BAS2BOOT(1)

NAME
bas2boot - make a bootable Atari 8-bit disk image of a BASIC program

SYNOPSIS

bas2boot [-atr | -xfd | -scp | -dcm | -di] [-long] [-message text] basic-file [output-disk-image]

DESCRIPTION

bas2boot creates an Atari 8-bit disk image that consists of a boot loader followed by a tokenized Atari BASIC program. When the disk is booted on the Atari, the BASIC program is loaded into memory and run.

There is no DOS on the disk; the BASIC program won't be able to use the D: devices.

The bootloader will enable BASIC if possible (600XL, 800XL, all XEs). Otherwise (400/800/1200XL), the Atari BASIC cartridge must be inserted. The bootloader doesn't work with other BASICs like BASIC XL, TurboBASIC, etc.

OPTIONS

-atr -xfd -scp -dcm -di
    Set the output image type. Default: -atr. Note that the image type is not affected by the filename extension (the default is still -atr even with a file called output.xfd).

-long
    Use 'classic' disk size (single density, 90KB). Default is to create a short ATR file consisting only of the sectors used.

-message text
    Sets message displayed while the program is loading.

EXIT STATUS

Zero for success, non-zero for failure.

COPYRIGHT

This utility is released under the GNU General Public License.

AUTHORS

This utility was written by Jindrich Kubec, AKA Jindroush.

This page was written by B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>.

SEE ALSO

acvt(1), aext(1), bas2boot(1), chkbas(1), chkexe(1), chkrom(1).