redman Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hello all, Atarimania has a manual for the Atari Utilities Diskette. Does anyone have a link to this disk image? TIA Redman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I saw a doc called Disk Utilities. Its an early listing of DUP. Is that what you saw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hello again, I should have included a link to the doc file for this disk. Here it is: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf Redman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Alternatively -- give us a link and exact title so we can better see what you are looking for. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 After a little googling, I found out that the disk that I'm looking for is named Developer's Diskette. It's APX Catalog Number 20034. It's not available for download because Atariarchives.org says,"This software is not available for download. We do not know who holds the copyright." This is a shame because there are some interesting programming snippets on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 After a little googling, I found out that the disk that I'm looking for is named Developer's Diskette. It's APX Catalog Number 20034. It's not available for download because Atariarchives.org says,"This software is not available for download. We do not know who holds the copyright." This is a shame because there are some interesting programming snippets on it. How do you know that it is the same disk? Can you show me what you found? Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 @Allen If you look at the contents of http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdfyou'll find a file named m8txt. I googled "Atari m8txt" and found this text:https://archive.org/stream/ataribooks-the-book-of-atari-software-1983/thebookofatarisoftware1983_djvu.txtIf you search for "m8txt" in this text, you'll find the same file names as in the Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf and the disk is named DEVELOPER'S DISKETTE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 @Allen If you look at the contents of http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf you'll find a file named m8txt. I googled "Atari m8txt" and found this text: https://archive.org/stream/ataribooks-the-book-of-atari-software-1983/thebookofatarisoftware1983_djvu.txt If you search for "m8txt" in this text, you'll find the same file names as in the Atari_Utilities_Diskette.pdf and the disk is named DEVELOPER'S DISKETTE Wow! Your right redman. Thanks for solving that mystery for me. I will put those up on the APX Developers diskette entry on Atarimania. Still looking for the disk but I will post an ATR of it as soon as I find it. I might have found it but I am still waiting to hear from someone. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 I'm glad that my search helped you. This does look like an interesting disk. redman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I have a disk that has most of the files on it - don't know why it is different... Bob Developer_disk.atr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I have a disk that has most of the files on it - don't know why it is different... Bob Developer_disk.atr DSC01463.JPG DiskName file shows: APX-20034 Developer's Disk 9/16/81 85 Autorun.sys file is bad, but all the rest check out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thanks a lot for all the help. redman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricortes Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 FWIW: The docs say the AUTORUN.SYS file on the disk is to load the R: handler and BUILD24 is supposed to be an AUTORUN.SYS builder for running BASIC programs on boot. Looks like someone didn't know how to use BUILD24, didn't write protect their disk. It seems to work if you feed redo BUILD24 output. Just run BUILD24 from the BASIC prompt, give it something like RUN "D:BUILD24" or DOS" and it will make a good autorun.sys file. It needs the " terminator as the last character to work. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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