Fireworks with Atari FireBox
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A California-based pyrotechnics company used a system based on an 8-bit Atari computer to control its fireworks shows.
Robert Veline, representative of Astro Pryrotechnics, was interviewed in early July by Kevin Savetz for theIssue 291 of the renowned ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast
Savetz contacted Veline after reading the article titled "Atari Sets Off Fireworks!" -translated as "Atari shoots off the fireworks"- that appeared in theST-Log magazine July-August 1987
"We had one or two shows where we plugged the box in and turned them on, and it was a 10-second show," Veline says.
After the interview, Veline sent Kevin some pictures of the Atari FireBox: a fireworks machine controlled by an Atari 800XL computer. He also sent the diskettes with the respective software - including a (slow) program that simulated the colorful explosions and the original code in assembly language. Everything was shared by the podcast co-host.in the AtariAge forum
And the Atarian community responded: our friendBill Lange (USA), author of the ATARI 8-bit Ads blog, managed to run the ATR files inside the simulator, which generated the images that accompany this article.
For its part,Nir Dary (Israel), head of The Modern Atari 8bit computer channel, used data from the disks received by Savetz to build an image of the Atari FireBox cartridge - which Veline said was lost years ago.
Atari Firebox (ROM) for Atari 8-bit computers
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