Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Booting disk software on an 800XL reliably.
Message-ID: <539@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 05:25:58 GMT
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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I have been having trouble getting disks booted on an 800XL. Sometimes
it takes 4 or 5 tries to boot up (say) Boulder Dash Construction Kit,
following directions in the package or not. Usually it doesn't even hit the
disk... just gives me notepad. Once it starts talking to the disk everything
usually goes like clockwork.

I've tried turning on the computer first, the disk first, holding down various
keys during the boot, etc... what is the accepted sequence?

I have an 800 with two Percom DD drives, and an 800XL with 2 1050s (as well as
a Zenith terminal and an Amiga 1000 with 4.5 Megs... I also pull down mumble
mumble bucks a year as a Sr Software Engineer... that is to say I'm not a
novice).
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