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HAVE you ever looked on in envy as your ST-owning colleagues gained access to all sorts of pop-up utility programs? Well now you can have something similar on your trusty 8 bit Atari — a four function pop-up calculator taking only 21 bytes of user memory. This program creates a pop-up calculator which hides itself under the Basic mm on an XL or XE machine. The routine which calls it is only 21 bytes long, hence the calculator doesn't even remove any of your pro-

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old 400 or 800. Let’s take a look at how it works. The program can be split into six parts: Lines 10 to 270 provide the first screen menu and check the data. The pro— gram will first ask if you want to make a tape or a disc, then go through the data to make sure that it’s correct. If there are any discrepancies a warning message will be displayed with the relevant line number. Correct the error and run the program again until it is free of errors.

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Lines 500 to 770 generate a cassette form of the program. Lines 2000~2180

are listed to the cassette, followed by the machine code data file.These lines may be omitted by disc users, along with the data statements 3000-3110.

Lines 1000 to 1170 enable the proit points gram to check its own data to any data errors and flags them. The use Of Get it Right! and this checker should track down any data errors. As this is a machine code program, any errors may lock your computer up with no escape except to reboot the machine. This is also a good reason to save the program before you run it. , 2000 to 2180 COHStItUte the data Lines loading program for cassette userSThey are listed to the cassette, followed by the data for the calculator and short meCh'he code loader. e Th's loader ‘S poked ‘hto page 6 and the the guts cilrculator e t datahundderl 9 etes itasl'ffmm- m PFOQFTE'E" ese er" mes may bse e omitte row; begory. ”5° users. y Lines 4000 to 4340 create the disc version. First an AUTORUN.SYS file is created. This is a three part file consisting of a program to turn the Basic rom off, the calculator in standard load format andaprogram to turn the _

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Lines 5000 to 5050 displays three pages of user information, Page gives general background information, page 2 describes assembler use of the calculator and page 3 shows a program to “Uh the calculator from Basic. 1

Loading the calculator is a little different depending 0“ whether YOU are working with cassette or disc. Disc should simply boot the machine users W'th the disc containing the AUTORUN-SYS file in the drive, Wthh

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.SYS that runs a Basic program, All you need do is rename the original AUTORUNSYS as TEMP, then create the calculator AUTORUN,SYS and append your renamed file to the end of it. Cassette users should ENTER and then run the tape created by the program we have listed. This will load the data and NEW itself, leaving the calculator ready for use. From Basic, a small machine code program needs to be run to call the ,

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Ifa result is too large ’OVER RANGE’ will show in the display. It will do continuous calculation (such as2 *3 + 56 + 3_ 5), but it won’t show powers (1.3 E 14). Results are not stored anywhere and so will have to be written down. Operation is protected from the BREAK key but SYSTEM RESET will dump you back into Basic at the READY prompt. Division by ZERO is not trapped 80d thus can give some

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The 3D graphics are prob-

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program,

but cost may be a deterrent to some would-be Karpovs. Attempting to fill a gap at the low~cost end of the market is this no-frills chess playing program from Mastertronic. Available for the Atari 800

and 130 series, Master Chess offers you the game, plain and simple. Given the won’t be price, you surprised to hear that it has few of the extras you’ll find on more expensive offerings. The grey and green chessboard fills the left two-thirds

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replay of a game, and load, save or play a new game. The last six moves for both sides are listed on the options screen, along witha

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pictorial representation of

all pieces that have been

which, although expensive, offers far

as Colossus

captured. The program does not appear to have an openings book and can make some very strange moves on the lower response settings. if you just want a cheap program to play against and one which is fairly easy to beat, this could be just the

more

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tages captured

inevitably

some

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promises in this 8 bit con— version. But Imagine has doneaprettyfinejob in this, its first release for the Atari in quite a long time. During the game you progress through the scenes which scroll smoothly from right to left. Enemy soldiers 20 ATARI USER May 1987

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the button. However response to the button is slow, calling for good

challenging as it

timing.

provided

you come across white soldiers and kill them you will be provided with a bazooka holding four rounds. This can be fired in either direction by pressing the spacebar at the crucial moment, taking out all the men in that direction. Some parts of the arcade game, such as the mortar If

crews and ground mines, seem to have disappeared. However if they had been included it might have made the game a little too difficult, as Green Beret is quite

One

the game starts with

stands.

funny moment

at the end of the second stage. In the arcade game you are attacked by

wall

rhythm which accompanies you throughout, adding to the atmosphere. Sound effects are limited and could have been better. All in all, a good game which should sell well. Hopefully just the first of many new conversionsfrom Imagine. Mark Fowlis

and Alsatian guard dogs. The programmers have retained this feature, but the attacking dogs look like

Doberman

emaciated Yorkshire terriers. The background graphics are detailed and colourful and rate as excellent. However l was a little disap-

pointed with the graphics of the figures. These were a little too big and lacked detail. There is no music, though

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a is straight—line race against the clock. There is a computer controlled opponent in the t0p half of a split screen and, although this may help you pace the race, it would have added more to the game to

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before expiring, Further you along encounter helicopters and armoured cars. There are also ponds to be avoided you’ll drown if you tumble _

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guard post and barrier

through thoroughly enough. recently reviewed Gun

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almost is Law which identical to Who Dares Wins ll. Although by no means perfect, it was altogether more pleasing and was around a quarter of the price. Niels Reynolds

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As in the speed skating event, how much you want to risk scrapping your joystick determines your terminal

velocity.

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in the course marked by trees. The last event of Winter Olympics is the Cresta Run in which there aretwoviews of the race. One is a plan view of the whole course, by which you can see hOW far you have progressed. The second and smaller outlook is from behind the bobsleigh, looking down the ice tunnel. This is poorly done the graphics are blocky and over simplistic, and the movement jerky. Speed is gained by sledging as close '

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LAST month we covered the theory behind cassette autoboots, and explained how to write and save machine code programs which will load and run automatically. This month we look at a program which can convert your Basic programs to an autoboot cassette form. Conversion is actually a three-stage process. First you load a utility program called Creator. Next you load your Basic program and call the Creator routine with a USR command. This makes an file which has

entirely

new cassette

short machine code routine inserted ahead of your Basic program. Loading the resulting file is exactly the same as loading commercial autoboot software. Switch the computer on while holding down the Start key, then hit any key when the single a

beep sounds. Everything

else

is automatic, and as soon as loading is complete your Basic program will run. The system works by inserting a new editor handler and putting two commands (GRAPHICS O and RUN) into Basic’s text buffer. When Basic gets control it will assume that you have typed the text line in direct mode, so it executes the commands

Although this is a little more complex than using direct jumps to the Basic rom itself, it ensures that the converted programs will run with all versions of Basic, and thus on any Atari 8 bit computer. Back to practical matters. Program makes the Creator file. When run this will make an autoboot machine code cassette—in fact, you might recognise lines 10 to 140 as being identical to last month’s Program III. Because the program works with machine code,all DATA statements must be absolutely correct or it will crash. Watch out for the three most common using the typing errors letter 0 instead of zero, typing two commas with no number in between, and typing a comma at the end of a program line. Be sure to save a copy before you try running it. When you're sure everything is correct, insert a new tape and type RUN. Press Record and Play and then Return after you hear the usual two beeps. Once completed, label the finished cassette as ’Creator',and makea note that it’s an autoboot-format file. Once this is safely in your possession, Program can be filed away as it won't I

