Please always format your drive before installing PCUAE
Updated: 24/08/2025
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PCUAE Atari Plus Edition
Here you can download.
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How to run Atari 2600, 7800 ROM Games from USB Drive on the Atari2600 Plus(DEEPLAY MOD)
And now including the Atari Gamestation Pro and THE400 Mini, Atari7800 Plus has been added now, it works the same way as
the Atari2600+.
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PCUAE Atari2600 Plus Deeplay USB ROM Loader is now called PCUAE Atari Machine Edition.
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The installers have now changed to make it easier for you to install PCUAE AME, let me know if this is easier for you now.
Make sure you install the one you want, if you want to use PCUAE on all Atari machines using one USB Drive then install all of them.
If you want to use a Mode then you need to install it too, so like ATARI Mode that runs 8Bit/16bit ATARI Machines.
Basic Atari Mode is included with this so if you want all of it install the ATARI Mode Pack.
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If you have installed the new Atari Firmware via its new exe file then you have to uninstall it by using Windows Device Manager, it interferes with the Rockchip driver PCUAE uses to install its .img file.
You might need to reflash its firmware to 2.0.1.1, 1.1x-r2 or 1.1x-r1. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/361600-beta-2600-firmware-and-dumper-builds/
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Download PCUAE from here and Click on Atari2600 Plus or Atari7800 Plus to download PCUAE or select `PCUAE 4all Edition 128` for all machines, but will need a 128GB USB Drive.
PCUAE USB Drive needs to formatted as FAT32 and MBR – Master Boot Record, it does not work on a USB Drive using GPT, you can use GUI Format32 to format it into FAT32 and MBR – https://projectcarouselusb.eu/gui-format32/
Atari Machine Edition is on the PCUAE website now... Atari Plus Edition.
Once you downloaded the `PCUAE Atari Machine Edition` and installed it to a USB Drive, you will want to look at then…
Atari 2600+/Atari 7800+
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Run PCUAE Installer Setup on PC and Install on to a USB Drive.
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Once PCUAE is Installed open PCUAE USB Drive and look in the `START-PCUAE-ON-ATARI2600-PLUS`or `START-PCUAE-ON-ATARI7800-PLUS` folder
and it will help you to finish the PCUAE Setup, and please read the .txt file in that folder `PLEASE-READ-ME.txt` to continue flashing PCUAE start-up
script on the Atari2600 Plus or on the Atari7800 Plus.
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You can connect the PCUAE Drive like this on the Atari2600/7800Plus machines
Method 1 – Using a USB-C OTG Adapter
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if using Power USB-C Port then keep the Color Switch on `Color` On the Atari2600/7800+
Only switch it to B& W if your using the MicroUSB Port inside the console thats on its main board.
You can use a USB-C to USB A Female Adapter now, see below.
And use a 4 Port Hub that is powered and connect it like this and powers it and sees the PCUAE USB Drive, see below.
This works on the Atari7800 Plus too.
In picture above: USB 4 port Hub from bottom to top: 1. PCUAE USB Drive SSD 222GB its say “LEX ” partly under Atari2600+, 2. Keyboard, 3. Gamepad, 4 No USB Connected.
USB 4 port hub is a generic one so is like a Alotta one.
White power cable plugged into the USB 4 Port Hub goes to a USB Power 5v 3A that powers the USB 4 Port Hub and Atari2600+.
Method 2 – Using a Micro USB OTG Adapter and plug it into the port inside the Atari2600+/7800+
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You can use the Micro USB Port inside Atari2600+ on its main board and on the Atari7800+ too but will need to make a hole in the right side of the its case because the Micro USB Port is on the right side of the machine so has no space to plug it in, you will need a Micro USB OTG cable for the Micro USB port so you can connect the PCUAE USB Drive to it and then have to switch the COLOR switch to B & W, the Atari2600+/Atari7800+ can’t see the Micro USB port if its on COLOR, USB-C port and Micro USB port are on the same line on the main board so are connected to each other by a switch(COLOR Switch) so only sees the Micro USB port on B & W, when I tried this for the first time I used a Micro USB OTG cable on its main board cause that all I had at the time, I used a Sony OTG EC310 Cable.
I then got a USB-C to USB A OTG Adapter for my AGSP so I could add PCUAE to it so thought I try the adapter on the Atari2600+/7800+ and it worked.
I guess it would help making a video of it sometime… I am going thorough grief at the moment so why I have not made one yet… I find it hard to work on PCUAE because I worked on it while my partner was behind me doing it and would show her what I was doing so it reminds me of her, and I have no get up and go at the moment cause of it too so feel drained everyday, its horrible …
Sony OTG EC310 Cable. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162494885757
Only cable I got working with the Atari2600+/7800+ Micro USB Port on its board.
Main board in Atari2600+/7800+ MiniUSBOTG Connector = MicroUSB Port.
Hope this helps…
Have a nice day, Are you gonna play Atari Today…
Spannernick…