Bill Lange

January 17, 2004

Found this site -

http://jybolac.virtualave.net/atari/a8ether/

January 16, 2004

I am in the middle of reading a very interesting book called "Dungeon And Dreamers". A large portion of the book is dedicated to Richard Garriott, the author of the Ultima series. If you played Ultima back in the day, or if you like to read about the history of computer gaming, I highly recommend it.

WRL

January 10, 2004

hmmmm

[removed link]

Ok, I got a program running in Atari BASIC that is creating web pages. I have to work on removing all the extra characters.

WRL

January 9, 2004

I guess I was looking more for something like this -

http://kl.net/atari/

running the following code in Atari BASIC -

5 CLOSE #1

10 A=0

15 XIO 36,#1,14,0,"R1:"

20 XIO 34,#1,(192+48),0,"R1:"

30 XIO 38,#1,64,0,"R1:"

40 OPEN #1,9,0,"R1:"

1000 STATUS #1,C

1010 IF PEEK(747)<2 THEN GOTO 1000

1015 XIO 40,#1,0,0,"R1:"

1030 PRINT #1;"HTTP/1.1 200 OK"

1040 PRINT #1;"Content-type: text/html"

1050 PRINT #1;

1060 PRINT #1;"<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Atari 800 web server</TITLE></HEAD>"

1070 PRINT #1;"<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000><CENTER><FONT COLOR=#EFEFEF>"

1071 PRINT #1;"<H2>Welcome to the Atari 800 web server</H2>"

1075 A=A+1

1080 PRINT #1;"<P>Hits since last reset:";A

1800 PRINT #1;"</FONT></CENTER></BODY></HTML>"

1900 STATUS #1,C

1910 IF PEEK(749)>0 THEN GOTO 1900

1920 CLOSE #1

1930 OPEN #1,9,0,"R1:"

1940 XIO 34,#1,128,0,"R1:"

1970 STATUS #1,C

1980 IF PEEK(747)>1 THEN GOTO 1970

1990 XIO 34,#1,192,0,"R1:"

1999 GOTO 1000

WRL

January 9, 2004

Has anyone connected their Atari 8-bit to the internet? I remember hearing about someone designing a network interface card for it.

I'm not sure why I would want to do except just to do it.

Bill

January 9, 2004

Has anyone read "Chris Crawford On Game Design", by Chris Crawford of course. I just finished reading it last week and it was very interesting. Although it included alot of the information on his website http://www.erasmatazz.com/index.html, it was nice to read it all in one place.

Chris Crawford is the designer and developer of Wizards for the Atari 2600 and several programs for the Atari 8-bits including Eastern Front, Scram and Energy Czar.

WRL

January 6, 2004

Getaway! is available here -

http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showindex.php

Bill

December 31, 2003

1. First computer - Atari 400 either March of '81 or '82.

2. First game - Star Raiders

3. Best game - Ultima III

WRL

December 2, 2003

Got all 26! Finally. Hmmm what now ... :ponder:

December 2, 2003

Ok, now I see it. I got 25, looking for the last one.

WRL

December 2, 2003

I found a 17th title. I also found part of a message, but thats it for me. I tried blacking out every other column and I tried blacking out every other row.

WRL

December 2, 2003

So I assume that the first 16 titles in the word search give us the 'list' from which the other 10 titles also come from, is that correct?

I found a 17th title using the 'bar' method.

WRL

December 1, 2003

Nice work Thomas!

How is it that you can figure that out, but can't figure out how to solve a simple word search!

Bill

November 29, 2003

I can only find half of the game titles in the word search, but the twists and turns that this adventure has taken are exciting!

WRL

November 5, 2003

Does anyone have a copy of AMIS? This was a fairly easy to understand Atari BASIC program for running a simple BBS.

Bill

October 27, 2003

You should check out Scott Adams' site -

http://www.msadams.com/new/index.htm

Bill

October 20, 2003

Tempest -

How difficult would it be to take the Apple or C64 version and convert it to the Atari? I assume its possible but very VERY time consuming (not to mention illegal).

All of the graphic images are available online. There are also lists of spell, weapons and magical items and their effects available online.

Check out this site - http://adventurersguild.org/1/

The hard part would be to recreate the game engine.

Bill

October 20, 2003

I think that by the time The Bard's Tale came out around 1985, the Atari 8-bits where on the decline. Also, the high rate of piracy made creating new software for the Atari machines unprofitable.

Currently there is a new version of The Bard's Tale being developed for the pc. There is some info here - http://www.cheek.org/bard/about.htm

Also, if you like The Bard's Tale, you might what to try Dragon Bane I and Dragon Bane II on your Palm or WinCE device. There is more info here -

http://www.palmcreations.com/

Bill

October 2, 2003

I saw this CD with 100+ Atari patents in PDF format on eBay today.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcIS...item=3050432813

Looks interesting ... but should be freely available somewhere.

[EDIT]

- and here they are http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?...To&StartNum=490

I can't seem to get the images to display though.

[/EDIT]

WRL

August 1, 2003

Now this sounds like a nice cartridge.

If anyone has the actual documentation for any/all of these software titles and has time to scan them, I can compile it and host it on my website.

WRL

July 28, 2003

What is your favorite 8-Bit (Apple, Commodore) game never ported to the Atari series of home computers? Mine would have to be The Bard's Tale series.

WRL

June 28, 2003

Here is a picture of my ATR8000 back in the day ... circa 1984-85ish.

June 28, 2003

I'd say your best bet is to just post your problem here. There is alot of Atari experience here and others have probably seen your problem before.

WRL

June 26, 2003

If I remember correctly, the CPM software came on 5 1/4 diskettes that used myDos. These diskettes were readable by the Atari drives. I had an 810 drive at that point.

Once you hooked up the ATR8000 and connected generic drives to it, you could use myDos to format these non-Atari drives which could then store large amounts of data (compared to the 810 or the 850).

I'll see if I have a picture of my set up from 20 years ago. I had an Atari 400 with the keyboard removed and replaced with a "real" keyboard that I picked up at an electronic junk store. That was then connected to the ATR8000.

WRL

June 25, 2003

I had one of these when I was a kid. I basically used it as a disk drive interface. I was running four quad densisty 5 1/4 drives with my Atari. Of course now I can't read a good portion of my Atari floppies since I no longer have the ATR8000.

A friend of mine also had one and he was running a CPM bulletin board system with online games and a good amount of disk space.

WRL

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