luckybuck Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Hi there, does anyone have the Reference Manual or the Command Key Reference of the Atari Calculator CX8102 © 1979 Atari? I am searching for that for more than 3 decades! Best would be a scanned handbook/documentation, or a list of possible commands for the Atari Calculator Program (from 1979, Article CX8102). This might be the same software as APX 20130, but I am not sure. Can anyone send me information on this? A pdf-file or a jpg-file would be great! :-))) I would even pay for this, but please help me with that. Best wishes from Germany in advance. Many thanks, Luckybuck :-) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17508311/Calculator.atr http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17508311/analog_1981-03_038.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sub(Function(:)) Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Best electronics; Seems to have it $9.95 Atari Disk program supplied Without manual but with a three page listing of the Calculator Command Token Functions I think there is a minimum PayPal payment of about $50. Unless you pay by creditcard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Thank you Moonsweeper, but best electronics pretend to have it, but they have not it. They offer it, sure, but they haven't it. Did tell them long before, but their offer is still unchanged on their website. Even after increasing my offer up to 500 % they couldn't manage it. It's the only thing on Atari which I couldn't solve... So sad... :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bent_pin Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 @luckybuck I see you are still active. Have you seen this page: AtariWiki V3.1: Atari Calculator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 7 minutes ago, bent_pin said: @luckybuck I see you are still active. Have you seen this page: AtariWiki V3.1: Atari Calculator Oh, he's seen it. AtariWiki is where his content goes. He authored most of that page. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bent_pin Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 10 minutes ago, MrFish said: He authored most of that page. That's Awesome! This thread is why I did the search that pointed me there. The circle is complete. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 Hi bent_pin, Yes, thank you, that was my re entry 12 years ago, because the calculator was the only thing left in the 80's marked unsolved. This brought me back to Atari. Meanwhile, we (the international Atari community) have made 'some' updates and they are still going on. We hope to be finishing the preservation project by 2030. All things from the Wiki can be accessed by this link: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Articles Thanks MrFish, yes, I was a little silent in the past, but this will change. Many problems haven been solved, where people needed my help. They are now stable and I will continue with Atari. Yesterday, I finished a project dated 2 years earlier, when the 400 & 800 came to the world. It will enable the machines into business machines in varoius fields. More to come, stay tuned. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bent_pin Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Well, thank you for your contributions. The community is a better place because of both of you. I just got a 130XE and I'm looking forward to messing with the Atari calculator. Silly me, until I found your page, I thought it was a handheld calculator, which I also collect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cx2k Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Has anyone compared the prototype rom to the version that was created - shown on Atari Wiki? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 No, it is not silly, it is passion for some beauty in the past. From a time, the world was a better place to live in... It is not me, it is the community worldwide who contribute. Me, that is just the guy posting some things. Inside the calculator are the correct floating point routines, which the Atari 400 and 800 should got when released in 1979. It was decided to took the "other ones". If you do the forensic on this beauty, you will find out the why... Yes, we have done, it is Carol's calculator. Finished in 1979, sold in 1982 on disk officially with DOS II, while developed for DOS I. So be careful with MEM.SAV... THink further in combination with Telelink I & II, if all the programs could be shared via mailbox at that time, it could have been a real competitor the then HP-41C, but with even more power and speed... If everything for Atari is preserved, I plan to update to Calculator 2.0, with up to ~ 700 functions, like the WP-34s. After this, a maybe implementation with variables to calculate with... Therefore, still much to do and less time... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bent_pin Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I'm writing a computer algebra system for ATMega architecture now. I will certainly have to see what I can do with it on my 130XE. I'll be sure to make a thread about it and tag you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 Thank you very much! Maybe, you take a look for this with: APX-20126 Algicalc APX-20127 Polycalc (the worldwide community still seeks the manual; we have just the Apple version...) APX-20155 Calculus Demon ? Have still to upload them to: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari Program Exchange (APX) Software 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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