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ATASCII is a eight-bit encoding that was used on Atari computers. It uses most, but not all, of the ASCII printing characters; codes 7B through 7F are different. The characters with the high bit set (80 through FF) are, with some exceptions, inverse video versions of the same code ANDed with 7F.
 
ATASCII is a eight-bit encoding that was used on Atari computers. It uses most, but not all, of the ASCII printing characters; codes 7B through 7F are different. The characters with the high bit set (80 through FF) are, with some exceptions, inverse video versions of the same code ANDed with 7F.
  
[[http://www.atariarchives.org/mapping/appendix10.php Code table]]
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* [[http://www.atariarchives.org/mapping/appendix10.php Code table]]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATASCII Wikipedia entry on ATASCII]
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* [http://www.atari-forum.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Atari_character_set The Atari Character Set page at Atari-Forum.com]
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* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/atascii/ Atari ATASCII Viewer (Java)] on Sourceforge. Last updated in 2001.
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* [https://vimeo.com/343238 Display of ATASCII on a 40h light panel] (Video)
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* [http://www.leehanken.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/atascii/ ATASCII View] Windows program for viewing ATASCII characters
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* [http://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-31 Issue of Analog Computing Magazine (#31)] covering ATASCII Animations
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* [http://members.bitstream.net/marksim/atarimac/fonts.html Atari Classic truetype fonts]
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* [http://bf.amfband.com/bffiles.html File directory containing two ATASCII Telnet Clients for Windows]

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ATASCII is a eight-bit encoding that was used on Atari computers. It uses most, but not all, of the ASCII printing characters; codes 7B through 7F are different. The characters with the high bit set (80 through FF) are, with some exceptions, inverse video versions of the same code ANDed with 7F.

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