mannye Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 I seem to remember Atari having a proprietary language called ATASCII (spelling?) or something like that. I've never tried my hand at writing programs aside from the high school BASIC we learned in the 80's but I'm just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mika Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATASCII looks like a character code/set rather than language? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Yep, character encoding was interesting back then. I was also familiar with EBCDIC on the IBM mainframe I used at college, as well as PETSCII from my personal computers. I wrote a terminal program for the Commodore that amongst many unique features (realtime music at 300 baud, joystick control, on the fly font changes, sprite support, etc. when calling my BBS) also supported ATASCII so I could call one of my friend's BBS and watch the ATASCII movies: Though I did, of course, prefer the PETSCII movies as they were in Broadcast in Living Color 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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