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This episode features AwardWare, originally released in 1986 by Hi Tech Expressions. It was developed by VENDOR.
Box and Supplement Scans
Scan of the front of the box:
Scan of the back of the box:
Target price tag carefully taped on the inside of the box back:
AwardWare in Action
There are two boot splashes. Both are animated. The first fires segments of the AwardWare logo from the left and right launchers:
The second does a pixel fade from left to right, starting with a solid box, and revealing the logo:
Main menu:
Printer Setup
Many of the printer driver files are on the graphic disk. It must be inserted before you can execute the printer setup:
Printer Setup main menu:
Selecting a printer:
Selecting an interface:
Select Options menu:
Select Options Linefeed settings:
Select Options Printer Device Number settings:
Select Options Trasparent (not mis-spelled) Secondary Address settings:
Select Options Slot Number settings:
Test Print menu:
Any Character test input screen:
PDCS
Warning:
PDCS menu:
PDCS edit options menu:
PDCS editing the BITS option:
Quick Award
Layout in the upper left. Menu on right, currently BORDER is selected:
Selecting a border to use:
Selecting a graphic for the top picture:
Selecting a font for the first text area:
Entering the text for the first text area:
Entering the text for the smaller text area below the main text area:
Selecting the signature type:
For the left and right signature types, you also select a seal to display:
Printing
Selecting final or draft mode output:
Rendering and printing. Renders happen in screen memory, not in a linear or observable fashion:
Print again?
Awards & More
Main menu:
Awards/Licenses
Entering the template number:
Selecting the element to edit (BORDER currently selected):
Swapping graphic disks when using graphics from multiple disks:
Letterhead
Entering the template number:
Entering the text for the text border style. Each line is one border in order (top, bottom, left, right):
Entering text for the title:
Ribbons
Selecting which template element to edit Currently main text element selected:
Entering text for main text area:
Entering text for placement:
Entering text for year:
Award Disk
Check out this HUGE HUGE CHEAT of a program options. Just create the award you want and mail the disk to your friend. Yes, that is the instruction it references in the manual.
Exit
The Exit credits screen, note the copyright is one year different than the box:
Files
Contents
AwardWare appears to use Atari DOS 2.0s. The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:
- DOS.SYS – Underlying DOS
- AUTORUN.SYS – Main program
- PDCS.OBJ, PDCS.COM – Printer Driver Construction Set – Print driver utility
- BLOAD.OBJ – Binary load program
- PR.COM – Print utility
Graphic Disk as supplied with AwardWare (not all contents can be seen):
Graphic Disk obtained via mail order (not all contents can be seen):
Guesstimates of the file types:
- Fnn.A – Font data
- Gnn.A – Template data
- Xnn.A – Graphic data
- Maa.A – Menu data
- .A –
- END.COM – Exit credits screen
- Miscellaneous printer driver files
Printing
Printer test output 576:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-test576.pdf
Printer test bit pattern:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testbitpattern.pdf
Printer test character:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testchar.pdf
Printer test alternate pins:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testpin.pdf
Quick Award (center) (draft mode):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftcenter.pdf
Quick Award (left) (draft mode):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftleft.pdf
Quick Award (right) (draft mode):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftright.pdf
Quick Award (title) (draft mode):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddrafttitle.pdf
Quick Award “Blimey” (draft mode):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawardblimeydraft.pdf
Quick Award “Blimey” (final mode):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawardblimeyfinal.pdf
Award “2016”:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-2-award2016.pdf
Award (5×7 size):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-award5x7.pdf
Award (template 19):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-3-template19.pdf
Letterhead (with borders):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-letterheadborders.pdf
Ribbon “Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast”:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-ribbon.pdf
Instructions
Scanned Manual download:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/awardwaremanual.pdf
Atari Reference Sheet download:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/awardwarereferencesheetatari.pdf
Commodore Reference Sheet download:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/awardwarereferencesheetcommodore.pdf
Show Links:
- Inverse ATASCII AwardWare Video demonstration: https://youtu.be/0aVdGKKYS6A
- Inverse ATASCII S2EB1 Hi Tech Expressions JingleDisk: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/12/14/s2eb1-hi-tech-expressions-jingledisk/
- Inverse ATASCII S2EB2 Hi Tech Expressions HeartWare: https://inverseatascii.info/2016/02/12/s2eb2-hi-tech-expressions-heartware/
- Atari Mania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-awardware_12535.html
- Old English font: http://www.dafont.com/olde-english.font
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