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ADVANCED FEATURES
ACCESSING THE BASIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
THE400 Mini gives you the freedom to write your own programs in BASIC and save them to disk, just like you could on the
original machine with a BASIC cartridge plugged in and Atari DOS loaded from disk.
To access BASIC, rst insert a correctly formatted USB stick into THE400 Mini and select Media Access from the carousel
(See “Loading your own programs” [page 18]). THE400 Mini will have written a special disk le named THE400_BASIC
onto the USB stick, which when launched will give you a BASIC prompt, Atari DOS and a disk onto which you can save and
load programs.
If you want to have multiple disks so you can keep your work separate or if you run out of space on the disk le provided, you
can create multiple disks by renaming THE400_BASIC disk le with your PC to whatever name you want, or create multiple
copies. THE400 Mini will always create a THE400_BASIC le on the USB stick if one is not present.
To launch a renamed BASIC disk image, make sure that Enable BASIC is selected in the Game settings menu (see
“Adjusting the settings of a program” [page 20]).
If you want to have simultaneous access to several disk images at the same time, swapping between them, you can select
up to three disks in the Media select menu or set up a playlist. See “Multi-disk game support” and “Playlists” [page
19].
UPDATING THE FIRMWARE
Retro Games may occasionally release new rmware versions for THE400 Mini to correct issues, add new features or
games.
Entering the menu Options → Advanced options → System information will show the current Build version of the rmware.
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