Aces123 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I am thinking about starting on this as a long term project. (You can assume that just drawing the board is enough of a challenge for me at the moment) PGN files are just ascii text files, that sometimes uses {} for comments. I am using an emulator at the moment, but it would be cool if it was possible to somehow also use an actual Atari to read the files. What would be the best way to go around the conversion? Maybe there is already something like this out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Someone has beaten you to producing something, but they're using Altirra at the moment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aces123 Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 I would be happy if I could get something similar up and running The key thing for me is to have the ability to import any pgn file, I wonder if the version you linked has that? I will probably use the Atari800win emulator, it is my favourite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 (edited) Well, the news about Chess Foreva could be found at atarionline: http://www.atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1420392921&archive=&start_from=20&ucat=1&%3B_=1314250314926&ct=nowinki the downloads and sources are here: https://github.com/Chessforeva/AtariChess and this seems to be a blog site (author`s blog?): http://chessforeva.blogspot.de/ Edited May 14, 2015 by CharlieChaplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Curly braces are not valid Atari characters only in the visual sense. The ROM character set doesn't have any corresponding shape for those two. But, in text files those characters are just plain old bytes. The Atari can read any byte value. It is just that these bytes won't mean "open brace" and "close brace" in the ATASCII character set. Open brace is ASCII value 123. The ATASCII character 123 is the spade graphic character, Ctrl-semicolon. Close brace is ASCII value 125. The ATASCII character 125 is the clear screen character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aces123 Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 Thanks for the links to the project, now I have some interesting code to try to understand And thanks for the explanation of the differences between ATASCII and ASCII. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 (edited) Also keep in mind, ATASCII uses 155 for carriage return, not 14. Edited May 18, 2015 by Synthpopalooza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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