Savetz Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 This is a cross-post from the 8-bit forum. I don't love cross-posting but want to be sure you ST folks see this. Great news! I recently interviewed Wes Newell, founder of Newell Industries (known for Omnimon and many other upgrades.) (The interview is not published yet.) He sent me hundreds of pages of documentation and source code to scan, and put online. And he's put it in the public domain!* So, I've scanned it all and uploaded it all to the Internet Archive. The manuals are pretty straightforward, seems to be rather complete set of Newell manuals. I need your help to identify and describe a lot of the source code. With more information about exactly what this stuff is, I can amend the metadata at archive.org. I think the Atari community will find some of this source code very exciting. So dig in and tell me what we've got. (*I'm not entirely convinced that the Omnimon/Omniview manuals are his to put in the public domain — they may be owned by David Young of CDY Consulting) so I didn't tag that PD in the uploads.) Atari 8-bit Source code https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOSNXLv2 https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOSNFv601 https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOSNFv406 https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOSNEv601 https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesCOPY256E https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesCOPY2561.219910620 https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesM1COPY https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesM1COPYv1.1 https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOnePage https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSDDD https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBM130source https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBM130v1.1 Atari ST Source code https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBMSTv4C https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBMsource MS-DOS Source code https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBM86v1e Atari 8-Bit Manuals https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustries8KOmnimonManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesRAMRODXL2Manual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustries256KXL256KUpgradeManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustries256KXLE256KUpgradeManualImages https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSCXMSectorCopierManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOmnimonManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOmnimonOmniviewManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBMManual https://archive.org/details/MYDOS4.3AUserGuide https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesMEG130RAMCardRevBplusManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustries1MEGXLManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesRAMRODMMOSManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesRAMRODXLManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBM130Manual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesMEGXLRAMCardManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesMEGSTRAMCardManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesOmniviewManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesMEG130RAMCardManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesMEG65RAMCardManual Atari ST Manuals https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBMSTManual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesTHETABTOSAdapterBoardManual MS-DOS Application with Manual https://archive.org/details/NewellIndustriesSBM86 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Nice work! Wes Newell and David Young were certainly big names in the local Atari community in Dallas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Thanks for the efforts! BTW, for https://archive.org/stream/NewellIndustriesSBMsource/Newell%20Industries%20SBMST_1985-06-01#page/n1/mode/2upit seems to me that it is Atari 800 code (Atari BASIC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) Thanks for your efforts. A really nice find! Thanks for the efforts! BTW, for https://archive.org/stream/NewellIndustriesSBMsource/Newell%20Industries%20SBMST_1985-06-01#page/n1/mode/2upit seems to me that it is Atari 800 code (Atari BASIC). I think it's ST BASIC. It has POSITION in the code while Atari BASIC uses LOCATE (iirc) Edited June 24, 2016 by Christos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lp060 Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Thanks for the efforts! BTW, for https://archive.org/stream/NewellIndustriesSBMsource/Newell%20Industries%20SBMST_1985-06-01#page/n1/mode/2upit seems to me that it is Atari 800 code (Atari BASIC). I came to the same conclusion after looking it over. The addresses in the pokes look to be Atari 8-bit specific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Thanks for the efforts! BTW, for https://archive.org/stream/NewellIndustriesSBMsource/Newell%20Industries%20SBMST_1985-06-01#page/n1/mode/2upit seems to me that it is Atari 800 code (Atari BASIC). Yep! Its A8 BASIC. Pokes to address 657 (in lines 1200 to 1500) are used to change the cursor position to display centred text. Pokes on line 1100 to addresses 710 and 712 are used to change colours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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