Bill Lange

I created this Atari 8-bit cartridge holder based on something I saw on Thingiverse and modified it with input from folks on FB. I'll use it to hold (and quickly keep track of) cartridges for my VCF East exhibit. Here is the zipped up STL file: Atari 8-bit Cartridge Stand.zip

My wife and I took some friends to the military exhibits at InfoAge this past weekend. As I was walking through the empty VCF East exhibit rooms, I was imagining how it is going to look with the epic Atari and UNIX displays this year. Its going to be fun. If you can make it on Friday, there will be an full slate of interesting talks scheduled (but no exhibits). Saturday is usually packed with the general public coming through. Sunday is usually a slower day, giving the exhibitors more time to talk to folks, plus Joe D will be giving his keynote that day.

I used UCSD Pascal on the Apple II in high school as well. UCSD wasn't released for the Atari, but there were: Available Atari 8-bit Pascal Packages

I knew it was going to be buggy going in. :-) I wanted to kick the tires and try to see why it failed as an official Atari product and as a APX product.

My own simple ABS2() function works. I tried passing a REAL, but the compiler chocked on that. I also tried a negative number < -127 and still give the wrong answer.

Attached is the zipped up .atx file of the front of the Atari 1020 Print Shop driver disk from Innovative Concepts made with Kryoflux. The back side has the driver for the Print Shop Companion, but I haven't tried or copied that yet. 424a.zip

Possibly. I'll have to double check the documentation when I get a chance. I added some more info here.

There seems to be a bug in the ABS() function.

I've read Craddock's "Break Out ..." book, but not "Dungeon Hacks". Adding it to my To Read list. I wrote an article in Old School Gamer magazine about Ali Baba beginning on page 30ish.

Thanks for posting that. I'm glad its not just my setup having AtariWriter 80 issues. I've moved on to The Last Word. This word processor is working much better for me.

I've add about a half a dozen more Atari Pascal example programs.

Oh. Sorry. I though the disk image was in the zip file. I'll get it uploaded.

Here is a video of the scrolling issue I'm seeing in AtariWriter 80 running in Altirra 3.10 with a virtual XEP80. Right around time stamp 26 seconds, you can see I'm scrolling down paste the first page of the document. When I get to the last line of that first page, AtariWriter80 jumps to the very end of the long document.

https://archive.org/details/print-shop-1020-print-driver-disk-image

I'm using Altirra 3.10 with XEP80 on. I can make a video tomorrow of what I'm seeing, if needed. AtariWriter80_b_XE-working.ATR

I've been enter Pascal example programs using Altirra with a virtual XEP 80 and Atari Writer80. I've been seeing some goofy issues with Atari Writer 80 such as when you cursor key down past the first screen full of data, the editor jumps to the bottom of the document. Also lines were getting messed up when deleting. I'm not sure if these are issue with AtariWriter80 itself, the virtual XEP80 or because I'm running these under Altirra. I've switched over to Jonathan Halliday's The Last Word program. I'm liking it so far.

I believe that I found a bug in the Atari Pascal Language System that I'm calling the "READ CHAR" bug. I detail it here. I was able to work around it using "peeks" and "pokes".

I've added some more example programs from the David Fox book, "Pascal Primer". I also added info on setting up an Altirra development environment, using the Atari Program-text Editor to create/edit Pascal source files in 40 columns, and using the XEP80 and AtariWriter 80 create/edit Pascal source files in 80 columns: Inside Atari Pascal

I have a few books that I want to run through and convert the Pascal programs to the Atari Pascal Language System. Its a fun learning experience. I'll try to get the example code available somewhere.

As there didn't seem to be many, I've been "compiling" a collection of example programs for the Atari APX released Atari Pascal Language System: https://insideataripascal.blogspot.com/p/atari-pascal-language-system-example.html

Atari BASIC Reference Manual See page H-14.

I saw that picture, and I thought to myself, I just built that same thing with the exact same components recently. Then I read the text...

Test print attached. Let me know how this looks. I'll print another sheet with what you requested. 825-1200dpi-75-bright-test1.pdf

Sure can. I'll get to this on Saturday.

I have an 825. I'll see if I can recreate the print samples for you.