porge Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Hi BB et al.. Perhaps when all of the tapes have been archived this would be a nice idea... the games may even fill two or three disks! Does anyone have any cassettes or evidence that Atari Computing went beyond Issue 11? Any info would be helpful, thanks guys.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turk182 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Hi Guys, For Anyone who is interested, here are verified .CAS files of Atari Computing Issue 3. I managed to fix the Framing error which affected the first program on each side of my tapes, with the help of info in De Re Atari. Enjoy! AC3-1.zip AC3-2.zip Nice work. I didn't have any issues with framing errors on issue 3 (just checked my cas files) but great work fixing them. Here are scans of the card that issue three came on if you're interested: Legend on the scans! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porge Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Hi Guys, I have now managed to create .CAS images of Atari Computing Issue 8. I'm especially chuffed as I got my 'lost' adventure program 'Treasures of The Golden Reef' back again Thank you very much indeed to Simon (Orpheuswalking) for loan of the source cassette, I very much appreciate it. Note: The first item on side 1 loads but crashes on every Atari I have tried it on, including emulators. I have no idea what the first item is supposed to be, it may have even been included on the original tape in error... I have included it simply for completion of what was on the tape. So, ignore the first program, the usual Atari Computing editorial/intro is the second second program on side 1. Enjoy! Porge ac8s1.zip ac8s2.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porge Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 P.S. If anyone gets stuck playing Golden Reef, I'll try to help - perhaps it woul dbe best to start a new thread if asking for hints......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Glad to see you got it working Now if only people could get my Handle right orpheusWAKING 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Glad to see you got it working Now if only people could get my Handle right orpheusWAKING What's wrong with walking... it could have been much worse Someone do that ATR compilation of all the games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 What's wrong with walking... it could have been much worse Oh it's been quoted worse in here, trust me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Now if only people could get my Handle right orpheusWANKING Fixed that for ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 not quite got the hand on that innuendo there Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porge Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Of those who have downloaded the Atari computing 8 .CAS images, has anyone figured out what that first piece of code on side one is for.....?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I got it to load the first time I was playing with the tape, but heck if I can remember what it loaded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazpants1 Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Hi all, I have scanned through here and downloaded issues 1,2,3,8, and 11. Can anyone help me with 4,5,6,7,9, and 10 all? Really appreciate if anyone can post them on here or send to me as i love this magazine, great memories Thanks in advance for any help Daz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I am trying to find all the Atari Computing tape magazines so that they can be preserved on disk images. So far, I've got the following (from this thread): Tape 01 (November/December(?) 1983)PART01.BAS Title screen, intro & contentsPART02.BAS Tari Trap (like Surround)PART03.BAS Review of Caverns of Mars & FirefleetPART04.BAS Hi-res editor (demo of text on graphics screens)PART05.BAS Review of The Lone RaiderPART06.BAS Display List Editor, Chris Palmer (tutorial)PART07.BAS Display List Editor, Chris Palmer (program)PART08.BAS Shop Steward (simulation)PART09.BAS Tower, Stephen Taylor (arcade game similar to Crazy Climber)Tape 02 (January/February(?) 1984)PART01.BAS Title screen, intro & contentsPART02.BAS Elephants Graveyard (simulation)PART03.BAS Book review of Get more from the Atari by Ian SinclairPART04.BAS Podman, Noel Daniel (similar to Q*Bert)PART05.BAS Sound Studio (sound editor)PART06.BAS Clock (analog clock)PART07.BAS Review of River RescuePART08.BAS Char Base (character editor)PART09.BAS Flip, Stephen Taylor (puzzle)Tape 03 (March/April(?) 1984)PART01.BAS Title screen, intro & contentsPART02.BAS O.K. Corral, Paul Jenkins (gunfight arcade game)PART03.BAS Taipan (simulation)PART04.BAS Review of Blue MaxPART05.BAS Music, Maestro! (tutorial)PART06.BAS Solitaire (classic peg puzzle)PART07.BAS Review of Snowball AdventurePART08.BAS Glug! (instructions)PART09.BAS Glug! (won't run)PART10.BAS Glug! (buggy version)PART11.BAS The Keys of Time, Marc Freebury (adventure intro)PART12.BAS The Keys of Time, Marc Freebury (adventure program)Tape 04 (May/June(?) 