AtariNutcase

I prefer using the Atari Altirra emulator by Avery Lee. Sometimes though it's hard to save a disk program. Like for example recently I've been writing a lot of tutorials in Basic on my new website, but getting errors such as ERROR 162, 139, etc. I have gone through I tried to recreate the disk images, but this one isn't budging. So it would be really beneficial if someone can maybe point out what I am doing wrong. I also have added the disk drive file DOS25.XFD so it can jump into DOS with no issues. I also have the BASIC attached as a cartridge. It seems like I have everything working as it should, but still can't save any new images. My website is https://www.atari65xe.com I appreciate your help everyone! Glad to be here

Hello everyone. Glad to meet you. I have always enjoyed writing programs on the Atari in both Basic and Assembly language. The Atari 65xe was my very first personal computer I bought in November of 1986. Although I am also a die hard Commodore 64 fanatic, I still have a deep passion for my systems, such as the Atari 65xe, 800XL, Atari XE, and my Atari 600XL (although the keyboard is currently broken). I'm also learning more about the hardware and just recently started teaching myself electronics with an Arduino board. I'm also in search online for learning more about the hardware of the Atari 65XE. I found a few magazines, PDF, and some information online to add to my website, but I'm still in dire need to get more knowledge out about this machine. My plans are to possibly build a mod in the future. I also own an Atari SD drive and hope to do a review of that soon on the website. Please let me know your feedback and how I can improve. Thank you! Finally, I was amazed to find out that this domain name was available and had to jump on it right away. https://www.atari65xe.com

I finally got it to work. Apparently error 143 is provoked if you are off by even 1 counter (on the load-data read). For example I saved a program from 2-14, but when I tried to load it at 3 it failed. However when I correctly started it at 2 it worked! Pretty weird, but I'm grateful the recorder is functional. I actually cleaned the heads and capstan with isopropyl rubbing alcohol, so maybe that contributed to it's success. Thanks for all your help. PS: Now I need to get my old programs into memory somehow? This is going to require some effort, but I've got time.

I figured it had something to do with the tape header and where the data records begin. I couldn't remember how much time is needed for the monotone leader. You have reminded me that I used to do about 7 seconds. Maybe that will work. I'll keep you updated. It's hard to work blindly since I have no way of knowing where Atari needs to start CLOADing from. I was planning to put aside a weekend working through it by starting at header 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 until something gave way. This is great information. I was enjoying listening to old 80s music using the POKE 54018,52 last night when I realize that some of my tape data was overwritten by myself and my love of 80s music, lol. Anyway there are still sections that don't contain anything except tape data (I can hear the familiar CLOAD sound). Finally I need to get a SIO2PC cable to use the Wav2Cas file to capture my old tape data. Maybe I won't need it. I'll keep testing. I am so darn curious what I saved on these tapes. Remember it's been close to 30 years since I've seen these programs. Some were my own and that would make a great addition to my new Atari YouTube channel. I am a die hard Basic/Machine Language programmer and I am (LOL) DYING to see what is hidden there. As they say "hidden gems". Anyway the journey continues. Thanks for the guidance. Feel free to check out my forum also at http://www.programmermind.com/myforum/ (please let me know here if the forum is not working or allowing a new topic. I'm still new to phpBB and I believe all the permissions should be granted to Guests now). Thanks. I would be so interested in seeing what passions you have for the Atari and what you do with it. I owned an Atari 65xe for my first system back in 1986. In my possession now I own an Atari 800 XL, Disk Drive, MAC/65 cartridge, Action cartridge, games, and some of my own Basic/Assembly language programs on floppy disks.

Hello everyone, I just won an auction on eBay last week for the Atari 1010 program recorder. I have kept some old cassette tapes with programs in storage (for nearly 30 years). However I have been unable to retrieve any of my data. One question I have is do I need to know the exact starting place of the record data index. I was reading in Mapping the Atari that memory location 61 stores the cassette buffer pointer. So maybe I can find out where this data begins? I no longer have the starting and ending load/save points for this. I wrote them down years ago and tossed that data after I purchased my first disk drive around 1986. Is it possible that Atari can figure this out when loading the cassette? I realize that is an advanced question and I will continue to research it. The tape is not torn, just a little frayed. However I can still clearly hear the ring tones, but keep getting errors 138 and 143. I think that the information transfer is somehow being lost to the machine somewhere. I'm hoping to come up with a solution soon enough. From a far fetched standpoint it would be great if someone wrote a machine language example somewhere for this (since I think in code). My website: http://www.programmermind.com Thanks everyone! Keep the Atari alive forever!

How is everyone doing? I finally got access to post on these forums. As you already know I have a Youtube channel dedicated to the Atari home computer and Commodore 64. I have gotten a lot of feedback recently on people wanting to see more Atari content, but I am also seeing a growth with C64 views. So I am now releasing both the Atari and C64 videos back to back. I started on an Atari 65Xe back in 1986 after I grew tired on programming simple graphic simulations on the Apple IIc at my high school then. I used my study halls and lunch time to spend time in that library learning about the Apple IIc. Although I never decided to get one, it taught me some of the concepts I carried over to the Atari home computer. Unfortunately the Apple IIc lacked player missile graphics/sprites so I spent a lot of time just creating graphic displays. However when I got my Atari I quickly became a fanatic. I started spending time at the public library and checked out everything I could. I did the same when I got my Commodore 64 too. Those years have never left me even though I parted with a large collection of games I wrote for the Atari several years ago. I actually studied Youtube for several years noting the type of Atari Basic and Commodore 64 Basic programs available to the public. I was waiting to see if someone else was going to start an in depth tutorial for assembly language/Basic, but noticed that nothing had changed. It is my vision to bring back the "old school" stuff and prove that 8-bit computers are not dead. It wasn't until recently that somebody told me I should check out some of the Atari/C64 forums and that landed me here. Although I've already used this forums to teach programming in general. PS: If somebody has any swell assembly language listings on fine scrolling I would be interested in checking it out. Thanks Steve