DISASTER strikes repeatedly in Disk 4 of the Page 6 Public Domain Library for Atari 8-bit!

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Mostly skipping over disk 3 because it's filled with useful but dull utilities rather than anything that would make a good video, we jump headfirst into disk 4 and find ourselves banging our head against some fairly major errors on multiple occasions!

One suspects that Disk 4 of the Page 6 XL/XE Public Domain Library for Atari 8-bit may have been designed with somewhat older revisions of the Atari OS and BASIC in mind... but still, we had a good time, didn't we...?

0:00 Welcome, intro and brief review of Disk 3
5:35 Loading the disk
6:12 Chicken by Stan Ockers (a bit broken)
12:32 Oil Wells*
22:19 Knight for a Day by Sydney H. Brown
28:02 Lander by Wayne Cloud and William Frank (very broken)
32:00 Boxes by John Trigge
37:44 Cat and Mouse by unknown author (a bit broken)
42:00 Balloons by Stan Ockers (very broken)
44:25 Formula 1/Time Trial by Stan Ockers
49:09 Scroll demo by unknown author

* It appears that this may have once been a commercial release in 1979, possibly exclusive to Sears and temporarily, prior to release, known as "Wildcatting". It was developed by The Image Producers, Inc. and Leah O'Conner, and, if indeed it was originally released when it seems to have been, would have been one of the first ever commercial third-party software products for the Atari. How it ended up in the public domain is unknown, but it was best known as a PD title until 2020.



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