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Madi

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  1. Looks as if it is vanished. What a loss. http://www.hanken.co.uk/atascii/index.htm This is the archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160306172650/http://www.hanken.co.uk/atascii/index.htm madi
  2. Sorry, I overlooked it. Congratulations on your daughter wedding. Wish her a happy and successful life. madi
  3. You are right DrVenkman Jindroush's Atari Cartridge Dumping Project gave more attention to detailed information on Cartridges such as packaging, label variations, photo, boards/hardware, cartridge headers/memory arrangements, etc. and not the software dump of the Cartridges madi
  4. An archive of Jindroush site is at Atarimax website. There is a nice article made by @dhor at Atarionline.pl where he had some Arabic Atari software to show: HERE. It depends on where you live. If you live in Egypt, you may have the best (although minute) chance to get some of the rear ones. I stopped by at ADawliah store in Jeddah in APR 2016 to ask for the faith of Atari Najm. As expected they had no clue of what ATARI NAJM meant at all. Good luck in your venue of searching. If you get some interesting findings, please post them here at Atari age. madi
  5. Caution: I do not have that Basic Breakout Board (FTDI FT232RL) type. I highly recommend that you test polarity (+/_) by a multi mater before going any further. There are several ways you can add an external Led(s) to your board. I will try to describe two of them only: One LED only (red or green , etc.) You need two wires. The first one should be connected to Atari GND pin (SIO4) or (the GND of the breakout board) to the short leg of the LED ( - ) via a 100-220 ohm resistor. i.e. GND point --> Resistor --> short pin of the LED. The other wire should be cumming from CTS pin on the board (Command pin #7 on Atari) to the long pin (+) of the LED. i.e. CTS --> Long pin of the LED The led will pulses whenever command is set. Tow LED (red and blue as an example) see the Picture. Note: the negative point should be taken from the other side of the resistors (cut trace side) that are labeled (102 ) Also, use 2.5mm LED or smaller for best results. madi
  6. Turbo Dos v2.1 with Utilities and help file! This is an interesting DOS. I got the disk image from Mr. Bacardi's website. Quote: "a very good Dos that can handle SD/MD/DD/QD This is the complete system-disk with all utilities!" I made a dirty translation of the "HELP.EXE" file which is in German. The PDF is inside the zip file. madi TURBO-DOS XE 2.1.zip
  7. Edit ... Sorry, the TextWriter is for Atari ST. Although it has some functions similar to the TextWriter for 8 bits, it is totally advanced. Please ignore the text file. Some info: https://www.root.cz/clanky/historie-vyvoje-textovych-editoru-textove-editory-a-procesory-na-osmibitovych-pocitacich-2/#k04 madi
  8. To print Number, press SHIFT + number Also, CTRL H = Home (line and test beginning) CTRL F = Justify CTRL I = toggles Insert mode CTRL K = Delete Line CTRL J = Insert Line CTRL C = Center text TextWriter.txt
  9. ATARI FontMaker.rar ATARI_FontMaker1_1.rar madi ATARI FontMaker.rar ATARI_FontMaker1_1.rar
  10. Actually, they have some type of copy protection techniques that are based on specific words in the game manuals. See this link . madi
  11. What I am sure about is that those files were individually downloaded from Moose BBS because the disk has a MOOSE BBS label. I remember that I used the basic program "menu maker" to archive my .exe games/car.
