This episode features Home Inventory, released in 1983 by Antic. It was developed by Erv Friedman.
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Packaging
Front:
Inner Front:
Inner Back:
Back:
Home Inventory in Action
Boot Splash 
Loading 
Main Menu 
Item Maintenance Menu 
Adding an Item 
Item type selection popup 
Scrolling through the item type popup selections – 4 rows at a time. 
Just a year date is not sufficient! Need month/day/year (MM/DD/YY) format. It is not Y2K compliant so choose a past compatible year. 
Save confirmation. 
Invalid item number! 
Save? 
Change item form. 
Delete item menu. 
Data shown and confirmation asked for. Note the screen isn’t properly cleaned up. 
Displaying an item requires you to enter the item number. 
Once a valid number is displayed, you can browse left or right. 
Item type maintenance. 
Adding a type and confirming. 
Changing an item type and saving. 
Deleting an item type and confirming. 
Displaying item types. 
Room maintenance menu. 
Adding a room and confirming. 
Changing a room and confirming. 
Deleting a room and confirming. 
Displaying rooms. 
Location maintenance menu. 
Adding a location and confirming. 
Changing a location and confirming. 
Deleting a location and confirming. 
Displaying locations. 
Report menu. 
Items being sorted by requested report type. 
Busy creating the report. 
Depreciation report menu. 
Needs a date, again not Y2K compliant. 
Send it to the screen this time… 
Which item number do you want to see? 
Once a valid number is displayed, you can browse left and right. 
Creating a new data disk. 
It prepares for the maximum number of items that can be held. 
Dooo dooo doo…. 
Changing the data disk. 
Ruh Roh, not a valid disk. It has to be initialized by the software first.
Nice clean exit? 
Side 2 is the documentation. This helps you print it. 
Send it to the screen or the printer? 
And the end of printing a page to the printer. 
Whew done, no more pressing SPACE! 
Printing to screen. 
Files on the data disk. 
Dump of the data in the room data file. 
Dump of data in the item data file. 
The item index file dump. 
Dump of the control file. Unsure what each byte represents.
Print Output
Documentation:
Listing by Number:
Listing by Type:
Listing by Room:
Depreciation Report:
Show Links
- AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-home-inventory-_32024.html
- Inverse ATASCII S1 E13 APX Home Inventory: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/03/24/s1e13-apx-home-inventory/
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