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it. a

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Press Record and Play, and hit Return afterthetwo beeps. Your Basic program will now be written to tape in

autoboot format. Remember that programs in this format cannot be loaded using any of Basic’s commands—you must use the autoboot loading procedure. Once in memory, though, your program will behave just as though you had typed CLOAD and RUN. Now let’s leave cassettes for a while and take a look at disc-based programs. There are two different systems available for making disc

software load and run automatically — disc autoboot or AUTORUN.SYS. Both will work only with machine code, but AUTORUN.SYS can be used to load and run a Basic program, giving the effect of a Basic autoboot. Let's take disc autoboots first. Since they look and behave almost exactly like the cassette autoboots which we covered last time, we’ll skip through the details fairly quickly. When power is switched on with a disc drive connected, there must be on the some autoboot information disc, otherwise the screen will fill with BOOT ERROR messages. On a normal Dos disc, this autoboot system loads and initialises the DOS.SYS file, but the process can be used for other things. Program II shows the correct format. Lines 10 to 550 form a new SAVE routine for disc which isn’t part of the autoboot data itself. The first six bytes in the autoboot

code (starting at line 640) are

a

header,

containing boot flag (normally zero), the numberof sectors to load, the load address and finally the initialisation address. The 08 reads this header, and stores the load address in a

BOOTAD (578,579), and the initialisation address in DOSlNl (12,13). lt then makesa note that it’s usinga disc-based program by storing a 1 in the BOOT? location (address 9). Once it has this information available it can load all the boot sectors into the correct addresses in memory. The next thing the OS does is to perform a JSR to BOOTAD+6, skipping over the six bytes of header data to execute the code labelled COLDST in our example. This section will only be executed once, immediately after the sectors have been loaded, and must end with CLC, RTS otherwise you will get the BOOT ERROR message. The second stage is another JSR, this time to the initialisation address now given by DOSINI, which sends it to our lN/T code. This section must end with RTS, or the system will lock up. The boot process terminates by handing control to the language or other cartridge, via a JMP to the cartridge start address. —

If

no

cartridge is

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completely bypasses Basic. The second JSR and final JMP are always repeated whenever System Reset is pressed. Autoboot code is always stored on the disc starting at sector one, but none of the standard commands avail-

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able in the Assembler Editor cartridge utility package will create such a format automatically, so we need a special machine code routine. If you have an Assembler you can use the saver routine given as Program ii. If not, the Basic version — Program Ill will do exactly the same job. The disc you plan to write to must be formatted but should not contain DOS.SYS. in fact, since the completed disc will not be in normal Dos format, you should not have any files on it or you may lose some of them. When you call the saver routine, either from the assembler or by or Dos

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one boot program can be loaded at a and DOS.SYS itself needs to

coexist with Basic or any other Ianguage cartridge. disc Now for the bad news autoboots are a pain to use. They must start on sector 1, so you can have only one per disc. They don’t appear on disc directories, you can't LOAD them, SAVE them or LIST them in any of the conventional ways, and they won’t even RUN except at powerup time. Worst of all, you can’t use them in conjunction with Dos because only

time,

boot into memory. 80 if your software needs to communicate with the disc drive after initial power-up, forget it— Unless, of course, you’re prepared to write your own disc management routines. Q The alternative is to use AUTORUN .SYS, which is a much friendlier system, and better suited to the needs of Basic programmers. We’ll tell you all about that next month.

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m

PART two of the Advanced Character Editor (ACE) provides a set of

subroutines to be added to the main program which appeared last month. Please note that part two will not work on its own. When typing in Program I, make sure to use the line numbers exactly as printed, and include all the REM

‘

4

lines.

.

Before merging and running the combined program it is a good idea to list part two to tape using the LIST “C... command, or to disc with LIST

“DrACEZ'?

Part

serles

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Wlth part two loaded into memory, enter part one from last month's Atari User by using the command ENTER “C:” or, for disc users, ENTER “D:ACE1”. You will then have merged parts one and two which can then be saved to tape using LIST “Cz” again or LIST “D:ACE1AND2". The third and final section of ACE will be published next month. Part two adds the extra commands COLOUR, DATA, LOAD and SAVE.

on. The values of all the pixels in the row are added up to give a single number from 0 (no pixels on a row) to 255 (8 pixels in a row). This can be seen from Table II which depicts how the letter A is bit-mapped:

modes. The joystick allows you to alter the current colour. Left and right change the shade, while Up increases the brightness and Down decreases it.

Column Values .

Tochange colour registers pressthe fire button. The colour registers act differently in Graphics 0 compared

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maximum of eight letters long with no extenders. The character option will add the extender .CHR to the saved‘file and the Screen option will add .SCR. No extender is added for the Basic Subroutine. Cassette users must press Record and Play then press Return when prompted. BASIC SUBROUTINE — B This option will save to tape, disc or list to printer the subroutines (up to a maximum of six) that were written during the DATA section of ACE. An example of the sort of file that IS created is

given as Program IV.

CHARACTER — C This saves the whole redefined character set to cassette or CIISC. SCREEN—S '

.

llllllll l“ I" I. I. l l. l

menu

-

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set

plotted within an 8 x 8 grid. For each row a single number can be used to represent the pattern of pixels. To do this, a pixel plotted within the row is given a value that depends on which column it is in. A pixel in the first column is given a value of 128, the second column 64, the third 32 and so

C

display shows the value of the colour chosen. To recreate this colour in your own programs POKE the apprOpriate colour register with the value for example POKE 708,8 Wl|| make the uppercase and number characters in Graphics or 2 come out grey.To exit from Colour press the E50 key. DATA — D The eight numbers displayed when you enter the Data option are the bitmapped numbers used to define the current character shape in memory. A character consists of 64 pixels

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character set. Any set overwrite the current character set display. Disc users must (Without specnfy the file name extender) and cassette users must, after inserting the approplate character set tape, press Play when This

SAVE —S A SAVE menu appears on the right hand side of the main display. After an option has been chosen the device to which the data is saved must be specified. All disc filenames must be a

—

loads

a

loaded will

prompted. GRAPHICSO Character Brightness Background

Border

GRAPHICS 1 AND Uppercase

_

and

numbers

Lowercase characters Inverse uppercase Inverse lowercase Background and Border

Register.

Basic

709 710 712

SETCOLOR 1 SETCOLOR 2 SETCOLOR 4

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2

708 709 710 711 712

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0

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The Basic subroutinethat ACE saves in listed form on lines 30000 to 30500 so for obvious reasons you is

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28 ATARI USER May 1987

SCREEN — S This option loads PAD screens and will be discussed next month when the PAD and animation modules are added to ACE.

Figure}

—

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/——_U?lify should avoid using these program lines yourself. ACE saves the subroutines as a listed file. With your own program in ram add the subroutines to the end of ”C:” your program with the ENTER command for cassette users or ENTER "D:FlLENAME” from disc.

.

Access the routine by using GOSUB 30000. In most cases this is best at the ro g ram durin g of the be innin

‘

inigalisatign routines.

