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- A real Atari disk is a complex mess of adhesive magnetic stuff, made sense of by a dedicated floppy disk controller and then made useable by a computer in the disk drive. All these things boil the structure of the real disk down to a specific number of useable sectors for each recording surface, each of a fixed length.
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Nov 24, 2015 · You can make ATR files of non copy-protected disks using a real Atari drive and an SIO2PC cable/software. Just set it up so there are two drives -- the real drive and a virtual drive with an empty ATR image.
Dec 5, 2018 · An Atari ST (of course) with a disk drive capable of using double sided, double density disks (720k). Can also work with single sided disks but not recommended. A Windows based PC with an internal 3.5" disk drive, XP recommended.
- This is EXCELLENT kamakazi, thank you for posting this!
- You are most welcome. It can be time consuming to setup and learn how to do it but the end results are worth it. Besides, we need more ST stuff her...
- Awesome job. The only thing I would add is that HD floppy disks can be used too. Just put a piece of masking tape over the hole. I know it can be v...
- Thanks for telling us this tutorial. Now, if I can, I can create my own floppy disks with titles on them.
- The only thing to keep in mind is if there was any sort of copy protection schemes used they may still be present. So you may still need original c...
- Just a small FYI. I updated the post with online resources selling DD and HD floppies. If you use them please give feedback. Thanks!
Sep 17, 2014 · Re: Hard disk image and real Atari ST hard disk on emulator. by AtariZoll » Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:54 pm. Yes, Hatari and Steem use RAW hard disk images. There are some with header added like HDR - it contains mostly CHS parameters for old hard disks. That's pretty much obsolete now.
ALibPc is used to make ATR archives from Atari 8 bit computer disks, and/or to create real Atari 8 bit disks from ATR archives. It also allows the user to create/maintain a database of their Atari 8 bit software on PC, and sports a simple but useful disk editor/viewer.
Jul 18, 2021 · Original Atari 8-bit computer floppy disks can be imaged and saved to a modern PC for archiving, editing, running on an emulator, or used to write new floppy disks. Nick Kennedy created the ATR disk image format for use with SIO2PC and it has become widely accepted as the standard.
Nov 3, 2015 · Designing a circuit board doesn’t have the street cred it once did, and to give his project a little more pizzazz he chose to emulate the look of the very popular miniaturized Commodore 1541 disk...
