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Features:
- Automatic detection of 738 titles and 693 content types based on Krotki's list added.
- CRC-32 values are now saved with the project file. This way, people can share/post their project files to improve the quality of the CRC database without sending actual ROM files.
- Visualization of banks now shows banks of the duplicate entries as "continuous" blocks.
- The command line interface is now working:
java -jar TheCartStudio.jar -new -assignNewBanks -addEntries:ROMs\AtariOnline\Airball.car -addEntries:ROMs\AtariOnline-Renamed\*.car -saveAs:example.tcw
Fixes:
- Additional characters are now accepted in titles ("[","]",":" etc.).
- Headers of DD & 16 MB ATRs contain the correct size information now.
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In October, a new flexible Atari 8-bit cartridge named "The!Cart" will be released as part of the ABBUC Hardware Contest. I support the project with the software to create cartridge images of up to 128 MB. The software named "The!Cart Studio" is based on the ideas of the Maxflash Cartridge Studio and adds additional features like support for up to 16384 entries, import of ".CAR" cartridge files, incremental flashing, and a menu with a Google-like search. It is written in pure Java and runs fine on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It has English and German localization. The first download and documentation of the preview version are available here. The sources are available here. All feedback is welcome!
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Since bulb@ had some trouble understanding my comments on Ye Olde Plasma and seems new to the Atari scene (and the rest of the scene, if not even the whole world), I decided to follow his suggestion and add a little guide here. The Atari Composite file format is a segment file format originating from Atari DOS 2.5. Each segment consists of the start address and the (inclusive end address). The first segment requires $ffff as an additional prefix, adding a total of 6 bytes to the minimum file length. Though this header is larger than the 2-byte C64 header, it is still much smaller than the header of, for example, the Atari ST executable format. Therefore, compo rules of Atari-related parties like Forever consider the title and refer to the file size, as this is done on most other platforms. This means this nice intro does not fit into the 256-byte category on Atari 8-bit. So bulb@ selected the wrong category, but hey, that happens. Instead of starting to bash him, I contacted the coder, Dimitry, who sent some respect for cross-platform coding and gave some tips on how to make this better and smaller. I like the scene, the competition and exchanging ideas with fabulous people. I wouldn't say I like trolls, though.
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This week, I attended a "Sematic web technologies" course at the Open HPI University, where I learned new things about RDFa and Microdata. So I tried enriching my site and ended up with one of the "One day I will..." improvements planned for too long. The list of productions on the Atari 8-bit tab is now generated in PHP based on a simple CSV file. The resulting HTML contains all semantic information about the productions so search engines can use it. See what the Google Webmaster Tools can get out of this now.
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This pack contains a disk image in MyDos format with all Atari 8-bit releases of SillyVenture 2k12. PIN/TRISTESSE originally compiled the disk. I found it a good idea, and SillyVenture deserves a good presentation, especially the graphics and music releases for which no art pack/music disk exists. This is an updated version with a proper results viewer, which also acts as a menu from where you can directly start all releases and read the readmes. The menu remains memory resident, so you don't have to load it again every time. This makes watching the graphics entries and listening to the music entries much more fun, especially on a real machine. These are the controls for the menu:
- Pressing any key while loading the menu takes you to the DOS shell.
- Pressing RESET in the menu performs a cold start.
- Pressing RESET while a release is running returns to the menu, if possible.
- Further controls are displayed in the menu itself.
