Anybody have the up-to-date skinny on how I might get my Atari 800 stuff to Mac?
I've been looking around various sites and I'm finding so much old, contradictory, incomplete info. As a total noob at this 8-bit-in-the-21st-century stuff, I'm rather baffled.
I especially have 3 programs I'd really like to see working again but don't really want to pull out all my old equipment unless I'm able to transfer the stuff over to an emulator on my Mac.
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I wrote a BASIC/ASM Font editor that was... unusual in that it allowed previews in any GTIA text mode while editing. But the culmination of my ATARI experience and pinnacle of my programming skill though it came way too late; was a BASIC/ASM program to go with the Font Editor, called LandScaper. It was a utility for creating font based scrollable landscapes in any GTIA text mode. One loaded up the font of choice, and used a stick to navigate a "landscape" defined by text mode, and whatever combination of collumns x rows desired (assuming it would fit in ram).
Via console key one switched back and forth between the scrolling landscape and a GRAPHICS 0 text palette of the font, but to avoid having to do so too for every character change, it had block copy move and erase commands, as well as individual character copying. Entire scrollable landscapes could be loaded and saved.
The third program was entirely ASSEMBLY and scrolled a landscape in the Synapse vein that I created with the tools. It had a Defender kinda spaceship that fired PM based lasers. Then I got a Mac and nothing came of any of it.