(address 36864), changeline 20020to: MEM=PEEK(106)—16: CHBASE=MEM*'256 To access the routine in your own program use the command GOSUB

to turn on the set. Each time you use a GRAPHICS command in a program the value in location 756 will be reset and you will have to POKE it back in again. This also applies to pressing System Reset.

address 756 redefined character

into

20000 Cassette users Will find it convenient data record the character to immediately following the main pro-

ACE CHARACTER SET LOADER

51:31 TshngSfrzf?gé—aggirsg grsmA?E if vou vour own program USing then you should delete line and remove the REM command

9,12?2553“féaiiereiih?gi:"?§u‘€fn°e cassette redefines six

written by ACE which characters. The program stores the neW characterset at thetop of ram. To the pointer to the do this RAMTOP top ofthe Basic free memory—islowered. RAMTOP can be found by examining the value held at address 106 (normally 160 on 800 XL’s and XE's). This is value is expressed as pages of 256 bytes. This means that RAMTOP is normally address 40960 (160 multiplied by 256). Line 30030 of the subroutine lowers RAMTOP by five pages and then calculates CHBASE (the address for the character set data is to be loaded into). This is set to page 156 (address _

39936) —see lines 30030 and 30040. The GRAPHICS O command in line 30050 reallocates the screen memory area to avoid conflict with the character data. If you wish to use the routine be changed. To calculate the starting address Of the new screen area use

the formula: SCREENT=PEEK(88)+PEEK(89)*256 machine code routine A short character set from the standard copies rom to ram and then the rede?ned character set is loaded into the approdataOf the ChataCtet p'fézarea fess 756 PO'htS the Operat'hg system to the start of the character set data. Normally a value of 224 is held here to indicate the standard rom character set at addresg 57344 (224 times 256). _

.

_

.

—

.

CHBASE

sets

routine

assembler To load

four page boundary below RAMTOP-‘t: that RAMTOP is, RAMTOP-S, RAMTOP-12 and so on. To placethe character data 12 pages below RAMTOP, and leave the screen data area at its normal p|ace in memory (at the top of ram) change a

line 30020 tO read: 30020 M=PEEK(1OG)-12 3” d delete line 30030 The character set WI“ then be loaded at page 148 (address 37888) and finish at address a full character set takes up 1k 38911 -

to

—

label.

area

address 37888 (page 148 —'or 12 pages To aSSign another below. RAMTOP). the MEM address change simply area in line 20020 to another four page boundary below RAMTOP. For example, to make CHBASE page 144

alter‘theCHBASE The listing is for Disc users only but Andre be adapted to cassette (see can Willey’s articles on accessmg CIO from Machine Code—AtariUserfrom

_

January I987). '

IF KEY=58

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25

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DATA

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962

IF KEY=62

2452

62:KEY=255 THEN

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MMZGOSUB

2235

REM

ACE

2240 2250 2260

REM

DATA

Gosug

2270 2282

2480

2

2490 2500 2510

2960

POSITION 2,2:? "DATA" DAT=CHBASE+(CH*8)

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2550

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IF KEY=89

THEN

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5:1 2399 2400 2412

27,7:2 CHRS(253); MEMORY TO 1.0mm D:RETURN 7

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program.

a file'other than “D:SET 1.CHR” then line 420 must be changed, but make sure to keep the .CHR extender. To change the character set data

thgzggrglcigi'feihgrlzlgBeAth22112133236); set to

gram. When the is att e ay utton is run, make suret iharaiicteirisetéoader pressed and hit Return after the beep.

The ACE Machine Code Character loader Program llI — is an assembly language routine for loading ACE from machine code. character sets code can beltyped in listed source The the Atari Assembler Editor C_arwith tridge, MAC 65 or any other Similar

20010 on line_20000. set as The filename forthe character listed is ”D:SET1.CHR”. Line 20010 may be altered should you _want to ACE character set With a difload an_ file names are ferentfilename.AllACE saved usmg the extender_.CHR. subroutine can be listed to tape The usmg LIST”C:" or LIST “D:FlLENAME” and later merged With your own proENTER command. gram, using the

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RETURN REM

COLOUR

2960 POSITION 2,12? "COLOUR"

GOSUB

2622 2632 2642

POKE

2652 2662 2672

IF REG=729 THEN IF REG=712 THEN IF REG=711 THEN

764,255:KEY=255

REG=728 IF REG=728 THEN

P0=1567 P0=1572 PO=1577

P0=1582

CHR$(125):POSITION 9,2

CHDAT=CHBASE+(CH*8) ? LN;” FOR1=2 T0 7:READD":LN=LNt1

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May 7987 ATARI USER 29

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2680 2690

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2710

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4330 4340

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4350

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4070 4080 4090

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111111

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1

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2870 2880

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11111

SAVE

2960:POSITION 2,10:7 "51v1"

105111011 105111011

27,8:? 27,7:1

"11111111111" "BASIC sue.~:10111

POSITION

BR

27,9:1

"501111115"

1030:RETURN AND KEY<>66 AND KEY<>8 3 111111 1 CHRS(253):GOTO 41104410 4140 11 1111=67 111111 GOSUB 1030:GOSUB 5 l40zGOSUB 4200:1111u1111 4150 11 1111=66 111111 GOSUB 1030:00808 5 111111

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040zeosua 4270:RETURN 4160

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11

3501111011

111111

1030zeosua

GOSUB

4

v

4170 11111 4180 111101111 4190 11 1111<>58 1110 KEY<>18 111111 4340 4200 11111 01111 1114110111 511 4210 11031 111:0=11N1111181:1111810+1,11 +4)=".c1111"

764,255

11151011

ATBASE=57344 2960 POSITION 2,9:1 111510111

GOSUB

4220 4230

11 1111=68 11 1111=67

4240

START=CHBASE=FINISH=CHBASE+1023:G 4540

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4250 4260

POKE

111111

01111

111111

01111

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11111

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11111

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960 2240

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2550:RETURN SCREEN

SAVE

DATA

5040:0=111111111s):1111s10+1

4380 4390 4400

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11

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4380

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1030:1111111111

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1

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4440 s11111=s1111):11111s11=s11111)+319 4450 GOSUB 4460:GOSUB 2550:10111 209,1: 1111s="0:":1111ur111 4460 11111 11111011 5111 4470 01031 111 4480 11 1111=67 111111 01111 11,8,0,"c:" 4490 11 1111=68 111111 01111 #1,8,0,FILE$ 4500 10111 START-6,N:POKE s111111-5,111111

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10111

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10111

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T-1,PEEK(1587) START=START-6

4550 LENGTH=FINISH~START:HILENGTH=INT( LENGTH/256) 4560 LOLENGTH=LENGTH-HILENGTH*256 4570 4580

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11111

11s1

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4280 REM 4290 0=LEN(FILES):FILE$(Q+1,Q+1)=".SUB

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LIST “C:",30000,30

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4530 4540

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2850 2860

1180 GOSUB 2960

1820

GOSUB

4100

11

2810 2820

2930 2940 2950

1

4110 4120 4130

STRIG(0)=0 111111 1110=111e+1:00su 1030:11 REG=713 111111 REG=708 2800 11 STICK(0)=15 AND PEEK(764)=255

1110

11111

BR

P0,BR+C*16

10111

2790

4310

2910 2920

764,255

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0500

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D

274011

>14

0:1 10

1011

4300

7

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";CHR$(30)

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T0

CHBASE+(CH*8)+I,PEEK(ATBASE+

(CH*8)+I)

0);CHRS(30);CHRS(30);REG 2720

1=0

FOR 10111

4590

1115011

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10111

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880 2235 2260 2290

2470 2500 2530 2560

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2430 2460 2490 2520 2550 2580 2610 2640 2700 2730 2760

3303 7336 8837

279011602 2820 11478 2850 2291 2880 7708 2910 1345 2940 1994 4070 7766 4100 5471 4130 11081, 4160 8626 4190 5850 4220 5939 4250 3771

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5564 8829 10202 3960 9014 3975

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CTER’

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6528 3825

GET

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4710

3974 3062 2949 3642 16676

5050 5080 5110

4309 8436 7591

5140 5170 5200

4870 7247 6752

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1

11,4,0,11::10111

..

