Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!WALKER-EMH.ARPA!InfoMail-Mailer From: InfoMail-Mailer@WALKER-EMH.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Undeliverable Mail Message-ID: <8708131248.AA12057@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 08:38:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8708131248.AA12057 Posted: Thu Aug 13 08:38:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 08:39:45 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 176 Mail was not delivered to the following users because there were bad address(es) in TO and/or CC field(s): info-atari UNDELIVERED-MESSAGE: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from BBN.COM by WALKER-EMH.ARPA ; 13 Aug 87 12:30:31 GMT Received-2: from score.stanford.edu by BBN.COM id aa13235; 13 Aug 87 8:23 EDT Date: Thu 13 Aug 87 04:13:01 PDT Subject: Info-Atari8 Digest V87 #69 From: Info-Atari8 @ SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Errors-to: Info-Atari8-request@Score.Stanford.EDU Maint-Path: Info-Atari8-request@Score.Stanford.EDU To: Info-Atari8 Distribution List: Reply-to: Info-Atari8@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Text: Info-Atari8 Digest Thursday, August 13, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 69 This weeks Editor: Bill Westfield Today's Topics: WISCVM.WISC.EDU Where is/was Kermit-65? FROST BASIC (Turbo BASIC for the 800). Re: Atari 2600 specs/instruction set/programming Re: More than 16K on a 600XL? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1987 11:36 EST From: Holly Lee Stowe Subject: WISCVM.WISC.EDU To: , Recently notification has been made over Bitnet that the gateway between Bitnet and Arpanet at WISCVM.WISC.EDU will be closed as of December 1, 1987. I have no other information at this time as to an alternate gateway. -Holly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This page left intentionally blank. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Aug 87 14:55 PDT From: Jeff Makey To: INFO-ATARI8@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Subject: Where is/was Kermit-65? I give up. Where was Kermit-65 posted? I am not missing any recent Info-Atari8 digests. Where can I get it from? (DON'T just send it to me! My mailbox is full enough as it is.) :: Jeff Makey Makey@LOGICON.ARPA ------------------------------ To: info-atari8@score.stanford.edu Subject: FROST BASIC (Turbo BASIC for the 800). Date: Wed, 12 Aug 87 22:51:03 EDT From: jhs@mitre-bedford.ARPA At last, I have FROST BASIC online, in uuencoded, SHRUNK form. Because of the large number of requests, I will post it. The file is about 100K bytes long, so I have broken it into four parts. They will appear, hopefully, as the next four messages from me to the net. Part 1 includes instructions for assembling the four parts. Basically (so to speak) you have put the parts back together, uudecode, and unSHRINK. However, the full uuencoded file is over 100K bytes, which WILL NOT FIT on a Single Density disk. So you will have to use enhanced density or double density, or else you will have to uudecode the four parts separately and only then reassemble them. That can be done with DOS using the /A "Append" switch as you copy Parts 2, 3, and 4 in succession onto the tail end of the file you are assembling. Part 1 contains slightly more explicit instructions. By the way, if you use the second method, it might be a good idea to copy the assembled file to another file to get the "bubbles" out. I.e. when you copy with append, there typically are less than full sectors at the junctions (except with the smarter DOSes), and when you copy the file this gets corrected. Owners of the XL or XE machines may want to capture this program (a) for friends with an 800, or (b) in case YOU later get an 800, or (c) in case you want to run Turbo BASIC with a DOS like SpartaDOS or DOS-XL or OS/A+, which need space under the ROM and so are incompatible with Turbo BASIC XL. Enjoy! And thanks again to Ulrich Lang of West Germany, who very kindly mailed the disk version of FROST BASIC across the Atlantic for our benefit. Anybody who absolutely has to have a disk version mailed to them, please notify me again and I will try to get it mailed in a few days. I'll check my files to see if anybody already told me they had to have a disk. Please try to manage to get the program via the net, perhaps with the help of a local friend, but if you MUST have it mailed, I'll be glad to help you out. -John Sangster / jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa [On score as forst-basic.ntxt (mail file format)] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Aug 87 15:26:42 GMT From: imagen!atari!dyer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Landon Dyer) Subject: Re: Atari 2600 specs/instruction set/programming To: info-atari8@score.stanford.edu In article <2296@mmintl.UUCP>, tedi@mmintl.UUCP (ted ives) writes: > This is all concerning the Atari 2600 VCS (you know, the old atari > video game system). > > Does anyone know where I can find information about: > a.) The hardware (i.e. specs on the chips, instruction sets, etc.) > b.) How to program it, i.e. is there any assembler, or do people just use > eproms or what? > I am basically interested in finding out how the whole thing works, with an > eye to maybe writing a game for it. I don't /know/ of any public documentation on 2600 internals, but that doesn't mean there isn't any. But most of the documentation was 'stolen' from Atari, or reverse-engineered, and was kept secret. You still need to sign a non-disclosure to get the official docs from Atari. The machine is INCREDIBLY difficult to program. It's a 6507 with 128 bytes of RAMa PIA, abaroque video chip, and next to nothing else. The keyword here is PAIN. But there are a lot of base units out there.... -- -Landon Dyer, Atari Corporation {sun,amdcad,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those BUSINESS of Atari or the AI software that has taken over my brain. IS Yow! I am waiting for my warranty-expired interrupt! HELL ------------------------------ Date: 12 Aug 87 12:42:23 GMT From: ihnp4!ihlpf!store2@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Kit Kimes) Subject: Re: More than 16K on a 600XL? To: info-atari8@score.stanford.edu In article <13860@topaz.rutgers.edu>, appelbau@topaz.rutgers.edu (Marc L. Appelbaum) writes: > In article <1830@bcsaic.UUCP> ray@bcsaic.UUCP (Ray Allis) writes: > > > What is the most reasonable way to increase my 600XL's memory > > to a size useable with Atariwriter or other word processors? > > > > You can buy an expansion board that plugs into the Parallel Bus on > the back of the 600XL, this would bring the 600XL to 64K. I believe > Atari still sells them. Your best bet would be to write to Atari > Customer Service. > -- I know of at least one source for the 64K upgrade. American Techna-vision advertizes it in their ad in the August ANTIC magazine for $29.95. Their mailing address is: American Techna-Vision 15338 Inverness St. San Leandro, CA 94579 (415)-352-3787 orders: 1-800-551-9995 Hope this helps... Kit Kimes AT&T--Information Systems Labs ...ihnp4!iwvae!kimes ------------------------------ End of Info-Atari8 Digest ************************** ------- -------------------END OF UNDELIVERED MESSAGE-------------------