On 21 Jan 16  18:05:59 Andreas Kohlbach wrote...

AK> XPost: comp.sys.sinclair
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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! 
AK> > 
AK> > Ah yes, the annual cross-posting flame-bait. Good.
AK> > 
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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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