zzip Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 What's a good Atari-native tool for creating ATASCII animations? I searched over the weekend and couldn't find anything. I recall using some back in the day, so they must exist. I know I can read from K: and write to a file, but I'm hoping with something with a little more editing capabilities than than 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctorx Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 The one i used as well as a lot of people in the southern usa (and likely everywhere) was called Atascii Animator.. i have yet to find a copy current day though… 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 That's the one... I couldn't remember the name! Now let's see who digs it up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Mat*Rat was big into ATASCII animations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mr. Video Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 There's also Atari 'Toons. Although, ATASCII Animator is probably more advanced considering Atari 'Toons is a BASIC type-in program. https://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n4/toons.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 I was playing around with Atari 'Toons and was unable to download ATARTOON.SYS. Maybe I'll type it in from the listings, but that might trigger bad memories lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TZJB Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, Doctorx said: The one i used as well as a lot of people in the southern usa (and likely everywhere) was called Atascii Animator.. i have yet to find a copy current day though… I found what may be Animator here https://files.dog/OD Rips/Atari/collections/Closer To Home Archive/Video/ATASCII/. ANIMATOR.ARC 42 minutes ago, invisible kid said: I was playing around with Atari 'Toons and was unable to download ATARTOON.SYS. Maybe I'll type it in from the listings, but that might trigger bad memories lol I managed to download them with Save Link As: ATARTOON.BASATARTOON.SYS Incidentally, what programs do people use for ARC files on the PC? Peazip thinks the files are password protected! Edited April 11, 2023 by TZJB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Thanks! I think some ARC files need to be extracted by unarc on the 8 bit platform. I think I used to use SuperUnarc. If you don't want to give it a go I can give it a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) I got the files from Antic magazine and threw them on an atr. It gets further with ATARTOON.SYS, but now crashes on atari800 using NTSC 48k 800 and 320k 800xl. Here it is in case someone can get it working: Load with basic, then RUN"D:ATARTOONS.BAS ETA: Removed empty CHAR.SET file, but still crashes ETA2: Updated working version in new post Edited April 11, 2023 by invisible kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 right click save as for .sys files, browsers anitvirus etc don't like left click on sys files. .sys file is created by the listing in the magazine, it might need to be named as the magazine states Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 The ATARTOON.SYS file on the disk looks like HTML, it should be 6502 machine code This is a dump:- 4000 3C 21 44 4F 43 54 59 50 <!DOCTYP 4008 45 20 48 54 4D 4C 20 50 E HTML P 4010 55 42 4C 49 43 20 22 2D UBLIC "- 4018 2F 2F 57 33 43 2F 2F 44 //W3C//D 4020 54 44 20 48 54 4D 4C 20 TD HTML 4028 34 2E 30 31 20 54 72 61 4.01 Tra 4030 6E 73 69 74 69 6F 6E 61 nsitiona 4038 6C 2F 2F 45 4E 22 3E 0A l//EN"> 4040 3C 68 74 6D 6C 3E 0A 3C <html> < 4048 68 65 61 64 3E 0A 3C 74 head> <t 4050 69 74 6C 65 3E 77 77 77 itle>www 4058 2E 61 74 61 72 69 6D 61 .atarima 4060 67 61 7A 69 6E 65 73 2E gazines. 