Disk Guide Atari 400 and 800.pdf

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David A. Wilson, Series Editor

~ Osborne/McGraw-Hili

ATARI ® 400lS00™

DiskGuide M

John Taylor

This co mpact co mpute r- sid e re fe re nce co nta in s vi ta l co mma nds a nd func ti o ns for

usin g the ATAR I® 400/800'" compute rs.

Ot he r books in th e Di skG u ide se ri es inc lu d e:

IAM ® PC D is kGuide'". by David A. Wi lso n (94-2)

YisiCa lc® D is kGuid e'", by David A. Wi lso n (98-5)

CP/ M ® D iskG uid c'", by Curt is A. In g ra ha m (97-7)

Apple® II DiskGuide'". by Ze lda Gifford (96-9)

Osborne( M c Graw- H ill

Be rk e ley, Ca li forn ia

Published by Osborne/ McGraw-Hill

2600 Tenth Street

Berkeley, California 94710

ATARI® 400/800'" DISK GUIDE'"

Except as permitted under the Copy right Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be rep roduced or

di stribut ed in any form or by any means. or sto red in a data base o r ret ri eva l sys tem. without th e prior

written permission of the publis he r, wit h the excep tion that the program li st in gs may be e nt ered, stored,

and executed in a computer system, but they may not be reproduced for publication.

1234567890 GBGB 89876543

ISBN 0-931988-95-0

ATARI is a registered trademark of Atari, Inc.

400/800 is a trademark of Atari, Inc.

820/822 Printer is a trademark of Atari, In c.

825 Printer is a trad e mark of Atari, In c.

850 Inte rface Module is a trad e mark of Atari, Inc.

Memory Module is a trade mark o f Atari, In c.

DiskGuide is a trademark of Osborne / McGraw-Hili

Series Ed itor: David A. Wilson

Cover Design: Vashi Okita

Text design: K LT van Genderen

Contents

ATARI 400/800 Keyboard 4

Cassette Use 5

Diskette Use 6

DOS 6

Dos Start-up Menu 6

Program Development 9

Program Fi les 10

ATARI BASIC Language II

Initializing Statements I I

Numbers 13

Strings 15

BAS IC Programming

Statements 16

General Programming

Statements 18

Keyboard Input 19

Graphics 20

Sound Generation 27

Device I/ O 28

Joysticks 28

Printer Port 29

General Device I/ O 31

Serial Port (850 Interface) 33

Data Fi les 36

Cassette Data Files 36

Disk Data F il es 36

Error Messages 38

Error Handling 38

Machine Language 39

Useful PEEK and POKE

Locations 40

Memory Usage 43

Codes, Characters, and Keystrokes 51

ATARI BASIC Keywords and

Abbreviations 62

Index 63

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