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Atari800MacX Help Menus Media Menu |
This menu item supplies access to a full Disk Drive Management window which allows you to insert and remove disks in all 8 disk drives, as well as manage the status of the emulated drives. Details on it's operation can be found here.Insert Floppy (cmd-1 through cmd-8)
This sub-menu allows you to insert an image file into any of the 8 emulated disk drives. A .atr, .dcm, or .xfd file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon.Remove Floppy (ctrl-cmd-1 through ctrl-cmd-8, and ctrl-cmd-0)
This sub-menu allows you to remove a image file from one of the emulated disk drives, or you may empty all of the drives at once.Rotate Floppies
This menu item rotates the current inserted floppies among the drives. This may be useful for playing multiple disk games.New Floppy Image
This item will display a new window which you may use to create a new disk image. This new image will be saved in .atr format.New Cassette Image
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.
This item will create a new cassette file in the .cas format. You will be prompted for the name of the new file, and then it will be created and inserted into the cassette player.Edit an .atr Disk Image
This menu item allows you to edit a Atari floppy disk image in the .atr format. For more details on the editor, see the help page on the Disk Editor.Sector Edit an .atr Disk Image
This menu item allows you to edit a Atari floppy disk image in the .atr format. For more details on the editor, see the help page on the Sector Editor.Disk Image Conversions Submenu
This menu item allows you to convert between the various types of Atari disk image formats. You may convert .atr images to .xfd, .dcm, or .scp types. You may also convert .xfd, .dcm, and .scp images to .atr.Insert Cartridge (cmd-C)
This menu item allows you to insert a cartridge into the emulator. If it is a raw ROM dump of the cartridge, you will need to select the cartridge type from the displayed dialogue. If it is a .car file, then this step will not be necessary. A .car, .rom, or .bin file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon.Remove Cartridge (shift-cmd-C)
This menu item allows you to remove an inserted cartridge from the emulator.Insert SDX Piggyback Cartridge
This menu item allows you to insert a second cartridge into the emulator, if the first cartridge is a SpartaDosX cartridge. If it is a raw ROM dump of the cartridge, you will need to select the cartridge type from the displayed dialogue. If it is a .car file, then this step will not be necessary.Remove SDX Piggyback Cartridge
This menu item allows you to remove an inserted piggyback cartridge from the emulator.Create .car From ROM File
This menu item allows you to convert a .car Cartridge file into a raw ROM dump, removing the cartridge type information.Create ROM File from .car
This menu item allows you to convert a raw ROM dump of a cartridge into a .car format file, which contains the cartridge type information, which will allow you to not have to specify this when you insert the cartridge.Insert Cassette
This menu items allows you to insert a cassette image file (.cas) into the emulator. The emulator supports reading and writing from/to cassette images. A .cas file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon. Once the cassette is started by holding start during reboot, or by using the CLOAD/CSAVE basic call, you must press the space bar to continue loading/saving the file.Remove Cassette
This menu item allows you to remove an inserted cassette from the emulator.Rewind Cassette
This menu item allows you to rewind the cassette inserted into the emulator, moving the current read pointer back to the first block.Load Executable File
This menu item allows you to directly load an Atari executable file into the emulator, with using a DOS file system. This executable binary will exist as a file in the Macintosh environment, not on a disk image. A .XEX file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon.Select Printer
This sub-menu item allows you to allows you to chose which printer emulation you are using. You may choose the Text Printer, Atari 825, Atari 1020, or Epson FX-80. The sub-menu also has an option to reset the printer, which is equivalent to turning the printer off and on. For more info on Printer Emulation, see the Printer Emulation help page. For setting the printer options, see the Printer Tab in Preferences.Preview Printer Output
This menu item is used to view what the current printer output looks like. It is active for every printer emulation except the Text Printer.Show Media Status Window
This menu item allows to display the Media Status Window if it has been closed. For more information on this window, see the Media Status Window help page.