Re: BASIC



"Rick Cortese" <ricortes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13cj7sdid7in238@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Payton Byrd wrote:
What BASIC languages are available for the Atari 8-bit systems?
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What Thomas said and I actually owned the MMG compiler and it worked
really well. It had the fewer restrictions and came with run times that
supported floating point if you needed it. Matter of fact, first program
I distributed on a local BBS was an 80 column terminal program compiled
with MMG.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/section-56.html

Is an excellent list of what is available BASIC and programming wise.

Can you say what you want to use it for? I mean if you only need 20%-40%
speed increase for personal use, you can install Omnimon OS. If you are
trying to do something like a terminal program or word processor you
will need to do your own screen handling routines.

Rick

The main motivation is to see what the expected user experience would be for someone using the most common basic available on a platform. I wound up using the Atari BASIC in the 800/600 XL ROM on my 1200XL, but I'm not convinced this is the solution Atari would have tried to push as it's prohibitively slow compared to other 8-bit machines (2.5x times slower than an Apple //e despite having a CPU that's nearly twice as fast).

In the future I'll probably compare BASIC compilers for different platforms, too.
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  • Re: BASIC
    ... What Thomas said and I actually owned the MMG compiler and it worked really well. ... If you are trying to do something like a terminal program or word processor you will need to do your own screen handling routines. ... You end up with a slower but more accurate system but it doesn't do the industry standard 4 and 8 byte floats everyone else does. ...
    (comp.sys.atari.8bit)
  • Re: BASIC
    ... Payton Byrd wrote: ... What Thomas said and I actually owned the MMG compiler and it worked really well. ... If you are trying to do something like a terminal program or word processor you will need to do your own screen handling routines. ...
    (comp.sys.atari.8bit)