Booting Your Own Disk
When you place a disk into the drive, and turn on the computer, the drive turns on and a program boots. This program could be the DOS or another program. Most commercially available machine language programs will boot themselves when you turn the computer on. BASIC programs are usually loaded into the computer. You may have noticed a program on your ATARI disk called AUTORUN.SYS. If you examine the disk directory from various software firms, you may find the AUTORUN.SYS is anywhere from one to...