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From: jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA
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Subject: Re: ATARI 800 and ATARI 800 XL
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Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 18:58:43 EDT
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Ha! that's one case where you probably would be very wise to buy CDY's
OmniView operating system chip.  It is about the only commercial product I
know of which will run a cartridge which is incompatible with the XL O/S.

The only other possibility might be some kind of hardware mod which lets you
load the translator O/S, then insert a cartridge without resetting to the ROM
version of the O/S.  I know that the cartridge normally does a hardware reset
because of a short between two of its pins.  I'm not sure what happens after
that, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out if one has a schematic and
good documentation on the O/S.

Anyway, you can buy OMNIVIEW off the shelf and solve the problem, while also
getting 80-column capability.

-John Sangster
jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa