How many Basics do we have for the A8?

[+MrFish]

Atari BASIC came in A (400-800 cart), B (XL / some XE built in) and C (cart and built in on some XEs) versions.

 

I think you're mixing up some information here. I'm pretty sure AtariWiki has the information correct.

[+Nezgar]

Acronym Police here..... Should be written as "BASIC" all capitalized - not "Basic"... even AtariWiki is inconsistent on the same page.

 

Edit: hmm, interesting Microsoft "Visual Basic" is officially not all caps...

 

And for my actual question, which can be programmed as replacements for an Atari 8K BASIC ROM?

 

I know of Altirra BASIC, BASIC++, any others?

[sl0re]

I've seen a visual basic with a compiler, for the 2600, that runs on a PC. Looked super slick

 

Is there anything like that... that uses a basic for the 8 bit computers? I've seen something like it but it didn't appear to be basic.

[+Philsan]

I've seen a visual basic with a compiler, for the 2600, that runs on a PC. Looked super slick

 

Is there anything like that... that uses a basic for the 8 bit computers? I've seen something like it but it didn't appear to be basic.

I used Visual batariBasic and unfortunately something similar doesn't exists.

I miss batariBasic multicolor sprites and virtual sprites easy programming.

 

You can get good results programming on the PC with the new FastBasic together with other tools (Atari Font Creator, Atari Font Maker, Atari Graphics Studio and Graph2Font, Atari Player Editor, Mad Studio, Raster Music Tracker).