LYNXGUY Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 I recently got over 144 floppies from EBAY and I am wondering what is on the floppies that have the following on the labels. . . . . . . Sally Welca Shingas Draper Pascal Curtis Frank Susan Frank BAEA SpeedScript Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybernoid Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 SpeedScript = Word Processor (I have several disk images that I created from my Dad's original disks that say speedscript80, but I cannot get these to work. Draper Pascal = Pascal Compiler Shingas = Shingas (fl. 1740–1763), was a leader of the Delaware (Lenape) people in the Ohio Country and a noted American Indian warrior on the western frontier during the French and Indian War. Dubbed "Shingas the Terrible" by Anglo-Americans during the war, Shingas led devastating raids against white settl.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 BAEA = The British Aerobic Association...could have something aerobics-related? The named disks (Sally Welca, Curtis Frank, Susan Frank) could be user disks for an unspecified program. Use a sector editor and take a look at the data on the disks. Or maybe just boot them (some programs will imprint a message for data disks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Curtis Frank Susan Frank These two were pioneers in plastics technology and probably developed the formula for the plastics that the disks are made of! Nah, just joshing ya, probably the owners of the disks. Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 (edited) SpeedScript was (I think) a Compute Word Processor maybe?? I think I typed it in way back when. Edited June 10, 2008 by bf2k+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybernoid Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 SpeedScript was (I think) a Compute Word Processor maybe?? I think I typed it in way back when. I think you are right. I think that the SpeedScript80.atr I have modifies the original SpeedScript program, or is a modified SpeedScript to work with the Omniview 80 column ROM. It is included in this zip file which includes most of the A8 word processing programs I have. wordproc.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 SpeedScript was (I think) a Compute Word Processor maybe?? I think I typed it in way back when. I think you are right. I think that the SpeedScript80.atr I have modifies the original SpeedScript program, or is a modified SpeedScript to work with the Omniview 80 column ROM. It is included in this zip file which includes most of the A8 word processing programs I have. wordproc.zip Speedscript was a good word processor. Used that right before getting the Macintosh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Lynx guy...did you get any dodgy hacked software on boot menu's on your disk coll. like i said you would Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNXGUY Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Lynx guy...did you get any dodgy hacked software on boot menu's on your disk coll. like i said you would HUH ?? When did you say that ?? or were you the seller of the floppies ?? I found out what Welca was....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNXGUY Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 I loaded floppy and this is the first screen....... I typed help and I got this screen ....... I formatted a floppy and wrote the DOS files but it wouldn't load then I loaded another floppy and I got this....... then I loaded another floppy and got this....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 look on on my post on the a8 forum about buying things on ebay...it's the one after you mentioning you got these disks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I loaded floppy and this is the first screen....... I typed help and I got this screen ....... I formatted a floppy and wrote the DOS files but it wouldn't load then I loaded another floppy and I got this....... then I loaded another floppy and got this....... DISKIO was a "mini-Dos" published in Antic. The original author was a member of our users group AUGI. Later, DISKIO was updated by another programmer and again published in Antic. I'm sure you can find the articles in the Antic archive. Of the many mini-Dos versions published, this was a pretty good one, and I believe included a mini-copier that used a small buffer that did not destroy the contents of the memory. I *think* that the original author also wrote a program for APX and it won second prize -- winner was "Getaway" IIRC. And like the saying goes, I don't remember the name of the second-place winner. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urchlay Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 The bottom screenshot is "Simple Assembler", a type-in from the book "Machine Language for Beginners"... it may have been published in Compute magazine originally, before the book came out. I hated long type-ins, but made myself type that one... before that the only way I could do "assembly" language was by hand (POKE decimal opcodes/operands to memory). Also spent many hours modifying and extending the Simple Assembler. Somewhere I've got a version that requires Turbo BASIC XL, supports labels (sort-of), takes input in either hex or decimal, and can read the assembly source from a disk file. Maybe I'll go digging for it and post it here, if everyone promises not to laugh at the (probably) horrible code... If you want to do anything with your Simple Assembler disk, the directions on how to use it (and the BASIC type-in code) are in Appendix C of ML for Beginners, here: http://atariarchives.org/mlb/appendix_c.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNXGUY Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 Anyone ever see or heard of this modified DOS SYS 2.0 ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 I have that on a disk I just received as part of a trade. I think that this was a DOS that was modifed to copy all 720 sectors of a disk, instead of only 719. The history there is there was a disconnect between the hardware guys and the software guys on where to start counting sectors, at zero or one. Some early software supposedly used to put data in sector 720 as copy-protection. The normal DOS 2.0's DupDisk command would not copy sector 720. Someone may correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what this DOS looks like to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 There are tons of Dos2.0S hacks out there...because Atari didn't provide menu options for a sector copier, to show drive speed, or other simple additions to the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Can you show the games you got? Maybe there's some uncommon stuff in there... -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I think Long John's DOS was probably the first widely used modded DOS 2.0. It did disk copies as full sector 1-720 jobs, rather than just what the VTOC said is in use as per most normal DOSes. That pic has a reference to SUPERDUP, maybe it's an early version of SuperDOS. The "Super" line of products, AFAIK, were developed here, I think in Queensland. There was SuperMon (OS replacement with monitor and GTIA modes with working text window), and Super boards (forget their full name) for disk drives which were a kind of "poor man's Happy". SuperDOS added support for the go-faster stuff like higher SIO speed and sector skew formatting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 It's been archived in any case...so you could experiment. http://www.mixinc.net/atari/download_a8/dosdisk.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Talk about a trip down memory lane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I have that on a disk I just received as part of a trade. I think that this was a DOS that was modifed to copy all 720 sectors of a disk, instead of only 719. The history there is there was a disconnect between the hardware guys and the software guys on where to start counting sectors, at zero or one. Some early software supposedly used to put data in sector 720 as copy-protection. The normal DOS 2.0's DupDisk command would not copy sector 720. Someone may correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what this DOS looks like to me. Yes, exactly. David Young was the same C. David Young that later did Omnimon and several other nice Atari things. Lived in Texas and some of software/firmware items were distributed by Wes Newell. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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