardware.rossumur’s hardware for giving the Atari 8-bit computers an SD card slot is just one chip – an LPC1114 ARM Cortex M0. Batman arkham underworld ios. This, along with an SD card slot, 3.3V regulator, a LED and some caps allows the Atari to talk to SD card and hold the entire 8-bit Atari library on a piece of plastic the size of a fingernail.Designing a circuit board doesn’t have the street cred it once did, and to give his project a little more pizzazz he chose to emulate the look of the very popular miniaturized Commodore 1541 disk drive with a tiny replica of the Atari 810 disk drive. This enclosure was printed at Shapeways, and with some enamel hobby paint, rossumur had a tiny, tiny 810 drive.While this build does require the sacrifice of a somewhat rare and certainly old Atari SIO cable, it is by far the best solution yet seen for bringing a massive game library to the oft-forgotten Atari 8-bit home computers.Thanks lucas for the tip. Posted in, Tagged,. They’re not a 2600, but the Atari 400, 800 and 1200 are awesome computers in their own right.

With only BASIC built in to the ROM, they’re not especially useful or fun, as Jeroen found out when he acquired an 800 with a broken tape drive. There are options that allow you to load emulator files from a PC, but Jeroen wanted something more compact. He came up with a way to using a simple microcontroller.The 400, 800, and 1200 each have a port that allows the computer to talk to printers, modems, disk drives, and load games. There are already a few circuits around that connect the SIO port to a computer so games can be loaded, but Jeroen wanted a more compact and portable solution for his 800.What he came up with is actually pretty simple; just an Arduino, SD card, and an LCD display that allows him to browse the directory on the SD card and load it into the 800’s memory.A lot of folks over on the Atariage forums are really impressed with Jeroen’s work, and would like to get their hands on one of these boards themselves. The project isn’t done just yet – Jeroen still needs to make a case for his device – but hopefully he’ll be spinning a few boards up in the coming months.You can see a pair of videos of the device in action below.Posted in Tagged. FozzTexx had an old Atari 800 collecting dust and decided to pull it out and get to work.

The problem is that it’s seen some rough storage conditions over the years including what appears to be moisture damage. He’s read about a cartridge called SALT II which can run automatic diagnostics. Getting your hands on that original hardware can be almost impossible, but if he had a flashable cartridge he could just download an image. So to use an EPROM.When he cracked open his new purchase he was greeted with the what you see on the left.

It’s a PCB with the edge connector and two 24-pin sockets. These are designed to take 4k ROMs. He dropped in an EPROM of the same size but the pin-out doesn’t match what the board layout had in mind.

After following the traces he found that it is pretty much an exact match for an Intel 2764 chip. The one problem being that the chip has 28-pins, four too many for the footprint. The interesting thing is that the larger footprint (compared to the 2732) uses all the same pins, simply adding to the top and moving the power pins. A small amount of jumper wire soldering and FozzTexx is in business. Posted in Tagged,.

Altirra Atari 8-bit emulator

Altirra is the best Atari 8-bit emulator we have seen so far, for playing Atari 8-bit games on a Windows PC.

• Latest version 3.20 (23 June 2018)
• Works on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista and XP (32/64 bits)
• Emulates Atari 400/800/1200XL/600XL/800XL/65XE/130XE/5200, depends on the used ROM file
• Supports CAS cassette files, BIN and CAR cartridge files, ATR, DCM, ATX, XFD and PRO disk image files, ROM files
• Comments: Altirra is a very complete emulator. It requires some configuration, but you'll be served with a great Atari experience. It also has a very elaborate help section.
• Project websitewww.virtualdub.org/altirra.html

Atari System ROMs

Altirra comes with its own operating system, Altirra BIOS, which offers a reasonable level of compatibility. However, not all disk or tape images will run flawlessly with the Altirra BIOS. For maximum compatibility, you need so called Atari System ROMs. These are files with the .rom extension. There are several versions of these ROMs available, but we will use ATARIXL.ROM which is the Atari XL/XE kernel ROM.

