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Article #375Re: ATARI 800 and ATARI 800 XL
From: jhs
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1986 22:58
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1986 22:58
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Ha! that's one case where you probably would be very wise to buy CDY's OmniView operating system chip. It is about the only commercial product I know of which will run a cartridge which is incompatible with the XL O/S. The only other possibility might be some kind of hardware mod which lets you load the translator O/S, then insert a cartridge without resetting to the ROM version of the O/S. I know that the cartridge normally does a hardware reset because of a short between two of its pins. I'm not sure what happens after that, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out if one has a schematic and good documentation on the O/S. Anyway, you can buy OMNIVIEW off the shelf and solve the problem, while also getting 80-column capability. -John Sangster jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa
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