  12. I was maintaining the few survived old diskettes I still have when I saw a neat basic Menu maker program I had downloaded from MOOSE BBS, Madison, WI back in 1985. I do not recall if I have seen it anywhere. On the same disk, I found another menu maker named Quick Loader by Micropulse. Also, there are 2 copy unprotecting files. One of them is intended to crack Infocom software and the other is to unprotect Brøderbund Software. The disk image is attached. madi Moose.zip
  13. Works fine. No basic XL-XE OS 2 and 3, Windows 10 madi
  14. It is sad to hear a loss of one member of our Atari community. My condolences to his brokenhearted family. madi
  15. The Cassette game image was kindly provided by Fred_M : Link: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/265012-help-to-get-atarimuseumnl-software-collection-available-to-the-community/page-4?do=findComment&comment=3838562 The Turbo Enabled function was introduced in Altirra v2,99 release as you are aware. Basic has to be enabled to run the game. Although the publisher requested that it should be only run under 400-800 computers, I ran it successfully under XL OS with built-in Basic is enabled under Altirra x64, v2.90 test 35. For some reason, the Cassette boot record interfere with loading under Altirra x64 v2.99 test 1 and upward releases (turbo code?). Of course, there is a working around to this. After the cas first record is loaded, quickly press RESET and type CLOAD. Pressing F1 key, will accelerate loading. Once the READY prompt shows, just type RUN. The game will load data and then run normally. Oh, Mclaneinc I am too old for that. madi
  16. Hi phaeron The Cave Runner game (cassette) does not load in Altirra x64 2.99 test 1 to 7. The game loads and runs normally on Altirra x64 2.90 test 35 and earlier. It looks a if the "Turbo Enabled" option is always on even if it is not selected. Caverunner(1983)(English Software)(UK).zip madi
  17. There are several JPG and PNG images were blocked by ESET NOD32 antivirus and blacklisted by chrome. Example: http://invader.vtrbandaancha.net/INJEKTOR/Injektor_Cover.png madi
  18. Your bets shot may be to contact Farb For some info about .ATX image format: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229326-atx-image/?do=findComment&comment=3065140 madi
  19. There was a warning from Chrome about the webpage is trying to use uncertified script or something like that. When allowed, the Page is loaded normally. Windows 10 x64
  20. Thank you AtariGeezer I have been waiting for this feature-rich release for some quite time. For members who do not have much programming experience, ATRTools comes to light as a lightweight but essential and unique multi purpose editing and archiving program. Please keep up the great, "still" tiresome but delightful and self enjoying project. thank you madi
  21. It is suffice it to say that most of us are aware of the famous disk utility program: DISKEY by Sparky Starks. It consists of several subroutines. It was released by Adventure International in 1982. The same company released an XL-XE compatible DISKEY in 1983 ($79 and $7A were substituted by 00 and 01). However, what puzzled me for long time is that, the TAPE to DISK subroutine always freeze when "DSKYTAP" file is executed. DISKEY directory: F# FILE EXT FS T# 1 DOS SYS 6 39 2 AUTORUN SYS 45 17 3 D 62 7 4 DISKEY 69 151 5---> DSKYTAP 220 15 <--- 6 DSKYDRV 235 59 7 DSKYDAT 294 5 8 DSKYSPC 299 62 Apparently, in line 5, "DSKYTAP" file has a USR call to address $0680 which has no code whatsoever. Thus DISKEY crashes. When the B=USR(1664) is REM or deleted, the file will execute successfully. Of course, I thought about this USR call and its purpose. Unfortunately, there are many things can be thought of. The one million $$ question is: Did Mr. Starks and the publisher (two releases) were not aware of this problem? The software was reviewed by many magazines and user groups without any mentioning of this bug. Also, tell date, I could not find any reference discussing the TAPE to DISK bug. Any one has a clue? madi
  22. I think that, the keyboards where the letter G key shows one character (L) is an older version compered to the other one with two characters. Actually, the two characters on the G key are for the same letter which is "L: pronounced as LAM" I think the reason of engraving both shapes of letter "L" on the key "G" is because: The letter "L" or " ل in Arabic" is the written as "L" character when it comes at the end of the word like camel "جمل" or when the letter "L" is typed alone. But if the letter "L" is typed within a word like dream "حلم" it will resemble the letter "A-a" ا " in Arabic ". Similar to the small letter "l" and number "1" when typed in some fonts. Note that, all the Arabic letters in that row show Arabic characters graphics when typed within Arabic words except for the letter "L" where it is shown as if typed at the end of words. Thus to avoid the confusion, they engraved both shapes of the letter LAM (L) on Key G to avoid confusion they created with the first Keyboards they issued with the Arabic Atari. In summery Atari made a mistake in the older keyboard when they engraved printed letter "L" instead of "l" in a key row intended for letters to be printed at the beginning or within words. Therefore, they corrected it in a later version were they printed both cases on the KEY "G" madi
  23. Edit: Same as Brentarian is telling.
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