Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!alliant!lackey
From: lackey@Alliant.COM (Stan Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: compatibility
Message-ID: <1819@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 14:54:41 GMT
Reply-To: lackey@alliant.COM (Stan Lackey)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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Well, I finally decided to get the new XF551 disk drive, and yes, only
DOS 2.5 came with it.  I read on the net that Spartados supports the
new features, so I dug my copy out of the pile and tried it.  It really
does use the DS/DD capability.  However, to my horror, I found that
the Atari assembler does not seem to run under it.  I tried assembling
my homemade text editor (which is rather large), and found that it 
seemed to load OK, but hangs up while reading one of the source files.
Is there any fix?  If the fix is getting mac65 (is that what it is called?),
where do I get it?

Also - I noticed that people have been talking about putting cartridges
on disk.  Can this be done without hacking the hardware?  I would love
to get rid of those stupid cartridges.  Even if it is just the ones 
that don't overwrite themselves.
Thanks.  -Stan