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    Why don't you just go to www.ebay.com and see if there is an adam computer up for bid. Theres one right now with a bid of $9 and another with a buy it now for $40.
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    I have Hero, Pitfall II, Keystone kapers, and Zenji Think they also made pitfall 1.
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    sam is text to speech, a bit hard to understand but good when you need lots of speech. For good sounding speech, up to about 64 short digitized waveforms, try voice master. Voice master allowed you to record your own audio. Voice master also allowed speech recognition.
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    You might do a simple simulated 3d, and get out of doing all the math. Since the joystick can only indicate 8 directions, you just draw a 3d view for each of the 8 joystick positions. Then let the display list memory be set to the correct 3d view. This only takes one or two bytes to change, so extremly fast. Now if the game allows it, you might also only change the 3d view at certain locations of the animated character rather than at every location. This would reduce the number of 3d drawings needed. By only having views for the 8 directions a joystick can select, there would not need to be so many drawings, and you might get away with reuse of the same drawing. For example, say the animated figure is moving up and to the right, and has only moved two squares in this direction. Do we really need to change the view at this point? Probably not, and we could wait until the figure got to the edge of the screen and then update the view for a figure moving up and to the right, and currently at location x?,y?
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    I have files in a dir in a mydos simulated drive. I want to copy them to another directory. I use ape simulated drives. I am wondering if there is any easy way to copy the files from one directory to another directory. Now I want these directorys to be dir that were made on the disk, not the main directory of the disk. So i have a simulated disk drive, it has :basic and :load and I have a file that should be moved from the :basic directory to :load I will need to do this a lot, so its best if I can do this without moving the file to a floppy or other simulated disk, and then back to where I want it.
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    The power supply for my 800 disk drive and computer are the same. Can you swap your disk drive and computer power supplys? Then see if your computer or disk drive works. The 110 plugs on the powersupply are pretty stiff, and sometimes bend away so they do not make contact with the wall outlet. make sure they are making a connection by testing for any voltage on the output of the transformer, with a volt meter, or a test light. Use a 12 volt test light for testing car wirre, it will glow dim if its working. You might also buy some contact cleaner at a electronic store, and clean the end. Those connectors go bad a lot too, after being plugged, and unplugged hundreds of times. You might need to re install a connector in the computer, and install a new end on the power supply wire to the atari. Its the center connector that wears down, and does not make good contact after a while. Some times a slight bend to the center connector on the atari will help it press against the plug on the wire.
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    I ran across some XIO commands that I have not seen before. Please, help document what each of the XIO commands do in this tcp/ip server program for atari does. Source Code 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 You may of course use,modify and distribute this source code freely. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2000 Kevin M. Loch All Rights Reserved. Atari is a trade mark of Hasbro Interactive, Inc. which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site.
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    This time I wrote a lil program to test what location 764 can give on arrow keys, control keys, and shift keys. It does just fine on arrow keys, so I think you are maybe not converting the decimal number to hex that your assembler most likely uses correct. Try this in basic 10 print peek(764):goto 10 Run it, and push down any combination of key. you will find you get one number for a up arrow, another for a sift up arrow, and yet another for control shift up arrow etc. But if you want to use the atari keyboards arrow keys for a game, why make them push the shift or control key? Why not just detect for - = + * instead? You might do both, so the game would work no matter if they pressed a control key/shift key, or not. Peek (764) gives you results in decimal, so convert those results to hexadecimal, for assembly. Or if your assembler allows it, tag those numbers as decimal in your code.
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    The Atari has a keyboard buffer at some address. It holds several keys pressed. Think you might be able to pick off arrow keys there. Should be able to find the address in one of those books like mapping the atari by compute! Or you could just write a little program that searchs for a string of characters you type, and reports the address, and use that to locate the buffer for key press input. (not location peek 764) I did this one time years ago, and think I remember the key pressed input ends up in more than just one location, like they make a copy of the buffer?
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    Here is how to convert an Atari joystick to be an ibm joystick. You will need to scroll down about half way down the page to find the Atari joystick conversion. Now will the makers of the Stella, please start making this? Advantage is this will work with every last ibm emulator, while stella only works with emulators that have provision to use a usb port for joystick. http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystic...ri_pc_converter
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    Hi Paul, Here is a link for you on how to convert an Atari Joystick to be an IBM joystick. http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystic...ri_pc_converter Since this conversion will work on all atari / amiga / c64 or other ibm emulators, its a better way to go than Stella. Now if we could just get someone to make them available so we did not have to build them ourselves. I have an amiga emulator, Amiga forever, but I am still trying to learn how to use it. I also have a Stella, maybe eventually I can answear your question. I have not yet buildt the Atari to pc converted joystick, but plan on that after I get some other things working. Seems it might be possible to just use resistors, and have the atari switch how much resistance is present for the x or y cordinate of an analog ibm joystick. That might require cutting of circuit board traces on the atari stick. --rrrrrr-----rrrrrr------rrrrrr------- | |------------------------------------- something like this where the slanted lines are atari switch buttons and rrrr is the resistors. Then the fire button would just wire in just like the ibm, and then maybe add an extra button to the case, for those ibm games that make use of button two. Many emulators do not work with the Stella
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    Does anyone know of an Atari Emulator for Atari 8 bit games that runs the game at the same speed as the Atari? Most of the games run too fast for me on Atari transformer 2000 Is there any way I can slow my IBM computer down?
