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Looking for GIF Viewer with Slide Show Function for 8 Bit Atari


mrnukem

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Because I have no life and am bored a lot I recently starting creating picture disks with GIF images to view on my TRS-80 Coco3 using a viewer with a slide show function and now want to do the same with my Atari system but am having a hard time finding a GIF viewer with a slide show function for my Atari. Using a stock Atari 65 XE.

 

Thank you

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Because I have no life and am bored a lot I recently starting creating picture disks with GIF images to view on my TRS-80 Coco3 using a viewer with a slide show function and now want to do the same with my Atari system but am having a hard time finding a GIF viewer with a slide show function for my Atari. Using a stock Atari 65 XE.

 

Thank you

 

 

Have not tried this, but looks promising:

 

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Services/PDA/Atari8Viewers.shtml

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Well small problem came up after using this for a while. On my 65XE the built in screen saver color cycle starts and the slide show viewer is not overriding it. Is there an easy way or quick application I can run to disable the built in pesky screen protector?

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Is there an easy way or quick application I can run to disable the built in pesky screen protector?

 

If you know some 6502 assembly...

 

The color cycling is the o.s, the so called "ATRACT" mode. It's location is $4D (77). It's activated after about 8 minutes if no (ASCII) key is pressed. Pressing a key will reset this but you can also reset it (storing a 0 at that location) yourself. This can be done by creating a VBI or make a hook into an existing one and reset it there, or just reset it in a routine that will be executed every now and then, like when loading a picture.

 

 

6502 code:

 

LDA #0

STA $41

 

 

In BASIC this would be:

 

POKE 77,0

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You probably mean:

 

LDA #0

STA $4D

 

The one you wrote above turns off SIO noise. :)

 

Wel, uh.. I have a special keyboard where the "1" is located next to the "D" key, which is... not true actually.

 

But no I/O noise can be useful too? No? :-)

 

 

tldr;

 

$4D is the right location.

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That goes beyond my skill level. Could I talk any of you into making a small executable I can run before I run the viewer to bypass it. I tried the Poke statement but the viewer wont run with basic enabled.

 

Thanks again for all the replies and suggestions. One I get my 16MB .ATR image full I will upload it to this message for folks to enjoy.

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