Talk:ATASCII

message: The information about "inverse characters", is misleading, and the image illustrating it is plain wrong. The ATASCII character set consists of characters 0-127 "normal", and 128-255 inverse. 82.210.159.30 15:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The main article could be improved if a table of equivalencies were added, comparing the Atari, Commodore, and PC ascii sets.  216.99.219.165 (talk) 23:24, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree with you.    And maybe a discussion of what sets Atari graphics apart from the Apple II of the day.  198.177.27.21 (talk) 20:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well add it then. SimonTrew (talk) 22:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My experience with the Atari is limited to the 520 ST, which doesn't use ATASCII.  Instead, the 520 ST uses some kind of a "plain vanilla" ASCII, which is kind of disappointing since all my prior experience was with the Commodore series of computers.  Now, as for the eight bit Atari, that is something that I am curious about.  198.177.27.29 (talk) 00:30, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

text: I've added a character chart, but I haven't been been able to find the Unicode value for RIGHT ONE QUARTER BLOCK (ATASCII 02) or UPPER ONE QUARTER BLOCK (ATASCII 0D). DanBishop (talk) 01:56, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we add a key as to whate the colors mean? I presume it is something along the lines of whether it matches ASCII or something. SimonTrew (talk) 08:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yellow background is for ATASCII-specific graphics characters.  White background is the same except that you have to press ESC first or they get interpreted as control characters.  The rest are the same as ASCII, classified by letters, digits, and punctuation. DanBishop (talk) 05:40, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table needed 

message: Aside from the carriage return, linefeed, and ESC characters, what other characters were considered control codes in ATASCII?   198.177.27.27 (talk) 00:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: None. The article says so, I think quite clearly and concisely. Some characters had special meanings to some programs, but the whole character set could be rendered graphically. Believe me I know cos I had to squeeze them in to 4x8 characters for my 80-column driver.
You could register so that I am not talking with an anonymous IP I can't reply to. It's a bit rude IMHO. SimonTrew (talk) 06:20, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Like you, I hate anonymity.  Registering with Wikipedia is simply not as good as just signing your real name, with a street address, city, and zipcode.  216.99.198.201 (talk) 09:07, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I do use my real name. In fact, old UK atarians have found me in this way. I don't see your real name, street address, city or zipcode. SimonTrew (talk) 13:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just the way some of us protest the theory of "anonymity" and "identity" as it relates to Internet, where authentication depends largely (but not always) on password passing (and even password sharing, when it is done by operatives of clandestine (sometimes Federal) organizations).   Authentication should be guaranteed across the board, and not just dependent on agreeing as to which kind of protocol is used for passing data between Internet Points and Gateways.   216.99.201.109 (talk) 20:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Control Codes Needed 

message: I am trying to recall now, but somehow on Rev C. the graphics characters were replaced  with accented Latin letter characters, àèìò etc. I can't remember (a) how it did this-- I think it was a completely seperate font back-- and (b) how it was accessed-- you hit the OPTION button or something to switch between them (it just changed the register that pointed to the font location). Any clues? SimonTrew (talk) 22:19, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember. It was a separate font. The OPTION button must have just flipped the fonts. I am pretty sure it was OPTION. SimonTrew (talk) 08:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The international character set could be enabled on the Atari 1200XL by hitting Control+F4. Later XLs and XEs did not have function keys. Basically that key combo toggled between what would be a `POKE 756,224` (standard character set) and `POKE 756,204` (international). I've fleshed the article out to include details about this, show a screenshot (from Atari800 emulator) of the alternate characters, and provide a table mapping the ATASCII values and keypress combos to each symbol (e.g.,  for "á" (a-acute)).  FYI, the OPTION key on the XL and XE systems was used, on power-up, to disable built-in BASIC (not included in the 400, 800, or 1200XL). --Billkendrick (talk) 06:05, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

text: Well, it was all deleted. Oddly, it sounds like describing the details of ATASCII isn't warranted, despite the existing page already mirroring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII. Shrug. I tried. Billkendrick (talk) 07:35, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  European (Latin-1) characters 

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message: I'm very sceptical of this edit, which introduced the notion that ATASCII 0x9B corresponds to the non-breaking space. The newline article suggests 0x9B should be ATASCII's newline character. It damn near looks like the   association here was introduced purely on the strength of a dubious visual resemblance of the inverted solid block with the appearance of a non-breaking space. Is there anywhere else that claims some correspondence between ATASCII 0x9B and NBSP? Any conversion software that actually substitutes non-breaking spaces for ATASCII's version of newlines? Press X for doubt. I'm not editing this myself though, because I have no sources to hand. —ReadOnlyAccount (talk) 05:37, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBSP SUS