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  1. Steve Mynott
    An earlier thread here suggests CP/A was renamed OS/A+ following legal issues with the name from the owners of CP/M. According to manual dates it looks like it was written first on the Apple 2 and ported to the Atari. CP/Apple Feb 1980 V1.0 CP/A (Atari) March 1981 V1.0 OS/A+ Atari May 1981 V1,1
  2. Steve Mynott
    I had a quick look and the closest was https://archive.org/details/oss-basic-manual/CP-A License and Notes/ This is a OSS CP/A for Apple 2 - an earlier version of OS/A+ also available on Atari (?). The notes there suggest that OS/A+ apple may not have been released (although I know the Atari manual has references to it). I booted the Apple 2 woz image under emulation and it looks very much like a minimal OS/A+ and it has OSS BASIC 1.0 on the disk.
  3. Steve Mynott
    I had an Atari 1027 printer back in the day, and it quickly broke. In fact, I recall probably only successfully printing a handful of pages, something which was very annoying and apparently common. I remember the letters were slightly offset from each other and didn't quite line up. It also made a terrible noise when printing. Were these faults or usual behaviour? Is there any sort of emulation? Maybe a true type fonts of the pseudo-daisy wheel character set? Or a way of printing them to a PDF under emulation or real hardware?
  4. Steve Mynott
    Grrrr I discovered one of my test disk images was in fact corrupted and with a clean one everything works fine with SDX as described above.
  5. Steve Mynott
    Unfortunately, the compiler doesn't work when I tried it under SDX 4.48 cartridge (old I know!) Also, when compiled, it needs to run from the % prompt by just typing "HI". (Note, you need the LIB file if trying this on another disk.)
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    It works with TurboDOS-XE (a recommendation I got from here) but KP uses memory over $2000 which means it doesn't work with many DOSes.
  7. Steve Mynott
    Since the death of Wirth I've been playing with Kyan Pascal (which is a lot better than I expected!). I've been trying to use it on a double density disk but the only DOS which seems to work for it is TurboDOS-XE. Does anyone know of English language docs for this DOS? Or can recommend another DOS for use with KP?
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    Another from scratch approach would be to take the source for a simple hash (aka associative array or map) and port to another language. I once took, and the source is long lost but it wasn't hard, a short C simple example (off google) of an associative array and ported it to CC65 quite easily.
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    http://www.ataritimes.com/index.php?ArticleIDX=71 In the movie True Stories (1986) starring David Byrne and John Goodman, the scene at the mall shows the computer programmer (played by Matthew Posey) having purchased an arm-full of Atari 8 bit products. Looks like it was a 1010!
  11. Steve Mynott
    It's a (moderately well known) arty Americana film of the 80s set in Texas. I certainly wouldn't expect everyone to have heard of it, but I'd guess a few have and might even have an old DVD around somewhere. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/
  12. Steve Mynott
    I was watching David Byrne's True Stories and noticed for the first time that a guy in the 80s mall he was talking to was carrying Atari 8 bit boxes. Looks like an APX box and a 1050 drive box? Does anyone else spot anything?
  13. Steve Mynott
    SpartaDOS doesn't use H: for the host drive, it uses the PCL: device via PCLINK.
  14. Steve Mynott
    Oh it does work with the A option. I'm too used to using 1-8 and * D'uh.
  15. Steve Mynott
    Is there anyway of accessing the host (H:) drive under emulation using MyDOS?
  16. Steve Mynott
    Probably a silly question but what's the name of the FP benchmark?
  17. Steve Mynott
    Is there much (any?) any 8-bit computer coverage in this issue? Is it worth getting?
  18. Steve Mynott
    I was playing with this under emulation some time back and recall one of the emulators (Atari800 I think) has Bit-3 support (and the ROMs are online). I had Data Perfect in 80 columns working, and it was nice and readable, but I failed to get any of the other LJK programs working. This may be due to version issues, since I think there were a lot of releases of this software. The LJK suite was excellent and I used to use Spell Perfect heavily back in the day.
  19. Steve Mynott
    Main issue is long delivery times. I haven't bought much but was very pleased with what I bought. I probably wouldn't buy power supplies though!
  20. Steve Mynott
    That's exactly how I did it once I noticed the option. Thanks for all for suggestions.
  21. Steve Mynott
    I've got a text file with integer BASIC which I want to import into AppleWin. I tried Ciderpress but this seems to only allow Applesoft BASIC import (to tokenize a text file). Is there an equivalent of EXEC in Integer BASIC to read a text file as if it were typed so it gets tokenized and I can run it?
  22. Steve Mynott
    Is there an English version of the Turbo Basic XL Compiler? I'm also confused by all the different versions (mostly hacked?) at https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Turbo-BASIC XL I assume most use the original 1.5?
  23. Steve Mynott
    Does this mean PAL users with VBXE can switch to NTSC and finally see proper colours in artefacted games like Ultima?
  24. Steve Mynott
    Thanks for the replies. I guess people are using these without issue and there is no risk of blowing the old workhorse up?
  25. Steve Mynott
    There is a very basic vi type editor called vi65!
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