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.