+Allan Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 This is awesome!! This video was produced by Atari and mentioned here in this document. http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari_User_Group_Packet.pdf Now we just need to find a copy of the Promotional Easel and the 1200XL Support Materials and then everything mentioned in the Atari User Group Packet will be archived. I love the part of the video that shows all the APX titles on the shelf. Drool..... Allan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 MPP Microfiler - Atari - Source Code Colleen Floating Point Routines Colleen Calculator - Atari 8-bit - source code Atari Star Raiders draft manual Atari Music Composer draft manual Atari MEDIT draft manual Overview Of Atari DOS Version 2.4+ Atari DOS Summary Atari DOS Manual Outline and Draft 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 Atari Touch The Future Brochure — Atari 800 catalog <-- a beautiful 1979 brochure that I hadn't seen before Atari BASIC BNF - Backus–Naur Form Atari BASIC Known Problems Memo Atari Calculator Cartridge Specification Fig-FORTH Glossary FORTH Assembler For 6502 Microprocessor Atari Diagnostic Cartridge Evaluation Memo Atari WSFN Manual Draft Atari WSFN - An Introduction - draft Atari PILOT Internal Specification — this had already been scanned, here's another copy marked up for edits by the author, Harry Stewart Atari Pilot External Specification — this had already been scanned, here's another copy marked up for edits by the author, Harry Stewart 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Hah, wow. Carol Shaw did a BNF for Atari Basic..that's cool The Fig-Forth glossary I recognize, I have a copy of that as well, that's straight from BIll Ragsdale's notes. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Atari Touch The Future Brochure — Atari 800 catalog <-- a beautiful 1979 brochure that I hadn't seen before Anybody spot the unreleased baseball game on the third page? -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 (edited) All of these seem to be photographed from a lightbox. The baseball game literally looks like a screen drawn entirely with ATASCII characters, which makes me _really_ suspect...This is a machine where using the sprites, or even the multicolor tile modes are actually easier than trying to draw everything using the OS routines... -Thom (edited because I went back and zoomed in) Edited September 2, 2016 by tschak909 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 My first thought was that it was a screen mock up unlike the others and maybe used to fill a space, could even have been a paint program showing its use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 The source code for the educational game Character Fun, published by Atari Program Exchange in 1983. Scans provided by the author, Bruce Campbell, and released with permission. https://archive.org/details/AtariCharacterFunSourceCode The program is in Atari BASIC, but it was released as an assembly language program - he used some sort of p-code system to massage it the release version into assembly language. —Kevin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 I picked up a bunch of user group disks — mostly from SPACE (Seattle Puget Sound) at Portland Retro Gaming Expo. The majority of the disks that I acquired are already archived (I found them on POOLDISK.) I archived the ones that I wasn't sure were already achieved. They are in the attached ZIP file. I thought the Portland Atari Club Story disks were particularly cute, and hadn't seen them before. SPACE disks.zip BRACE 22 - Graphics Demos.atr BRACE 23 - Graphics Demos.atr C-SQD 1 - 3-D CAD.atr C-SQD 2 - CAD Facility side A.atr C-SQD 2 - CAD Facility side B.atr JACS PSG1 Print Shop Graphics.atr JACS PSG2 Print Shop Graphics.atr Portland Atari Club Story 1 The Noisy Giant.atr Portland Atari Club Story 2 Caveman Joe.atr SPACE 3-D CAD & XY Plot side A.atr SPACE 3-D CAD & XY Plot side B.atr SPACE 42 - Print Shop Graphics.atr SPACE 43 - Print Shop Graphics.atr SPACE 54 - Turbo BASIC side A.atr SPACE 54 - Turbo BASIC side B.atr SPACE 57 - Drill Instructor.atr SPACE 58 - Education.atr SPACE 61 - Print Shop Graphics.atr SPACE 62 - Print Shop Graphics.atr SPACE 63 - Print Shop Utilities.atr SPACE 70 - Print Shop Graphics.atr SPACE 71 - Print Shop Graphics.atr SPACE 72 - Printer Utilities - Dot-Magic.atr SPACE 73 - Printer Utilities - Screendump II.atr SPACE 78 - Daisy-Dot II side A.atr SPACE 78 - Daisy-Dot II side B.atr SPACE 86A - Machine Language games - Gabi.atr SPACE 86B - Machine Language games - Kvadryk.atr Kevin 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 I received a bunch of new scans from Harry Stewart: LNBUG 2 Manual: https://archive.org/details/LNBUG2 LNBUG 6.0 Manual: https://archive.org/details/LNBUG6.0 This was apparently a debug package for the then-prototype Colleen computer, developed by Larry Nicholson at Cyan Engineering. I couldn't find anything about it. I wonder if a copy still exists. Atari Cambridge Research Language Design meeting agenda: https://archive.org/details/AtariCambridgeResearchMeetingAgenda Harry said: "Here is the agenda for a 1982 meeting in Cambridge, MA. We flew out there in the corporate jet (Gulfstream?) – nice." Atari PILOT Eliza 2 by Carol Shaw: https://archive.org/details/AtariPILOTEliza "Here is a two-part scan of a version of Joseph Weizenbaum’s Eliza program that was written in Atari PILOT by Carol Shaw (date unknown)." 