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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.
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
Supported Disk Image Formats
============================
* ``XFD``: XFormer images, basically raw disk dumps
* ``ATR``: Nick Kennedy's disk image format; includes 16 byte header
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