exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

I now have a floppy disk which changes the Atari to TOS 1.0

Having disk problems so formatting from TOS 1.0 now.

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 24 Jun 2021 23:32 I only use emulators for DOS gaming.

I will never emulate when it comes to Atari.

Found here:

http://www.avtandil.narod.ru/tose.html

Thanks!

I'm not suggesting you emulate, merely using Hatari to verify that the image you suggested was a ROM image and not a disk image. They are not the same and you'll never boot a TOS 1.0 ROM image like a disk.

Also I don't believe you can boot a TOS 1.0 floppy on a machine that contains full TOS in ROM, at least not without SELTOS.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 24 Jun 2021 22:42 I'm not suggesting you emulate, merely using Hatari to verify that the image you suggested was a ROM image and not a disk image. They are not the same and you'll never boot a TOS 1.0 ROM image like a disk.

I know you wasn't I'm just weird.

MIDI Draw still fails to load with either US and UK TOS disk loaders anyway. It just freezes.

p.s. I can never do the quote thing!

Please accept my apologies @rubber_jonnie

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 25 Jun 2021 00:35 I know you wasn't I'm just weird.

MIDI Draw still fails to load with either US and UK TOS disk loaders anyway. It just freezes.

p.s. I can never do the quote thing!

Please accept my apologies @rubber_jonnie

No apologies necessary 😁

CTRL_ALT_REES recently produced a video regarding the original floppy TOS.



First time I'd ever seen it in action. Perhaps worth a goosey?

BW

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 25 Jun 2021 00:35 MIDI Draw still fails to load with either US and UK TOS disk loaders anyway. It just freezes.

You need flashy clock ;)

Cosmic Puppet wrote: 25 Jun 2021 00:35 p.s. I can never do the quote thing!

You just click on the "quote" button to reply to posts... and type at the bottom..

Badwolf wrote: 25 Jun 2021 10:15 First time I'd ever seen it in action. Perhaps worth a goosey?

I picked up a 260ST a few years ago, "as is" (seller had no PSU or knowledge of the system), and was very pleased to find that it had the original floppy boot ROMs. I've actually never booted a floppy TOS on it though. But it was the first time I ever saw that rainbow coloured boot screen in person.

Mine is a German model with 512 KB on the board, and a piggyback expansion, which apparently was a fairly common original configuration for these systems.

exxos wrote: You just click on the "quote" button to reply to posts... and type at the bottom..

It's when I want to quote some of the text it goes wrong @exxos :lol:

Thanks @Badwolf Will check this out.

Loved that colourful Atari start screen! 8-)