Atari Basic - pausing during LIST command?

[Smokeless Joe]

I just recently exhumed my Atari 8-bit stuff so I'm really rusty on its use.

 

In Atari BASIC, when using the LIST command on a long program, is it possible to pause the LIST to examine certain lines, then un-pause it to continue the LIST? I have a dim memory that this is possible but I can't remember how it's done.

 

I'm not taking about using the BREAK key, that stops the LIST entirely. I remember using some modifiers, like LIST 100, 500 to list lines 100 through 500, but that's not quite what I'm after.

 

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

-Joe

 

 

[+skr]

Use "Ctrl+1", the same to resume listing.

[Smokeless Joe]

YES! Thank you!

 

-Joe

[Rybags]

If you're using an emulator in some cases you can redirect P: output to a Notepad window.

 

e.g. LIST "P" sends the entire program listing. Then you can simply scroll through it in a seperate window.

Although the Atari control characters and some other symbols won't show up properly.

[Smokeless Joe]

Holy smokes, LIST "P" is amazingly useful. Thanks so much!

[Roydea6]

http://www.atarimax.com/dis6502/ download and extract to a folder and then take the Atari.Fon file and install it in windows FONT folder. Open Notepad and make the usable font Atari Size '12' and all the ATASCI codes will be visible..

 

Also useable with other text editors... I like to use UltraEdit because of the hex mode global replace( Find 9B, Replace with 0D0A) will replace the Atari EOL 9B with carriage return , line feed. and vise versa to return 0D0A to 9B.

Edited September 17, 2013 by rdea6

[Smokeless Joe]

I wasn't sure how to get the Atari.Fon file to work in Mac OS X, but the fonts here:

 

http://members.bitstream.net/marksim/atarimac/fonts.html

 

worked like a charm! Hooray! ATASCII on Mac!

[Synthpopalooza]

One caveat:

 

CTRL-1 on an emulator, used too often, can cause the emulator to freeze. I found this happens sometimes with Altirra.

 

I also suggest you get the program MemoPad at http://joyfulcoder.net ... it will allow you to view .LST files, and even convert ATASCII 155 (the carriage return code) to standard IBM ASCII CR/LF codes.

Edited September 18, 2013 by Synthpopalooza

[+bf2k+]

One caveat:

 

CTRL-1 on an emulator, used too often, can cause the emulator to freeze. I found this happens sometimes with Altirra.

 

I also suggest you get the program MemoPad at http://joyfulcoder.net ... it will allow you to view .LST files, and even convert ATASCII 155 (the carriage return code) to standard IBM ASCII CR/LF codes.

Bad link.

[Roydea6]

http://joyfulcoder.com/memopad/?os=windows

 

Good Link..