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Atari800MacX Help Menus Drive Management Window |
Each Disk drive can have one of four states:Eject All
The Read Only and R/W status of the drive may be set after a disk is inserted.
- Off - This disk drive has the power turned off.
- Empty - The power is on to the drive, but it has no disk.
- Read Only - A disk is inserted, but has write protect switch on, so that you may only read from the disk.
- R/W - A disk is inserted, and can be either read from or written to.
This button allows the user to eject all 8 disks from the drive with one action. It has a keyboard shortcut of command-E.Save Disk Set Button
This button allows the user to save the names of the disk images that are currently in the drives to a file, to be loaded later. The file that the set is save in has an extension of ".set", and it is a human readable text file, containing the paths of the image files, or "Empty" or "Off" for a drive that has no disk. It has a keyboard shortcut of command-S.Load Disk Set Button
This button allows the user to load a disk set saved earlier with the Save Disk Set Button. The user is allowed to browse for the set file, displaying files ending in ".set". The emulator then loads the disk images specified in the file into the corresponding drives. If a drive in the set file is "Empty" or "Off", no changes are made to the drive. This allows the user to load multiple disk sets sequentially. It has a keyboard shortcut of command-L.Rotate Floppies Button
This button rotates the current inserted floppies among the drives. This may be useful for playing multiple disk games. It has a keyboard shortcut of command-R.New Disk Image Button
This button will display a new window which you may use to create a new disk image. This new image will be saved in .atr format. It has a keyboard shortcut of command-N.Swap Disks Checkboxes
In the Create Disk Image window, you may choose a format of a disk. Note that not all formats are supported by all Atari DOSes. There are three standard formats:
You can also select any other format, by clicking Custom and setting Number of sectors and Bytes per sector. Please make sure your Atari DOS supports this format, otherwise the image will be unusable.
- Single density (40 tracks * 18 sectors/track * 128 bytes/sector = 90 KB)
- Medium density (40 tracks * 26 sectors/track * 128 bytes/sector = 130 KB)
- Double density (40 tracks * 18 sectors/track * 256 bytes/sector = 180 KB)
If 256 bytes per sector are selected, you can choose between 128 and 256 Bytes in boot sectors. Physically, boot sectors (first three sectors on a disk) are also 256 bytes long, but only 128 are transmitted between the Atari and a disk drive (upper halves of sectors are not used). There are disk images with 128 bytes in boot sectors and disk images with 256 bytes in boot sectors. The Atari800 emulator supports both, but other emulators don't. Except some special cases, we recommend 128 for ATR images.
If the "Insert New Disk image into drive" checkbox is checked, the created image will be mounted on the specified drive.
These checkboxes allow you to swap disks in the two drives which are checked. Only two drives may be checked at the same time, and as soon as the second box is checked, the swap occurs. These boxes have keyboard shortcuts of the number key of the drive, i.e. 1 for D1:.