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This is a collection of Atari 8-bit utilities that I've written,
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mostly back in the 90s, for managing files for an Atari on a
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Linux system. Whether you're using a real Atari or an emulator,
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these can be handy tools.
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ATRFS
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Want to mount an ATR image as a native file system in Linux?
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Now you can!
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This uses FUSE to create a user-space file system that allows
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reading and writing of Atari file systems in ATR image files.
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This requires no special root privileges.
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The framework is designed to be modular, making it relatively
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simple to add support for new Atari file systems.
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BASIC Autorun
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There are lots of AUTORUN.SYS files for running BASIC programs,
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but what if BASIC isn't available? Well, this one will enable
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BASIC first if it's disabled on an XL/XE system.
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If it's a 400/800/1200XL, it will display "BASIC REQUIRED"
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and hang. Also, the command text is stored in ATASCII,
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so it's easy to edit the binary.
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SIO2Linux
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Pavel Machek made an initial attempt at communicating with the
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Atari through an SIO2PC cable using Linux's serial port drivers.
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He came up with a simple floppy emulator he called "femul.c"
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I rewrote that to add a bunch of features:
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* No kernel modules.
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Unlike the AtariSIO project, this is just a simple user-space
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program that uses a serial port device.
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* Create new dynamically sized images
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Each image starts as a 3-sector image file, but grows to
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accomodate the highest-numbered sector written.
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* Mount your native file system as an Atari disk
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It's read-only for now, and it doesn't support subdirectories,
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but each file is mapped to a different starting sector, and
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as that sector is read, it automatically maps in the rest of
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the file.
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Binary load file analyzer
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This program will tell you all about your binary-load format Atari
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files, and even clean them up if there are specific problems.
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It runs under DOS and Unix.
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It includes the option to dump the 6502 assembly.
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BASIC analyzer
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This program will parse the structure of a BASIC program.
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The most common use would be to check if a file is a valid BASIC
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file, in which case, just redirect the output to /dev/null and
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it's BASIC if the program returns success. It will parse down
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the the line level. Parsing out the individual tokens could be
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done in the future.
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Disk image format conversions
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Want to convert between DCM and ATR? Want to turn an ATR disk image
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into individual files on your native file system (even creating
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subdirectories for MyDos images!)? Or convert a directory full of
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files back into a disk image? Well, check out these programs:
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* atr2unix
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* unix2atr
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* dcmtoatr
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Disk manager (Atari-side sector editor and much more)
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Back in the mid 80's, I wrote a sector editor in BASIC.
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Over several years, I incorporated additional features and
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tools, as well as re-wrote various routines in assembly language
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for speed. I should have released it back then, but now I've
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gone back through it and added a few extra features.
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I also re-worked all of the assembly language code.
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MyDOS Binary Load Menu
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There are plenty of menu programs that let you select from a
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list of programs and execute one, but this one goes a step further.
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It supports MyDOS subdirectories and is driven by the joystick,
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so it's ideal for a huge disk image of games.
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I wrote this in 1994 in BASIC and compiled it with ABC.
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-- adapted from original Preston Crow file
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