Bill Lange

I found this site the other night on "Classic BASIC Programs". Brings back the days of typing games in from Compute!, Antic and Analog. http://www.moorecad.com/classicbasic/ Bill

I wasnt writing a tile mapped game. I wrote a simple php script that used the images to render BASIC programs. If you want to concat them all together be my guest. Bill

I haven't seen a complete Atari font, just the letters and numbers. I have included all of the little pictures that I created to make my script work in another topic. You can use those to create your own font or atleast extend the currently available fonts. Shouldn't take to long since half the font is already available. Bill

JL - Use this attached zipped .atr file. Make sure you have the basic cartridge attached and boot this atr. Bill states.zip

States and Capitols is a BASIC "game". In Atari800WinPlus, make sure that you have the "BASIC Cartridge" attached. I'm not sure if that .atr file has a bootable DOS image on it. If not, you will have to boot in to BASIC using another disk image then "switch" diks images and do the following at the READY prompt. LOAD "D:STATES.BAS" then RUN

Attached is a zip file containing the Atari OS-b Rom character set as 255 individual .png files. I ripped these from the OS-B rom for use in my basic lister. http://www.langesite.com/php/atarilist.html I also plan on ripping the character sets from the XL rom and the Arabic rom. Maybe someone else will find a use for them. Bill atari_osb_rom_set.zip

Can you send me the file so that I can test it locally? Thanks Bill

Try your long program again and let me know what happens. I was working on it and maybe stepped on you. Or I might have some value set that limits the upload size. It actually renders as about a few hundred picutres. I wrote a program in Visual Basic that lets me browse through an Atari ROM looking for the character sets. Once I get the sets the VB app writes out a php script that renders the individual graphics. The html and php script just maps the atari listing to the correct (hopefully) images. I can probably have the php script concat all the 8 by 8 images into a large image file. Bill

I wrote a little script that will display an Atari 8-bit BASIC program. It lives here: http://www.langesite.com/php/atarilist.html You can upload a "LIST"ed Atari BASIC program and it will list the program including special characters. To get a "LIST" program, you could do the following in a emulator: LOAD "D:FILENAME.BAS" then when you get the ready prompt: LIST "H:FILENAME.LST" Upload the FILENAME.LST file and it should render. I'm still missing a few characters, but you'll get the idea. Let me know how it works. I attached the SCRAM listing for testing. Thanks Bill scram.zip

Its attached to a msg up the list. Its called Atari Basic Games. Bill

Also, right next to the San Jose Airport there is a huge flea market where you can find some Atari stuff. Bill

You want to check out Moffett Park area near the intersection of the 101 and 237. Most of the Atari buildings were located between 237 to the south and Caribbean Drive to the north. By 1980, Atari occupied 80 offices in this area. Atari World HQ was at 1265 Borregas Ave. Its pretty easy to get to. Bill

Here is the wav file if you just want to listen to it: http://www.langesite.com/kingdom.wav Bill

Here is the voice/music intro to Atari Kingdom. Be advised, the wav file is 25 megs zipped. http://www.langesite.com/kingdom.zip Bill

Scram States & Caps European States & Caps et al dos_games_009__basic.zip

Here are the screen shots http://www.langesite.com/atari_screens.zip Bill

I have a few thousand screen shots that I made last spring when I started working on this little program. I'm zipping them up now and will put them on my server for you.

Yep, WinPC.

That is true and I use that "F10"feature. This program allows you to take screen shots of a directory full of ATR files. You can let it run over night and you'll have a few thousand screen shots in the morning. The program loads an atr into the emulator, takes a screen shot, saves it then moves on to the next atr in the list. You don't have to do it manually.

Try this. http://www.langesite.com/project1.zip Let me know if this works. It will take a screen shot of anything including "boot error", DOS screens and autorun.sys' menus. If an ATR boots to a game screen, it should work. Bill

I'll make you a VB exe with installer on Fri. Right now, it only works on ATR files, but with a little modification, it should work on any type of file that Atari800Win Plus can open. Bill

I received a couple of emails today about the automated screenshot program I wrote early last year. For anyone else that is interested, here are the details: 1. The program runs in VB 6.0. 2. It requires that Atari800Win Plus is running. 3. Images are put in C:TEMPIMAGES The images are output as .PCX. Sample image saved as .PNG for attachment purposes. Here is the heart of the code: Needs a little cleaning up, but should work as long as the C:TEMPIMAGES directory exsists. Bill Public Sub StartProcessing(strAppName As String) Dim strAtariApp As String strAtariApp = strAppName & ".atr" AppActivate "Atari800Win" ' set the active application SendKeys "%(1)", True ' send a Alt-1 to open Attach Disk 1 dialog Sleep (1000) '// Pause for 1 second SendKeys strAtariApp, True ' type in name of application to open SendKeys "{ENTER}", True ' and press enter Sleep (1000) 'Pause for 1 second to attach disk SendKeys "+{F5}", True ' Reboot the emulator Sleep (3000) 'Pause for 3 seconds to allow reboot and app load SendKeys "n", True ' send a N incase of crash ' take a snapshot of screen SendKeys "{F10}", True ' Press F10 to take a screen shot Sleep (1000) ' Pause for 1 second SendKeys "C:tempimages" & strAppName & "-r.pcx", True ' save file as SendKeys "{ENTER}", True ' and press enter Sleep (2000) ' Pause for 2 seconds to allow for save SendKeys "{F4}", True ' send start Sleep (1000) ' Pause for 2 seconds to allow for save ' take another snapshot SendKeys "{F10}", True ' Press F10 to take a screen shot Sleep (1000) ' Pause for 1 second SendKeys "C:tempimages" & strAppName & "-s.pcx", True ' save file as SendKeys "{ENTER}", True ' and press enter Sleep (2000) ' Pause for 2 seconds to allow for save DoEvents: DoEvents: DoEvents ' allow windows to process event End Sub

Allas My fiancé was born in Lima, but mostly grew up in Piura, then back to Lima for college before heading to the US. Bill

I was watching Squawkbox this morning on CNBC and they said that American company Yeahronimo was buying the Commodore brand from the Dutch company that currently owns it for $33 million. Yeahronimo wants to sell a line of mp3 players and cheap video games. WRL

Basically you watch pumps and water tempitures and adjust the reactor controls with the joystick. Parts break and I believe that there were earthquakes too. I think I have the casette and instructions in storage. WRL