Found: STOS Tutorial from 1992!

[SkylineDave]

I wrote this tutorial on the ST over 14 years ago and was in contact with Mike Goodman with the intentions of publishing it as a rival to another tutorial that was floating around at the time. Unfortunately it hit a bit of a dead end. Here it is for prosterity!

[Goldrunner]

Hi Dave

That's cool, I really like the tutorial you did. Will add it the archive as a nice easy introduction into STOS programming Have you just unearthed this in the hidden depths of your house

[SkylineDave]

Hi Dave

That's cool, I really like the tutorial you did. Will add it the archive as a nice easy introduction into STOS programming Have you just unearthed this in the hidden depths of your house

a few years ago when i first stumbled across ST emulation (good old PacifiST) i started imaging what ST disks i had left. turned out this one was floating around somewhere. i also found my Speedball 2 saved game editor (posted up in another thread somewhere) although i dont think it'll work with ST disk images.

[simonsunnyboy]

Nice tutorial! Why not make a modernized and HTMLified version of it? I think there are still ppl who might want to learn STOS.

[Mug UK]

I've got a good home for it if you want to add any screenshots etc. to it

[SkylineDave]

Nice tutorial! Why not make a modernized and HTMLified version of it? I think there are still ppl who might want to learn STOS.

cheers Simon. tbh i cant really be arsed to go through it again! i think i'll be lazy and keep it in its original Atari format.

[simonsunnyboy]

Well, it is a 10min job if you do it by hand and a 5er if you use NVU

This deserves to be preserved in a readable way...

[NiceGuyUK]

Machine-converted version using txt2html now available at :-

http://nice.ma.cx/STOS.html

I'll tidy it up later

[SkylineDave]

Machine-converted version using txt2html now available at :-

http://nice.ma.cx/STOS.html

I'll tidy it up later

looks much better - was that done automatically?
seems to have removed a few carriage returns where some snippets of code are but otherwise it looks good.

[NiceGuyUK]

looks much better - was that done automatically?
seems to have removed a few carriage returns where some snippets of code are but otherwise it looks good.

Yeah, little UNIX util I have called txt2html. Like most of these things, it needs a little post-processing once its done, but it does handle the bulk of the work for you. When I get a spare minute this week, I'll give it a quick once-over.

[nobogod]

It would have been nice if we could add hyperlinks...