4068 63 6F 6D 3A 20 45 72 72 com: Err 4070 6F 72 20 34 30 33 3A 20 or 403: 4078 41 63 63 65 73 73 20 46 Access F 4080 6F 72 62 69 64 64 65 6E orbidden 4088 3C 2F 74 69 74 6C 65 3E </title> 4090 0A 3C 6D 65 74 61 20 68 <meta h 4098 74 74 70 2D 65 71 75 69 ttp-equi 40A0 76 3D 22 43 6F 6E 74 65 v="Conte 40A8 6E 74 2D 54 79 70 65 22 nt-Type" 40B0 20 63 6F 6E 74 65 6E 74 content 40B8 3D 22 74 65 78 74 2F 68 ="text/h 40C0 74 6D 6C 3B 20 63 68 61 tml; cha 40C8 72 73 65 74 3D 69 73 6F rset=iso 40D0 2D 38 38 35 39 2D 31 22 -8859-1" 40D8 3E 0A 3C 6C 69 6E 6B 20 > <link 40E0 68 72 65 66 3D 22 68 74 href="ht 40E8 74 70 3A 2F 2F 77 77 77 tp://www 40F0 2E 61 75 73 74 69 6E 73 .austins 40F8 79 73 74 65 6D 73 2E 63 ystems.c 4100 6F 6D 2F 6D 61 69 6E 73 om/mains 4108 74 79 6C 65 2E 63 73 73 tyle.css 4110 22 20 72 65 6C 3D 22 73 " rel="s 4118 74 79 6C 65 73 68 65 65 tyleshee 4120 74 22 20 74 79 70 65 3D t" type= 4128 22 74 65 78 74 2F 63 73 "text/cs 4130 73 22 3E 0A 3C 2F 68 65 s"> </he 4138 61 64 3E 0A 3C 62 6F 64 ad> <bod 4140 79 3E 0A 3C 74 61 62 6C y> <tabl 4148 65 20 77 69 64 74 68 3D e width= 4150 22 35 30 30 22 20 68 65 "500" he 4158 69 67 68 74 3D 22 31 30 ight="10 4160 30 25 22 20 62 6F 72 64 0%" bord 4168 65 72 3D 22 30 22 20 63 er="0" c 4170 65 6C 6C 73 70 61 63 69 ellspaci 4178 6E 67 3D 22 30 22 20 63 ng="0" c 4180 65 6C 6C 70 61 64 64 69 ellpaddi 4188 6E 67 3D 22 30 22 20 61 ng="0" a 4190 6C 69 67 6E 3D 22 63 65 lign="ce 4198 6E 74 65 72 22 3E 0A 20 nter"> 41A0 20 3C 74 72 3E 0A 20 20 <tr> 41A8 20 20 3C 74 64 20 61 6C <td al 41B0 69 67 6E 3D 22 63 65 6E ign="cen 41B8 74 65 72 22 3E 0A 09 09 ter"> 41C0 3C 73 70 61 6E 20 63 6C <span cl 41C8 61 73 73 3D 22 70 61 67 ass="pag 41D0 65 74 69 74 6C 65 22 3E etitle"> 41D8 77 77 77 2E 61 74 61 72 www.atar 41E0 69 6D 61 67 61 7A 69 6E imagazin 41E8 65 73 2E 63 6F 6D 20 45 es.com E 41F0 72 72 6F 72 20 34 30 33 rror 403 41F8 3A 20 41 63 63 65 73 73 : Access 4200 20 46 6F 72 62 69 64 64 Forbidd 4208 65 6E 3C 2F 73 70 61 6E en</span 4210 3E 0A 09 09 3C 62 72 3E > <br> 4218 0A 09 09 3C 62 72 3E 0A <br> 4220 09 09 59 6F 75 20 64 6F You do 4228 20 6E 6F 74 20 68 61 76 not hav 4230 65 20 70 65 72 6D 69 73 e permis 4238 73 69 6F 6E 20 74 6F 20 sion to 4240 61 63 63 65 73 73 20 74 access t 4248 68 69 73 20 70 61 67 65 his page 4250 2E 20 49 66 20 79 6F 75 . If you 4258 20 66 65 65 6C 20 79 6F feel yo 4260 75 20 68 61 76 65 20 72 u have r 4268 65 63 65 69 76 65 64 20 eceived 4270 74 68 69 73 20 0A 6D 65 this me 4278 73 73 61 67 65 20 69 6E ssage in 4280 20 65 72 72 6F 72 2C 20 error, 4288 70 6C 65 61 73 65 20 3C please < 4290 61 20 68 72 65 66 3D 22 a href=" 4298 68 74 74 70 3A 2F 2F 77 http://w 42A0 77 77 2E 61 74 61 72 69 ww.atari 42A8 6D 61 67 61 7A 69 6E 65 magazine 42B0 73 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 63 6F s.com/co 42B8 6E 74 61 63 74 2F 22 3E ntact/"> 42C0 63 6F 6E 74 61 63 74 20 contact 42C8 74 68 65 20 77 65 62 6D the webm 42D0 61 73 74 65 72 3C 2F 61 aster</a 42D8 3E 2E 0A 09 09 3C 2F 74 >. </t 42E0 64 3E 0A 20 20 3C 2F 74 d> </t 42E8 72 3E 0A 3C 2F 74 61 62 r> </tab 42F0 6C 65 3E 0A 3C 2F 62 6F le> </bo 42F8 64 79 3E 0A 3C 2F 68 74 dy> </ht 4300 6D 6C 3E 0A 00 00 00 00 ml> 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) Yeah, can't get an authentic copy. LOL, awesome find TGB1718, that's hilarious. Contemplating typing it in... Edited April 11, 2023 by invisible kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TZJB Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, TGB1718 said: The ATARTOON.SYS file on the disk looks like HTML, it should be 6502 machine code This is a dump:- 4000 3C 21 44 4F 43 54 59 50 <!DOCTYP 4008 45 20 48 54 4D 4C 20 50 E HTML P 4010 55 42 4C 49 43 20 22 2D UBLIC "- 4018 2F 2F 57 33 43 2F 2F 44 //W3C//D 4020 54 44 20 48 54 4D 4C 20 TD HTML 4028 34 2E 30 31 20 54 72 61 4.01 Tra 4030 6E 73 69 74 69 6F 6E 61 nsitiona 4038 6C 2F 2F 45 4E 22 3E 0A l//EN"> 4040 3C 68 74 6D 6C 3E 0A 3C <html> < 4048 68 65 61 64 3E 0A 3C 74 head> <t 4050 69 74 6C 65 3E 77 77 77 itle>www 4058 2E 61 74 61 72 69 6D 61 .atarima 4060 67 61 7A 69 6E 65 73 2E gazines. 