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If your program is in basic, just use csave to save it to cassette. cload will load it, maybe,lol. We found it best to only put one program on a tape. Putting more than that often made it troublesome to load those programs farther down the tape. However, we did put lots of them on good sony high quality tapes with little or few problems. See the Atari hardware/software manuels for how to make assembly programs save/load from cassette, and discussion of multi-load, multiple segment programs.

If you have the Ape cd rom, on it under folder Belgium, there is a atr file, think its number 17, but look for it. This file has a lot of copy utilitys on it. You can move cassette programs to disk, cartridges to disk, etc. Maybe you can move this cassette program to disk, and then use it there, or make an atr file if you have an ape pro cable. Is there any other way to make ATR files other than the ape pro cable, and ape pro?

Ape runs in DSR mode normally as default. Think there is a jumper on the sio2pc cable to put it in that mode? But if you have one with out a jumper, you can put the ape in sio2pc mode. Dont use the pro functions, they do not work with sio2pc, or the ape cable. YOu must order a second cable, the ape pro cabel for the pro functions to make atr, or put an atr on the ibm onto an atari disk. Did you order the upgrade disk? Or is it the download trial version? Some of the upgrade disks had a problem, and they kill the ape function, but allow the ape pro function to work. If this sounds like your problem, and it is my problem, then email the guy and explain whats going on. They say my upgrade disk is at fault, and are sending me another one. Until I get that I have to make atr on one with the pro function and cable, and then go to my other pc and use the trial to just run the atari from it.

King Tuts Tomb and construction kit, Antic disk

The attached file is an ATR type file. You will need an emulator that can play such files on your atari or ibm, or other computer. I use the Ape emulator, and play the files on an atari 800 The game maker, Mazeit should be run with atari basic cartridge. You should have a disk that has been formated, and dos, and dup sys installed on it. And a copy of rollem.obj, and rollem.maz The program will fill up the disk with rollem games that have 60 screens each. It takes an hour or so to fill up a floppy with games. When the programs stops, and you might get an error message, you then go to dos, and first copy what screen you want to play to rollem.maz Then you load rollem.obj You might get some screens in a game that can not be completed to advance to the next level. On these screens, you will need to die 3 times, and then pull down on the joy stick to skip to the next sceeen, or any screen you wish. This disk you download, has many games on it already made for you. Ape users only read this: Ape emulator users, can run the game maker, mazeit. They just need to load the atr into a drive, and then when asked the file name, use the same drive. It does not seem to be able to work on one ape drive, and make a maze on another ape dirve. rollemi.zip

There's Rollem contruction Droid, and editor, not released but will be free soon, and if I can ever find my disk that has it, a Droid that makes Bolder dash construction set games and caves. These are Droids, they do all the work, you just sit back for an hour or two while they fill up a disk with new games to play. Slow as blazes, since they are in basic. requires rollem available on analog magazine disk, and Boulder Dash Construction set I am waiting for my upgrade disk for ape, so I can make atr files to upload these Droid screen makers.

You have to get that bin file onto a disk image file that has dos on it. The emulator can load the .atr files or xfd type files. There probably is some utility to convert an atari file on a pc to a atr or xfd file with atari dos on it, but I know of none. So, if your file is on an atari disk, instead of a pc, then you can make the atr type files with Ape, and the pro cable. If your file is on a pc, and you have a modem on both the pc and atari, you can just send the file over to the atari, put it on a dos disk, then make your atr file with ape. Your also might do this with a null modem cable between the pc and atari, and both run a terminal program. Try doing a search engine search and use words atari xformer utility.

The better book to get is the Atari hardware manul, which also came with the software manuel. Only user groups were sent copys from atari. It gives everything you need to know and also has wire diagrams. If you can find computes! book mapping the atari, that would be another good one to get. It documents all the peek and poke locations.

A rca phono cable on both ends will work. You can get them at radio shack stores in the united states, and or try sterio stores. They are an audio cable, but will work. If its a restore project, and you want everything original atari then try best electronics 1-408-243-6950 in united states.

You can have two graphic 7 screens on an atari at the same time without flicker. Do this by having a display list that first displays 1 graphic 7 screen, and then continue it with another list. at end of display list have it jump back to first list both lists have seperate screen memory commands, either every line of display list, or at start of each list. (It depends on what you want to do with it.) . You do have to set the screen pointer or text pointer to point at the screen you want before you use either plot or drawto or print at commands. Think it was locations 88, and 89 that controled the text pointer? Anyway, it does a real nice screen, no flicker on my tv set, and the colors on one screen will mix with colors on other screen to produce new colors. Whats neat, you can draw something on one screen, then set the pointers so commands only effect the other screen. Then screen erase etc, do not remove that one sceeen, so its always displayed. A two screen display I think is worth while in gr 7 and recommend you give it a try. Three screen at a time is possible, but flickers a bit and is kind of anoying. I suppose it also depends on if you use a monitor, a tv, and what kind of scan the tv has, and also screen size. I had a small 12 inch color tv when I tried two and three screens at a time. Used a atari 800.

Drelbs would be good for a cartridge game. How about Rollem.obj an old antic game (i think) Its sort of like Drelbs. I wrote a automatic screen maker for it that makes 60 screen games. Unfortunately the way the game was wrote, it automatically reads a file rollem.maz and does not allow file entry. So you have to first copy the file my screen maker creates to rollem.maz and then run the rollem.obj file. If you put it on cartridge, how about adding file loading options?

I am looking for a atari 800 game called Midas or Midas Touch? Its a game thats sort of like packman, but there are cars. Think it might of been published by analog magazine or other mag as a type in program. It was pretty good, and I would like to find it again.

I would like to see Montezumas Revenge. But I would like to see a mod to it too. Can we have an option to disable the bird to make it easy for beginners?