Other Atari 8-bits

The Atari 2600's successor, the Atari 5200, shares much of its architecture with the Atari 400/800/1200/XL/XE line. Atari DOS had an executable format that divided itself up into chunks that were independently loaded, with some chunks being special and identifying program entry points or intervening processing to be done mid-load.

A simple Hello World program compatible with Atari DOS is included in the examples directory. The output file may be loaded and run directly in many emulators, or may be copied into a disk image with a tool like atr or Altirra and executed from the DOS prompt.