ataritools

Tools to convert text files from ASCII to ATASCII

These are a couple of tools to convert text files from ASCII to ATASCII and back. ATASCII is different from ASCII mainly in that it does not have lowercase characters and the new line character is 155 instead of 10 (there are other differences, but they do not affect most Atari BASIC code).

This project provides two command line tools to convert files back and forth:

• asc2atari input.bas OUTPUT.LST converts an ASCII file into ATASCII (that you can, e.g., load using ENTER)
• atari2asc INPUT.LST output.bas converts an ATASCII file into ASCII (so you can edit it on your computer).