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This episode features The Bookkeeper, originally released in 1982 by Atari.

Scan of the front of the box:

Scan of the back of the box:

The main menu before Start Up has been completed.  Note company code is XXXXXX:

Entering an invalid code:

Main menu after Start Up has been completed.  Note Company Code is valid:

The start up menu options are purple.

Menu:

Edit Company Code:

Edit As Of Date (note it is not Y2K compliant, you must use a day compatible year):

Edit ID Line:

The Data Entry screens are all dark blue.

Once the program loads, you are prompted to insert your data disk:

Menu

Enter Checks Written

Enter checks in batches up to 50:

And make sure data disk is in drive and formatted:

Enter Cash Received

Enter cash received in batches up to 50 as well:

Enter Invoices Written

Enter invoices written in batches up to 50 as well:

Enter General Journal:

Errors

If an error occurs, it is handled well:

The maintenance screens are all light blue.

Menu

Add, Change, Delete GL Accounts

A submenu of 5 options is used to control which function to perform:

Submenu 1 (Display GL Account):

Submenu 2 (Change GL Account):

Submenu 3 (Add GL Accounts):

Submenu 4 (Delete GL Account):

Submenu 5 (Scroll GL Accounts):

Add, Change Control Information

Add, Change, Delete Customers

Works much like Add, Change, Delete GL Accounts.

Add, Change, Delete Vendors

Works much like Add, Change, Delete GL Accounts.

Add, Change Invoice Prompts

These are the journal entries that will be prompted during invoice creation:

The reporting menu is much like the main program (data entry) menu, though uses slightly different color scheme.  Note that each function across the main program and the reporting program each has a unique color.

Loading

When choosing the reporting menu from the data entry (main) program, it must be loaded from disk and that means a disk swap:

Menu

List Journals

Recording And Period Processing

Menu:

61 – Recording:

81 – End Of Month:

82 – End Of Fiscal Year:

Print Lists

Menu:

Data Entry

This takes you back to the data entry (main) program.  Swap the disks to proceed:

The Bookkeeper appears to use Atari DOS 2.0.  The files are shown in the screenshot below:

Checks Written:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-51.pdf

Cash Received:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-52.pdf

Invoices Written:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-53.pdf

General Journal:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-54.pdf

General Ledger:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-61.pdf

Profit and Loss Statement:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-71.pdf

Trial Balance:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-72.pdf

Balance Sheet:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-73.pdf

General Ledger Account List:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-91.pdf

Customer (Numeric) List:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-92.pdf

Customer (Alphabetic) List:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-93.pdf

Vendor (Numeric) List:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-94.pdf

Vendor (Alphabetic) List:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-95.pdf

A scanned copy of the manual is available on AtariMania and other web sources.

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This episode features Rich Man’s 80 Column Word Processor, originally released in 1985 by Computer Software Services (CSS).  It was written by Mark Rogalski.

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This episode features Rich Man’s 80 Column Word Processor, originally released in 1985 by Computer Software Services (CSS).  It was written by Mark Rogalski.

Unknown packaging and no scans or pictures available.

The program requires 52K of memory, so an XL or XE is needed.   XL and XE computers should boot side B first.  This is the error if there is not enough memory present, or if you boot side A directly on an XL or XE:

XL and XE boot, side B complete:

Main Menu:

Edit

Create takes you to the editor.

