3-D Printable Atari 8-bit Cartridge Holder

[3-D Printable Atari 8-bit Cartridge Holder]

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

[Atari Computer Exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East]

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.

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

Does anyone know if that was released for Atari and/or what flavor of Pascal Atari Pascal is?

 

 

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

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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.

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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.

 

[Printshop Driver for Epson LQ printers]

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

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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

 

 

 

 

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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.

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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

[Printshop Driver for Epson LQ printers]

nice pictures of the disk.... but not the disk itself it seems.

 

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

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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.

[Printshop Driver for Epson LQ printers]

driver please

 

 

 

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

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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.

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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".

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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.

[Atari Pascal Language System Example Programs]

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

 

 

[2 button joystick ?]

Does that work in any way at all with the computers?

 

 

 

Atari BASIC Reference Manual

 

See page H-14.

[2 button joystick ?]

I've seen Bill Lange noodling around with the idea on twitter recently

 

 

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...

[hi-res scan of Atari 825 printer print sample needed]

Test print attached. Let me know how this looks. I'll print another sheet with what you requested.

 

 

825-1200dpi-75-bright-test1.pdf

[hi-res scan of Atari 825 printer print sample needed]

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

[hi-res scan of Atari 825 printer print sample needed]

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

[3D Printed SIO Jack]

I can scan and post the mechanical drawings of the SIO port if that would help.

 

 

 

Curt

 

If you could, that would be great. I'd like to have the exact measurements.

 

Bill