I recently discovered Mikey Walters's Atari BASIC series, and my sons and I went through the tutorials, learning a lot about Atari BASIC along the way. We typed in most of the program, but I also wanted to try Mikey's revised version.
I downloaded the BASIC files for Mikey's game,
downloaded and compiled atari-tools on my iMac, and used the atr
command from
atari-tools to make a disk image so that I could easly copy the game to my Atari 800:
% atr basfiles.atr mkfs dos2.5
% ls -l basfiles.atr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel staff 133136 Jul 19 15:12 basfiles.atr
% atr basfiles.atr ls
% atr basfiles.atr put basfiles/asltorg.bas
asltorg.bas
% atr basfiles.atr put basfiles/asltrev.bas
asltrev.bas
% atr basfiles.atr ls
asltorg.bas asltrev.bas
% atr basfiles.atr ls -l
-rw-- 11584 ( 93) asltorg.bas
-rw-- 13065 (105) asltrev.bas
2 entries
198 sectors, 24649 bytes
812 free sectors, 103936 free bytes
%
Once the basfiles.atr
disk image was ready, I moved it to my TNFS server, and mounted it on my FujiNet using the web UI:
Then I ran BASIC on my Atari 800, loaded the program, and was off to the races.
Very fun stuff.