Articles by Unfinished Bitness

I just released version 1.60 of my C Library for the Atari 8 bit computers. This version includes the following: -Added StrCln to A8LibStr which removes {} characters from strings. -Added StrRep to A8LibStr which replaces …

With recent additions to Atari800MacX which now allow Network SIO to communicate with emulated FujiNet devices, I’ve been using it over Altirra running under CrossOver when I can because Atari800MacX is seamless and native. Previously there was a nice graphical FujiNet PC Launcher for macOS titled as such. When starting …

Just in time for Valentines Day, I have released another cubeSQL backed Atari 8 home computer database program. This one is for the adults, and is designed to track your, er, uh, bedroom adventures! Dr. Love will help you track how often, how well your performing, and several other …

Wait, what?!? Around mid 2023 I had an idea to somehow connect the Atari 8 bit to a modern database that could do all the heavy lifting of database related functions which would effectively remove record storage limitations, better indexing, and superior query abilities. This would leave the Atari to …

Last year I wrote and released an Atari 8 bit ATASCII screen editor called Mr. Paint. I neglected to post about it here, but should have. Without going into too much detail in this post, in short I needed a way to edit static ATASCII screens (not animations), and was …

In the past I’ve upgraded my main computer about every 2 years. This last cycle I stretched it to 4 years, primarily because they’ve gotten so fast and capable I haven’t had a need. I could probably stretch it out even further if I really wanted, but I do like …

Recently I posted about how to get Altirra running on Apple silicon M series Macs using Whisky.  In this article I setup Codeweavers CrossOver in a similar fashion as I did for Whisky, on an M series Mac such that there is a 320K Atari XL computer with SpartaDOS X, …

If you have a Mac with an Apple Silicon M series processor, you have no troubles running your favorite Atari 8 bit programs using Atari800MacX – until you need to use an unsupported device such as FujiNet. This use case necessitates using Altirra, and FujiNet-PC. Altirra is a Windows native …

I didn’t publicize the C version of my Atari 8 bit library when I released it, except in a small-ish community. The current version is 1.21. The C version of the library includes some things the Action! version does not. The C version has the following features: Text windowing Window gadgets …