DEBRO Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Does anyone know of a way to print an AtariBASIC listing using an emulator such as Atari800WinPLus? It won't print ATASCII that I know of. I'd like to print those strange Atari character strings we used to quickly load a ML routine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 Best way would probably be to convert the page to a raster image, if possible. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted July 22, 2004 Author Share Posted July 22, 2004 I found a sort of solution. I have the Atari A8 fonts on my PC from http://www2.bitstream.net/~marksim/atarimac/fonts.html. When I print I have it send the listing to Notepad. Once it's there I change the font to the Atari A8 font. This doesn't work 100% as some characters are not printable through Windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 is there another solution for this issue? --devwebcl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Van Thorp Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 How hard would it be to add code the the emulator to print the aformentioned Atari font to the printer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I wrote a little script that will display an Atari 8-bit BASIC program. It lives here: http://www.langesite.com/php/atarilist.html You can upload a "LIST"ed Atari BASIC program and it will list the program including special characters. To get a "LIST" program, you could do the following in a emulator: LOAD "D:FILENAME.BAS" then when you get the ready prompt: LIST "H:FILENAME.LST" Upload the FILENAME.LST file and it should render. I'm still missing a few characters, but you'll get the idea. Let me know how it works. I attached the SCRAM listing for testing. Thanks Bill scram.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted February 2, 2005 Author Share Posted February 2, 2005 I'm still missing a few characters, but you'll get the idea. Let me know how it works. It works nicely. I tried to upload a long program I did years ago and got a time out I was able to render Nuclear Reactor though Could you have it render the program as a picture (.png, .jpg, .bmp, etc) that way we could save the picture to disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Try your long program again and let me know what happens. I was working on it and maybe stepped on you. Or I might have some value set that limits the upload size. It actually renders as about a few hundred picutres. I wrote a program in Visual Basic that lets me browse through an Atari ROM looking for the character sets. Once I get the sets the VB app writes out a php script that renders the individual graphics. The html and php script just maps the atari listing to the correct (hopefully) images. I can probably have the php script concat all the 8 by 8 images into a large image file. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted February 2, 2005 Author Share Posted February 2, 2005 Try your long program again and let me know what happens. I got... Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:datahtdocsLANGESITEPhpAtariList.php on line 70 when trying it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Can you send me the file so that I can test it locally? Thanks Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I want to do the same but converting to a word/rtf file. I found some fonts, but they are incomplete, do you know where I can download a full set of attascii fonts forn windows? devwebcl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I want to do the same but converting to a word/rtf file.I found some fonts, but they are incomplete, do you know where I can download a full set of attascii fonts forn windows? devwebcl I haven't seen a complete Atari font, just the letters and numbers. I have included all of the little pictures that I created to make my script work in another topic. You can use those to create your own font or atleast extend the currently available fonts. Shouldn't take to long since half the font is already available. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Could you have it render the program as a picture (.png, .jpg, .bmp, etc) that way we could save the picture to disk? Debro - I did a litte work on this tonight while watching the grammies. It is almost there. I just have to make a change to scan through the file first to figure out how long the list image needs to be before creating it. See attached Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 Hey Bill, Anymore progress on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Well, I've been really busy since Feb. :-) We built a new house and finally moved in March. New job in May. And now we are getting married on July 30th. Busy busy. I've been working on doing some background work to move my website from static pages to a more php/mysql driven site for easier updates. I think I broke something with this tool while I was playing around with stuff. It's probably just directory setting in the apache or php ini file. I need to fix that little issue. Then I would like to use php to produce a pdf file with the listing. Once I have that working, I'll modify the program to handle 'save "d:filename.bas" ' files as well as 'list "d:filename.lst" ' programs. Basically it will de-tokenise saved programs before trying to render. Give me a day or two to get the original tool working again. What other features where you looking for? By the way, my apache webserver runs on a XP box in my house connected to the internet via comcast cable modem. Every once in a while the "dynamic" ip address will change and the webserver will seem to be down until I relink my domain name to the new dynamic ip. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 What other features where you looking for? Just having it generate the output as some picture format (i.e. JPG, GIF, BMP, etc) would be great. That way we could print them out or post them if we wanted. Congratulations on the house, new job, and the new life you'll have with your new wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I think when I last worked on it, it would output a .png to the correct size for the file with a blue boarder all around it. Since its php, it should be fairly easy to add code to allow the user to select the output format. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 (edited) I think when I last worked on it, it would output a .png to the correct size for the file with a blue boarder all around it. Since its php, it should be fairly easy to add code to allow the user to select the output format. Bill 895065[/snapback] PNG is fine as long as I can right click and save picture as I haven't tried it in while. I'll see if I can get a moment to try it out again. Thanks. Well...I got Warning: fopen(C:\www\langesite\AtariLister/bustout.lst) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\www\Langesite\Php\AtariList.php on line 51 I'll wait until you have a free moment to look at it. Edited July 20, 2005 by DEBRO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Dennis I finally got a chance to work on this. Here is the link: http://www.langesite.com/atarilister/ You can either upload a new file or choose one from the list. The program will then spit out an html listing character by character. When that is done, it will render the listing as a png image in memory and save it to the file system. Once the png image is saved, a link to it is created and displayed. Rendering the html is fairly quick (a few seconds) locally, but will probably take a little longer remotely. Rendering the png image takes about 15 - 20 seconds locally, but should not take any longer remotely. I still have a little work to do, but it is working. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 Hi Bill, You can either upload a new file or choose one from the list. The program will then spit out an html listing character by character. When that is done, it will render the listing as a png image in memory and save it to the file system. Once the png image is saved, a link to it is created and displayed. Thanks a lot. Now we can get printouts of our AtariBASIC games like the old days. BTW, I tried to upload a file and got... Notice: Undefined index: fileselect in C:\www\Langesite\AtariLister\AtariList.php on line 15version: 0.4 line: 38 color: BW I was trying to upload a new Bust Out I found on one of my disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Debro Try it now. http://www.langesite.com/atarilister/ Uploads seem to work. I also fixed the png length so that it is the correct size. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Nice tool, but I have problems with parsing BAS files. The output I get is messed up. Is this parser only for listed BASIC programs or also the tokenized ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 Nice tool, but I have problems with parsing BAS files. The output I get is messed up. Is this parser only for listed BASIC programs or also the tokenized ones? 913678[/snapback] It's only for listed BASIC games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Can someone point me to some info on the process of how to de-tokenize a .bas program. I'll give it a shot. WRL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Here you go: http://www.atariarchives.org/c1ba/page036.php http://www.atariarchives.org/c1ba/page026.php There are many more good programming sources there: http://www.atariarchives.org/ Try also http://www.atarimagazines.com/index/?mag=antic Whole listing of Antic magazine articles, you can find there many topics covering several programming technics and structures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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