On 21 Jan 16  18:05:59 Andreas Kohlbach wrote...   
      
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   AK> Jan van den Broek wrote on 21. January 2016:    
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   AK> > Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:28:50 +0100 "Harald Habenichts"    
   AK> > schrieb:    
   AK> > > The Spectrum has much better graphics and better games!    
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   AK> > Ah yes, the annual cross-posting flame-bait. Good.   
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   AK> then I try to emulate computers I never had, never even heard of   
   AK> after power-on. Is that true that the Atari did this or just a   
   AK> convenient feature of the emulator? For the C64 you had to load any   
   AK> program manually. -- Andreas   
   AK> I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as   
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   To which Drew Klenotic replies...   
      
   Well, if what you're asking is if the Atari could autoboot programs, the   
   answer is yes.  Most games and professional productivity packages did auto   
   load on booting.  It was easy enough for you to make your own programs auto   
   boot as well as Atari DOS 2 would automatically search for "AUTORUN.SYS" and   
   other DOSes had similar capabilities.   
      
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