This is the editor with the sample file loaded, captured via emulated Atari 800XL (without emulated artifacts):

Composite output video captured from physical Atari 130XE.  The artifacts appear worse on the capture device than on an actual display device:

S-Video output video captured from physical Atari 130XE.  The output from the capture device here are very very close to the actual display device (stay away from composite out):

This will work from Atari 400 and 800 computers with 48K, only if CSS “The Impossible” is installed to yield 52K free:

Load

Simply enter the filename.  If there is a document in memory, you are prompted to overwrite:

Save

Enter the filename to save as:

Confirm overwrite if file already exists:

View

View the formatted output before printing.  This is an estimate and only shows 77 columns:

Print

Normally the output just goes to the printer, unless there is an error:

Alternate Output

Enter the filename to print to:

The output is formatted and sent to the file in plain ASCII:

Give Memory Statistics

This gives some statistics about the text.  It shows the bytes used, bytes free, number of words in file, and number of lines in file:

Dir 1 to 4

Press the number of the drive you want a directory of:

Delete

Enter the name of the file you want to delete, and confirm:

Rename

Enter source file name, followed by new (destination) file name:

Init

Initializing a disk.  Specify which drive and confirm:

Help

The help screen is displayed nicely:

RM80CWP appears to use Atari DOS 2.0.  The disk is heavily copy protected.  The number of free sectors is a lie.  The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:

The files are:

Sample file output on Epson:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e19-prt-print.pdf

Scanned Quick Reference Card:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/richmansquikrefcard.pdf

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This episode features The Family Tree, originally released in 1983 by Antic Publishing.  It was developed by Harry Koons.

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This episode features The Family Tree, originally released in 1983 by Antic Publishing.  It was developed by Harry Koons.

Advertisement from Antic’s “The Catalog” insert located in the March 1988 issue of Antic magazine:

At boot …

After the first program load, you need to insert the data disk.  Make sure its either been used before, or if it’s blank make sure it’s formatted:

After the data disk is loaded, the bottom of the tree is displayed.  In this case, an empty data set:

Defining the bottom most person or “acorn”.  Acorn is a term I dubbed for the nodes in the tree, and not endorsed by the manual.  This is who the tree is for:

Add Person

Defining the father (or any person for that matter) is a four step process:

Exit

This is the only way to save:

Extended Generation Edit

Moving one of the grandparent “acorns” to the base to work on further extensions of the tree:

Display Information

Displaying data for a person (or “acorn”).  Repeat this four times to see all data:

Print Tree

Printing from any of the three print commands.  Each command is for a specific printer:

Documentation

The boot screen for the documentation:

Choose to print to screen or printer:

Printing documentation to the printer:

Displaying documentation to the screen:

Error

Oops!  An error (in this case unrecoverable due to unformatted disk):

The Family Tree uses Atari DOS 2.0.  The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:

The files are:

On a new empty data disk, only the data files are present:

Dump of the custom data file created for reviewing:

Print for Atari printer using 10 CPI:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-atari10.pdf

Print for Atari printer using proportional font:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-atariprop.pdf

Print for Epson printer using 10 CPI:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-epson10.pdf

Print 4 generations for Epson printer:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-epson10gen4.pdf

Documentation:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-doc.pdf

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This episode features AwardWare, originally released in 1986 by Hi Tech Expressions.

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This episode features AwardWare, originally released in 1986 by Hi Tech Expressions.  It was developed by VENDOR.

Scan of the front of the box:

Scan of the back of the box:

Target price tag carefully taped on the inside of the box back:

There are two boot splashes.  Both are animated.  The first fires segments of the AwardWare logo from the left and right launchers:

The second does a pixel fade from left to right, starting with a solid box, and revealing the logo:

Main menu:

Many of the printer driver files are on the graphic disk.  It must be inserted before you can execute the printer setup:

Printer Setup main menu:

Selecting a printer:

Selecting an interface:

Select Options menu:

Select Options Linefeed settings:

Select Options Printer Device Number settings:

Select Options Trasparent (not mis-spelled) Secondary Address settings:

Select Options Slot Number settings:

Test Print menu:

Any Character test input screen:

PDCS

Warning:

PDCS menu:

PDCS edit options menu:

PDCS editing the BITS option:

Layout in the upper left.  Menu on right, currently BORDER is selected:

Selecting a border to use:

Selecting a graphic for the top picture:

Selecting a font for the first text area:

Entering the text for the first text area:

Entering the text for the smaller text area below the main text area:

Selecting the signature type:

For the left and right signature types, you also select a seal to display:

Printing

Selecting final or draft mode output:

Rendering and printing.  Renders happen in screen memory, not in a linear or observable fashion:

Print again?