20

“MM

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4690

4930 4960 4990 5020

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4680

3923 4431

THEN

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463' SOUND 0,0,0,0:1111u1111 4640 RE" LOAD 465“ TRAP 5m=G°5UB"296@ 466“ POSITION 276” LOAD =P=? 2550=P051T10N 2718” 4674605113

IF IF

27,9"

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1

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#1,KEY:POKE 209,1 KEY=27 THEN GOSUB1I30=RETURN ? CHR KEY<>67 AND KEY<>83 THEN

51253110010 4690 472” GOSUB 1030 473” lF KEY=67 THEN 60303 4850 4740 IF KEY=18 THEN GOSUB 111085 4750 IF KEY=83 THEN GOSUB 4770 476” POKE 209,1:5001100,0,0,0:1111u1111 4770

REM

LOAD

SCREEN

DATA

478“ GOSUB 504?=0=LEN<FILE9=FILEWI+1 ,0+4):".scr1” 4790 CLOSE #1=IF KEY=68 THEN OPEN 111,11 ,0,1111s 4800 IF KEY=67 THEN OPEN 11,4,0,"c:~:1 OKE 859,128:P0KE 62,128 481lHEH=SH<1>-6=GOSUB 4894 4820 PM 1567,11111111111+1):10111 1572,1 11111111111121110111 1577,11111114111+3):10111 1582,11111111114+4) 4830101111587,11111<11111+5):111101111 11111 10110 1111111111 0111

4840 30 ATARI USER

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48709976 4900

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DEL:CLOSE

a

50305 2550;p0KE 764,255

27,7:7

POSITION

"DISK

OR”

5070 POSITION 27,8z? "CASSETTE" 5030 IF KEY=66 THEN POSITION 27,95; “p RINTER" 5090 KEy=255 5100 5110

GET

IF

x1,KEY KEY=27

THEN

IF

KEng?

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1030:POP

GOSUB

:RE

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5120

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1030

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IF

THEN

KEY<>67 7

IF

AND KEY<>68 AND CHRS<253):GOTO 5090 KEY=68 THEN GOSUB 5160

5140 5150 5160

RETURN

5170

GOSUB

KEY<>8

@

DELETE LINE 20010 MEM=PEEK(106)-12:CHBASE=MEM*256 LINE

LINE

(HSUH

20030

4334

20060 20090

291”

CLOSE

20120

3062 2949 4474

20110

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19998 20005

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Program

10 ;ACE MACHINE 20 ; BY STEPHEN 30 T=1536 40 COMMAND=834 50 BUFFER=836 60 BUFLEN=840

CHARACTER

CODE

LOADER

NILLIAMSON

0260

STA

BOTEER+1,x

0270

JSR

C10

GO

LDX x16 0290 LDA TECHBASEIRZSS FILENAME ADDRESS

0300 0310

90 CHBASE=37888 0100 CIO=58454

FILENME ADDRESS 0320

STA

0110

0330

LDA

031.0

STA

STA

LDA

0130 0140

0350

STA

STA

COMMAND,X

0360

LDA

0150

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CIO

RECORD STA

COMMANM

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DEVICE

1:1

AUX‘I,X 80 SET

VALUE

0220 0230

STA

AUX2,X

6,10;7 swam

LDA

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5200

FILENAME IN BUFFER

ACE

0240

STA

DITEERENT FILENAME

0250

LDA

POSITION

MAX.”:NAME$="":POSITION 5130

26, 2

1030;F1LE$(LEN(F1L55)+1)=NA

RES

RETURN

REM REM

30030

POKE

ACE

CHARACTER

SET

ROUTINE

by Stephen HT’LlTamson 30010 DIN NLS<A0T 30020 N=PEEKC106)-A 106,11-1 3001.0 CHBASE=256*(M) 30050 GRAPHICS 0:5ETCOLOR

30060

RESTORE

3l090zFOR

To

ZERO

DISK

PUTADDRESS

OF

BUFFER,X tNAME/ZSé

00,208,249 30100 DATA

36:READ

A

30070 ML$(L,L)=CH 30000 REM ACE CHARACTER SET ROUTINE 30005 REM by Stephen HT'HT'amson 30010 ”1” MW“) 30020 M=PEEK(106)'4 300" POKE 106,0-1 3001.0 CHBASE=256*(M)

30050 GRAPHICS 0:3ETCOLOR 2,0,4 30060 RESTORE 30090:FOR L=1 T0 36:READ A

3007' ML$(L,L)=CHR$(A):NEXT L 30080 A=USR1ADR(ML$),M)IPOKE 756,” 30090 DATA 104,104,104,133,20A,169,224

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30110 30120 30130 30140 30150 30160 30170 30180 30190 ,0 30200 30210 30220 ,0 30230

FOR POKE DATA FOR

I=0 To mm CHBASE+(33*8)+I,D:NEXT To

7:READ

16,0,56,84,84,56,0,16

30250 30260 30270 30280

DATA FOR

0410

RTS

0420

NAME

756 STORE ON

GET

HIGH

BYTE

ME

HIGH

BINARY

OF

01.30

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,255 30500

RETURN

SET.

IN CHBAS

BYTE

CHARACTER

SET

.BYTE"D:SET1.CHR”

CHARACTER

I=0

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224,224,224,224,207,191,127

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LENGTH

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302100

xCHBASE/ZSO

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DATA

LDA

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0390

219,255,189,0,2A,0,0,0 1:0

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FOR

BYTE

D

DATA FOR

JSR

01.00 STA TO SVUCH

AM

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0370 0380

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CHBASE

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164,204,200,132,204,164,206 ,200,132,206,232,224,5,208,232,96

2,0,A

L=1

STA

DEVICE :1

OPEN

BYTE

HIGH

BUFLEN,X BUFLEN+1,X =7 SET COMMAND

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30000

1873 3072

0:

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BUFFER+1,X x255 SET MAXIMUM

0200 0210

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TO

LOH

BUFFER,X #CHBASE/256

TO

30005

5018

0280

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20020 20050 20080

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0120

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DATA

27,

Dmcg

GET

CASSETTE

35”

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REM

LOADER

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20030 HIBYTE=INT1CHBASE/256)

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numbers generated by the joystick for also increase, starting at reststances about 1000 ohms Iessthan to 228 when the (1K_) and rismg resrstance is around 500K.

entirely different principle. They generate numbers which correspond to the current vertical and horizontal position of the stick itself.

