Steve Mynott

An earlier thread here suggests CP/A was renamed OS/A+ following legal issues with the name from the owners of CP/M. According to manual dates it looks like it was written first on the Apple 2 and ported to the Atari. CP/Apple Feb 1980 V1.0 CP/A (Atari) March 1981 V1.0 OS/A+ Atari May 1981 V1,1

I had a quick look and the closest was https://archive.org/details/oss-basic-manual/CP-A License and Notes/ This is a OSS CP/A for Apple 2 - an earlier version of OS/A+ also available on Atari (?). The notes there suggest that OS/A+ apple may not have been released (although I know the Atari manual has references to it). I booted the Apple 2 woz image under emulation and it looks very much like a minimal OS/A+ and it has OSS BASIC 1.0 on the disk.

I had an Atari 1027 printer back in the day, and it quickly broke. In fact, I recall probably only successfully printing a handful of pages, something which was very annoying and apparently common. I remember the letters were slightly offset from each other and didn't quite line up. It also made a terrible noise when printing. Were these faults or usual behaviour? Is there any sort of emulation? Maybe a true type fonts of the pseudo-daisy wheel character set? Or a way of printing them to a PDF under emulation or real hardware?

Grrrr I discovered one of my test disk images was in fact corrupted and with a clean one everything works fine with SDX as described above.

Unfortunately, the compiler doesn't work when I tried it under SDX 4.48 cartridge (old I know!) Also, when compiled, it needs to run from the % prompt by just typing "HI". (Note, you need the LIB file if trying this on another disk.)

It works with TurboDOS-XE (a recommendation I got from here) but KP uses memory over $2000 which means it doesn't work with many DOSes.

Since the death of Wirth I've been playing with Kyan Pascal (which is a lot better than I expected!). I've been trying to use it on a double density disk but the only DOS which seems to work for it is TurboDOS-XE. Does anyone know of English language docs for this DOS? Or can recommend another DOS for use with KP?

Another from scratch approach would be to take the source for a simple hash (aka associative array or map) and port to another language. I once took, and the source is long lost but it wasn't hard, a short C simple example (off google) of an associative array and ported it to CC65 quite easily.

http://www.ataritimes.com/index.php?ArticleIDX=71 In the movie True Stories (1986) starring David Byrne and John Goodman, the scene at the mall shows the computer programmer (played by Matthew Posey) having purchased an arm-full of Atari 8 bit products. Looks like it was a 1010!

It's a (moderately well known) arty Americana film of the 80s set in Texas. I certainly wouldn't expect everyone to have heard of it, but I'd guess a few have and might even have an old DVD around somewhere. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/

I was watching David Byrne's True Stories and noticed for the first time that a guy in the 80s mall he was talking to was carrying Atari 8 bit boxes. Looks like an APX box and a 1050 drive box? Does anyone else spot anything?

SpartaDOS doesn't use H: for the host drive, it uses the PCL: device via PCLINK.

Oh it does work with the A option. I'm too used to using 1-8 and * D'uh.

Is there anyway of accessing the host (H:) drive under emulation using MyDOS?