Main menu:

Awards/Licenses

Entering the template number:

Selecting the element to edit (BORDER currently selected):

Swapping graphic disks when using graphics from multiple disks:

Letterhead

Entering the template number:

Entering the text for the text border style.  Each line is one border in order (top, bottom, left, right):

Entering text for the title:

Ribbons

Selecting which template element to edit  Currently main text element selected:

Entering text for main text area:

Entering text for placement:

Entering text for year:

Award Disk

Check out this HUGE HUGE CHEAT of a program options.  Just create the award you want and mail the disk to your friend.  Yes, that is the instruction it references in the manual.

The Exit credits screen, note the copyright is one year different than the box:

AwardWare appears to use Atari DOS 2.0s.  The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:

Graphic Disk as supplied with AwardWare (not all contents can be seen):

Graphic Disk obtained via mail order (not all contents can be seen):

Guesstimates of the file types:

Printer test output 576:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-test576.pdf

Printer test bit pattern:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testbitpattern.pdf

Printer test character:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testchar.pdf

Printer test alternate pins:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testpin.pdf

Quick Award (center) (draft mode):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftcenter.pdf

Quick Award (left) (draft mode):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftleft.pdf

Quick Award (right) (draft mode):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftright.pdf

Quick Award (title) (draft mode):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddrafttitle.pdf

Quick Award “Blimey” (draft mode):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawardblimeydraft.pdf

Quick Award “Blimey” (final mode):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawardblimeyfinal.pdf

Award “2016”:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-2-award2016.pdf

Award (5×7 size):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-award5x7.pdf

Award (template 19):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-3-template19.pdf

Letterhead (with borders):

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-letterheadborders.pdf

Ribbon “Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast”:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-ribbon.pdf

Scanned Manual download:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/awardwaremanual.pdf

Atari Reference Sheet download:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/awardwarereferencesheetatari.pdf

Commodore Reference Sheet download:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/awardwarereferencesheetcommodore.pdf

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This episode features Biorhythm, originally released in 1980 by Atari.

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This episode features Biorhythm, originally released in 1980 by Atari.

Scan of the front of the box (the one I fixed until my patience wore out):

Scan of the front of the box (courtesy of Darren Doyle):

Boot splash:

This title only has the following menu options which are to ask if you want instructions, and if you want a hardcopy:

Instructions:

Loading main program:

Output to screen, or screen and printer:

Entering the birth date:

Entering the desired month and year:

The plotting has started.  A small blip tone is made as each day is displayed:

The completed month.  Notice you only see the last 15 days plotted at any given time:

Instructions:

Loading the main program:

Entering your name:

Output to screen only, or screen and printer:

Entering your birth date:

Entering the desired date range:

Uh oh, too bad.  This title is not Y2K compliant.  Though this appears to be an input restriction as you can produce post 1999 content with the 8K version:

The plot has started.  Like the 8K version, a short blip tone is made as each day is displayed:

The plot is complete:

Atari Biorhythm output for comparison purposes:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-cmp-040170-032016-ab.pdf

Web based output for comparison purposes:

Output from both aligned for comparison purposes.  The plots are the same:

As a cassette program there are no files.  I converted both to SAV and LST formats, and have provided a DOS 2 diskette with the files.  You can download it from the links below.  The contents of my disk are:

8K instructions:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-8-1-inst.pdf

8K month plot:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-8-2-month.pdf

16K instructions:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-16-1-inst.pdf

16K month plot:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-16-2-month.pdf

16K year plot:

https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-16-2-year.pdf

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This episode features PrintWiz, originally released in 1983 by Allen Macroware.  It was developed by Jerry Allen.