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    One way to get fantastic photos on an atari is to do video blending. For this you have a brightly lit picture, or better yet a rear projection screen, and a slide projector. You position a sheet of glass in front of your monitor at a 45 degree angle, so you see the monitor through the glass, but the glass reflects the photo or projected slide. You build it all into a cabinet. Think they did something sort of like this on some arcade machines. If the reflected image is about the same brightness as the monitor screen, it will seem like both are the same screen to your eye. The glass can reflect from the right or left, but you might also fix it so it reflects what is just below the monitor or above the monitor, so you can make your cabinet smaller.
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    Try consol for detecting keys pressed. its 53279, or $DO1F HEX Just saw a program that used this, but I have not tried it.
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    Hi Chile, Thank you for posting here a very well done translation. Wish I could do as well in spanish, but will have to post in english. Antic magazine had hardware construction articles about every 2 or 3 month. Some build it projects that might be fun would be a midi interface. You need to send code to the interface at a baud rate of 31250 8 bits no parity, 1 stop bit. to turn on a note, send the following 3 byte code in decimal. 144, 60, 127 Where 144 is midi channel 1, 60 is middle c on most keyboards, but might be off an octave up or down. and 127 is the velocity, (volume level) To turn it off, send 144,60,0 (setting a middle c note on channel 1 to 0 volume. The atari 8 bits can play with midi approximately 16 imidi musical nstruments all at the same time, if the midi keyboard or sound box has that many available. Another hardware idea, is to interface two ataris through the joystick ports, so one can tell the other what notes to play. Atari has the ability to link to hardware 8 bit sound registars together, for 16 bit sound that is very good, close to what the comodore can do, or even an ibm. You can do this twice, so you can have two 16 bit sound sources for each computer. The reason to link two computers, is to try and get 4 part 16 bit music out of just Atari computers. Antic has an article some place in it that lets a person hook an atari to shortwave radio, and copy wefax weather maps on the atari screen. Theres also how to interface to stepper motor. I would like to see a hardware project where a air brush was controlled in x, y cordinates by an atari, with control of the spray painting. Software would do kalidoscope type reflecting of designs. Need to have the brush in a spray booth outdoors or with plenty of ventilation. Also some talk boxs that can let the Atari speak, and quite a few other things. You probably already found most of the Antic magazines. I include a spanish translation link for you at the end, just click it. Also a scanner with a printer. A digitizer would be good. Should be able to make this out of a paddle controller. just have an arm that can turn, and at the end of this arm, have another that can turn. put a varible resistor at each of the two places the arm turns. The hard part would be the parogram that reads it. But you could just move it around over graph paper, and write down the numbers as you moved the tracer to different cordinates. Probably some math whiz could give the formula so you would not have to go to all that much trouble. Heres an idea for a digitizer I made at one time, thats real simple. Make a stand for your atari monitor or tv. At the front edge of this stand, have a pane of glass. The glass is held in this slot at a 45 degree angle, and it slants away from your monitor, and toward you. You also have a bright lamp on each side of your monitor that are aimed at the table your monitor and its stand are on. you put your drawing on the table, and look through the glass at your monitor, but you see both the monitor, and a reflection on the glass of your drawing. This lets you trace whats on the paper below the monitor, with any atari drawing program. We also made Atari projector tvs. This is best done with a small tv or monitor, and turn its brightness up as much as possible. You need one of those flat frensel lens that magnify an entire page of a book, available at most office supply stores. Make a hole in a cardboard box, a bit smaller than the lens, and tape the lends to the box. Now move the box in front of the monitor or tv, until you can get is image focused on the opisote wall of the room. We were able to get pictures up to about 5 feet by 7 feet, in rooms about 12 feet between walls. that were fairly good quality. If you have a projector screen use that, or you can use a white sheet if the wall is not a light color. Just use the card board boxs to get an idea of what you need, and then make two boxs, one that can slide into another, so you can focus easily, and fix up some cloth to attach to the box and monitor /tv to block any light leaking out. If you put photo paper on the wall, you can also make posters,etc. To do this, you can use photo paper as your negative. After you develope the paper, squeegee it to another paper, emulsion to emulsion for best results. Then shine a light on the paper, to expose the second paper through the first. You could make a light box if you want, but just turn on a light in the room with the negative paper sitting on top of the blank paper, and glass on top of that will do it. A timer would be nice, but you can just couint off the seconds by 101, 102 etc. If you dont have much room, you can skip stop bath and just use paper developer, and fixer. Kodak D76 works good for this. I would like to see your construction articles some time, but you need to get your web page to work without scripts, since I choose to block all scripts. I got a virus installed by web page scripts onces, so from now on, no web page scripts for me. How about an atari controlled solar oven? Solar is not going to go big, until they make it just as nice as a regular oven, complete with 4 burners and thermostat control, and look as pretty with enamel finish. Can a xolar box be on a roof, positioned with an atar, and send the heat down a stove pipe to the stove, and have valves that can be opened so no heat would come down when you wanted to turn it off? Can it be made fail safe? can a fan be added to cool burners/ oven down fast so it behaves just like a regular oven, and does not take hours to cool? Maybe have a foot or two thick brick or concreate pad the collector box on the roof sits on, to protect roof from getting to hot. Can it be made safe, and fail safe? A person should be able to put a solar oven any place they would put a gas stove or electric if solar is ever to become popular. Chow, Here is a spanish link to Antic Magazines index at the archive site Click on it, then save in your browsers favorites, or bookmark it. If adding to a web page, type it in as just one line. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools
