Atari800MacX Help
Menus
Media Menu



The Media menu on the Atari800MacX emulator allows you to insert and remove digital media into the emulator, the same way you would on a real Atari.  It has the following menu selections:

Drive Management (cmd-D)
This menu item supplies access to a full Disk Drive Managment window which allows you to insert and remove disks in all 8 disk drives, as well as manage the status of the emulated drives.  Details on it's operation can be found here.
Insert Floppy (cmd-1 through cmd-8)
This sub-menu allows you to insert an image file into any of the 8 emulated disk drives.  A .atr, .dcm, or .xfd file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon.
Remove Floppy (ctrl-cmd-1 through ctrl-cmd-8, and ctrl-cmd-0)
This sub-menu allows you to remove a image file from one of the emulated disk drives, or you may empty all of the drives at once.
Rotate Floppies
This menu item rotates the current inserted floppies among the drives.  This may be useful for playing multiple disk games.
Insert Cartridge (cmd-C)
This menu item allows you to insert a cartridge into the emulator.  If it is a raw ROM dump of the cartridge, you will need to select the cartridge type from the displayed dialogue.  If it is a .car file, then this step will not be necessary.  A .car, .rom, or .bin file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon.
Remove Cartridge (shift-cmd-C)
This menu item allows you to remove an inserted cartridge from the emulator.
Create .car From ROM File
This menu item allows you to convert a .car Cartridge file into a raw ROM dump, removing the cartridge type information.
Create ROM File from .car
This menu item allows you to convert a raw ROM dump of a cartridge into a .car format file, which contains the cartridge type information, which will allow you to not have to specify this when you insert the cartridge.
Insert Cassette
This menu items allows  you to insert a cassette image file (.cas) into the emulator. The emulator only supports reading from cassette images.  A .cas file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon.
Remove Cassette
This menu item allows you to remove an inserted cassette from the emulator.
Rewind Cassette
This menu item allows you to rewind the cassette inserted into the emulator, moving the current read pointer back to the first block.
Load Executable File
This menu item allows you to directly load an Atari executable file into the emulator, with using a DOS file system.  This executable binary will exist as a file in the Macintosh environment, not on a disk image.  A .XEX file may also be loaded into the emulator by double-clicking it in the finder, or dragging it to the Atari800MacX Icon.