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together tightly before fitting them to the block, so there’s no risk that they will separate during use. Leads to the pots must be soldered, and it‘s best to use stranded wire rather than the solid-core type, even though this is a little trickier to handle. Although you could mount the joystick in a simple hand-held box, the ”overhead arm” system is much easier to control. Figures llla and lllb show how to make it, using odds and ends you may be able to find around

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The graphics stylus

about 200K, and left to its own devices to it will generate numbers from about 84, which means that you could map the results straight on to a 1

Graphics

5 screen

(80 x 40 pixels).

However, most of the time you will want better resolution than this. So how can we make the gadget return coordinates suitable for plotting directly to Graphics 7? lUSt wrre a The'answer '5 Simple capacntor between each pot output and the Ov line, as shown in Fig 1. Here's the theory: The analogue~todigital converter works by measuring the time taken to charge an internal capacitorthrough the pot's resistance. If you increase the resistance, the capacitor will take longer to charge, so a higher number will be returned. Similarly, if the capacitor is made larger, it will take longer to charge through any given resistance. The joystick assembly fixes the resistance range for us, so to generatea different set of numbers we must somehow

.07 microfarads, and you can't buy this exactvalue in the shops. You could try .068 mfd, if you can find one with nice long leads, or a .047 mfd in parallel with a .022 mfd will give approxi—

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alter the capacitance value. You can’t get at the Atari's internal capacitor to change it, but wiring an extra capacitance between each pot and the Ov line has the same effect. By choosing the value with care, it is possible to make our joystick generate numbers from 1 to anywhere between

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80 and 228.

This range still isn't adequate for direct mapping to a Graphics 8 screen (320 pixels wide), so very high resolution graphics are out— you can’t use it for engineering drawing, for example. However it will work very well with any of the "colbur" modes, and we’ve tuned ours to Graphics 7The capacitance needed is around

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ware, and Program I is the place to start. The stick’s horizontal and vertical positions are returned at address 624 and 625 respectively. Use Program to check that the numbers vary from to at least 180. if not, it may be necessary to change C3 and/or C4. Even capacitors with nominally the same value can vary by upto 10 per cent in their actual value, but even so the vast majority should give acceptable results. Program II is a simple Basic routine which lets you draw on screen. Line 10 selects the mode and colour, and lines 20 to 30 calculate the coordinates to be plotted. The raw numbers returned by the joystick are adjusted to suit the screen dimensions — 0 to 179 horizontally, 0 to 79 vertically — and ensure that the boundaries cannot be exceeded. Then it’s simply a matter of plotting a pixel of your chosen colour at these coordinates.

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necessary - an ordinary nut and bolt, or even a wood screw Will do but it lets you adjust the overhead arm more —

easily. The dimensions shown willgive you a drawing surface about 170mm by . tract this area. The larger it is, the better the resolution, but the stylus tends to wobble if it extends beyond about 250mm, which eliminates any

advantage. The stylus is in two parts. Start by attaching a 160mm length of 4mm

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the box surface with Copydex. Drill the four 3mm holes and use a fretsaw to cut out the square aperture, then the paper can be peeled off without leaving a trace. The joystick body is attached with four number 4 .

Strap the joystick cable to the arm pillar with large cable ties or plas~ tic insulating tape, leaving a small loop to allow for vertical adjustment. Now it's time to think about soft-

36 ATARI USER May 7987

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a simple

Program lll adds a touch of elegance ’ by using a vertical blank routlne to do the job of checking and it returns the horizontal posmon at .

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then slides on to the needle, making a stylus which will telescope along its length, so that it can remain in contact with the baseboard at all times while the joystick arm swings around. A Papermate 2000 Stick will fit very snugly, but most pen barrels should work. Mount the joystick assembly in a small box with a cutout for the spindle (Figure IV). It’s difficult to mark dimensions on the plastic box itself, so make a full-size paper template and glue it to

but

sketch pad.

and

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sure to save a copy before you try running it. Program IV is a completely self-

contained Sketchpad routine with

extra controls. It works rather like Program Ill, but uses a PM graphics cross as a cursor. This can sweep over your picture without affecting it in any way, or can be made to leave atrace in one of three colours. If you’ve ever used a mouse, you will find the action

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address 1790, and the vertical posmon at 1791, so all Basic has to do is PLOT or DRAWTO these coordinates. Address 1789 contains the bottom margin value and defaultsto 79, which is the top of the text window. If you

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routine running 140 POKE 764,33zREM Select "pen up” 1110 de 150 150 IF PEEK(764)=33 THEN 160 COLOR PEEK(764):PLOT PEEK(1790),PE EK(1791):GOTO 180 150 170 IF PEEK(764)=33 THEN 180 COLOR PEEK(764):DRAHTO PEEK(1790), PEEK(1791):POKE77,0:GOTO 170

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executing the USR command. Although this is a delighful little toy to play with, it naturally cannot compare with expensivedigitisers, or high quality graph pads. Limitations arising from the pots’ internal construction and the steering geometry mean that it cannot be used as a precision instrument. You can't, for example, trace maps accurately onto the screen — though it makes a fair show of copying large line drawings or children's templates. But as a freehand drawing aid it will give many hours of enjoyment, especially to young children, and could be a useful introduction to learning keyboard skills. Anyone care to write a really good PAINT-type program for it?

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MANY people have described the Atari’s graphics as one of its best features. won't argue, but how many of you have backed away because they looked too difficult to handle from Basic, or you simply weren't satisfied

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matter of fact, you make only one setup call to the subroutine and then forget it. Couldn’t be simpler, could it? And you need to know nothing about machine language, either — just a couple of POKEs and you’ll have your players dancing around the tele-

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the overhead of calling it each time from your Basic program. In fact this interrupt mechanism can be made to do anything change colour registers, update sound values and much more. But before we explore this useful feature, lets take 3 quick refresher course on interrupts. As you know, the Atari keeps itself pretty busy doing its housekeeping chores even while it is running your Basic program. Among other thinQS, it must maintain the steady delivery of information to your television screen, allowing it constantly to update the display. Multiple, concurrent activities are performed by allowing one particular activity to periodically interrupt another. The traditional analogy is that of a busy business executive who, while engaged in a meeting with an associate, is interrupted by a telephone call. —

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by PARESH SOLANKI The

ringing phone signals the interrupt and the executive pauses his meeting and answers the phone. After disposing of the call, the executive then resumes his meeting at the point he left off hopefully. A similar, but more controlled, sequence of operations occurs each time a complete picture is shown by

design team allowed us to include our own machine language subroutine for execution as one of these tasks.

