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Re: Atari XLs and DOS

Here is a circular answer. to make a bootable DOS
2.5 disk you have to have a bootable DOS 2.5
disk.<br>Real helpful huh. Check some of the other disk. A lot
of games and utlities used DOS 2.5. The only thing
that made DOS 2.5 better than the rest was it was the
most widely used.<br>Here is a Quick summary or the
DOS.<br>DOS 2.0 was single density. <br>DOS 2.5 was denisty
and 1/2 otherwise just like DOS 2.0.<br>DOS 3.0 was
2.5 with a lot of extras and short lived also, I
believe, a little buggy.<br>DOS 4.0 was 2.5 with even more
stuff and some of the bugs worked out and a few
added.<br>DOS XL was a command line DOS and nice.<br>DOS XE was
DOS XL with more stuff and I think was double
density. <br>DOS XE was (is) also really good. It's more
like MSDOS, if you're into that sorta thing. <br>The
translator disk you'll just have to try. It was a fix for
some of the older games that would only run on the
Atari 800. It actually loads an 800 BIOS over the XL
BIOS.




Sat Oct 13, 2001 1:27 am

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Here is a circular answer. to make a bootable DOS 2.5 disk you have to have a bootable DOS 2.5 disk.<br>Real helpful huh. Check some of the other disk. A lot ...
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Thanks for the great answer! This explains much that I was wondering about Atari DOS. As far as the translator, it looks as if I'll just have to play around...
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