ATASCII

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* [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/section-62.html#b Atari 8-bit FAQ] - What is the ATASCII Character Set?
 
* [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/section-62.html#b Atari 8-bit FAQ] - What is the ATASCII Character Set?
* [[http://www.atariarchives.org/mapping/appendix10.php Code table]]
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* [http://www.atariarchives.org/mapping/appendix10.php Code table]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATASCII Wikipedia entry on ATASCII]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATASCII Wikipedia entry on ATASCII]
 
* [http://www.atari-forum.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Atari_character_set The Atari Character Set page at Atari-Forum.com]
 
* [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://www.vitoco.cl/atari/atasciiprinter.html Web-based ATASCII Printer]
 
* [http://www.vitoco.cl/atari/atasciiprinter.html Web-based ATASCII Printer]
 
* http://ape.dyndns.org:8083/ABBUC/379/IBM2A.C IBM2A.C - Program to make "best guess" conversion from ATASCII to IBM PC Characters (1993)
 
* http://ape.dyndns.org:8083/ABBUC/379/IBM2A.C IBM2A.C - Program to make "best guess" conversion from ATASCII to IBM PC Characters (1993)
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* [http://spriteshack.com/?p=353 SpriteShack: Using ATASCII in Games]

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File Formats > Electronic File Formats > Character Encoding > ATASCII

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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