If you mess about, you may find that you have a cart attached at the same time you have a disk attached.You can make disk sets, but you'd have to come to this menu to load them by hand. There is no way to load a disk set from the command line in Atari800 standalone, and definitely not in the libretro method of loading libraries. Side note: for multidisk games, you may get your hopes up that 'Disk Sets' could let you load up all the disks at once direct from the gamelist.

You can do this via the Disk Management menu. Play multi-disk games, which are quite common, including the ability to create and format blank disks for player or map data (Ultima games, Seven Cities of Gold, and many more require the latter).These don't seem to be installed on the Pi anywhere, but these can easily be found by downloading the Windows version of the emu, and then can be placed somewhere (I keep mine in /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/act and prefer Real.act with some additional adjustments for vibrancy).

act files that are carefully built color palettes that more closely mimic actual Atari colors. Among the key bits of functionality you may want: Many of the options that are present on the emulator menu are critical, and not implemented in Retroarch. It's quite common to look at the two menus and see that they don't at all match. The bulk of them are set via the emulator's internal menu which is accessed by pressing F1 (and which is also mapped by default to the right shoulder button).Īny options set in Retroarch will always override the options set in the emulator's internal menu. But these are a TINY FRACTION of the options that the emulator lets you set.

Artifacting: this enables or disables a core-wide setting to replicate a quirk of the Atari's NTSC signal which allowed it to display more colors than two when in high-res mode.Īll of these are stored in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg.

I would leave this disabled, and follow the instructions below. There are like 8 different types of 5200 carts, and you may have seen the menu that pops up asking you to identify what your cart is. For most things, you want this set to disabled. You almost certainly want to select a system with greater than 16K RAM, so don't pick the 400 or the 600XL.

System (either one of the 8 bit models, or the 5200).

Occasionally, you may hit something that won't load with it on, but I haven't).

SIO acceleration (turn this on, it speeds game loading from all disk formats.

NTSC or PAL (to taste, but I'm going to make a case for NTSC as your default setting).

CAS format should also be available in one of the various disk formats).

Whether to boot from cassette (almost certainly no, any roms you have in.

The lr-atari800 core has a tiny handful of options implemented in the GUI reached by pressing Select+X. Original posts follow:Īs those of you who have tried to get Atari 8-bit computers and Atari 5200 going at the same time know, the Atari emu can be picky. If you want an authentic Atari 8-bit experience with minimal fuss, give it a try.

Automatically launch games that requires OSa or OSb with the correct settings.

Let you choose from the four NTSC artifacting modes at the runcommand menu by setting an emulator for a specific rom.

Automatically enable BASIC for games that require it.

EDIT: There is now a script, found about five replies below, which will:

Ultima III Exodus for the Amiga