He asks, (in an Oliver like voice) Please sir! can we have some more (pro images)? BTW, what happened to that critter in the picture?
I noticed quite a few ATR's floating around are not pure but have been tinkered with and will not run on my 130XE or are of older lineage and are not the same quality as many titles I had 'acquired' in the past. I get excited and darn it's the ancient version minus the levels or graphics, or many times it will run emulated (nicely but not the same) and not on the real equipment any longer. I really wish we had the original untampered with stuff as a control and then named the extenders for whatever they are or have become for example...
.car sparta rom cartridge image
.fcr flash cartridge image/install
.bxe basic xe
.ahr atr hard drive compatible/ patched
.atr (do i need to spell this one out?) works on all machines
.a8r 800 only
.a4r 400 only
.axr xl/xe only
.ax2 xl/xe 256k
.ax3 xl/xe 320k
.ax5 xl/xe 576k
.phr pro hard drive compatible/ patched
.pro (yeah you got it ) works on all machines floppy w/ protection
.p8r pro 800 only
.p4r pro 400 only
.pxr pro xe/xl only
.px2 pro xl/xe 256k
.px3 pro xl/xe 320k
.px5 pro xl/xe 576k
I hope a scheme like this seems logical
this would save incredible time on guesswork and we wouldn't keep remaking and frustrating the same issues over and over.
oh it's an a8r I need to run translator. oh it's xl xe it won't run on my 400!
etc.
I have some atr with the same name all patched a little differently and some run on this and some run on that... the 8+3 really can help here!
Just an Idea
I have and will attemp to use in my endeavors/utils could sort easier and change options to emulate more easily if this is adopted and could be used to set rom compatibility option etc. automatically