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      Atari800 colo(u)r washed out

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      ATARI 800 standaloneEMU exits only with a keyboard

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      Controller setup for Wizard of Wor Atari 800

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      @PCKid thanks will give that a go. No it's not the libretro version.

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      Atari 800 - no Memo Pad

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      @10vorne

      Hi. Yes they both us the same emulator, but have to be setup specifically otherwise you keep over riding the settings of each. It's tricky at first, but once you get it setup, it works great.

      Did you have a look at this to thread? It's the go-to for how to properly setup Atari 800/5200 in RetroPie.

      Follow this...

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22392/lr-atari800-5200-artifacting-basic-and-other-guidance?_=1653829718633

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      lr-atari800 emulator help with virtual keyboard

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      Atari Emulator Keyboard Navigation (setting up the 5200)

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      I solved the problem. It was easy. An update from the lr-Atari800 emulator helped.

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      Atari 800 Keyboard -> Joystick button?

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

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      Atari800 Issues on Raspberry Pi 4

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      Atari800 not scraping games

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      @mitu Ok, I'll give Skyscraper a try.

      It looks like they're listed under "Atari 8-bit" instead of calling it Atari 800, maybe because it included all versions of the 400/800 system?

      Thanks for fishing this out, and hopefully will be an easy fix for you and the team.

      Best,

      JR

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      Atari 800 and 5200 content without manually setting the system type each time? (solved)

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      neurocrashN

      @dankcushions Here are the 100 core option files I made for the 5200 content I have. These are the .opt text files only.

      Core option files for 5200.zip

      I put them in \RETROPIE\configs\all\retroarch\config\Atari800\ and so far I think it's working although I haven't tested all of them.

      Cheers

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      Atari 800: I get popup launching menu, black screen, then it exits

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      neurocrashN

      @mitu I transplanted the configurations from a newly installed Retropie card to my existing installation, and have lr-atari800 working again.

      Thanks

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      Atari 5200/800 Emulation Really RetroPie main quality?

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      rkosterR

      lr-atari800 issues are almost always challenges with quirks of the original hardware, especially the fact that there are many versions. This is where all the things like cart autodetect for 5200, dealing with alternate versions of the OS, dealing with BASIC or not, etc, all come from. You actually run into many of these on the actual original hardware too (the infamous "Translator disk" for example).

      Basic stuff like controls is now pretty sorted, as of last year, except for the 5200's analog stick in a small handful of games.

      This isn't to say that there aren't some emu issues -- there definitely are, especially with the slightly older version of the mu that Retroarch uses.

      Things like Atari 5200 cart autodetect don't work reliably because the person who coded it originally tied the autodetect table to filename, for example. But given that there are many alternate dumps of ROMs with and without headers, even a checksoum solution would need to be pretty extensive.

      I strongly suggest people who are interested in Atari 8 bit emulation take a look at the guides in my signature, and in particular use the script I wrote. It makes most everything pretty seamless on the computers, and walks you through building a 5200 library that just loads without fiddling with anything.

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      Atari800 version 4.0

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      @rkoster

      Raph,

      thank you so much for your patience and kind support. I really admire guys (of course people in general) who help others and care about things without any material or commercial background. I'll try to to my best to behave like this in the physical world (but I suppose you, too ;-))

      I'll stick to your website and your posts and hope that we will hear from each other once in a while. I will keep reading about linux, the Atari Emulator scene and feel really good about what is happening these days with this bunch of possiblities I always dreamed of and which really came to life. I'm so thankful for this. At the end of the month I will visit old friends and we're having a Midimaze party (Midi Network Game for the Atari ST) like in the old days, I will present my MISTer unit and the GPI case and will tell people about your Atari graphics post for the Retropie Project.

      I'll be in the country over the weekend here in Brandenburg and hope that you and your familiy will have a great weekend, too!

      Again, thank you so much for everything

      Best wishes, Joern

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      Atari 800 controller problem

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      rkosterR

      Huh, changing that shouldn't have mattered, especially given that the game was originally NTSC!

      You might want to look at the script I wrote here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22392/lr-atari800-5200-artifacting-basic-and-other-guidance/17 if you want to get hardcore on Atari800 emulation.

      Also might want my fixed build of the emulator, if you ever want to play anything that requires typing. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22460/fixed-ctrl-and-shift-on-lr-atari800

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      No luck Atari 800 5200

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      mituM

      @PCKid The .cfg files don't go in the ROM folders. Remove the /home/pi/.atari800.cfg file, make sure you've copied the right BIOS files and then start a game.

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      Controller in Wizard of Wor

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      @Dwarfboysim Sorry, it's the other way around, I'm using lr-atari800 not atari800

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      "k" up in the corner with Atari Basic

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      rkosterR

      @bkumanchik The k is because you have loaded a "k-file," which is a specially optimized variant disk format for faster loading. It's generally noted in the game filename, like

      Zombies (1983)(Bram)(US)[k-file].atr

      It's a bit odd that you are in BASIC and see it, usually it goes away once you are in the game and it tends to be on games that are machine language. For those sorts of games, you want to disable BASIC.

      If your goal is to do some BASIC programming, I suggest finding a DOS 2.5 system disk, and booting to that with BASIC enabled.

      If your goal is to load a game and you are getting dumped to BASIC, I suggest disabling BASIC in the RGUI menu (Select-X, Options, set BASIC to disabled).

      I just posted a giant thread explaining most everything about Atari 8-bit emulation in Retropie here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22392/lr-atari800-5200-artifacting-basic-and-other-guidance

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      Atari 800 settings don't get saved

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      @rkoster OK, thanks!

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      lr-atari800, 5200, artifacting, BASIC, and other guidance

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      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...

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      Star Raiders - Config Help, Atari 5200 or Atari 800

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