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Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000

Date 2013-11-10 12:00 -0500
From Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000
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On 11/10/2013 10:18 AM, Jason Harmon wrote:
> I think that issue relates to the CP/M boot disks, not the Atari format
> ones that contain Auto-Term.  For the Atari ones I was able to use APE and
> an SIO2PC cable to make images and was able to recreate working Atari
> disks.
>
> I understand that the CP/M ones are problematic for the reason you mention.
> Normally one could use an app link TeleDisk or ImageDisk on a DOS PC with a
> 360K floppy to make images and recreate disks, but the boot track format
> makes this difficult with the ATR8000 CP/M disks.  I'm going to try to just
> create some new bootable physical disks, and then see if anything can be
> done to create a usable disk image.  I have copies of CP/M, MS Basic, and
> Wordstar for the ATR8000, so I'm very interested to see if this works to be
> able to preserve them.
>

There's a discussion here about imaging the Indus CP/M diskettes.  I suspect 
the ATR8000 format may have the same issue:

http://trub.atari8.info/index.php?ref=indus_cpm_en

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Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Jason Harmon <jason@getrealconsulting.com> - 2013-11-07 09:25 -0800
  Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-11-08 08:10 -0500
    Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Jason Harmon <jason@getrealconsulting.com> - 2013-11-08 07:24 -0800
  Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Jason Harmon <jason@getrealconsulting.com> - 2013-11-08 10:29 -0800
    Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-11-08 17:17 -0500
      Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Jason Harmon <jason@getrealconsulting.com> - 2013-11-10 07:18 -0800
        Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 12:00 -0500
        Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 12:10 -0500
          Re: Bit3 80 Column Mode with ATR8000 Jason Harmon <jason@getrealconsulting.com> - 2013-11-10 17:10 -0800

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