File types supported by the Atari800win Plus emulator
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Our favorite emulator accepts several different types of files, all known under the generic name of "images". In plain English, it is nothing more than the identical transfer of the contents of a disk, cassette or cartridge - which were originally Atari products - to be read by an emulator on our PC. That is why some geeks and freaks call it "mirroring".
For better understanding, we have organized them according to the way we load them into the emulator:
Disk Images
To load them, we use the menuFile -> Attach disk -> Drive 1
As you can see in the figure, we can load three (3) types of files. The most useful of all is theATR format, invented by the gringoNick Kennedy, who apart from playing a few notes on the banjo has no greater merit than having developed the cableSIO2PCWhat is that? Well, the device allows you to connect the Atari to the PC, via the serial port (DB9). In other words, the Atari "thinks" that the PC is a disk drive - do you still remember the much-missed and noisy 1050?
Another format recognized by the emulator is theXFD, or in English "Xformer Disk Image". Similar to ATR but lacks the ID and 16-byte header format (pardon my ignorance). "It's essentially a big data blob," I read on the Internet. It was created by Emulators, Inc. (Googling it, you can read the name Darek Mihocka). Don't ask me any more, please.
And a third disk image format is theDCMeither "Compressed Disk Communicator image". This is a native Atari archive containing an entire disk, compressed by Bob Puff's Disk Communicator program. These files must be decompressed to ATR format before use.
Cartridge images
To load them, we are going toFile -> Attach cartridge
It has three variants:ROM, BINandCART. Any particular differences between them? I'm mostly unaware.
Executable images
To load them, we use the routeFile -> Load executable
It also has three variantsCOM, EXEandXEXI can't find any details about its specifics. In a forum they mention that "the .xex file is an Atari binary; it's like the .exe files for PCs." nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, I know there isother formatsof image asSCP, PROandCAS(cassettes). But those are not supported by this version of the emulator.
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