Garrettimus wrote:
1- For me to use MakeMenu, should I install Perl, Tasm and everything or just MakeMenu and the Flash Kit itself?
MakeMenu lets you choose among 2 menus. The one provided by Steven in his kit and another one provided by MakeMenu. The first one is called AtariMax menu and the other is called SuperMenu. If you choose to generate a cart with AtariMax menu, you need everything in the kit (TASM, Perl, ...). If you use SuperMenu, you need to unzip Steven's kit but that's all (Perl, TASM and other tools are not needed).
The differences between the 2 menus are :
- AtariMax menu supports games on multiple ATR images like adventure games. SuperMenu supports only "one side" ATR image.
- SuperMenu supports ROMs (8K and 16K), AtariMax menu does not.
- SuperMenu can mix ROMs, files and ATR images in a single cartridge. Using AtariMax menu, you choose to generate a cartridge full of files or ATR images but not both.
- SuperMenu supports directories so you can put games into folders. AtariMax menu does not.
- SuperMenu can mix games with OS/B and games running on XL OS. With AtariMax, you have to select OS/B or XL OS for the whole cartridge.
Garrettimus wrote:
2- If I generate my multicart by using my Atari 800 XL and MakeMenu, will it work properly with my 800?
You have to try. I never tried myself because I don't have a 800. When I programmed MakeMenu, I tried to be compatible with the 800 but I never checked that.
Garrettimus wrote:
3- How many EXE games could I store into my 8 mbit cartrige? (an average, obviously).
I would say that an average game is 16K. So you can store 1024/16 = 64 games. And if you put ROMs into the cartridges, then you can have more than 100 games in a singke cartridge. Then, using SuperMenu is recommanded to put games into folders.
Eric.
Author of MakeMenu