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  • Pseudo Cartridges for Atari 400/800

    From ecompservices@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 25 18:42:48 2016
    With emulators we can load .rom cartridges and run them, however, with *real* hardware there is no way to run these.

    I'd like to get some feedback on what you've done to get around this.
    (Buying a real cartridge is frequently not an option)

    What I've found so far:

    Atarimax Maxflash - seems to only handle non-bankswitched roms and regular binaries
    http://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/documentation/

    S/XEGS Ram Cart 128K - This looks ideal, but can't access buttons with 400/800 cartridge door closed (I suppose I could override the lockout button)
    Anyone using these?
    http://raster.infos.cz/atari/hw/ramcart/ramcart.htm

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  • From marcin.jastrzabek@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Norman Davie on Tue May 10 05:20:10 2016
    On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 2:42:49 AM UTC+1, Norman Davie wrote:
    With emulators we can load .rom cartridges and run them, however, with *real* hardware there is no way to run these.

    I'd like to get some feedback on what you've done to get around this.
    (Buying a real cartridge is frequently not an option)

    What I've found so far:

    Atarimax Maxflash - seems to only handle non-bankswitched roms and regular binaries
    http://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/documentation/

    S/XEGS Ram Cart 128K - This looks ideal, but can't access buttons with 400/800 cartridge door closed (I suppose I could override the lockout button)
    Anyone using these?
    http://raster.infos.cz/atari/hw/ramcart/ramcart.htm

    Hey, did you check this one: http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=68?

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  • From Norman Davie@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 24 09:43:11 2016
    That looks great. I'll have to do some checking into this.

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