Thanks, Ill try that. now that you mention it, I can't recall where I saw that thing about the disks getting fried.

Hello all, I'm just getting into the A8 scene after I found an 800 XL with a 1050 floppy drive at a local thrift store for 15 bucks. My question is, do you need the original atari dos disk to play anything in the floppy drive? I picked up Phantasie II and jewels of darkness, and I can't get either t...