Install and configure Altirra

Install Altirra

• Download the Altirra zip package (Altirra 3.x binary)
• Copy the contents of the Altirra zip file to an empty folder of choice, for example d:Altirra
• Create an empty file called Altirra.ini in the Altirra folder, in this example you'll end up with d:AltirraAltirra.ini. Settings will be stored in this file. Otherwise settings will be stored in windows registry

Install the Atari System ROM(s)

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• Create a folder called 'roms' in your Altirra folder, in this example you'll end up with d:Altirraroms
• Download the Atari System Rom files in a zip file
• Copy the ROM files from the downloaded zip file to the roms folder, in this example you'll end up with d:Altirraroms*.rom
• In this example we'll use the ATARIXL.ROM file primarily

Start Altirra and configure Altirra, including controls

• Start Altirra by double clicking Altirra.exe file in the d:Altirra folder. You can use Altirra64.exe for 64 bit operating systems.
• Click on System in the main menu, select Firmware and click on Firmware images..
  
  • As of version 2.60, click the Scan.. button and navigate to the roms folder
  • You can set the added rom files as default by selecting them and clicking the Set as default button
  • If you use an older version of Altirra, you'll have to manually add the ROM files:
    • Click on the line starting with OS-B and click on the button with 3 dots, navigate to your ROMs folder (in this example d:Altirraroms), select ATARIOSB.ROM and click on Open
    • Click on the line starting with XL/XE and click on the button with 3 dots, navigate to your ROMs folder (in this example d:Altirraroms), select ATARIXL.ROM and click on Open
    • Close the ROM images window by clicking on Ok
• Click on System, select Hardware and select 600XL/800XL
• To select specific firmware, click on System, select Firmware, select Operating system and choose your firmware. In this case, we'll choose Atari XL/XE. Choose Autoselect to let Altirra choose the firmware for the selected hardware
• Click on System, select Disk Drive and click on Accurate Sector Timing
• Click on Input in the main menu, select Port 1 and choose Arrow keys -> Joystick (port 1). You can use the arrow keys to move and the left CTRL to fire.
• Other keys that you'll probably need:
  
  • F1 - Temporarily enable warp speed
  • F2 - Start key
  • F3 - Select key
  • F4 - Option key
  • F5 - System reset
  • F9 - Pause
  • Shift+F5 - System reboot
  • Alt+Enter - switch between windowed mode and full screen

Play Atari 8-bit games with Altirra on Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7

So, what to do to play Atari 8-bit games such as Fort Apocalypse with Altirra?

• Create a folder called 'games' in your Altirra folder, in this example d:Altirragames
• Download an Atari game file, like Fort Apocalypse
• Copy the contents of the downloaded zip file to the games folder, in this example d:Altirragames
  
• Start Altirra if it's not already started
• Select File in the main menu and choose Boot image..
• If a game doesn't start right away, reboot the emulator with SHIFT+F5
• When a game crashes when loading, try disabling the SIO patch by selecting System, Disk Drive, SIO patch and reboot the emulator with SHIFT+F5. Please note that by disabling the SIO patch, the game loading will not be accelerated. To speed up loading time try pressing F1 (warp speed)
• To start a new game when playing one, repeat the previous steps and select another game file

Playing games with multiple disk files

Some Atari games came on more than one floppy disk or disk side, like Seven Cities of Gold. When you download these games, they'll consist of several files (1 file for each disk or disk side). So what to do with those?

• Start the game as described above (select File and choose Boot image)
• When the game asks for another disk, select File, click on Disk drives.. and change the disk file in disk drive D1 by clicking on the button with 3 dots, then click Ok.
• When the emulator doesn't start loading automatically, follow the instructions presented by the game (usually it says to press the fire button, which by default is the left CTRL button on your keyboard)