=== Digital Mark's ===
        ___     _                                   _   _
       | _ \___| |_ _ _ ___  __ ___ _ __  _ __ _  _| |_(_)_ _  __ _
       |   / -_)  _| '_/ _ \/ _/ _ \ '  \| '_ \ || |  _| | ' \/ _` |
       |_|_\___|\__|_| \___/\__\___/_|_|_| .__/\_,_|\__|_|_||_\__, |
                                         |_|                  |___/
       
       === Atari 8-bit ===
       
       I collect my games & toys on a series of disks with launchers.
       
       I primarily use the Atari800MacX emulator:
       <https://www.atarimac.com/atari800macx.php>
       
       They should work on Atari's upcoming The 800XL:
       <https://atari.com/pages/800xl>
       
       For any "ATR" disk:
       Insert as disk 1, reboot!
       Atari 400/800: Remove BASIC cartridge first.
       Atari XL/XE: Hold down OPTION when booting, to disable built-in BASIC.
       Atari800MacX, other emulators: Control > Disable BASIC, Disable NetSIO.
       
       + DogBall, with launcher.
 (BIN)   dogball-2026.atr
       
       + Nanorogue, Matriculated Rain, New Year's programs, & more, with launcher.
 (BIN)   nanorog-2023.atr
       
       === Coding Sheets ===
       
         In the beginning, programmers (or "coders", as they encoded) wrote
       programs on paper, then either hand-assembled them into machine language
       instructions, or typed them into punch cards & fed those into the
       Machine, which ran the program & printed results. By the '60s,
       time-sharing allowed you to interactively work on a program, typing
       instructions into an editor or live REPL (Read Eval Print Loop), like
       Kemeny & Kurtz's BASIC.
       
         Even when I began programming in the late '70s, with microcomputers
       where you were the sole user & interacted, you were encouraged to
       write out your programs ahead on paper, to think before programming.
       While not strictly necessary, it turns out that was a good discipline,
       and I continued to do it in high-level form ("pseudo-code") for a long
       time. And so I have an anachronistic fondness for coding forms,
       photocopied/mimeographed grids for writing your program in.
         Whenever I find them in old computer books, I get a good scan, clean
       it up as much as possible, & post it here:
       
 (IMG) + TRS-80 BASIC Coding Form
 (IMG) + TRS-80 Video Display Worksheet
 (IMG) + IBM Fortran Coding Form
 (IMG) + Elliott Algol Coding Sheet
 (IMG) + Getting Started in BASIC (from 1972 PCC newsletter)
 (IMG) + Altair 8800 Machine/Assembly Language Program Coding Sheet
 (IMG) + Atari Engineering Notebook
 (IMG) + Atari Notepad
       
       That's all for now!
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