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The Complete Guide to Playing AtariBlast! On our Atari 400 Mini
AtariBlast is a 1MB game‚ and the 400 mini currently only allows a max memory size of 128K‚ so how do we play the Paul Lay‚ Harvey Kong Tin vertical and horizontal scrolling mini Amiga Zarjaz blaster on a 400 mini?Â
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The first thing we are going to do is bring up a browser and go to an Atari 8bit software archive site. This is a preservation site called Atarionline.pl. Yes‚ it’s a polish site and you can set the browser to translate the text if you would like to read up on what some of the absolute best and brightest are working on not just in the Atari 8 bit Polish Speaking community‚ but around the world.Â
Down the page on the left you will find a set of alphabetical links called The Game Catalog. This is a place where you will find Atari 8 Bit games preserved in a number of different file formats. The format we need to look for is the .CAR or cartridge format. The format is used to create bankswitch cartridges that will run in 64K‚ 128K or even less and most of tshoul;d work find in the 400 mini
We need to download the Atari Blast .CAR image and place it on the USB drive we want to use in the 400 mini. This is as simple as right-clicking the file and saving as to the USB.I have created ‚ CAR file folder but you can just place it directly in the root of the USB drive if you want to. Remember that you can only have 256 files per folder when using a USB on the 400 mini‚ so organizing by sub folders is going to be you best bet‚
Now‚ over at the 400 mini‚ we need to insert the USB drive into the rear USB A slot and turn on the console.
When the game carousel appears‚ we want to scroll through the games to the USB drive icon and press the fire button on the CX StickÂ
The usb drive contents will display. Find the Atari Blast CAR file and press the fire button
press the front left or menu button to configure the game options. We are going to selected 130XE for this game and then press the TOP button on the CX stick to close the optionsPress the top right or home button to start the the game
Voila‚ the 1MB Atariblast game works. This version will also work in 64K as you will see when i play through it. You can stick around and watch me play Atariblast‚ or you can get our you 400 mini and have a blast your self.Â