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> > What's the difference between the 800 and 800 XL other than the
> > built-in basic? About half of the games I have that worked on
> > the 800 doesn't work on the 800 XL at all. Is there any way to
> > fix this?
> 
> ... The solution happens to be simple, tho.  Most Atari
> dealers or user's groups have what is known as translator disks.  You use the
> translator disk to boot up initially rather than your game disk.  Then it
> prompts you when to load the game.  It in effect changes the OS from the XL to
> the OS of the older 800.

I have a couple of translator disks, which I suppose work for improperly
written software distributed on disks.   But the improperly written
software I have is on cartridges.  How can you run that on an 800xl?

		David Smith
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