4068 63 6F 6D 3A 20 45 72 72 com: Err 4070 6F 72 20 34 30 33 3A 20 or 403: 4078 41 63 63 65 73 73 20 46 Access F 4080 6F 72 62 69 64 64 65 6E orbidden 4088 3C 2F 74 69 74 6C 65 3E </title> 4090 0A 3C 6D 65 74 61 20 68 <meta h 4098 74 74 70 2D 65 71 75 69 ttp-equi 40A0 76 3D 22 43 6F 6E 74 65 v="Conte 40A8 6E 74 2D 54 79 70 65 22 nt-Type" 40B0 20 63 6F 6E 74 65 6E 74 content 40B8 3D 22 74 65 78 74 2F 68 ="text/h 40C0 74 6D 6C 3B 20 63 68 61 tml; cha 40C8 72 73 65 74 3D 69 73 6F rset=iso 40D0 2D 38 38 35 39 2D 31 22 -8859-1" 40D8 3E 0A 3C 6C 69 6E 6B 20 > <link 40E0 68 72 65 66 3D 22 68 74 href="ht 40E8 74 70 3A 2F 2F 77 77 77 tp://www 40F0 2E 61 75 73 74 69 6E 73 .austins 40F8 79 73 74 65 6D 73 2E 63 ystems.c 4100 6F 6D 2F 6D 61 69 6E 73 om/mains 4108 74 79 6C 65 2E 63 73 73 tyle.css 4110 22 20 72 65 6C 3D 22 73 " rel="s 4118 74 79 6C 65 73 68 65 65 tyleshee 4120 74 22 20 74 79 70 65 3D t" type= 4128 22 74 65 78 74 2F 63 73 "text/cs 4130 73 22 3E 0A 3C 2F 68 65 s"> </he 4138 61 64 3E 0A 3C 62 6F 64 ad> <bod 4140 79 3E 0A 3C 74 61 62 6C y> <tabl 4148 65 20 77 69 64 74 68 3D e width= 4150 22 35 30 30 22 20 68 65 "500" he 4158 69 67 68 74 3D 22 31 30 ight="10 4160 30 25 22 20 62 6F 72 64 0%" bord 4168 65 72 3D 22 30 22 20 63 er="0" c 4170 65 6C 6C 73 70 61 63 69 ellspaci 4178 6E 67 3D 22 30 22 20 63 ng="0" c 4180 65 6C 6C 70 61 64 64 69 ellpaddi 4188 6E 67 3D 22 30 22 20 61 ng="0" a 4190 6C 69 67 6E 3D 22 63 65 lign="ce 4198 6E 74 65 72 22 3E 0A 20 nter"> 41A0 20 3C 74 72 3E 0A 20 20 <tr> 41A8 20 20 3C 74 64 20 61 6C <td al 41B0 69 67 6E 3D 22 63 65 6E ign="cen 41B8 74 65 72 22 3E 0A 09 09 ter"> 41C0 3C 73 70 61 6E 20 63 6C <span cl 41C8 61 73 73 3D 22 70 61 67 ass="pag 41D0 65 74 69 74 6C 65 22 3E etitle"> 41D8 77 77 77 2E 61 74 61 72 www.atar 41E0 69 6D 61 67 61 7A 69 6E imagazin 41E8 65 73 2E 63 6F 6D 20 45 es.com E 41F0 72 72 6F 72 20 34 30 33 rror 403 41F8 3A 20 41 63 63 65 73 73 : Access 4200 20 46 6F 72 62 69 64 64 Forbidd 4208 65 6E 3C 2F 73 70 61 6E en</span 4210 3E 0A 09 09 3C 62 72 3E > <br> 4218 0A 09 09 3C 62 72 3E 0A <br> 4220 09 09 59 6F 75 20 64 6F You do 4228 20 6E 6F 74 20 68 61 76 not hav 4230 65 20 70 65 72 6D 69 73 e permis 4238 73 69 6F 6E 20 74 6F 20 sion to 4240 61 63 63 65 73 73 20 74 access t 4248 68 69 73 20 70 61 67 65 his page 4250 2E 20 49 66 20 79 6F 75 . If you 4258 20 66 65 65 6C 20 79 6F feel yo 4260 75 20 68 61 76 65 20 72 u have r 4268 65 63 65 69 76 65 64 20 eceived 4270 74 68 69 73 20 0A 6D 65 this me 4278 73 73 61 67 65 20 69 6E ssage in 4280 20 65 72 72 6F 72 2C 20 error, 4288 70 6C 65 61 73 65 20 3C please < 4290 61 20 68 72 65 66 3D 22 a href=" 4298 68 74 74 70 3A 2F 2F 77 http://w 42A0 77 77 2E 61 74 61 72 69 ww.atari 42A8 6D 61 67 61 7A 69 6E 65 magazine 42B0 73 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 63 6F s.com/co 42B8 6E 74 61 63 74 2F 22 3E ntact/"> 42C0 63 6F 6E 74 61 63 74 20 contact 42C8 74 68 65 20 77 65 62 6D the webm 42D0 61 73 74 65 72 3C 2F 61 aster</a 42D8 3E 2E 0A 09 09 3C 2F 74 >. </t 42E0 64 3E 0A 20 20 3C 2F 74 d> </t 42E8 72 3E 0A 3C 2F 74 61 62 r> </tab 42F0 6C 65 3E 0A 3C 2F 62 6F le> </bo 42F8 64 79 3E 0A 3C 2F 68 74 dy> </ht 4300 6D 6C 3E 