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifthPlayer Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Cool, a new game by Carol Shaw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted November 27, 2017 Author Share Posted November 27, 2017 From Harry Stewart: "Here is a scan of a document describing a Disk File Management system for Atari. Unfortunately there is no date, and I don’t remember if this documents a released product or not. Let me know if you are able to determine its relevance." https://archive.org/details/AtariDiskFileManagerFunctionalDescription 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Now these are the things discovered and works of friends that make the Atari community the joy and wondrous thing that it is. Thank you for your tireless (or should I say endless patience) in putting this all together. Kevin and Brewster you are the bright stars in a dimly lit universe for without these efforts so much would be lost Now if you could just tell me where the Flux capacitor went..... _The Doc__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 From Harry Stewart: "Here is a scan of a document describing a Disk File Management system for Atari. Unfortunately there is no date, and I don’t remember if this documents a released product or not. Let me know if you are able to determine its relevance." https://archive.org/details/AtariDiskFileManagerFunctionalDescription Looks to me like the "DOS 3" project also mentioned by Brian Johnston. (Which I still suspect was a whole different project from the released DOS 3.) I would guess 1981. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Level42 Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 (edited) Wow, the very first version of the Atari 800 manual from 1979. Only 200 were printed. Astute Atari nerds will notice many differences between what's shown in this prototype manual and the reality of production hardware/software. https://archive.org/details/Atari800OperatorsManualFirstVersion1979 Man-o-man THANK YOU for uploading that !!!! I only had a look at this two days ago.....everyone who only slightly likes Atari's artwork should look at every page of this manual !!! What an orgy of late 70's hand drawn typical Atari-style artwork..... L-O-V-E I-T !!!! Look what a warmth those people who are using the system are radiating....even the "business" guys....also love that "unpacking" drawing. ....... and what about a special drawing to illustrate that (cursed) switch box ? Man those were different times....sigh..... Edited November 30, 2017 by Level42 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 (edited) From Harry Stewart: "Here is a scan of a document describing a Disk File Management system for Atari. Unfortunately there is no date, and I don’t remember if this documents a released product or not. Let me know if you are able to determine its relevance." https://archive.org/details/AtariDiskFileManagerFunctionalDescription August 1978 Atari Consumer divisions George Simcock hired consultant Harry B. Stewart to oversee and document "Colleen" systems software development problem here is that could be any number of file manager iterations but it would be well before the 1050. The Atari was attached to an 8 inch drive at one time and had several different DOS and FMS's, a brief flirtation with a weird drive from CYAN (Grass Valley) until the 810 arrived so that leaves the time frame for the document to be very short... So perhaps DOS DOS 1. or DOS 2. related can't be much else and that only leaves a couple of years. The cover still shows Stewart with his NEOTERIC label though he still considered himself a consultant but was more so a contractor. Best guess this is earlier than later.. the 1982 date on archive.org seems very late for the document indeed. Edited November 30, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 (edited) some of the ocr seems to have failed on a number of documents... If someone reads it closely enough they'll match up with whatever file system I'm sure... last he did was what mid 83? Five years of fun! Edited December 1, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 More scans, from material loaned to me by JR Hall of Eastern House Software — These are Atari-related: Atari Monkey Wrench manual Monkey Wrench II manual EHS KISS Manual EHS MAE Software Development Specifications Eastern House Software flyer Eastern House Software catalogs These are for Commodore PET, 64, Apple II and SYM computers. PET Disk Macro Assembler/Text Editor (MAE) manual 6502 Macro Assembler And Text Editor For PET, APPLE, SYM - manual Graphics Drawing Compiler For PET And SYM - Manual TelStar 64 - Manual PET Rabbit - manual STCP Manual - Standard Terminal Communications Package for Commodore PET EHS Disk Macro Assembler/Text Editor (MAE) - Manual TelStar 64 Manual Eastern House Software EHS Gazette 1981-03 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Looks to me like the "DOS 3" project also mentioned by Brian Johnston. (Which I still suspect was a whole different project from the released DOS 3.) I would guess 1981. Also: https://archive.org/stream/AtariHarryStewart/Atari%20my%20major%20projects Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 that would fit. nice doodle with Jeanine written in it, and the arrows here and there. 3447 upper right corner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 The last things I got from JR Hall's files are interesting! Candy/Colleen I/O Subsystem. Circa 1978-1979. https://archive.org/details/CandyColleenIOSubsystem Atari 400/800 Serial Input/Output Port Users Handbook. Dated 1979-07-02. https://archive.org/details/Atari400800SerialInputOutputPortUsersHandbook Based on somewhat similar text, I believe these are predecessors, early versions, or drafts of what would become sections of the Atari 400/800 Operating System Users Manual. But at this point they are stand-alone guides that aren't as polished. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 More scans, from material loaned to me by JR Hall of Eastern House Software — These are Atari-related: Atari Monkey Wrench manual Monkey Wrench II manual EHS KISS Manual EHS MAE Software Development Specifications Eastern House Software flyer Eastern House Software catalogs Any line on getting copies of the software to go with these (particularly, KISS and MAE)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 Any line on getting copies of the software to go with these (particularly, KISS and MAE)? They don't seem to have them any longer. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 They don't seem to have them any longer. Awe, man... that's tragic... Thanks for the docs and interview (haven't listened to it yet, though). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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