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Users handbooks
(347 pages)
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Owner's manual
(142 pages)
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Service manual
(50 pages)
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Part 1: Getting Started
Keyboard
Meeting the ATARI 130XE
Product View
Hooking It up
Installing the TV Switch Box
Connecting the Computer to the TV Switch Box
Caring for the Product
Checking It out
Memory Test
Audio-Visual Test
Loading Software Cartridges
The Keyboard Test
Understanding Your Keyboard
Introducing ATARI Graphics
Adding an International Character Set
Exploring ATARI BASIC
Exploring the Computer
Built-In Software
Commercial Software
Using Software
Saving Your Work
User-Written Software
Disk Drive
Expanding Your System
TV or Monitor
Joystick
Modem
Printer
Program Recorder
Part 2: Programming with Atari Basic
Auto Repeat Function
Editing with the ATARI130XE Keyboard
Error Messages
Uppercase and Lowercase
Graphic Symbols
Clearing the Screen
Cursor Control
Inserting
Deleting
Inverse Video
Tabs
Miscellaneous Keys
Writing a Simple BASIC Program
New, List, Print, Run
Run: Executing Instructions
Line Numbering: Creating Order
Error Message: Computer Talk for "I Don't Understand"
Print: Creating Blank Lines
?: Abbreviation for Print
Logical Line Length
Screen Display
Printing Graphic Symbols
Control 1: Stopping the Screen Display
Creating an Interactive Loop
GOTO: a Computer's Map
Comma: a Tab Maker
Goto, DIM, Input
Semicolon: Computer Glue
Colon: a Separator
DIM and Input: Dimensioning and Inputting String Variables
?: Courtesy of Input
String Variables in PRINT Statements
Inputting Numeric Variables
Input Loops
Using Random Numbers and Mathematical Functions
Scientific Notation
The Computer as a Calculator
Order of Mathematical Execution
Random Numbers
Rnd ,+ , - , * , I
Random Number Game
Math Programs
Evaluating with IF-THEN
IF-THEN Commands
Making Decisions and Solving Problems: IF-THEN , FOR-NEXT
Ending the Program
Quiz Writing with IF-THEN
Trapping Errors
Computer Bugs
For-Next Loop: the Counting Loop
Counting Backward
Starting Point
STEP: Counting Incrementally
The FOR-NEXT "Sandwich" Loop
Delay Loops
Sample Programs
Producing Sound and Graphics
Sound , Setcolor, Color
Sounding off
Sounding off with Variables
Making Music
Colorful Graphics
Graphics Mode 0
Graphics Modes 1 and 2
Getting Rid of the Text Window
DRAWTO: Connecting the Dots
Graphics Mode 3
PLOT: Plotting Points on the Grid
Setcolor and Color
Graphics Modes 5 and 7
Part 3 Appendices
Sample Programs
The Atari Choo-Choo
Sort those Words
The Big Bang
Players and Missiles
Topsy-Turvy
Type-A-Tune
Higher Math
Computer Blues
United States Flag
Esrever
Grapheek
Igpay Atinlay
Protecting Your Program
Sea Gull over Ocean
Kinetic Art
BASIC Reserved Words
ATASCII Character Set
Error Messages List
Troubleshooting
Resources
ATARI130XE Specifications
Accessing the Full RAM Potential
Memory Location
Cartridge Slot
Connector Pinout Specifications
Enhanced Cartridge Interface (ECI)
Monitor Jack
Controller Port
Power Adapter Plug
Index
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