0A 00 00 00 00 ml> That didn't work then. However I found it on Pigwa. ATARTOON.SYS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Alright! Working with ATARTOON.SYS from Pigwa. Thanks! atari_toons.atr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) https://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n10/toonswin.html you will find some more 'toons/movies in the contest winners link above as well there as well, and it includes the other files. Robot.SHO is somewhere as well, and it's not the Martin BBS game screen. Some files were corrupt, removed atr, will upload fresh atr later Edited April 12, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 There's also... See the last post for the rewritten version. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 I used LeBreak BITD... I have a copy here if someone wants it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 If it ain't too much of a hassle, I'd like to check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 LeBreak_2.0a_1989_United_Federation_of_Pirates_k_file.atr Lebreak_III_1984_Ace_Software.atr how many LeBreaks? How Many different Authors, will the real LeBreak please stand up? the best one stand up? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 On 4/10/2023 at 9:50 PM, zzip said: What's a good Atari-native tool for creating ATASCII animations? I searched over the weekend and couldn't find anything. I recall using some back in the day, so they must exist. I know I can read from K: and write to a file, but I'm hoping with something with a little more editing capabilities than than How many do you want ? ASC_Anim.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said: LeBreak_2.0a_1989_United_Federation_of_Pirates_k_file.atr 19.14 kB · 3 downloads Lebreak_III_1984_Ace_Software.atr 64.02 kB · 3 downloads how many LeBreaks? How Many different Authors, will the real LeBreak please stand up? the best one stand up? I have more of them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted April 12, 2023 Author Share Posted April 12, 2023 2 minutes ago, CharlieChaplin said: How many do you want ? ASC_Anim.zip 334.65 kB · 0 downloads Haha, just one good one! I'll take a look at several and see which one suits my needs best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 6 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said: how many LeBreaks? How Many different Authors, will the real LeBreak please stand up? the best one stand up? I know the one I have here now is newer than the one I used back in the mid 80's. (I suspect the older one is located on my floppies somewhere.) I'll look around... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddyFree Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 On 4/10/2023 at 2:50 PM, zzip said: What's a good Atari-native tool for creating ATASCII animations? I searched over the weekend and couldn't find anything. I recall using some back in the day, so they must exist. I know I can read from K: and write to a file, but I'm hoping with something with a little more editing capabilities than than A couple that nobody has mentioned that I used to use back in the day were Cartoon Machine and ATASCII Master: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddyFree Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 12:17 PM, TZJB said: Incidentally, what programs do people use for ARC files on the PC? Peazip thinks the files are password protected! I use the old PKPAK and PKUNPAK. I run them using DOSBox on my PC with my PC's Ramdisk mounted as DOSBox's "Drive C:". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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