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This episode features PrintWiz, originally released in 1983 by Allen Macroware.  It was developed by Jerry Allen.

 

Box and Supplement Scans

No boxes to scan, only the manual, which can be found on AtariMania.

Ad from Antic March 1985:

 

PrintWiz in Action

PrintWiz boots straight into a menu.  Choose your printer:

 

Jumping to DOS from BASIC puts you in the mini DOS:

 

Using the Hex to Dec, and Dec to Hex routines from the Mini DOS.  Everything else works as you would expect it to:

 

CAL Program

Running the CAL program after loading a custom font:

 

Once displayed you can use the keystroke combo to dump the screen to the printer:

 

CMDSHT Program

This does one thing – prints the command reference sheet. Follow the directions:

 

Look familiar?

 

CONFIG Program

Displaying the configuration options:

 

LABLER Program

Follow the instructions to non stop print the same label:

 

The label is displayed, and printing continues until interrupted:

 

LISTER Program

Follow the directions:

 

Choose the printer type:

 

Put your data disk in:

 

Enter the file to be printed:

 

Choose the output format:

 

Decide if you want to do another or exit:

 

The program I listed produces the following screen when run:

 

GRLOD Program

When the GRLOD program is run, it automatically loads HAT.DAT.  You can alter to load whatever file you want.  Use the keystroke combo to dump the screen to the printer:

 

Files

Contents

PrintWiz uses a proprietary Mini DOS.  The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:

Notice the sector free count is a lie.  This program is copy protected.

 

Printing

CAL output:

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-cal.pdf

CAL output with inverse printing:

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-calinv.pdf

CMDSHT output:

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-cmdsheet.pdf

LABLER output:

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-labels.pdf

LISTER output (40 columns):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-lister-40.pdf

LISTER output (40 columns condensed):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-lister-40con.pdf

LISTER output (80 columns):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-lister-80con.pdf

GRLOD output (HAT):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-grloadhat.pdf

GRLOD output (HAT) in inverse:

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-grloadhatinv.pdf

 

The rest are generic dumps from a MEMO PAD display I created:

 

Generic dump (normal pitch):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-normal.pdf

Generic dump (normal pitch, centered):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-normalcenter.pdf

Generic dump (normal pitch, double height):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-normaldoublehigh.pdf

Generic dump (double pitch):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-doubledot.pdf

Generic dump (double pitch, double height):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-doubledotdoublehigh.pdf

Generic dump (triple pitch):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-tripledot.pdf

Generic dump (triple pitch, double height):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-tripledotdoublehigh.pdf

Generic dump (quad pitch):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-quaddot.pdf

Generic dump (quad pitch, double height):

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/s2e16-prt-quaddotdoublehigh.pdf

 

Show Links:

• Inverse ATASCII Season 1 Episode 41 Atari MemoPad: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/04/01/s1e14-atari-memo-pad/
• Atari Mania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-printwiz_29802.html
• Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/a8b_Printwiz_1983_Allen_Macroware
• Kwik Dump (Antic Volume 3 Number 11): http://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n11/kwik_dump.html
• XL Boss: http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an25/xlboss.htm

 

Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway.  It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.