Atari 800 disk archive manual#
Highly interactive, Multi Stage Copy (48K RAM), Manual Density SelectionĪrmed with a tool of choice, a Raspberry Pi with a level converter hooked up to the GPIO port on one side, and a SIO plug hooked up to the Atari 800XL on the other, I made some manual dumps of my most precious floppies before life got in the way.įast forward a bit more than two years and here I am again in the process of archiving my collection. Highly interactive, Multi Stage Copy (48K RAM), Copies only in Single Density Mode The list below consists of tools I tested and my personal experience with them. Having been out of Atari business for at least 2 decades I couldn't recall which sector copiers I used to copy disks for swapping purposes, So I downloaded a bunch of Utility disks and started testing. Once I got around that a new problem arose.
The last option I tried was the SIO2Pi interface: 4 wires, a diode and a level converter was all it took - All you have to remember is that every image of the SIO connector shows its backside (where the cable is hooked up).
The second option I looked into was the SIO2Arduino setup, but it was too simplistic for archiving purposes (also, hooking up buttons and a display I didn't have in my parts bin made it too cumbersome for me). Lotharek sells a similar device, but I have not purchased that (yet). Except that I had an encounter with murphy and got the latest version that contains a bug that renders it useless for my archiving purposes (this is being fixed at the moment). SIO2Ī very promising device is the SIO2PC/10502PC Dual USB device sold by Atari8Warez. As I only have recent hardware in the form of Apple, PC (intel) 'antiques' - albeit almost 20 years younger than my atari's - laptops from Y2k or a little bit more recent and several 'embedded' stuff in the form of Arduino and Raspberry Pi's, I started this journey by looking into the various methods that are available to hook up one of the aforementioned devices to my Atari and 1050 setup so I could start archiving. I started looking for methods to copy my floppies to a PC so that when my 1050(s) break down, I still have some of my source code, letters, games, etc.
Atari 800 disk archive software#
As I haven't found a good source on archiving your personal collection of Atari software on floppy disk, I documented my own progress, so others might benefit from it.
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