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MCC-216 Atari 800XL core v0.50 release note
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Mark Watson
scrameta@gmail.com
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The keyboard is mapped to match an Atari 800XL physical layout.

Special/console keys:
F5 - Help
F6 - Start
F7 - Select
F8 - Option
F9 - Reset
F10 - Cold start (clear base 64KB RAM and reset)
F11 - Select drive 1 and cold start
Use joystick to make selection in menu
Left - up several lines
Right - down several lines
Up - up 1 line
Down - down 1 line
Fire - select
Remember many titles require holding 'option'
Select "DIR .." to go up a directory
Select "DIR xxx" to go down a directory
F12 - System settings menu
Use joystick to make selection
Turbo - system speed
Left/right to select
1x (default): is very compatible - speed closely matches original hardware ~1.7MHz
2x: ~3.4MHz - less compatible
4x: ~6.8MHz - less compatible
8x/16x: 13MHz, 27MHZ - limited by SDRAM latency, not quicker than 4x yet.
RAM
Left/right to select
64KB: like 65XE
128KB: like 130XE, 64KB ext ram, switchable by antic/cpu
320KB(Compy shop)(default): 256KB ext ram, switchable by antic/cpu
320KB(Rambo): 256KB ext ram, both antic/cpu switch together
576KB(Compy shop): 512KB ext ram, switchable by antic/cpu
576KB(Rambo): 512KB ext ram, both antic/cpu switch together
1088KB: 1024KB ext ram, both antic/cpu switch together
4160KB: - very imcompatible!
ROM
Right/fire: File selector
Select a different system OS ROM - can by 16KB or 10KB
Drive
Left: Remove disk
Right: File selector
Fire: Put this disk in F1
Cartridge 8K simple
Fire: select file
This allows a ROM to be loaded in the place of BASIC
Some simple ROM cartridges can be used
This is temporary until proper cartridge support is implemented

System ROM:
Loaded from /System/rom/atari800/atarixl.rom

Basic:
Loaded from /System/rom/atari800/ataribas.rom

Disk images:
Default dir: /atari800/user
Supported types:
.ATR - Atari disk image with header. single/medium/double density.
.XFD - Atari disk image without header.
.XEX - Atari executable. A simple bootloader is loaded, not 100% compatible.

Important notes:
When running Atari software a lot of programs need to have basic disable. Hold option when pressing reset.

Features

* Acid 800 test pass
* 99% of software runs
* Version for PAL/NTSC VGA/SVIDEO
* Write support
* Drive emulation

Known issues

* ~1% of programs fail
* Keyboard layout board on UK PS2 keyboard, no remapping possible yet.
* Copymate write verify fails
* Entering menu during disk access may hang ZPU (used for drive emulation/menus)
* Sometimes keyboard input fails - need to power off/on the MCC.
* Hardware matches Atari very closely - including overscan corruption - this often shows up on VGA monitors.

Enjoy !

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