Topic for newbies or veterans returning to Atari

[+MrFish]

On 8/24/2023 at 10:38 PM, votraxman said:

I'm interested in Alien voice box, and anything associated with it.

 

Here's the audio interview that Mike Matthews did with the Antic Podcast.

 

ANTIC Interview 332 - Mike Matthews, Alien Group Voice Box

 

[Ray Gillman]

Can anyone provide a link to SIO2PC software for the PC side to provide directory services to the SIO Atari side? (I'm searching not finding) I owned a registered copy of APE 12 years ago but even if I find the old cable and disk now PC's have no disks no floppy not even DVD's and the old cable was/is Serial 9 pin not USB all computers now have USB. HAH such a difference 12 years makes in computer designs.

[+Philsan]

5 hours ago, Ray Gillman said:

Can anyone provide a link to SIO2PC software for the PC side to provide directory services to the SIO Atari side? (I'm searching not finding) I owned a registered copy of APE 12 years ago but even if I find the old cable and disk now PC's have no disks no floppy not even DVD's and the old cable was/is Serial 9 pin not USB all computers now have USB. HAH such a difference 12 years makes in computer designs.

You can use RespeQt https://github.com/josch1710/RespeQt/releases/tag/v5.4RC1

Subforum dedicated to RespeQt SIO2PC Software: https://forums.atariage.com/forum/184-respeqt-sio2pc-software/

 

[jefsummers]

Just got my 130XEs out of the closet (have 2) along with floppy drives and a few carts. Going to have to re-learn the languages and OS, have Mapping the Atari and a few other books still hanging around. Also 6502 Assembly Language. I wrote a few programs that got published back in the day, half a dozen or so in Antic and one in Analog. So, looks like it will be fun, but have a lot to re-learn! Been programming in Python and Java recently. Any suggestions?

Jeff Summers

 

[+Philsan]

12 hours ago, jefsummers said:

Just got my 130XEs out of the closet (have 2) along with floppy drives and a few carts. Going to have to re-learn the languages and OS, have Mapping the Atari and a few other books still hanging around. Also 6502 Assembly Language. I wrote a few programs that got published back in the day, half a dozen or so in Antic and one in Analog. So, looks like it will be fun, but have a lot to re-learn! Been programming in Python and Java recently. Any suggestions?

Jeff Summers

 

Welcome Jeff!

In the first post, section 6, there are some infos and a link to the programming subforum.

[+MrFish]

On 1/8/2024 at 6:24 PM, jefsummers said:

Just got my 130XEs out of the closet (have 2) along with floppy drives and a few carts. Going to have to re-learn the languages and OS, have Mapping the Atari and a few other books still hanging around. Also 6502 Assembly Language. I wrote a few programs that got published back in the day, half a dozen or so in Antic and one in Analog. So, looks like it will be fun, but have a lot to re-learn! Been programming in Python and Java recently. Any suggestions?

Jeff Summers

If you're interested in assembly language, then Mads (you can also find the Mad Pascal compiler on that page) or CA65 (part of the CC65, C language system) are both good cross-assemblers.

 

If you want to develop on native hardware, then Mac/65 is a popular option.

 

[Lord-Chaos]

Hi,

 

this is Thimo aka Lord Chaos and I was absent from ATARI and retro gaming for many years. I recently Wenn home and my old ATARI 800 XL, a Speedy Floppy 1050, a 130 XE and a Mega Ste plus and old TV Arena still there and many disks, I was working on a 3D dungeon crawler back in the Day.

 

I will aquire new Power supplies soon and I hope That the computers still work.

 

Hope I can unearth the old stuff and my Sourcecodes.

 

Thimo