Atari 8-bit Software Preservation Initiative

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3 hours ago, Savetz said:

Here's TANK.OBJ — a two-player tank game in assembly language. By Pat Kennedy. I believe it is an unreleased, unpublished game.

Actually, I think it was available with the very first iterations of SIO2PC.

[800_Rocks]

Hi - a newbie question... when I logon to https://www.a8preservation.com/#/home     and find a cart or disk I do not find any button or link to download it.  For example:  https://www.a8preservation.com/#/software/dump/132

I find no where on the Asteroids cartridge dump page to actually download it.  I only just registered on the site.  I have clicked on the email link to verify my email, etc.

TIA

[_The Doctor__]

The preservation site is not a software download site, from time to time if you follow this thread you will see torrents and download links from high bandwidth sites. This is the way to obtain the software, please consider the the preservation site is informational and help to make sure that the software is properly verified and preserved from more than one original source.

Use the paperclip to or other search features of the AA forums to find the magnets, links, and sites.

I no longer provide the ftp: single file server. Perhaps I will again some time in the future after the next release, along with a torrent. Depends on my ISP at the point whenever any of that happens. Someone always puts up a mega download etc anyway.

[BillC]

1 hour ago, 800_Rocks said:

Hi - a newbie question... when I logon to https://www.a8preservation.com/#/home     and find a cart or disk I do not find any button or link to download it.  For example:  https://www.a8preservation.com/#/software/dump/132

I find no where on the Asteroids cartridge dump page to actually download it.  I only just registered on the site.  I have clicked on the email link to verify my email, etc.

TIA

A8SP doesn't distribute software via download from the website, they make periodic public releases as a ZIP file containing all the files that they are releasing publicly.

Mr Robot has many releases available: https://atari8bit.net/dl/index.php?b=Atari+8-Bit+Software+Preservation

[leech]

Is it frequently updated on Archive.org?   I would think that would be the best place for it.

[MVladimir]

On 1/17/2022 at 3:13 AM, rcamp48 said:

I should include the original xfds from the first time I copied the 200 kwest disks #1 as I was anble to recover a few disks from the atrs on the 2nd post that maybe did not copy right, 

 

Basic Program Lister v2.1 (1984-12)(Alpha Systems).atrUnavailable Basic XE Detokenizer v1.11 (1989-06-04)(Psycho).atrUnavailable DOS v2.5f (1983)(Atari)[m L.J. Silver].atrUnavailable dos2.atrUnavailable hardball Team Creator Docs.atrUnavailable       

@rcamp48, some time ago you post this ATR's. Some of them are normal ATR's (91kB), but two first - Basic Program Lister v2.1 (1984-12)(Alpha Systems) and Basic XE Detokenizer v1.11 (1989-06-04)(Psycho) are strange cutted for 65kB and not working. In archive (First 418.zip) posted later, they are the same cutted size length.

Can you check and repost this ATR files if available? Thanks in advance.

[DjayBee]

1 hour ago, MVladimir said:

 Basic Program Lister v2.1 (1984-12)(Alpha Systems)

Why go for the El-Cheapo replica? Use the original: The lister is part of Scanalyzer.

Boot the Detokenizer in Altirra extract the COM file and copy it to a disk image with a full DOS.

Edited March 24 by DjayBee

[+CharlieChaplin]

SIO2PC by Nick Kennedy (the software e.g. Version 4.21 which works under MS-DOS) has an option to create 64k ATR images. Back then this had two purposes: a) it was meant for diskettes that did not use the full 90k and most of the time it was enough to hold the program with VTOC and DIR and b) it was meant for ramdisk emulation with standard 130XE ramdisk size.

 

Most of these shortened 64k ATR images still work fine (you can boot them without errors). To copy these 64k ATR images back to standard 90k disks you only need a sector copy program that writes empty sectors to the disk for the non-existing sectors on the ATR, e.g. Mycopier! and several others will do that.

[MVladimir]

2 hours ago, DjayBee said:

Why go for the El-Cheapo replica? Use the original: The lister is part of Scanalyzer.

Boot the Detokenizer in Altirra extract the COM file and copy it to a disk image with a full DOS.

Thank you! I try.

[MVladimir]

1 hour ago, CharlieChaplin said:

SIO2PC by Nick Kennedy (the software e.g. Version 4.21 which works under MS-DOS) has an option to create 64k ATR images. Back then this had two purposes: a) it was meant for diskettes that did not use the full 90k and most of the time it was enough to hold the program with VTOC and DIR and b) it was meant for ramdisk emulation with standard 130XE ramdisk size.

 

Most of these shortened 64k ATR images still work fine (you can boot them without errors). To copy these 64k ATR images back to standard 90k disks you only need a sector copy program that writes empty sectors to the disk for the non-existing sectors on the ATR, e.g. Mycopier! and several others will do that.

Your help, as usual, is very helpful. Until now, I did not know that ATR can be shortened and this file will be working. Thanks for the hint, everything worked out with copying.

[DjayBee]

13 hours ago, CharlieChaplin said:

Most of these shortened 64k ATR images still work fine (you can boot them without errors). To copy these 64k ATR images back to standard 90k disks you only need a sector copy program that writes empty sectors to the disk for the non-existing sectors on the ATR, e.g. Mycopier! and several others will do that.

With these particularly crappy images this will not work.

 

The Lister is a XEX file converted to a BOOT-disk.

Therefore after starting it, you will not have a DOS to open any file except from C:.

 

The Detokenizer is also a XEX file. This time the disk contains DOS.SYS but no DUP.SYS.

Therefore it either boots to BASIC or crashes unless you rename the XEX to AUTORUN.SYS or move it to a disk with a complete DOS.