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.

References
==========

* http://www.atariarchives.org/dere/chapt09.php
* http://atari.kensclassics.org/dos.htm
* http://www.crowcastle.net/preston/atari/
* http://www.atarimax.com/jindroush.atari.org/afmtatr.html


Example Usage
=============

$ python atrcopy.py GAMES1.ATR -x -n --dry-run --xex
File #0 : *DOS     SYS  039 : DRY_RUN: skipping system file
File #1 : *MINER2       138 : DRY_RUN: copying to MINER2.XEX
File #2 : *DEFENDER     132 : DRY_RUN: copying to DEFENDER.XEX
File #3 : *CENTIPEDE    045 : DRY_RUN: copying to CENTIPEDE.XEX
File #4 : *GALAXIAN     066 : DRY_RUN: copying to GALAXIAN.XEX
File #5 : *AUTORUN SYS  005 : DRY_RUN: skipping system file
File #6 : *DIGDUG       133 : DRY_RUN: copying to DIGDUG.XEX
File #7 : *ANTEATER     066 : DRY_RUN: copying to ANTEATER.XEX
File #8 : *ASTEROIDS    066 : DRY_RUN: copying to ASTEROIDS.XEX


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 `.ATR` images in this directory as well

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