Atari Frog wrote:Do you have a list of the abbreviations, even partial?

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Atari Frog
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Oh yes! Here's just some of them...

[cz]
[GV]
[TV]
[lg]
[crk]
[de]
[analog]
[SE]
[crk]
[APX]
[dv]
[r16]
-osb
-bas
-np

TOSEC is a renaming tool / standard for game images and it uses such abbreviations. Overall, it's a good idea but very poorly implemented. I don't want to explain this any further or it would take hours :wink: Anyway, just stick to normal files, there's generally no use having all these so-called "...

Atari Frog wrote:Is this related to TOSEC? IMO, this crap should be avoided...

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Eh? What is TOSEC ???

Ok, NEW question!

Where can I find the key to all the "post" names attached to the .atr files ?

Ex...gorf [cht]="cheat"
......gorf [title]="same game with hacked/added title screen"

et cetera...?????

Atari Frog wrote:It's very simple actually. Once you've turned on the disk drive and inserted your disk, power on the 800 and your game should boot by itself.

Me like simple !!!

Paddle game: Castle Crisis! Ahhhh!!!!! Good suggestion! That's one of my faves on the 5200!!! BTW - Computer War has the C64 version on one side of the disk, and the A8 on the reverse. It's a "flippy". Ok, so now I have another question... How do I use the disk drive? Is it as simple as connecting ...

Ok, thanks to the atarimax sio2pc adapter, I'm live with my 800! :P Since I'm TOTALLY new to the 800, I need much help. I'd really appreceate any and all responses! Ok, first question...is there a "warm" reboot, like on modern PC's "ctrl-alt-del" on the 800 ? Sometimes hitting "system reset" will wo...

I have some hookups coming in the mail In case you are a PC-owner also :wink: I recommend to provide yourself with the SIO2PC/APE equipment. That allows for interconnecting Atari 8-Bit computers with PCs which are degraded then to serve as peripherial components like disc drive or printer :twisted:...

Nope, my first computer was a Ti-99/4A. I dont remember what happened or why (I was about 12 at the time I think) but Texas Instruments discontinued them or something, and they dropped in proce from like $1000 to $99 ! I remember waiting in line with my mom for hours to get one. That was a great lit...

What games are you looking to convert? All of them! :D Actually, enough that I could send the cart back to you for reprogramming with mostly 800 conversions. I have ALL the 5200 carts, so I mostly got the multi cart for the conversions. It's cheaper and takes up less room than starting a 400/800 co...

I want to know how to do them myself
I actually have your multicart. I'm waiting for a few more conversions actually to send back to you for re-programming, but if I can convert them myself I can pick exactly which ones I want on it.

Is anyone knowledgable in converting A800 files for use with a 5200 unit?

Hi and welcome to the site! I really LOVE the design of the 5200. Still, although the feel IS a bit different, it's nothing more than a revamped A8 computer to most of us Europeans. I wonder how well the console would have fared over here if launched in 1982... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.c...

Well, i´m not a fan, but i like this big machine, also the 5200 carts are impossible to find here in Argentina, you might have to import them only. :? Do you have any games, or just the unit itself? Do the televisions in Argentina support the 5200? I know there was no PAL version of the 5200 releas...

Heh! I wanted to have the first post on the 5200 section. Definetly my fave system Atari or otherwise.
Anybody else a fan of the big black behemoth??