Atari800MacX Help
Preferences Window
Boot Media Tab
This tab is used to set the contents of the Emulator's peripherals when
it boots. Starting with version 3.4 of the emulator, there are
two options here. One is to start with the media that was present
when the emulator was exited the last time. This option is chosen
by checking the "Star Emulator With Media Present When Emulator Last
Exited" checkbox. When this is checked, the other controls on
this tab are not enabled.
The other option is chosen by leaving the box unchecked. Then, you can specify up to eight floppy disks, one
cartridge,
one cassette, and one directly executable file (in Atari binary
format),
which will run when the emulator boots. This feature lets you
specify
the favorite game cartridge, or programming disk, and have it always be
present
in the emulator at startup. To choose a disk, cartridge, etc,
simply
press the button for the device, and browse to the file. It's
name
will appear in the middle text field. In addition, you may enable
or
disable that particular piece of media with the Enabled checkbox to the
right
of each field.
Also,
starting in version 4.0 of the emualtor, Configuration Files may
be used. For more information on them, see the Configuration
Files
page. However, two items here are very useful for using with
them.
One is a checkbox which determines if all of the current media is
ejected when a new configuration file is loaded. This is true by
default. The second is a button, which alllows you to set the
boot
meda options to the media that is currently loaded in the machine.
Pressing this button will set the file names for all floppies,
cartridges, and cassettes currently in the machine, and set them to
enabled. This is very useful for creating new configuration files
quickly, based on your current setup.