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Disk image utilities for Atari 8-bit emulators

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atrcopy

Utilities to list files on and extract files from Atari 8-bit emulator disk images. Eventually, I hope to add support for these images to pyfilesystem.

Prerequisites

Starting with atrcopy 2.0, numpy is required.

The standard python install tool, pip, does not seem to be able to handle the automatic installation of numpy, so to install atrcopy, use:

pip install numpy
pip install atrcopy

References

Supported Disk Image Formats

  • XFD: XFormer images, basically raw disk dumps

  • ATR: Nick Kennedy’s disk image format; includes 16 byte header

Supported Filesystem Formats

  • XEX format: Atari executable files

  • Atari DOS in single, enhanced, and double density

  • KBoot format: a single executable file packaged up into a bootable disk image

Example Usage

To extract all non SYS files while converting to lower case, use:

$ python atrcopy.py /tmp/GAMES1.ATR -x -l -n
GAMES1.ATR
File #0 : *DOS     SYS  039 : skipping system file dos.sys
File #1 : *MINER2       138 : copying to miner2
File #2 : *DEFENDER     132 : copying to defender
File #3 : *CENTIPEDE    045 : copying to centiped.e
File #4 : *GALAXIAN     066 : copying to galaxian
File #5 : *AUTORUN SYS  005 : skipping system file autorun.sys
File #6 : *DIGDUG       133 : copying to digdug
File #7 : *ANTEATER     066 : copying to anteater
File #8 : *ASTEROIDS    066 : copying to asteroid.s

Example on Mac OS X

OS X supplies python with the operating system so you shouldn’t need to install a framework version from python.org.

To prevent overwriting important system files, it’s best to create a working folder: a new empty folder somewhere and do all your testing in that folder. For this example, create a folder called atrtest in your Documents folder. Put a few disk images in this directory to use for testing.

Download or copy the file atrcopy.py and put it the Documents/atrtest folder.

Since this is a command line programe, you must start a Terminal by double clicking on Terminal.app in the Applications/Utilities folder in the Finder. When Terminal opens, it will put you in your home folder automatically. Go to the atrtest folder by typing:

cd Documents/atrtest

You should see the file atrcopy.py as well as the other ATR images you placed in this directory by using the command:

ls -l

For example, you might see:

mac:~/Documents/atrtest $ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob  staff  92176 May 18 21:57 GAMES1.ATR
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob  staff   8154 May 18 22:36 atrcopy.py

Now, run the program by typing python atrcopy.py YOURFILE.ATR and you should see the contents of the ATR image in the familiar Atari DOS format:

mac:~/Documents/atrtest $ python atrcopy.py GAMES1.ATR
GAMES1.ATR
File #0 : *DOS     SYS  039
File #1 : *MINER2       138
File #2 : *DEFENDER     132
File #3 : *CENTIPEDE    045
File #4 : *GALAXIAN     066
File #5 : *AUTORUN SYS  005
File #6 : *DIGDUG       133
File #7 : *ANTEATER     066
File #8 : *ASTEROIDS    066

Without any additional arguments, it will not extract files. To actually pull the files out of the ATR image, you need to specify the -x command line argument:

mac:~/Documents/atrtest $ python atrcopy.py -x GAMES1.ATR
GAMES1.ATR
File #0 : *DOS     SYS  039 : copying to DOS.SYS
File #1 : *MINER2       138 : copying to MINER2
File #2 : *DEFENDER     132 : copying to DEFENDER
File #3 : *CENTIPEDE    045 : copying to CENTIPED.E
File #4 : *GALAXIAN     066 : copying to GALAXIAN
File #5 : *AUTORUN SYS  005 : copying to AUTORUN.SYS
File #6 : *DIGDUG       133 : copying to DIGDUG
File #7 : *ANTEATER     066 : copying to ANTEATER
File #8 : *ASTEROIDS    066 : copying to ASTEROID.S

There are other flags, like the -l flag to covert to lower case, and the --xex flag to add the .XEX extension to the filename, and -n to skip DOS files. So a full example might be:

mac:~/Documents/atrtest $ python atrcopy.py -n -l -x --xex GAMES1.ATR
GAMES1.ATR
File #0 : *DOS     SYS  039 : skipping system file dos.sys
File #1 : *MINER2       138 : copying to miner2.xex
File #2 : *DEFENDER     132 : copying to defender.xex
File #3 : *CENTIPEDE    045 : copying to centipede.xex
File #4 : *GALAXIAN     066 : copying to galaxian.xex
File #5 : *AUTORUN SYS  005 : skipping system file autorun.sys
File #6 : *DIGDUG       133 : copying to digdug.xex
File #7 : *ANTEATER     066 : copying to anteater.xex
File #8 : *ASTEROIDS    066 : copying to asteroids.xex

Command Line Arguments

The available command line arguments are summarized using the standard -- help argument:

$ python atrcopy.py --help
usage: atrcopy.py [-h] [-v] [-l] [--dry-run] [-n] [-x] [--xex] ATR [ATR ...]

Extract images off ATR or XFD format disks

positional arguments:
  ATR            a disk image file [or a list of them]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose
  -l, --lower    convert filenames to lower case
  --dry-run      don't extract, just show what would have been extracted
  -n, --no-sys   only extract things that look like games (no DOS or .SYS
                 files)
  -x, --extract  extract files
  --xex          add .xex extension
  -f, --force    force operation on disk images that have bad directory
                 entries or look like boot disks

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