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.
Starting with atrcopy 2.0, numpy is required.
The standard python install tool, pip, does not seem to be able to handle the automatic installation of numpy, so to install atrcopy, use:
pip install numpy
pip install atrcopy- 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
XFD: XFormer images, basically raw disk dumpsATR: Nick Kennedy's disk image format; includes 16 byte header
- XEX format: Atari executable files
- Atari DOS in single, enhanced, and double density
- KBoot format: a single executable file packaged up into a bootable disk image
- Atari ROM cartridges (both plain binary and Atari800 .CAR format)
- MAME ROM zipfiles
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.sOS 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/atrtestYou should see the file atrcopy.py as well as the other ATR images you placed in this directory by using the command:
ls -lFor 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.pyNow, 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.SThere 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.xexThe 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