My forth and final text adventure. This adventure is based upon the supernatural where a pleasent trip to the rose gardens suddenly becomes your worst nightmare. After slipping through some kind of time warp you find yourself in a ??? but can you find your way back to your own world? Note that Rose Gardens is a personalised text adventure that will communicate with you by name. If you would like a copy of Rose Gardens, then please contact me by clicking the above link and let me know the name you wish to use. Your name must consist of a minimum of three letters and a maximum of eight. I will then put your chosen name into a copy of Rose Gardens and will forward it to you by return email.

My first adventure. Whilst exploring a network of caves and pot holes, a rock fall sealed the entrance to the caves with thousands of tones of rock and another way out must be found. There is much exploring and travelling to be done in this adventure, items left in the caves by previous explorers might prove useful but then again they might prove to be a burden. There are many other problems that will have to be solved, for instance the life of torch batteries may need considering and underwater survival might be a useful skill.

The large old house stands alone in its own grounds accessed only by a deserted narrow tree lined lane and isolated by a large, heavy wrought iron gate. The old house, now fallen into disrepair has become the source of great mystery, giving rise to many erie rumours which generates fear into anyone who dares to wander too close. Further more only bikini-clad women have been sighted at the house who walk as if in a dream. As time passed, the house became known by a name which instills fear into everyone who mentions it and into all those who hear of it. The name most feared is ... Ye Olde House. Can you solve the mystery of Ye Olde House?

Can you survive in the land where dinosaurs rule and gather enough evidence to prove the existence of living dinosaurs. The land where dinosaurs rule is accessed via a network of caves from where you must find everything you need to accomplish your mission. When in the land where dinosaurs rule, you will encounter both carnivorous and herbivorous creatures, some are relatively safe and some are not. Bare in mind that the dinosaurs move about, they may not be where expected and if you encounter a dinosaur then you probably will not survive. In the land where dinosaurs rule you will also encounter other problems such as rough impenetrable terrain, open plains, pockets of quicksand, etc.

Although primarily designed for drawing electrical circuit diagrams, Atari CAD may be used to draw just about anything. Drawing functions are selected from the keyboard and actioned using a joystick whether drawing lines, circles or plotting electronic symbols from the wide range available. Full instructions are available and eight example drawing files, one of which is a replacement XL/XE power supply shown on the Atari CAD screen image above. The remaining drawing files include circuit diagrams for a single transistor receiver and a square wave generator. Also included are 15 blank master drawing files each with a special feature around which wiring layout drawings may be produced.

Turbo Assembler version 4 is a programming utility designed specifically for writing machine code routines for use within Basic programs and to this end, the output files are written directly into Basic which avoids the usual problems of converting the conventional object code. The Turbo Assembler uses the standard 6502 assembly language mnemonics together with a few special non-standard features in order to ease the whole process of producing machine code routines for use within Basic. Turbo Assembler version IV can assemble an assembly language source code listing into a machine code file consisting of up to 15 pages or 3840 bytes of code, enough for any machine code routine for use within a Basic program.

A fast and furious crazy bat and ball game. The object of the game is to score as many goals as possible whilst avoiding all the obstacles which will rebound the ball back to you and if the ball crosses the line behind your bat then a miss is registered.

Recently updated to version 3 with a modified playing field, a larger bat to improve the game play and a new colour scheme. The object of the game remains the same but Crazy Ball is now more challenging as extra obstacles appear as the game proceeds making the game progressively more difficult.

A word game based on solving anagrams starting with seven letter anagrams progressively getting more difficult finishing with ten letter anagrams. If your score is good enough your name will appear in the hi-score table.

This is a computerised version of the age-old game of battle ships where each player in turns selects grid coordinates trying to hit their opponents ships. This version of the game is played by one player plays against the Atari with optional sound effects.

Blind hookey or Banker is a card game where one player gambles blindly upon the turn of a single card. You place a stake on your chosen card and the bank doubles your stake then selects a card, the two cards are then revealed and if you beat the bank you win your doubled stake, but if not the doubled stake is lost.

The Atari Electronic Organ is played using the keyboard as if it were a piano keyboard, but note that it was intended for the Atari keyboard and not modern keyboards which are a little different. Features include single or dual voices, natural decay, rhythm and tempo, plays treble or bass, 2 built-in tunes, etc.

The Disk Sector Editor can be used to amend floppy disks on a proper Atari system or used to amend disk image files via an emulator. The directory of a disk can be listed showing the status of all its files including deleted and open files and their start sector and the number of sectors the files occupy, open files can be closed and deleted files can be undeleted. Sectors no longer being used can be cleaned, link sectors can be followed, etc.

The Sound Selector is a utility program that can dig out all the possible sounds that the Atari can produce. If the Atari can do it, the Sound Selector will find it. Once an interesting sound has been found, it can be saved as a Basic routine, a USR routine or an assembly language source code for inclusion into a program listing at a later date. There are 3 sound files saved in Ascii format on Program Disk 1 that was created using The Sound Selector.

Recently updated to Version 2, a utility program for programmers that overcomes the lack of a search facility in the Atari operating system. The Basic Listing Searcher will search a listing and list all the lines of Basic that contain the character string that was entered at the prompt.

Recently updated to Version 2, a utility program for programmers. Constants require 10 bytes of storage space in memory whilst variables only require 4 bytes, it is therefore good practice to conserve memory by converting constants used three times or more into variables. The Constant to Variable Converter initially reads the listing counting the constants used and then reads the listing a second time replacing the often used constants. The converted variable names are simply the constant itself prefixed by a letter so that they are instantly recognisable within a listing. Version II converts constants that occur three times or more into variables, the original version only converted constants that occurred more than three times.