I just recently got into Atari 800 retrogaming.
I bought an MyIDE2 and I am satisfied with its support for R16 and roms/bin.
A little less with XEX and ATR.
I'm running in issues with those whether they are ATR mounted thru MyBIOS [I am talking about the 4 disk images.zip you can find here on this site which are all picodos, they kind of work but here and there there are bizarre non working stuff .... I believe caused by the soft nature of the BIOS] and FAT32Loader [but it states that if ATR writes then you're out of luck and those give me many issues as well as quite some XEX, but some work too].
I am considering buying SIO2SD as well, hoping to get better results.
Anyone can point me to real world comparisons? List of known issues?
It seems like to really enjoy SIO2SD you really need U1M as well, but I am not too interested in installing that, also I read it's kind of slow compared to flash.
Also it is possible I am using MyIDE2 the wrong way so any pointer there greatly appreciated.... maybe it is necessary to have MyBIOSR2 (as opposed to F2) to get higher compatibility ... dunno.
Please feel free to close this topic and point me to relevant material if already discussed.
My setup is a stock NTSC XEGS [I got it shipped for around 50US$ so I couldn't resist] with a MyIDE2 bought like 2 weeks ago and 4GB CF.
I obviously managed to create the FAT32 partition, and also some SO drives and "images". My current setup is that D1 is the DISK1 of the picodos images collection floating around this site and so on with D2 to D4. My D5 is instead the self created MyDOS [thru recovery].
I managed to also flash up a couple of "images" [gyruss seemingly doesn't work (probably my fault), pitfall 2 has no issues] thru the use of myidetool on windows [command line as the UI is kindof messed up on win8].
I am not sure I want to fiddle with the flashed part [FAT32Loader apparently now allows flashing so I wont need the cart flasher] as I am scared I'll mess it up for good.
If anyone has a decent selection of best atari games in a Fat32/ATR16MB that works on MyIDE2 that he/she can share that would be good too.
I really only have an interest into playing a few of the old titles, mostly the ROM based one, that is why I really appreciated the R16 files available here I wish there were more but then again it takes dedication to make them [I believe only 3 or 4 titles from XEGS cart exclusive are amiss].
And last but not least yes I came from a console flashcart world where all games are ROM so it is just a matter of "mapping" and the various flash cart producer have been quite good these days to make available around 99% of the SW libraries ... there's always going to be one or 2 games that just play dirty.
Thanks for any help you may provide.