1984)PART01.BAS Title screen, intro & contentsPART02.BAS Snake AttackPART03.BAS YachtePART04.BAS Review of Captain StickyPART05.BAS MastermindPART06.BAS Disaster (disassembler instructions)PART07.BAS Disaster (disassembler program)PART08.BAS The Keys of Time Part 2, Marc Freebury (adventure program) MISSINGPART09.BAS Review of Savage PondPART10.BAS Moon Lander, Bruce ArcherTape 05 (July/August(?) 1984)PART01.BAS Title screen, intro & contentsPART02.BAS Flying Bombs, Nick PearcePART03.BAS Review of EncounterPART04.BAS Air Attack, Marc Freebury (arcade game similar to Blitz)PART05.BAS The Atari Screen Formatter (tutorial)PART06.BAS MISSINGPART07.BAS The Keys of Time - Final Conflict, Marc Freebury (adventure intro)PART08.BAS The Keys of Time - Final Conflict, Marc Freebury (adventure program) MISSINGPART09.BAS Review of Solo FlightPART10.BAS Thirty One, C. H. Seymour (intro)PART11.BAS Thirty One, C. H. Seymour (dice game)Tape 06 (September/October(?) 1984)MISSINGTape 07 (November/December(?) 1984)MISSINGTape 08 (January/February(?) 1985)PART01.BAS (CRASHES EMULATOR - ignore it)PART02.BAS Title screen, intro & contentsPART03.BAS CES Show - Las VegasPART04.BAS Rebound, Nick Pearce (arcade game)PART05.BAS Review of Omnitrend's UniversePART06.BAS Sprites (player-missile graphics tutorial)PART07.BAS Review of Level 9's Dungeon adventure trilogyPART08.BAS Quicktrack, Stephen Taylor (arcade game)PART09.BAS (CRASHES EMULATOR)PART10.BAS The Treasures of Golden Reef, Robert J Fry (adventure intro) (CRASHES EMULATOR)PART11.BAS The Treasures of Golden Reef, Robert J Fry (adventure program)Tape 09 (March/April(?) 1985)PART01.BAS Title screenPART02.BAS Title screen, intro & contentsPART03.BAS Bombing Raid, Bruce Archer (CRASHES EMULATOR)PART04.BAS Review of MAC/65 AssemblerPART05.BAS Between the Lines, Mike Wilkinson (puzzle)PART06.BAS Babies (arcade game)PART07.BAS Review of Battle for MidwayPART08.BAS Lasertraz, Darren Broome (instructions)PART09.BAS Lasertraz, Darren Broome (program, arcade game?)Tape 10MISSINGTape 11 (August 1985)PART01.BAS EditorialPART02.BAS Pyromaniac, Bernard Hayez (arcade game)PART03.BAS ReviewsPART04.BAS Info that next program is last program on tapePART05.BAS Red 5, Michael A Baxter (arcade game)PART06.BAS Cassette Craft, L Sutton (tutorial)PART07.BAS Super Chopper, Darren Broome (arcade game)PART08.BAS A Few of my Favourite Things, Alan Sharples (reviews)PART09.BAS Info that next program is last program on tapePART10.BAS MISSING Can anyone provide the stuff that's missing (as shown in red)? I'd particularly like to get the Keys of TIme adventures for parts 2 and 3. Any other corrections and confirmation of publication dates would also be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Payne Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I just found tape #3 in a drawer but the magazine is lost to time. I couldn't find scanned copies of the pages online. Do any of you guys have these. I think it would make a nice addition to one of the many archive locations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 I just found tape #3 in a drawer but the magazine is lost to time. I couldn't find scanned copies of the pages online. Do any of you guys have these. I think it would make a nice addition to one of the many archive locations. There were no pages. The tape was the magazine and it was supplied fixed to a card like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Payne Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Ok. It's been so long since I bought it. I didn't ever remember reading a magazine but....less brain cells. Thx for clarifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppie Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 I just found issue 3,4,7 in my collection, is there any news on if this has been completely archived yet? I can't seem to find them on atarimania, although I've downloaded some from the links in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted November 6, 2019 Author Share Posted November 6, 2019 13 hours ago, Preppie said: I just found issue 3,4,7 in my collection, is there any news on if this has been completely archived yet? I can't seem to find them on atarimania, although I've downloaded some from the links in this thread. Hi Having been away from Atari stuff for a few years and recently returned, I’d still love to get these properly archived. I managed to get hold of the cassettes for issues 1,2,3,3,4,5,6 and 9. I did download all the links here (and indeed contributed some) so I need to go back through my archive here to see what’s missing. I note you have issue 7, might be worth hanging on to it for now as I don’t have a physical copy of that one. I’m still on the lookout for the issues I’m currently missing so if anyone has any not in the above list let me know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Hello folks, I recently bought an "Atari Computing number 10" tape at retrogames.co.uk and yesterday + today I tried to make images of it (sides A+B) and convert the tape onto diskette. The WAV of side A is 147MB, the WAV of side B is 127MB, so both are too big to upload here... (but if you really want them, you can send me a p.m. and I will give you access to my dropbox upload). Allthough I recorded the tapedata onto CD-RW (44khz, 2x mono), I