Atari 800, 800/XL, 130/XE and 5200 Emulator for MS-DOS ------------------------------------------------------ Irrespective of whether you are going to compile the emulator yourself or install a pre-compiled binary version you must obtain a copy of the Operating System ROMs. The ROM images are distributed within the PC Xformer 2.5 package (other versions of this program do not contain the ROMs in a suitable format) which can be downloaded from:- Site: ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk Directory: /computing/systems/atari/umich/8bit/Xf2 File: xf25.zip Note: Check your usual UMICH mirror first or do an archie search on xf25 PC-Xformer contains "ataribas.rom", "atariosb.rom" and "atarixl.rom". If have the original OS it should be called "atariosa.rom" and if you have the ROM for the 5200 Games System it should be called "atari5200.rom". Installation of the Emulator ---------------------------- 1. Create a toplevel directory called "atari800" and a subdirectory called "roms". mkdir c:\atari800 mkdir c:\atari800\roms 2. Copy the Atari800 ZIP file into the newly create "atari800" directory and unzip. copy *.zip c:\atari800 cd c:\atari800 pkunzip *.zip 3. Copy the Operating System ROMS into "c:\atari800\roms" 4. Start the emulator by typing "atari800". 5. After terminating the emulator, type mode co80 to return to normal DOS processing. ( This could be put in a batch file if you like... )