@jamrom2 I did, but that doesn’t give me the option of choosing keyboard keys when I go to the config.

Got it working. This required a visit to Atari Age to understand what was going on.

There are some protections in A800 disks that lr-Atari800 can't get around but Altarri can. This was one of them, hence the odd error message. The emulator reads the disk, but it's not jumping over the sector of copy protection.

I was graciously given a "newer" version of CA that had the protections removed.

I don't know any settings to make it start in Game Focus mode by default - not sure it is possible.

EDIT: you can install the standalone atari800 emulator and use the runcommand launch menu to use it for text adventure games.

How are you changing the emulator configuration ?
Since you're using the lr-atari800, there's a Core option that sets the machine type, when you change that option it should be automatically saved. Is this how you change the machine type ?

I just stumbled upon this post...is this about getting 5200(and 800) carts to auto-launch? I am getting ready to build out an 800 and 5200 section on my build. I started with the 5200 and I spent the better part of this afternoon trying to work through the RetroPie documentation of loading carts, extracting, saving, etc. and I only got three to autoload so far...

Though in fairness, it was a busy day for me building JavaScript rules for online ordering templates for some of our customers, lol....among other things...

@annomatik

Where does it chance ?

@kruuth https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Your anwser can be found on RetroPie wiki.

@spudsmctoole Answering Your Own Question From Six Months Ago Department: it turns out that my ATARI800.CFG file stipulated a default game cartridge, and this was overriding the presence of the XEX file. Remove that line and all is well :)

@gpmcty You probably figured this out a long time ago but the config file is in the /opt/retropie/configs/atari800/ folder.

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Okay, I found a solution to my problem:

https://github.com/jfroco/atari800-rpi

It's an alternative binary for the atari800 emulator that maps RetroArch buttons to the START, SELECT and RESET keys. It adds some new options to the atari800.cfg file.

No need to do keymaps.