The machine language vertical blank interrupt player movement subroutine described here is called VBLANK/PM and it allows you to POKE the next X and Y coordinates at which your player is to be displayed. There is no need to repeatedly call the subroutine from Basic via the USR function. The subroutine will be executed automatically during the next vertical blank period. It is theoretically possible to move the players every time a new screen is painted on the television and that’s

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your television set. The TV's electron beam paints the picture by sweeping in horizontal rows across the picture tube beginning in the upper left hand corner and ending in the lower right. The beam is turned off when it reaches the lower right corner and is returned to its upper left starting position. This return trip is essentially a vertical positioning movement, so this period when the beam is turned off is known as the the vertical blank period. The onset of the vertical blank cycle serves as an opportunity for the Atari’s ANTIC chip to signal an interrupt the vertical blank, or VBLANK, interrupt. The operating system uses this occasion to perform some of its internal housekeeping duties such as updating the colour registers, checking the keyboard and operating the real-time clock and timers. Fortunately, the operating system

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50 times every second. You may recall that an appropriate POKE to locations 53248 to 53251 permits you to position the four players

anywhere along the X-axis. It hasn’t been quite so easy to position the players vertically along the Y-axis —

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until now. The VBLANK/PM subroutine moves players in both directions. Movements along the vertical axis involve erasing the data and then replotting the player in the new position. VBLANK/PM does this for you automatically. However, there are a few things that you must do first. First you must get the VBLANK/PM machine language into memory and notify the operating system that it is to be included as one of the housekeeping tasks to be performed as a part of the vertical blank interrupt. Next it's up to you to draw your players and tell VBLANK/PM how tall they are. After initialisation, VBLANK/ PlVl continuously looks after the positioning of your players until you press the System Reset key. Program I is an example of the and use of the VBLANK/ _

gig/tialisstion su routine. This ro ram causes VBLANK/PM to bep lgaded and initialised and players zero and one to

_ be drawn and then moved about on the screen Lines 100 through 200 are the demonstration program. l’ll save the explanation of these lines until after you've gained some insight into the

initialisation subprogram contained in

1000 to 1110. The VBLANK/PM is machine language subroutine expressed in the DATA statements on 2100. 2000 to lines Finally, lines 3000 to 3020 supply a description of the two players used in this example. The first task is to load VBLANK/PM into page six of memory. Page six, locations 1536 to 1791 ($600 to $6FF), has been left available by Atari’s softlines

ware designers for applications such as this. These 256 bytes of memory are not disturbed by Basic and the operating system, and are thus free for any use you want to put them to. Line 1010 causes the VBLANK/PM to be read and POKEd into memory. Line 1020 clears a few locations used by the subroutine—this statement can be omitted if you are sure that page six has not been altered since you switched on the computer.

We’re going to employ the Atari’s ANTIC chip direct memory access (DMA) facility to transfer graphics

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Vertical blank interrupt

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Line 1030 establishes the addresses which you will be using later to signal player movements. pLx and pLy are the locations POKEd to establish the next x and Y position of player zero.

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REM

A” M'SS'les (0'3) Player Zero Player One Player TWO

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must allocate 2k (2048 bytes) of memory for the storage of the player data. In line 1030 we find the current top of available memory by reading RAMTOP. This value is measured in 256 bytes pages, so we must subtract eight pages (or 2048 bytes) to leave space for our player/missile map. The GRAPHICS 0 IS there to give the operating system a chance to take note of our revision to RAMTOP. It will place the new graphics screen below this location, and thus leave everything above RAMTOP undisturbed for our player data. The Iower1024 bytes ofthis area are unused for player data in this

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information to the TV screen using single line resolution. This means that

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A POKE into locations PLX+1 and PLY+1 accomplishes the same thing for player one, and so forth for players two and three. PLL and the following three locations are POKEd to inform VBLANK/PM of the height of each player. Line 1090 initialises the remaining

player/missile parameters.

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system of both its presence and its desire to be invoked automatically as

part of the vertical blank interrupt

VBLANK/PM. Finally, let’s take

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WOULD be obliged if you could explain to me an abnormality l have found while using my 730XE. [have two computers — an 800XL and a 730XE. The XL and my 7050 drive are American NTSC models which I use on a special TV viaadrop down transformer without any problems. When I run my RPM test (American version) I get the figure 288 — the correct

Drivmg slow

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speed.

purchased the 730XE two months ago and when run the same test I get 3 ?gure of 348 returned but all my programs seem to run with no problems /

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(except for a minor colour change) as all my programs and games were purchased in the States. What / would like to know is should I alter my drive speed to obtain 288 or just continue using it at 348 RPM? — A.D. Hart, Hawick, Scotland.

I

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tical blankinterrupt happens 50 times a second, but on an American NTSC machine it occurs 60 times a second.

thataclock

This means

writ—

ten on an American machine will run slow on a British one. The speed difference is 5/6, thus your value of 348 must be multiplied by 0.83333 to give an accurate which works out to reading 290, which is quite accurate enough to run all your discs. —

Pasca| HAVE owned an Atari 800

Atari 730XE. For four years I have been doing a BSc in Computer Studies at the Polytechnic of this time my Wales. During primary coding language has been Pascal and consequently l have done very little Basw programming. In fact, / most/y use my Atari for word processing my assessments for college. Imagine my surprise (and pleasure) when reading a

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Pascal.

However, the details about how to obtain this package were very sketchy, as only the price and an address in California were quoted.

I

am

extremely

interested in obtaining Kyan Pascal and would appreciate any further details. — A.c. Whitchurch, Cardiff. far as we know there are no UK dealers planning

of your eqUipment, you ll be glad to know. The answer to your speed problems lies not with the drive but with the two computers. Most disc drive timing programs work by counting the numberof revolutions of the disc in a given period. The vertical blank period happens at set regular intervals, so this is often used to keep track of time. On a UK machine this ver-

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copy of last month’s Atari User magazine (Vol 2, Issue 11 March 1987) to discover a favourable review of a standardPasca/compi/erfor the Atari 8 bit micros. The review was made by John A/sbrooks about Kyan

As

to import the product, which means that you will have to order direct to America. You should order from: Kyan Software, 1850 Union Street 183, San FranCisco, CA 94123, USA. .

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ChooSlng the ?ght Dos .

/ HAVE not had my Atari 800XL for/ong and have/ust started buying Atari User. In the April issue you printed the Frutts game, and

I

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Machine code drawm / RECENTLY brought Mapping the Atari by Compute! books. l don’t think that it’s as good as everyone makes

out. Instead of giving ex— amp/es of programs it constantly refers back to past magazines or books for example, which of course I

haven’t got

as some are as

far back as 7982. lfind this very unhelpful. For example, one of the main reasons why I bought the book was so lcould ?nd

out how to DRAW

machine

a

line in

code using

a

routine in mm. But when I up, all it gave was the start address for the DRAW routines, giving no explanation on how to use them — Matthew Sreeves,

looked it

Alcester,

6 I'd be grateful if you could' tell me if it’s alright to format my disc with Dos 3.0, and then type in the program and save it to this format. — Elizabeth Hearty, Whitbum, Bathgate. can save the program to a disc formatted with Dos 3.0, but you are advised to use another type of Dos such as Dos 2.5. The only reason for not using Dos 3 is that it is not especially efficient or easy to use. YOU will find that Dos 2.5 is a more friendly system.

0 You

Daye,

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computerforfive yearsandl have recently purchased an

is no

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mer,can

fault with any

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Warwickshire.

0 Mapping the Atari is not tutorial a book, but a memory map — as the cover indicates. It has to cover every single location within the machine, and to help

you out gives references to more comprehensive reference works on that particular subject. code The machine drawing techniques that will allow you to plot and draw are

explained

in

greater

detail within the Operating System manuals, but Mapping the Atari does cover them within its CIO description. You could also look at our CIO tutorial series.

