Old BASIC demo by Jeff Minter found!

[www.atarimania.com]

Found by accident while exploring some random old disks:

http://www.atarimania.com/demo-atari-400-800-xl-xe-zarjaz_37256.html

[TGB1718]

Thanks for posting this, although this is very "BASIC"  it mentioned Colourspace which I'd forgotten about, was nice to

see that again, very nice demo

[mimo]

Fantastic that this Atari history is still being found and preserved, thank you

[+Allan]

Cool.

 

So remember people. DON'T back up your old disks, whatever you do. Don't do it! You might find an old program like this and that would be terrible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trying reverse psychology. I'm not very hopeful.

[TGB1718]

Talking of Demo's, this made me look for a disk I know I've had since the 80's that I used for demo's

at our computer club, I found it and managed to get the files off, unfortunately I couldn't boot the disk

as it appears the boot sector is damage, so booting this .ATR will not work, it's just this DOS could

handle DD disks and copy the files over (with the right DOS, it will autoboot).

 

If you have U1M, you can boot normally, load BASIC then load the file "MENU.BAS" and run it, I particularly

like the sound demo, worth listening to all the tracks.

 

It also has the "BOINK" and "PISTONS" demo, run with X, although PISTONS would not run under Altirra, but

did work fine on my 130XE which is fitted with U1M too.

 

One demo "STEREO.COM" is only worth running on a REAL 800, if memory serves me right, it plays Stereo

music by having one channel through the TV and the other through the 800's internal speaker.

 

Maybe you've seen all these before, I hadn't except for BOINK, so thought I would share.

SmartDos2Double.atr

[+Stephen]

8 hours ago, www.atarimania.com said:

Found by accident while exploring some random old disks:

http://www.atarimania.com/demo-atari-400-800-xl-xe-zarjaz_37256.html

Sweet - I posted over on the Llamasoft forum!  Hopefully the Yak himself will see this.

[www.atarimania.com]

Thanks for that!

 

BTW, still looking for this one as well! 

[drpeter]

47 minutes ago, TGB1718 said:

I couldn't boot the disk

as it appears the boot sector is damage, so booting this .ATR will not work

The disk boots fine in Altirra ([Ver 4.00 test 21, Atari 800, OS Rev B, 48K] and various other system setups)

 

 

 

BASIC needs to be disabled on boot to run PISTONS

[TGB1718]

1 minute ago, drpeter said:

The disk boots fine in Altirra

Sorry, I may have misled you, the disk will boot ok, but will not autorun into the menu to run some of the demo's

[+Philsan]

 

On 12/4/2020 at 12:34 PM, www.atarimania.com said:

Found by accident while exploring some random old disks:

http://www.atarimania.com/demo-atari-400-800-xl-xe-zarjaz_37256.html

Thanks!

On 12/4/2020 at 8:38 PM, Stephen said:

Sweet - I posted over on the Llamasoft forum!  Hopefully the Yak himself will see this.

I made a video: