Newbie question.... how can I do it?

Raymate · Post by **Raymate** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:31 pm

Hi,

Been going back in time a bit and found all my old Atari gear, most of it works and been having a blast playing old good games.

I have ATARI 600XL, 800XL with floppy drives. VCS's and two ATARI ST.

Have hundreds of games.

And now got a few emulators for my Mac.

My question is with my Mac and all the hardware can I get the games from my original floppy disks into my Mac and play them and also to keep and archive them away for the future when the time comes my ATARI gear dies.

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Post by **Atari Frog** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:37 pm

Welcome Ray,

Check this: http://members.cox.net/atarimac/Sio2OSX.html

If you have anything that we are missing, please let us know as well: http://www.atarimania.com/MIA_January_2006.zip

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Atari Frog
http://www.atarimania.com

ijor · Post by **ijor** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:46 pm

Hi Ray,

Raymate wrote:My question is with my Mac and all the hardware can I get the games from my original floppy disks into my Mac and play them and also to keep and archive them away for the future when the time comes my ATARI gear dies.

Most original disks are copy protected. You won't be able to do that, at least no so easily.

You can dump your original ST disks on your own ST using the Pasti imaging tool. And then you use the images under Windows emulators. Pasti is currently not supported under MAC.

If you have indeed many originals, it might be interesting if you could make a list.

Raymate · Post by **Raymate** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:59 am

Thanks for the link.. to be honet all the floppy are not origianls.

But I do have around 20 carts. And around 60 carts for my old VCS-2600

ijor · Post by **ijor** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:52 pm

Raymate wrote:Thanks for the link.. to be honet all the floppy are not origianls.

I see. Then, unless you have something super rare, it is easier to download images from the net. For A8 (800/XL/XE) images, here is the best place to start.

Raymate · Post by **Raymate** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:32 pm

ijor wrote:
Raymate wrote:Thanks for the link.. to be honet all the floppy are not origianls.
I see. Then, unless you have something super rare, it is easier to download images from the net. For A8 (800/XL/XE) images, here is the best place to start.

Think your right, I looked at the software and after looking into getting a cable made it will be easier to get them from here.

Is their a way to down load a bunch of games or do I need to do one at a time?

Newbie question.... how can I do it?

Newbie question.... how can I do it?

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