Newtes_1.atr - New_tes2.atr

        I am happy that you are interested in my reading program.  I want to
make this reading program public domain.
        Attached to this e-mail is a zip file of two ATR files.  My reading
program is on each of them.  They are 360 K Spartados format.  The reading
program is R.COM.  The reading program will only read text files that do not
have an extension.  The first disk has the New Testament Matthew and Mark.
The second disk has Luke and John.  The translation version is King James.  

How to run the reading program:

First boot the disk.  You will first be presented with a directory of files
that have no extension.  Use the joystick in port 1 to choose the file you
wish to read.  You are now presented with what I call the main menu on the
top of the screen and the beginning text of the file below.  The arrows on
the top of the screen show what the joystick functions will do.  Press the
joystick to the right to begin reading.  For a brief moment a submenu on the
top of the screen will flash showing what the joystick directions will do.
The submenu will turn off.  If you need more time to read it, just press the
joystick button and it will turn on as long as the joystick button is
pressed.  Press right to start reading, press left to stop.  To speed up the
reading rate, press down repeatedly until the rate speeds up to what is
comfortable with you.  To slow down, press up repeatedly.  To get back to
the main menu, press the joystick button at the same time while pressing up.
This will work to get out of all other submenus.  
        When you wish to stop and save your position, go back to the main
menu and then press left 3 times.  Your position is now saved,  the name of
the file that you were reading is saved. also your current reading rate and
also your color setting.  When you boot the disk to read next time you will
be brought exactly to the same spot again with the same color and same
speed.  If you go to another file that you had previously been reading, you
will be brought back to where you were at with that file.  
        To return to DOS, go back to the main menu and then press the START
key and you will be returned to Spartados.
        To change color and brightness, there is a submenu for that.
        If you wish to scan through a text file at a fast scroll, or flip
through page by page without scrolling, then choose SCAN in the main menu.
        If you wish to make the screen blank there is a main menu selection
for that also.  To turn the screen back on, press the button the joystick
and press up.

Known bug in this program:
        I have found that when this program is used with an XF551 disk
drive, every once in a while, the program will partially lock up and
continue scrolling with disk access stopped.  You will find yourself reading
text that you have read before several pages back.  You can recover from
this sometimes by pressing the BREAK key and the program will quite often
work after that.  This has been an occasional once per several hours
problem.  I am not sure what the problem is.  But, when this program is used
with APE, then there are no problems.  APE somehow fixed the bug.

At some future time, I would like to add the ability to use different fonts
for this reading program.  If you have some good information on this I would
appreciate it.

This program was written  in 1988-1990 with Lightspeed C and the Atari
Assembler Cartridge. 

Thank you for the opportunity to add this to your Pooldisk II.

Regards.

        Craig Thompson


Convert.atr / Reformat.exe


        Here are the two programs I told you about.  Reformat.exe reformats
IBM ascii text from any width to the width you specify on the command line.
The syntax is reformat 40 input_file_name  output_file_name.  The other
program is on the ATR file.  Convert will convert an IBM ascii file
(transferred to the Atari by APE) to Atascii so the reading program can read
it.  The syntax is convert input_file_name output_file_name.
        Again, thank you for this opportunity to get this program on
pooldisk II.  I hope to hear if anyone enjoys it.

Thanks,
        Craig.