About Bob Duhamel's Atari System Reference manual

[lbaeza]

Hi there

 

Was this manual ever released in printed form?

 

All I've seen are ASCII or HTML versions, or PDFs based on the HTML version...

 

Regards

[itaych]

I don't know the authoritative answer to your question but I'm quite sure that the answer is that this only circulated as a text file and was never published as a book.

 

My main reason for posting is to point out that all the online copies have some text missing in chapter 15, but that this text was actually found (source here and here). The text files read:

 

                                 CHAPTER 15
    
                                DISPLAY LISTS
    
    
    [some of this file was lost...]
    
    
    chip also has a memory scan counter. [...]

 

 

Here is the full version:

 

                                 CHAPTER 15
    
                                DISPLAY LISTS
    
    
    The program which runs the ANTIC chip is called the display list. Much
    like a microprocessor, the ANTIC chip has a program counter, called the
    display list counter.
    
    The display list counter is a 16 bit register. However, the six most
    significant bits are semi-fixed. These bits can only be changed with a
    jump instruction. The result of this is that the display list counter
    cannot cross a 1K memory boundary (i.e. $A3FF to $A400) without using a
    jump instruction.
    
    The ANTIC chip finds the address of the display list in DLISTL [$D402
    (54274)] and DLISTH [$D403 (54275)]. SDLSTL [$0230 (560)] and SDLSTH
    [$0231 (561)] are the shadow registers for DLISTL and DLISTH.
    
    The ANTIC chip also has a memory scan counter. [...]

 

-itay

[rsduhamel]

 

Was this manual ever released in printed form?

 

 

I sent a manuscript to a publisher in London at their request but nothing ever came of it. I think that only two hard copies ever existed and I lost mine.

 

Bob DuHamel

[carmel_andrews]

I have a disk copy (orig. PD version) unfortunately I don't have working 1050's or an sio2pc thingy to convert it to pc format

[Roydea6]

This is a good one I don't know where I got it ----- No missing text at chapter 15.------

 

 

Atari+System Reference manual.pdf

Edited November 1, 2010 by rdea6