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After a little googling, I found out that the disk that I'm looking for is named Developer's Diskette. It's APX Catalog Number 20034. It's not available for download because Atariarchives.org says,"This software is not available for download. We do not know who holds the copyright." This is a shame because there are some interesting programming snippets on it.

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After a little googling, I found out that the disk that I'm looking for is named Developer's Diskette. It's APX Catalog Number 20034. It's not available for download because Atariarchives.org says,"This software is not available for download. We do not know who holds the copyright." This is a shame because there are some interesting programming snippets on it.

How do you know that it is the same disk? Can you show me what you found?

 

Allan

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@Allen

 

If you look at the contents of http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf
you'll find a file named m8txt. I googled "Atari m8txt" and found this text:
https://archive.org/stream/ataribooks-the-book-of-atari-software-1983/thebookofatarisoftware1983_djvu.txt
If you search for "m8txt" in this text, you'll find the same file names as in the Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf and the disk is named DEVELOPER'S DISKETTE

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@Allen

 

If you look at the contents of http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf

you'll find a file named m8txt. I googled "Atari m8txt" and found this text:

https://archive.org/stream/ataribooks-the-book-of-atari-software-1983/thebookofatarisoftware1983_djvu.txt

If you search for "m8txt" in this text, you'll find the same file names as in the Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf and the disk is named DEVELOPER'S DISKETTE

 

Wow! Your right redman. Thanks for solving that mystery for me. I will put those up on the APX Developers diskette entry on Atarimania. Still looking for the disk but I will post an ATR of it as soon as I find it.

 

I might have found it but I am still waiting to hear from someone.

 

Allan

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FWIW: The docs say the AUTORUN.SYS file on the disk is to load the R: handler and BUILD24 is supposed to be an AUTORUN.SYS builder for running BASIC programs on boot. Looks like someone didn't know how to use BUILD24, didn't write protect their disk. :)

 

It seems to work if you feed redo BUILD24 output. Just run BUILD24 from the BASIC prompt, give it something like

RUN "D:BUILD24"

or

DOS"

 

and it will make a good autorun.sys file. It needs the " terminator as the last character to work.

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