could not create working CAS files of side A or B. ? Converting the tape to disk however worked really well, only one program did not work (the last program "Alpine Ski" on side A, therefore named AlpineSki.DEF, where DEF simply means defect), all others worked fine. ATR images: - tapesides A+B are both on one DOS 2.5 diskette; some tape commands have already been changed, so the files do work fine from DOS, but some commands still need to be changed, e.g. CLOAD needs to be changed into RUN"D:Filename.EXT... (Boot the image with Basic enabled and especially at the start be patient, since font and other data are entered, which takes quite some time. I was so evil to add DOS.SYS, DUP.SYS and Autorun.SYS, so the disk boots automatically.) - tapeside A was also converted with CasDis onto diskette, therefore no changes of the tape commands were nescessary (well, at least theoretically - in practice some of the longer programs, like Feast, do not continue loading, so you have to press the Break key and manually type in RUN"C:" to continue loading; I found this a bit awkward, so I only converted tapeside A with CasDis and did NOT convert tapeside B with CasDis then)... - the ATCO tape contains a boottape image of "Nemo's Vault", this is a ML-program and was the last program on tapeside B; I named it NemoVaul.CAS on the DOS 2.5 disk (you can rename it to *.TAP or *.ATI or whatever fits for you). Since you cannot load a ML boottape image from DOS 2.5, I converted it into a COM/EXE/XEX file and added it to the DOS 2.5 disk, so you can load it with L-binary load from DOS... Attached you will find: - ATR image with tapeside A+B on a DOS 2.5 diskette (ATCO_10D.ATR), boot with Basic! - ATR image with only tapeside A on a CasDis bootdisk (ATCO_10C.ATR), boot with Basic! - one WAV file named Alpine_Ski.WAV (the last program on tapeside A), maybe someone of the professionals @phaeron or @Kr0tki or someone else can repair it, so I can also convert this program onto diskette (and add it to the existing WAV recording, by deleting the damaged piece and adding the fixed one, so in the end someone can create CAS files of the whole tape)... AT_CO_10.ZIP AlpineSki.zip 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 2 hours ago, CharlieChaplin said: - one WAV file named Alpine_Ski.WAV (the last program on tapeside A), maybe someone of the professionals @phaeron or @Kr0tki or someone else can repair it, so I can also convert this program onto diskette (and add it to the existing WAV recording, by deleting the damaged piece and adding the fixed one, so in the end someone can create CAS files of the whole tape)... AT_CO_10.ZIP 46.79 kB · 3 downloads AlpineSki.zip 26.22 MB · 2 downloads There is a dropout on the tape: CAS: Checksum error encountered (got 55, expected 53). CAS: Sector sync pos: 78.741 s | End pos: 81.230 s | Baud rate: 602.42 baud | Framing errors: 2 (first at 80.03) CAS: Completed read with status 8f to buffer $03FD; control=FC, position=81.23s (cycle 2596141), baud=602.42s, checksum=53 Signal drops to almost nothing, AGC kicks in and is able to mostly recover some of the bits, but there are about six bits that are totally lost and would need to be reconstructed: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 On 11/6/2019 at 8:46 PM, Preppie said: I just found issue 3,4,7 in my collection Does your copy of issue 4 have a good copy of The Keys of Time part 2? If it does, can you share it? Also, can you share tape 7. As far as I know, this has not been archived yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 On 11/7/2019 at 10:27 AM, spookt said: I managed to get hold of the cassettes for issues 1,2,3,3,4,5,6 and 9. Same question as above re The Keys of Time part 2 on issue 4. Also, does your issue 5 have The Keys of Time - Final Conflict? And can you share issue 6, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppie Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Garry said: Does your copy of issue 4 have a good copy of The Keys of Time part 2? If it does, can you share it? Also, can you share tape 7. As far as I know, this has not been archived yet. I'm passing on tape 7 to get archived, although I have no idea if it loads or not. I need a new PSU for my 800xl, so i'll check issue 4 when I get one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 (edited) Is tape 11 the final issue of this magazine? I'd never heard* of or seen* this one, or come across it on Atarimania, before this thread, *but since I'm American that's probably why. And I thought I already had all (that have been archived) paper(or PDF)/disk/tape magazines in my personal archives already! Edited November 25, 2019 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 11 hours ago, Garry said: Does your copy of issue 4 have a good copy of The Keys of Time part 2? If it does, can you share it? Also, can you share tape 7. As far as I know, this has not been archived yet. Well, I do not own a tape of AtCo 7, but I downloaded an ATR of it somewhere (maybe here at AA forum). Unsure if this ATR is complete or if it is missing some files. Will upload the ATR image tomorrow... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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