ballyalley Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I have noticed that there are 16 pages missing from the "Atari Home Computer System Technical Reference Notes" (CO16555). Pages 25-40 are missing from the "Operating System User's Manual." Here is a version on Archive.org, but other versions of the Tech Notes seem to be the same. https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_atari40080mputerTechnicalReferenceNotes1982_20170986 Does anyone have pages 25-40 of the "Technical Reference Notes?" I presume that they must be scanned someplace already and somebody will just be able to link me to them. According to the table of contents of the "Technical Notes," this is what is on the missing pages (25-40): 3 CONFIGURATIONS 25 Program Environments 25 Blackboard Mode 25 Cartridge 26 Diskette-Boot 26 Cassette-Boot 26 RAM Expansion 27 Peripheral Devices 27 Game Controllers 27 Program Recorder 27 Serial Bus Devices 28 4 SYSTEM MEMORY UTILIZATION 29 RAM Region 29 Page 0 30 Page 1 30 OS Data Base 30 User Workspace 31 Boot Region 31 Screen Display List and Data 31 Free Memory Region 31 Cartridges A and B 31 Mapped I/O 32 Resident OS and Floating Point Package ROM 32 Central Data Base Description 32 Memory Dynamics 32 System Initialization Process 33 Changing Screen Modes 33 5 I/O SUBSYSTEM 34 Central I/O Utility 36 CIO Design Philosophy 37 DEVICE INDEPENDENCE 37 DATA ACCESS METHODS 37 MULTIPLE DEVICE/FILE CONCURRENCY 38 UNIFIED ERROR HANDLING 38 DEVICE EXPANSION 38 CIO CALLING MECHANISM 38 HANDLER ID - ICHID [0340] 39 DEVICE NUMBER -- ICDNO [0341] 39 COMMAND BYTE -- ICCMD [0342] 40 STATUS - ICSTA [0343] 40 BUFFER ADDRESS ICBAL[0344] AND ICBAH [0345] 40 PUT ADDRESS -- ICPTL [0346] AND ICPTH [0347] 40 BUFFER LENGTH/BYTE COUNT - ICBLL [0348] and ICBLH [0349] 40 AUXILIARY INFORMATION - ICAX1 [034A] and ICAX2 [034B] 40 REMAINING BYTES (ICAX3-ICAX6) 41 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 The "Technical Reference Notes" on AtariMania has the missing pages: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-800-technical-reference-notes.pdf However, the AtariMania version is missing the last half of the book. Well, together, these two versions of the tech notes seem complete. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I have that literature. If anyone needs scans, just let me know which pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Thanks for the info. I'll fix it up and post the result on my website. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 (edited) Alright, I've added the missing pages and uploaded the fixed version to my website. You can download it from the Resource -> Atari section. Links to my website are in my sig below. Edited March 18, 2016 by MrFish 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 The "Technical Reference Notes" on AtariMania has the missing pages: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-800-technical-reference-notes.pdf However, the AtariMania version is missing the last half of the book. Well, together, these two versions of the tech notes seem complete. It's not missing on Atarimania. It 's just a different download. http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-400-800-operating-system-source-listing.pdf Allan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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