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    AtariMania in French at this link: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools
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    I tried your web page several different days and at different times. Often, it times out and gives an error message when used with a translator site. I think the web site you use is just too slow for reliable translation connections. You might be able to slove this by getting a free web page at one of these sites. Many offer 150 meg of web pages. http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/ If you can find a free page in several different countrys, and mirror your site on those, then translation most likely would be possible for any atari user that wished to visit your page. They then would then just go to a translater linked web page for their country. We need your site to have faster access, because often we can not connect to your site due to time out. Mirror sites would most likely sove this problem.
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    This link will translate the Atariage web site into Portaguese. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools
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    Put the following code on a link on your website for Atariage. It will let your readers view all of the Atariage website in spanish. You can also do this with the altavista site I gave. This forum breaks the code into 3 lines when I post here. You need to enter it as only one line of code. Its not perfect, but will give a word for word translation if possible. Your web site does not work very well with the different translaters, since the text is flash. If you make all text in your web page just html text, then your page will most likely be translateable by the translation sites. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools
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    You can load and save files directly to your ibm disk drives, use your ibms modem and printer. You can make atr files with the pro cable, that you can load back to the atari, and it gives you 8 simulated drives, or use those atr files with an ibm emulator, or you can directly save bin files to your disks and load them back. You need a com port on the ibm free for this. Files load a lot faster than a regular drive. You can make backup copys of most copy protected disks. You can use 1050 or double density drives, You can create atari drives on your ibm that hold many megs of files, and format them to what density you want, and use what dos you want. You can make simulated atari drives on the ibm, and not stuck with the 810 single density format, and size of disk.
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    No its not the same. Is this the power pad touch tablet? I have the source code for that some where for both Atari and C64. The code used a joystick port for the input, and it only used the joystick bits. It programed some of the bits as output, and some as input. It was only reading a bit at a time if I remember right, and used the other bits to strobe the pad, and a status bit for condition of the pad. The ibm does have some programable pins, so I think it might be possible to interface them, but doubt that this usb adapter would allow it, since the port must be set up with some pins as input and some as output. Also you would need special code on the ibm to process the results into x,y cordinates on the pad.
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    If you get APE from www.atarimax.com and a pro cabe, and you have an atari 800 then you would be set up pretty good. You could do your assembly and debug on the atari 800, save the file, use ape to make an atr file, and then run the atr file on many of the ibm emulators. There are conversion programs to convert atr to think dfx files if you need it. You can use the mac65 debugger on the atari. You could also use a null modem cable and put a terminal program on the atari, and the ibm to move files over to the ibm if you need some format other than .ATR files, for what ever emulator program. Seems to me, that there was a version of ddt a 6502 debugger available on disk, called ddt. dynamic debugger t?????? Can't quite remember all of the name.
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    No comprende. Por forvor, va a world.altavista.com English > Spanish Spanish > English Translator is available here. type your message in top box, set from spanish to english, and then post in english sections of this forum. We want you to use english in the english forums. You can post in spanish in the international forum. Not very many persons speak spanish here, so we wish you would post a translation of your messages. Thank you.
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    No comprende. Por forvor, va a world.altavista.com English > Spanish Spanish > English Translator is available here. type your message in top box, set from spanish to english, and then post in english sections of this forum. We want you to use english in the english forums. You can post in spanish in the international forum. Not very many persons speak spanish here, so we wish you would post a translation of your messages. Thank you.
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    Get rid of windows ME, its been nothing but problems anyway. Get windows 98 or 98se, or xp The 98 are not without problems, but at least they work better than ME
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