Memo Pad for Windows

Release 6, November 12, 2007
Memo Pad is named after the memo pad found on the Atari 400 and 800 computers. It was written to allow Windows users to read ATASCII files. Memo Pad displays the files using the same fonts used on the Atari 400/800/XL/XE and ST computers.

Features:

  • Display files as text or binary.
  • Display files using Atari 400/800/XL/XE and ST fonts.
  • Convert text files to ATASCII, CR, CR+LF, and LF.
  • Detokenize saved Atari BASIC and Turbo-BASIC files.

At this time Memo Pad does not support editing files but I do plan to add this ability.

Another ATASCII file viewer worth checking out is ATASCIIView written by Lee Hanken. ATASCIIView has the ability to print ATASCII files.

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Memo Pad Release History

Release 6
Built on Nov 12 2007

  • Fixed a crash that appeared when opening a non-Atari BASIC file as an Atari BASIC file.
  • Fixed the file dialog; it was not remembering the previous path used.
    I broke this while implementing the Open As feature for Release 5.
  • Added support for opening Turbo-BASIC files.
  • Added error messages to report why a BASIC file failed to open.
  • Added support for mouse wheel scrolling.
  • Added an option to Binary View Preferences to allow changing the number of data bytes displayed on each line.
Release 5
Built on Oct 21 2007
  • Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when scrolling or resizing the window after converting the end-of-line.
  • Added support for the Atari 8-Bit International and Arabic fonts and the Atari ST color (low/med res) and monochrome (high res) fonts.
  • Added support for reading tokenized Atari BASIC files. These files are parsed and viewed as ATASCII text files.
  • Added "Open as" option to Open file dialog. Files can be opened as Text, Binary, and Atari BASIC. The "Open as" choice is saved and used by the "Open Recent" menu item.
Release 4
Built on Aug 26 2006
  • Fixed two bugs that appeared on Windows 95, 98, and 98SE:
    Failed to load the Atari font on startup.
    Failed to open files with the Open Recent menu.
    This was caused by my code used to check the existence of a file.
  • Fixed a font problem where the size setting would not be used until you triggered the main menu.
  • Fixed a text display problem when lines are ~200,000 chars long. I only saw this problem with one binary file being viewed as text.
  • Removed the unused Read-Only check box in the open file dialog.
  • Added support for handling drag-and-drop files.
  • Added support for file association. This also allows you to drop a file on the application's icon to start the application and load the dropped file.
  • Added a Clear List option to the Open Recent menu.
  • Added a Close option to the File menu.
  • Warn user when a file being closed has unsaved changes.
Release 3
Built on Aug 21 2006
  • Added a Preferences dialog.
  • Added preferences for changing the format of the byte offset and byte values displayed in Binary View mode.
  • Set the ComboBox in the Convert End of Line dialog to not allow editing the text.
Release 2
Built on Jun 15 2006
  • Fixed a scrolling problem that would appear when viewing files with more than 32767 rows or columns.
  • Added a binary view mode.
Release 1
Built on May 21 2006
  • Open, autodetect EOL, and view files.
  • Convert EOL and Save files.