Comms DI'Oblems -

give me goAr/Tlleyozetly/ease p concerning communications software? / use a 730 XE and 'a WS2000 modem with the Datatari interface, The software is the Mu ltiviewterm pac k age. Wh en /! ogon to Prestel, [?nd plenty ofinterest/n g in f ormation but the buffer only allows me a very short time before ! have to break away and print what! have got / also 56”? find any software available forAtari8bit to download. machines When ! logon to Telecom .

.

but ! domain programs cannot find any way to download them! Can you tell me of any program that will allow me to use the full capacity of my 730XE?lhave one from the American magazine Compute! that allows me to open up the 730XE to a greater extent than the normal handbook suggests. Do you know of any program that does not have to be auto/oaded, so that/can use

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the Compute! program with it before I go on-line. I also have a comms pro— gram from Ariolasoft cal/ed Homepack. The trouble is that it gives "modem error” as soon as I try to load it.

NA f

/

.

doing wrong

please?

Also, what

am

I

doing

Atari User Europa House 68 Chester Road Hazel Grove Stockport SK7 5NY

comes UP 0” bUt / cannot get

atari set-up. If there is no other program on the market, could you advise

meofsomeonelcancontact who can put me on to something larger, that better suits my needs? I find

it hard to believe that the

only program available for Atari 8-bit users is so limited. Good luck to Atari ST User. Now we 8-bit users can enjoy a full magazine of our own. That brings me to another small query. What is Page 6? I

know it is

a

magazine,

and/know thatitisaPrestel page, but / think from my reading ofthe April issue of

a. '

—

O'Grady, Luton, Bedfordshire.

copy from Silica Shop. According to the packagel had all the requirements, but it is only when you read

the instructions (sealed that it becomes clear that the Atariwriter cartridge

inside)

is also necessary thus unless you are prepared to —

spend £30 to downgrade from the disc version, your \

money is wasted. I wrote to Silica Shop but never received a reply. Can 42 ATARI USER May 1987

work very well, but no other software will recognise Miracle Technology's Datatari interface. Thus HomePak can’t access the

modem because it can’tfind the correct interface (the Atari 850).

[READ with interest two [3p ters in your April issue which referred to Atari User monthly tapes and discs, As

have recently acquired 6 drive / would be very interested in obtaining your monthly disc if this facility were reintroduced. In fact / would also like all of the earlier copies, a I

/

catch

lfnot/would indeed like to see compilation tapes/

hand, in the form of Mini Office II. This package contains six modules, one of

which is a comms package which will support the Dat-

you prefer. It also supports the 13OXE ramdisc so you can store up to 64k of text

you offer any advice as I’m sure I’m not the only person caught in this trap? — Steven Clarkson, Leamington Spa, Wamickshire. 0 We contacted Atari and

mentioned this problem. The reason Atari Proofreader does not work on disc

is because

the Proof-

reader itself requires to be online in drive 1- This conflicts With AtariWriter, which should also be booted from drive 1,50 there is no way to

run bOth modules. i suggest that you try and geta refund or trade-in from Silica Shop.

use a 10k

these

Perhaps

could

_

Menemy,Loauady,N.Ireland.

last help is at

from the fact that the MultiViewterm software doesn’t

seem to have had more than your fair share of them. All of your problems stem

discs.

be split into two types: Games and Utilities. / sincerely hope that enough readers respond to make this worthwhile. D.Mc-

However, at

atari cable. When using Mini Office II with MicroLink/Telecom Gold you will be able to spool your downloaded programs straight on to disc, or

.

frequently use AtariWriter. I discovered that Proofreader (a spelling correctorl existed I bought a

.

couple ata time, until

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0 Communications always seem to provide many problems for users, experienced or not. However, you do

Proofreading problems When

.

,

your mag that it is also something inside my computer. If this question sounds silly, please forgive a learner. As a grandfather, l'm rather old to be learning anything so perhaps this IS something the youngsters learn in their first lessons but I seem to have missed its signi?cance somewhere Peter AJ. along the way.

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OWN an Atari 800XL andl

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Mailbag Editor

wrong With the 79/900”? GO/d system that StOPS me from downloading? The

anything 0" to diSC/ rang Atari Helpline in London only to be tO/d that there was nothing else available that uses the Dat—

1

WE welcome letters from readers — about your experiences using the Atari micros, about tips you would like to pass on to other users. and about what you would like to see in future issues. The address to write to is:

Clearly there is nothing wrong with the modem, so

What am

‘

QB MOi'bo 9

internal buffer if'

into the famdisc before needing to save it back on to floppy. We this software doesn’t support Prestel, you

will find it very much more

powerful for general comms use than MultiViewterm. As to your final query,

page 6 is an area of memory inside the Atari. One “page" of memory is 256 bytes, and so the sixth page of memory starts at address $0600 Hex (1536 Decimal). This area is special because no part of the Operating System, Basic or Dos uses it for storage. This means that it is left

free for the programmer to

use, and it is often used as a safe area for machine code programs or player missile graphics data.

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QWN an Ata” 800X_I‘ and _

beingastudentstudy/ng for a psychology degree, I WOUId III“? to know ’f there are ‘?’7V programs available dealing w1th_stat/stics, preferably 9” ms? as I have a disc drive. Robert 7059 —

“d““m' s°"""""’t°"' "am“

. Synapse Software has released a product called Syn-Trend which may be of use to

you: it 's more to applicable busnness trend analyS|s, but you W'“ almost certainly be able to adapt It some

Printin g -

graphlcs Could you you tell me how to make graphics work on the 7029 printer? I typed both listings from your September 7985 issue and it only printed to screen, not to the printer. I fiddled around with it and it still

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would not work. Simons,

out the correct bytes to send to the printer. This is what

Michael East

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the

Sussex.

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The programs we

to the

the

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computlng

subroutine for the actual screen dump- The second program was simply a pro-

by

gram that set up the screen with something to be printed out. Linking the two should producethe required

I WAS interested to read in the March edition of Atari User about Roy Goring and the computer correspon-

output.

dence course he is

If this still does not help you make sure that the programs are typed in correctly. The bit-image graphics on your 1029 are described in detail Within the 1029 manual, but to help you out here is a brief outline. When the 1029 is in bit image mode (graphics) any bytes sent are not converted to an Ascii character but are as a 7 bit vertical

Erinted ar. (no dot) or1Earzg ot. bee? bit Ean ysen ing combinations of bytes you can make up a matrix of dots. Printing more lines extends this matrix down the page, thereby building up a large

picture. The problem is in working

contact Mr Goring, so could you please tell me his -

D-

Strikes,

Coventry.

0

RECENTLY purchased an 800XL computer with 7050 disc drive as a pack from Currys. This also con tained some software which I was very pleased with. However, after buying a pack of 70 double sided/ !

Atari

a

mail order company adver— tising in your magazine, / became rather worried as l could not format any of them. I first thought that the discs were at fault, and so sent them back to the company which had supplied them, asking for an exchange. The same discs were later returned with a letter assuring me that they

Goring can be contacted by writing to him at RJG Programming, Brockhampton Road, Havant P09 Roy

1NT. Tel 0705 451214

puter

owner

can

play

except us Atari fans?

