chad5200 Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 What text editor program did we use back in the day to create and modify text files? Especially ones used for modifying BBS text files like our old WELCOME and BULLETIN text files. I am not talking about the ATASCII animation creator programs. I am referring to an editor for straight ASCII/ATASCII text documents. Bonus points if you can supply the program (ATR, COM, BAS, etc) file or link to download the program. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 I used and still use the Atari Program text editor http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-atari-program-text-editor_18535.html Program-Text Editor.atr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad5200 Posted January 29, 2023 Author Share Posted January 29, 2023 8 hours ago, videofx said: I used and still use the Atari Program text editor http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-atari-program-text-editor_18535.html Program-Text Editor.atr 90.02 kB · 7 downloads I like it's simplicity. It's quite archaic in it's structure (typing QUIT to save the file) and I wish it could handle SpartaDOS subdirectory files. But I will continue to try it out. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I used the Action Editor for most stuff... sometimes TextPro. LeBreak for animation stuff. Now days I use FJC's little editor (RIF or I forget what it is called) Jon? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 11 minutes ago, bf2k+ said: Now days I use FJC's little editor (RIF or I forget what it is called) Jon? XEdit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidD Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I used Atariwriter (cartridge) when compiling video game cheat code text files... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrshoujo Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 (edited) TextPro 4.0 or something like that. I even used it to edit binary files and the occasional GIF ('jiff') picture file, like extracting individual animation frames. Speedscript 3.0 was also useful. Edited January 29, 2023 by Mrshoujo Misding 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad5200 Posted January 29, 2023 Author Share Posted January 29, 2023 14 hours ago, MrFish said: XEdit I found XEDIT v4.2 and I like it a lot. However, I see no ability for entering ATASCII graphics into the document as most of the Control characters are tied to functions. Is there a way to toggle ability to enter the special ATASCII characters that I am missing? Dang, I even see that CTRL-A is unused. Would be a perfect key to toggle that function. @flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 (edited) I honestly can't remember. I think CTRL+ESC or SHIFT+CTRL+ESC is used to allow the entry of a single control character, but since I don't even have the source code lying around (it's on an ATR somewhere), I can't say for sure if there's a modal switch. TLW does have a persistent escape mode, however, and it's probably a better text editor than XEDIT (certainly in terms of performance). Edited January 29, 2023 by flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I used Text Wizard to write magazine articles. MACE Journal and BYTE gladly accepted the format but ANALOG did not and so retyped it full of errors. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Well I laugh and cry at that statement, because they did that quite a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 On 1/28/2023 at 10:10 AM, videofx said: I used and still use the Atari Program text editor Ditto, and it does a good job. Another favourite was to whip up a quick BASIC program to OPEN I/O to a file, PRINT text entered at a prompt out to it, and loop until break. It's the bearskins and stone knives approach, but if I didn't want to reboot for <insert reason here>, it worked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 I'd used the full-screen text editor that came with the Atari Macro Assembler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SoulBuster Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Use SDX and type ED.COM the feature I love the best is no word wrapping. The screen just slides. Great for programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 T:EDIT. From Analog, I think. I still keep it on my hard drive and use it occasionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Hello guys 25 minutes ago, Larry said: T:EDIT, from Analog, ... Me too. Lee Barnes even edited the code for me so it became possible to use D1: through D9: Both versions can be found here on my special stuff page. Sincerely Mathy 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 On 1/29/2023 at 12:49 PM, _The Doctor__ said: Well I laugh and cry at that statement, because they did that quite a bit. They certainly did... the one article they printed of mine was totally rewritten... looked nothing like the original. But I still got paid... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 The E: device, of course I think I used the Action! Editor and MAE must have had an editor as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Panther. Also very usefull to create ASCII/ATASCII BBS screens. https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Panther Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 except that's just the description and links to atarimania, whom does not provide the software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ppyo Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 I typed Speedscript from Compute! magazine. It tooke several days to enter all those numbers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 48 minutes ago, Ppyo said: I typed Speedscript from Compute! magazine. It tooke several days to enter all those numbers! I really wish I knew BITD what "those numbers" represented. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 On 2/13/2023 at 8:35 PM, _The Doctor__ said: except that's just the description and links to atarimania, whom does not provide the software. True, but the wiki tells you that is was part of "Quick Assember", which brings you to (too just name one) https://archive.org/details/a8b_Quick_Assembler_v1.0_19xx_JBW_pl_a if you use a search engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 38 column text display, not quite what is needed for a WYSIWYG Atascii BBS/Movie/Cartoon/Full screen picture display. Nice editor otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 On 2/13/2023 at 9:52 PM, Ppyo said: I typed Speedscript from Compute! magazine. It tooke several days to enter all those numbers! But that was the fun of it. How many Compute, Antic and Analog programs did I type in? A lot!. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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