8bitclassics Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 (edited) In a previous thread I had asked to borrow copies of manuals from OSS products. My first finished product is the BASIC XL manual which is available for free at 8-Bit Classics. I have also used CafePress to print of the manual for those who want it printed and spiral bound. Received mine today and turned out very nicely. For those who previously downloaded, I made couple updates, so maybe you would like to download again? Mostly minor fixes and added the official OSS logo to the cover. Anyway, for a free download: Download To purchase, it is $15.00. http://www.cafepress.com/8bitclassics On a side note, currently working on the ACTION! manual and about half done right now. It will be made freely downloadable and will make available on Cafepress also. More pages, so will be a bit more expensive. Thanks, Corey Link Has Been Updated Edited June 9, 2006 by 8bitclassics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitclassics Posted October 4, 2005 Author Share Posted October 4, 2005 Figured I would add some pictures of the manual in printed form. Biggest problem I had (and it is fixed) on the front cover, where it said "FOR ATARI", the ® was cut off, reduced and made it to fit appropriately on the on the cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 What is better? Basic XL or Turbo Basic (Frank Ostrowski) ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitclassics Posted October 4, 2005 Author Share Posted October 4, 2005 Here is a review of some different BASICs including Turbo and BASIC XL. http://www.atarimagazines.com/v6n2/BASICBonanza.html They rate Turbo between Atari BASIC and OSS BASIC XL. Good read. Didn't even know of Turbo BASIC. Corey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Great!!! I never heard about ADVAN BASIC. I downloaded from http://freeweb.siol.net/diomedes/software_a.htm but the emulator crash... what a pity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toomyem Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Because it is not a compiler itself. It look's like it is some demo program written in AdvanBasic. But it crashes not only on emulator, but on real Atari too. There is only a beep and then computer hangs. tomekM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 I downloaded from another sites and the same thing... Inside the disk there are only no executables files. Well I keep searching then... Someone had used QUICK or QUICKCODE for programming games? Both are nice tools for design a low level program in short time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 In a previous thread I had asked to borrow copies of manuals from OSS products. My first finished product is the BASIC XL manual which is available for free at 8-Bit Classics. I have also used CafePress to print of the manual for those who want it printed and spiral bound. Received mine today and turned out very nicely. For those who previously downloaded, I made couple updates, so maybe you would like to download again? Mostly minor fixes and added the official OSS logo to the cover. Anyway, for a free download: Download To purchase, it is $15.00. http://www.cafepress.com/8bitclassics On a side note, currently working on the ACTION! manual and about half done right now. It will be made freely downloadable and will make available on Cafepress also. More pages, so will be a bit more expensive. Thanks, Corey Link Has Been Updated Fantastic work on the BASIC XL manual! Thank you. Any chance that the Action! manual is complete? Does any one else know where I can get a .pdf copy of the Action! manual? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voy Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Here: http://chomikuj.pl/voyssgdial/Dokumenty+atarowskie/Komputery+8-bitowe/!!Instrukcje+obs*c5*82ugi/J*c4*99zyki+programowania/Action! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Here: http://chomikuj.pl/voyssgdial/Dokumenty+atarowskie/Komputery+8-bitowe/!!Instrukcje+obs*c5*82ugi/J*c4*99zyki+programowania/Action! Thank you for the prompt reply. I have the original manuals. Thank you for taking the time to scan them in and to share them with everyone. I was hoping to find the Action! manual in the same hypertext? format as the above BASIC XL manual. It's so well done and I really appreciate 8bitclassics for taking the time to put the BASIC XL manual together so professionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Here: http://chomikuj.pl/v...mowania/Action! Thank you for the prompt reply. I have the original manuals. Thank you for taking the time to scan them in and to share them with everyone. I was hoping to find the Action! manual in the same hypertext? format as the above BASIC XL manual. It's so well done and I really appreciate 8bitclassics for taking the time to put the BASIC XL manual together so professionally. Here's the bookmarked version of it: Action Ref Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Here: http://chomikuj.pl/v...mowania/Action! Thank you for the prompt reply. I have the original manuals. Thank you for taking the time to scan them in and to share them with everyone. I was hoping to find the Action! manual in the same hypertext? format as the above BASIC XL manual. It's so well done and I really appreciate 8bitclassics for taking the time to put the BASIC XL manual together so professionally. Here's the bookmarked version of it: Action Ref Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNIXcoffee928 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Here: http://chomikuj.pl/v...mowania/Action! Thank you for the prompt reply. I have the original manuals. Thank you for taking the time to scan them in and to share them with everyone. I was hoping to find the Action! manual in the same hypertext? format as the above BASIC XL manual. It's so well done and I really appreciate 8bitclassics for taking the time to put the BASIC XL manual together so professionally. Here's the bookmarked version of it: Action Ref Thank you very much. I had spent a lot of time creating that fully hyperlinked pdf of the Action! manual. This is the best version of the document to use as you are studying or programming in Action! because EVERY Topic, subtopic, category, keyword is linked, not only to get where you are going, but to get back to where you were, via back hyperlinks. The document also has a complete, hierarchical quick-link, in outline form, in the left pane, to complement the fully linked Table of Contents. The manual is made for interactive use, Every clickable object is Highlighted, with a yellow Highlight, to show everything that can be clicked. Feel free to use this document to learn & use Action. Please, however, do not sell this document, as it was a labor of love, that took many days of hours to make, specifically for the benefit of others in the Atari community, so that more people could learn the language. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Here: http://chomikuj.pl/v...mowania/Action! Thank you for the prompt reply. I have the original manuals. Thank you for taking the time to scan them in and to share them with everyone. I was hoping to find the Action! manual in the same hypertext? format as the above BASIC XL manual. It's so well done and I really appreciate 8bitclassics for taking the time to put the BASIC XL manual together so professionally. Here's the bookmarked version of it: Action Ref Thank you very much. I had spent a lot of time creating that fully hyperlinked pdf of the Action! manual. This is the best version of the document to use as you are studying or programming in Action! because EVERY Topic, subtopic, category, keyword is linked, not only to get where you are going, but to get back to where you were, via back hyperlinks. The document also has a complete, hierarchical quick-link, in outline form, in the left pane, to complement the fully linked Table of Contents. The manual is made for interactive use, Every clickable object is Highlighted, with a yellow Highlight, to show everything that can be clicked. Feel free to use this document to learn & use Action. Please, however, do not sell this document, as it was a labor of love, that took many days of hours to make, specifically for the benefit of others in the Atari community, so that more people could learn the language. Enjoy! I fully understand the efforts that you put toward creating a fully linked Action! manual and I highly appreciate your labor of love. I would never think about abusing the special privilege that you're willing to share your work with the Atari community. Is there a link where we can find the .pdf file? In case you're not aware of this, I wrote a Tetris program called CTetris4 for the Atari 800 in Action! See link below. http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/147244-ctetris4d-release-pre-final-version/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNIXcoffee928 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 The one mentioned above, as the bookmarked version, is the Def Edition. You can also find it from the original post, here. It's good stuff... worth the MegaUpload 'wait-countdown'. Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 The one mentioned above, as the bookmarked version, is the Def Edition. You can also find it from the original post, here. It's good stuff... worth the MegaUpload 'wait-countdown'. Enjoy. Downloaded it. It's all organized and bookmarked as you said. Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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