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Altirra runs really well on the Steam Deck: Before that I used the GPD Win (1st version, and I can't find a picture of it) and a PiBoy:
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Why isn't the 130XE the dominant Atari 8bit?
gozar replied to Subby's topic in Atari 8-Bit Computers
By the time the 130XE came out I was already sporting an 800XL with 256K, so the 130 didn't bring anything extra to the table. -
This is how good AtariWriter was at the time. Freshman year at college there were 4 computers in my corridor. A Mac that no one was allowed to touch, an original IBM PC that no one wanted to touch, and Apple ][+ without lowercase characters, and my Atari 800XL. Half the corridor typed up their papers in AtariWriter instead of walking to a computer lab, I still have several disks of other people's work from the time.
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80 column word processor for upgraded 600 XL?
gozar replied to newTIboyRob's topic in Atari 8-Bit Computers
Back to the topic, I say you stick with AtariWriter or The Last Word at 40 columns. Back in the day I really wanted 80 colunmns, but nowadays I realize that I don't need 80 columns to write. The print preview in AtariWriter works well at showing where page breaks would be. I wrote A LOT in AtariWriter back in the day. When I write on my A8s today, I use The Last Word in 40 columns and use Markdown for formatting because I'm usually going to bring the text into something else anyway. -
using Atariwriter with Epson FX-80 printer
gozar replied to newTIboyRob's topic in Atari 8-Bit Computers
The directions are on the second disk of Atari 400 800 XL XE Printer Driver Construction Set Since the FX80 was so popular, Disk A already contains the driver for it. Copy it to your AtariWriter boot disk and name it autorun.sys. Boot up AtariWriter from that disk and you're good to go! -
Upgraded my Incognito today! The link to the manual from the Incognito page doesn't work though https://atari8.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ultimate-1MB-Incognito-1088XEL-1088XLD-SIDE-SIDE2-and-SIDE3-Firmware-Manual.pdf comes up file not found, but the link on the Ultimate page: https://atari8.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ultimate-1MB-Incognito-and-1088XEL-U1MB-Firmware-Manual.pdf does work. Thanks again!!
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Besides the other recommendations, I have Deluxe Invaders in one of the slots.
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A couple of months ago I came across this video of programming Snake on the Apple II. After I got over the initial shock of how painful the Basic editor is on the Apple II, I thought that it would be cool to recreate it in AtariBasic. The culmination of which is now in a state that can be shared. Behold GozSnake in all it's glory! Yes, there are tons of improvements that need to happen, but at this stage I think I'll start over. I wrote this over the course of 4 livestreams without really planning anything. It is the epitome of spaghetti code. You can check out a bootable disk image and the code over at the Github repo. What I'm most proud of is the automatic updating of the Github repo as I program on my Atari 1200XL. Using a Fujinet and a local Linux host, I could automatically post the code to Github whenever I changed it on the Atari. Full details at my blog.
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Awesome, thanks!!
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I want to autoboot an AtariBasic program. Any pointers to an autorun.sys that will let me do that?
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I did do some searching into how the Internet Archive does it, and found https://github.com/db48x/emularity so I now have a new project... 🙂
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I want to put up some of my scrappy little AtariBasic programs online for others to play around with. Has anyone done this? What are my options?
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My only experience with Apples was at school, and every //e we had came with the 80-column/64K card. Maybe home users didn't buy that card with their //e, but schools sure did. This was all in the '83-'87 time frame because I was out of high school by '87. 😉
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I don't think I saw any Apple //e in the schools that did not have the 80 column/64K upgrade card in 1983, the same year the 1200XL was released. In fact, for all of the talk about how the Apple II line succeeded because of slots, a majority of them only had the 80 col/64K card, a disk controller, and Super Serial Card and were never upgraded.
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It was too late for Atari by the time the XE line was released, 80 columns should have been added to the 1200XL (shameless self promotion).