Super Multi File copy

[Ray Gillman]

I usually use Sparta dos tools MENU program to do file copies - this allows you to scan a disk for files, tag some files and copy them to a different disk.  Ideally it is usually a larger disk image ATR (16K?) so I can have them all in one place.  Sadly Sparta doesn't work with all disk formats and I find I would want a better tool which does not require Sparta but can conveniently run under MyDos with Turbobasic.  I remember having a program written in BASIC as I vaguely recall it and now I can't find it anywhere.  I find what appears to be stubs of it out there like here https://gury.atari8.info/detail.php?id=7648&src=1&c=ch=s links here are shut down or banned as "suspect"

Anyone else have a similar recollection or better yet a link?  Thank you in advance!

Edited December 8, 2022 by Ray Gillman

[_The Doctor__]

http://www.arsoft.netstrefa.pl/programy.htm

number 31 in the list, it will download without all the silly warnings.

[Mrshoujo]

4 hours ago, Ray Gillman said:

links here are shut down or banned as "suspect"

I have no problem downloading from the link on that page. Using Chrome on Android, I just tell it to Keep it after the false advisory pops up. The owner of the page / server really needs to update their security certificate. Otherwise, it's perfectly fine to override your browser's alert and tell it to shut up.

[Ray Gillman]

On 12/8/2022 at 6:04 PM, Mrshoujo said:

I have no problem downloading from the link on that page. Using Chrome on Android, I just tell it to Keep it after the false advisory pops up. The owner of the page / server really needs to update their security certificate. Otherwise, it's perfectly fine to override your browser's alert and tell it to shut up.

I had to turn off Avast AV filters they really don't like that site

[Ray Gillman]

So one basic utility I found which gets me maybe halfway there is this BASMNU.BAS think it is from an Antic disk?  Using Altirra alt-D then > in to explore the disk and right click to export listing LST text as text works great to edit on Notepad++ on PC very nice.  I struggle a little with the special control characters and inverse - I think ~ is the key to turn on inverse?  What I still need is to L. List a basic program I can't pause the listing.  When I hit the Pause/Break key it breaks the listing - anyone know how to pause and resume a listing?  Think it used to be Ctrl-S but that's working.

 

Here is the Basic exported as binary - I would go through and neuter some of that XIO 254 code down near 1850 first thing to make sure it's not ever going to format your ATR disk file - it just says Here Goes and I search for that and the thing looks like it's going to that code somehow - weird code hah! 

 

 

BASMNU.BAS

[Ray Gillman]

Is there a version of Textpro that can read SpartaDos disks with the Ctrl-M disk menu?

[Ray Gillman]

27 minutes ago, Ray Gillman said:

Is there a version of Textpro that can read SpartaDos disks with the Ctrl-M disk menu?

T-Edit from Analog seems to work well under Sparta
https://ksquiggle.neocities.org/asmutil/tedit.htm

[+CharlieChaplin]

2 hours ago, Ray Gillman said:

So one basic utility I found which gets me maybe halfway there is this BASMNU.BAS think it is from an Antic disk?  Using Altirra alt-D then > in to explore the disk and right click to export listing LST text as text works great to edit on Notepad++ on PC very nice.  I struggle a little with the special control characters and inverse - I think ~ is the key to turn on inverse?  What I still need is to L. List a basic program I can't pause the listing.  When I hit the Pause/Break key it breaks the listing - anyone know how to pause and resume a listing?  Think it used to be Ctrl-S but that's working.

 

Here is the Basic exported as binary - I would go through and neuter some of that XIO 254 code down near 1850 first thing to make sure it's not ever going to format your ATR disk file - it just says Here Goes and I search for that and the thing looks like it's going to that code somehow - weird code hah! 

 

 

BASMNU.BAS 9.43 kB · 0 downloads

 

Try a) Control-1 to pause a listing in Atari Basic and TB XL or b) the Start key in TB XL to slow down the listing. For Multi-File-Copy I usually use filecopy programs in ML so I gain highest speed and max. amount of RAM, with Basic you are most of the time limited to 32kbytes or less. One filecopy program which I seem to remember is "Polycopy.BAS", have to take a look if I find others.

[Ray Gillman]

Ctrl-1 worked Thank You!

I know I ask a lot of questions.  Got one more.  Anyone know a font which allows viewing of ATARI atascii characters in windows?

 

My search had me stumble upon this repository.  It may come in handy if you are trying to rebuild an 8bit library

http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/holmes cd/index.html

Edited December 15, 2022 by Ray Gillman

[_The Doctor__]

um classic atari ttf for mac and windows...https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari True Type Font for PC and Mac

but duck duck search goo etc...

https://blogfonts.com/atari-classic-chunky.font

https://www.wfonts.com/font/atari-font-full-version

https://www.cufonfonts.com/font/atari-classic-int

https://www.fontspace.com/category/atari

https://www.fontspace.com/atari-classic-font-f30342

all kinds of variety, I didn't bother to check for duplicates or if vector is in the spread though

Edited December 15, 2022 by _The Doctor__

[Ray Gillman]

OK last one.  Really.  How do you turn on INSERT mode when typing in Altirra?  Nothing seems to work it just keeps doing overstrike 

[Ray Gillman]

On 12/8/2022 at 1:52 PM, _The Doctor__ said:

http://www.arsoft.netstrefa.pl/programy.htm

number 31 in the list, it will download without all the silly warnings.

I have to turn off Avast browser protection to use that web address something about the PL domain I think it is just a banned address blacklisted by Avast antivirus.  I've bypassed the protection and downloaded it fine