Bill Lange

I got a good start on this today. I built lookup tables for parsing the command, operator and function tokens. I also pulled out the header infomation. http://www.langesite.com/atarilister/php_uploadfile.php Next I have to tackle the variable name and variable data tables. Bill

Chapter 10 of De Re Atari pretty much explains how to detokenize a program. Here is the link: http://www.atariarchives.org/dere/chapt10.php Now I just have to turn it into some php code. Bill

Nice reference. Thanks. I'll see if I can find some time over the weekend to wire up a de-tokenizer in php. WRL

Can someone point me to some info on the process of how to de-tokenize a .bas program. I'll give it a shot. WRL

Debro Try it now. http://www.langesite.com/atarilister/ Uploads seem to work. I also fixed the png length so that it is the correct size. Bill

remowilliams How did you find out about the NOS copies? Did you contact Tom? Bill

Dennis I finally got a chance to work on this. Here is the link: http://www.langesite.com/atarilister/ You can either upload a new file or choose one from the list. The program will then spit out an html listing character by character. When that is done, it will render the listing as a png image in memory and save it to the file system. Once the png image is saved, a link to it is created and displayed. Rendering the html is fairly quick (a few seconds) locally, but will probably take a little longer remotely. Rendering the png image takes about 15 - 20 seconds locally, but should not take any longer remotely. I still have a little work to do, but it is working. Bill

you might look here: http://www.langesite.com/AtariDOS/index.html

I think when I last worked on it, it would output a .png to the correct size for the file with a blue boarder all around it. Since its php, it should be fairly easy to add code to allow the user to select the output format. Bill

Well, I've been really busy since Feb. :-) We built a new house and finally moved in March. New job in May. And now we are getting married on July 30th. Busy busy. I've been working on doing some background work to move my website from static pages to a more php/mysql driven site for easier updates. I think I broke something with this tool while I was playing around with stuff. It's probably just directory setting in the apache or php ini file. I need to fix that little issue. Then I would like to use php to produce a pdf file with the listing. Once I have that working, I'll modify the program to handle 'save "d:filename.bas" ' files as well as 'list "d:filename.lst" ' programs. Basically it will de-tokenise saved programs before trying to render. Give me a day or two to get the original tool working again. What other features where you looking for? By the way, my apache webserver runs on a XP box in my house connected to the internet via comcast cable modem. Every once in a while the "dynamic" ip address will change and the webserver will seem to be down until I relink my domain name to the new dynamic ip. Bill

Omnitrend is still in business: http://www.omnitrend.com/ And Universe programmer Tom Carbone is still the owner/operator of the company. You can contact him at [email protected] and see if he still has an electronic copy of the original document. Bill

We also had a PONG system before the Atari 2600. I remember that it was a white system and the two paddle controls could be detached from either side of the unit. The Atari 2600 was our first cart based system. Our first games where combat, indy 500 and space invaders if I recall correctly. Bill

I just found this site that lists tons of BBS software for multiple systems including the Atari 8-bit. It has screen shots, documentation and the software. http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/ Bill

I remember using AMIS and Antic's BBCS when I was a kid. Is there an archive of Atari 8-bit BBS software anywhere? Bill

Kepone Send me your address and I'll send you $20 to help with getting your car fixed. Bill

I think I purchased my first atari computer in March of '82 though it may have been '81. I purchased an Atari 400 from a Consumers catalog store in Toms River NJ. I was in either 7th or 8th grade. We got home, ripped open the box, hooked it up and then ..... "MEMO PAD". Back to Consumers. One of my brothers purchased "The Programmer" kit and another purchased "The Entertainer Kit". From there we played a lot of Star Raiders and started to learn BASIC. The 810, which cost more than the 400, came later. Bill

Has anyone messed around with this: http://www.xgamestation.com/about_gamestation.php

The sad, slow fall of Atari Interesting article on CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/16/commentary...dex.htm?cnn=yes

I think it is here http://www.langesite.com/AtariGames/index.html :-)

Has anyone read "Retro Game Programming: Unleashed for the Masses" by Earl John Carey? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846 The first chapter is available here: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programmi...tures/retrogp1/ Bill

You can find a link to the emulator here: http://www.langesite.com/AtariEmulation/index.html And the Atari Assemler Editor here: http://www.langesite.com/AtariRoms/index.html Bill

If I am reading an online book (http://www.atariarchives.org/), I will use what ever compiler is being used in the book on an Emulator. Even the Atari Assembler Editor Cart is fast on an Emulator! :-) I've also used DASM (http://www.taswegian.com/TwoHeaded/Atari2600/dasm/) to play around with 8-bit and 2600 code. Bill

If you haven't already found it, check out this link: http://www.atariarchives.org/ Kevin has many Atari 6502 programming books online there. Bill

Try this website: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ It will convert websites from one language to another. Bill

Debro - I did a litte work on this tonight while watching the grammies. It is almost there. I just have to make a change to scan through the file first to figure out how long the list image needs to be before creating it. See attached Bill