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Shortage PLEASE could you tell me why many good games are not being brought out for the Atari? Games like P515

Trading Company, Space

were error free. They had been rechecked,

Ludovic Hou L'O/iver, Pocsfrtbil‘ZS/e ' 07200 Aubenas France

AtariWriter, error messagesseemedtoindicatethat there was something wrong

or

with the discs. Could you tell me if there is a fault in my drive or computer. / think your magazine is excellent. It is my main source ofinformation about the Atari range. I’m especially interested in the gadgets series by Len Golding, and would like to know if he will be including please

on D.

Didcot, Oxon. 0 it is possible

speech Butterfield,

that your

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Swinbum, Shef?eld.

new companies releasing games for the Atari. They

obviously want to test the water first, so when a company does make Atari software available, write and say what a wise move it was. That way it will be in

producing

most for them. a It then becomes decision for the software house that buys the rights as to which formats it wants to convert the game to. Thus, as we said before, the more you let them know that there is a demand for Atari products, the more likely it is that such classics will soon become available.

As for the ”Atari" arcade titles you mention, these are actuall develo ed and owned by Atari Co?n~0p,not by Jack Tramiel’s Atari Corp. These are now two

Tape

completely separate companies, and Atari Coin-Op will sell the rights to its

WHEN/loadgames into my computer / get a strange

games to whoever pays the '

and one had even been left formatted with Dos 2. When I tried to format the remaining discs with Dos 2, Dos 3, Home Filing Manager

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interested

G ames

and

Ng38 Sir/(gyms,

Paul

more.

an article synthesis.

Wash/n ton

Wear

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offering. However, you forgot to publish any details of how to address?

m

Mr George Jackson 82 Hors/ey Road, Barmston'

Also, could you tell me why we faithful Atari users are getting brushed aside? Atari keeps bringing out excellent games — like and so on for Paperboy machines such as the Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore. Why do we lose out on all thoseAtari arcadegames that every other home com-

ormattmg optlons

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worlLed beataps our nowe ?lm;ge, so per you are not using them correctly. Program 1 was the

.

screen

magazine has to do.

printed

Harrier, The Last Ninja, Hyper Sports and the long awaited Elite.

disc drive is at fault. The 1050 should be able to format any normal 5.25in disc you give it, especially in single density mode. Try using the P option on Dos 2.5 to do a single density format. if this still doesn't work, take it back to your dealer for service. Thanks for your comments about the Gadgets series. YOU may be interested to note that RH Design, the company which handles the PCB manufacture for us, has had such a good response that it is now able to the supply completed gadgets. For a price list, write to R.H. Stonefall Design, 137

Avenue, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 7NS-

mangler ‘

noise and it often chews up my tapes. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with 800XL? Dennis my —

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It sounds as if your tape recorder’s motor or tapeguide and capstan are at fault certainly chewing Up tapes is not a feature that most recorders boast about. suggest that YOU return your recorder to your dealer for fixing. —

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cassette or disc? '

RECENTLY read your review of Action! and was wondering whether it is possible to use it with a cassette rather than a disc drive, I was impressed by your review and I’m very interested in buying it— if it I

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won’t

work, could you tell me the name of another compiler and where could get it from?

please !

—

Matthew Croft, Derby.

0 You'll be glad to know that Action! can be used with acassette recorder as it is cartridge based and all l/O operations may be transferred via tape rather than disc. You will obviously find that loading and saving take a lot longer, and making up a library of INCLUDE subroutines might be a little

harder due to the nature of tape. The only major problem you willfind is ifyou want to use the Run-Time package or Programmers Aid Toolkit because they both come on disc and would need to be transferred before you can use them. Also, if you want to make run-time machine code files, Action! isn't designed to

generate cassette autoboot

files. You could convert the binary load format into an autoboot form, or use a little Basic loader routine. This only applies if you want to save

as.

helpful and have used some of the excellent ?ve liners. Keep UP the 9000' work —

a

c- Skipsey, Birlley, 00- Durham.

er/y so I rang them up and they gave me a freepost address to sendthe drive to. lsent it offand four days later I got the disc drive back. Well done Compumart for the fast service.

0 There

books

are many uncover the

that hidden qualities of your Atari, but they can be very technical and hard to understand at first — we normally recommend a combination of the

manual labour

best books available. Be patient when learning — it can be a long and confusing task. With that in

HAVE recently bought an Atari 800XL plus 1050 disc drive, and also a copy of your helpful magazine. lam sure that I’m suffering like all new owners due to lack ofinformation. The manuals lreceived with mycomputer were not terribly good and don’t explain the Basic com— mands or give any technical /

mind, start off by getting a copy of the 130XE Handbook or Your Atari Computer (Revised Edition) from your dealer. When you want to dig a little deeper, Mapping the Atari tells you what all the locations in memory do,and

information whatsoever. I am therefore led to believe that there must be a much better text available, and/hope you can give me

is an indispensible reference De-Re-Atari is guide. another great source of information on applying the power of the Atari to its

its title. Also are there any other versions of Dos and Basic available, and which are the best? lhave so far bought only one copy of your mag but

fullest. These two books cover all the ground rules needed, but they are heavy going. You can also buy various other books which skip lightly over complex mat-

have already found it very

free-standing

a

machine code program,

Action! source code can be loaded from cassette. compiled and then run with no problems.

would be fine beginner. There are many alternatives to Atari's Dos and Basic, including: Dos 1.0, ters and these

for

spellbound help HAVE

few tips for Spellbound. To get the lift working take the Mid linir from Elrand the Ha/felven. Summon Thor to the lift usmg the Elf I

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,

,

horn.

.

.

.

.

GivetheMid/inirtohim and to

then'command him help With the Wand of

Command from the roof. Thor Will now hit the control box With the Midlinir enabling you to go to the basement. The Elf horn can be obtained from Samson The Strong on the 2nd level. To get past the gas room on the first floor co/lect the Red Herring from the 3rd floor and Power Pong Plant from the basement. This Will enable you to cast a .

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44 ATARI USER

May 7987

.

Fumecus

Dos 2.0, Dos 2.5, Dos 3.0, SpartaDos, Dos-XL, My-Dos;

.

Protect/cus

spell. To get past the dark room on the 3rd floor you

must collect the glowing bottle from the L shaped room on that floor. To get extra energy collect the Bottle of LigUId from the roof and give it to Florin, then take it back again and you Will now have full energy. To blow up the wall on the 4th floor collect the pocket laser from the ground floor. Summon Lady Rosemar to the 4th f/oor and give her the .

.

.

laser.

Now command her to help and she Will blow up the wall using her quick blow fuse to fix the laser. . . — Neil Richardson, Camberley, Surrey. .

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,

K-Dos, Microsoft Basic, BasrchL, Basrc/XE, and van -_ -

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Of

ggziccompi Ask your dealer for hlS recommendations, but the combination of Basic/XE with either Dos-XL or SpartaDos would be very powerful indeed. And keep looking at Atari User. Helping users get the . best out of their computer lS what we're here for' '

1050 disc drive with the free games, but on January 16 it would not boot prop-

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