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Drive Management Window



The Drive Management window allows the user to easily see what floppy disk images are in each drive.  You may also select a new image by simply clicking on the button with the drive number in it.

Drive Status

Each Disk drive can have one of four states:
The Read Only and R/W status of the drive may be set after a disk is inserted.
Eject All

This button allows the user to eject all 8 disks from the drive with one action.

Save Disk Set Button

This button allows the user to save the names of the disk images that are currently in the drives to a file, to be loaded later.  The file that the set is save in has an extension of ".set", and it is a human readable text file, containing the paths of the image files, or "Empty" or "Off" for a drive that has no disk.
Load Disk Set Button

This button allows the user to load a disk set saved earlier with the Save Disk Set Button.  The user is allowed to browse for the set file, displaying files ending in ".set".  The emulator then loads the disk images specified in the file into the corresponding drives.  If a drive in the set file is "Empty" or "Off", no changes are made to the drive.   This allows the user to load multiple disk sets sequentially.
Rotate Floppies Button
This button rotates the current inserted floppies among the drives.  This may be useful for playing multiple disk games.
New Disk Image Button

This button will display a new window which you may use to create a new disk image.  This new image will be saved in .atr format.

In the Create Disk Image window,  you may choose a format of a disk. Note that not all formats are supported by all Atari DOSes. There are three standard formats:
You can also select any other format, by clicking Custom and setting Number of sectors and Bytes per sector. Please make sure your Atari DOS supports this format, otherwise the image will be unusable.

If 256 bytes per sector are selected, you can choose between 128 and 256 Bytes in boot sectors. Physically, boot sectors (first three sectors on a disk) are also 256 bytes long, but only 128 are transmitted between the Atari and a disk drive (upper halves of sectors are not used). There are disk images with 128 bytes in boot sectors and disk images with 256 bytes in boot sectors. The Atari800 emulator supports both, but other emulators don't. Except some special cases, we recommend 128 for ATR images.

If the "Insert New Disk image into drive" checkbox is checked, the created image will be mounted on the specified drive.