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Atari800MacXHelp Preferences Window Expansions Tab |
These pulldowns allow the user to chose the size of memory expansions that are used with the 400/800 computers. You can choose the size of both the Axlon and Mosaic expansions. To actually use machines with these expansions, you can select the machine in either the Control Menu, the Media Status window, or the System Tab of Preferences. They are selected by choosing either the OSA or OSB machines with either the Axlon or Mosaic expansions.XL PBI Expansions
This area is used to choose the type of XL PBI expansion to be used with XL series comuters. This choice may also be made from the Control Menu. There are three choices, either no expansion, or a MIO or Black Box Hard Drive system. For either expansion system, a ROM file is required, and not included with the emulator. (These may be found in various locations on the internet). The ROM files may be selected using the buttons on the lower part of this tab.
In addition, hard disk files are required for the expansions. The hard disk file may be created from the MacOSX Terminal with a command like the following:
dd bs=256 count=xx if=/dev/null of=file.disk
Where the 256 is the block size of the disk, xx is the number of 256 byte blocks, and file.disk is the name of the hard disk file. Once the file is chosen, it may be selected using the buttons on the lower part of this tab.
For the Black Box expansion, to access the menu, use the Cmd-\ key combination.