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    p.s. How did an Action! thread get turned into a Forth thread?

     

    That's my fault, sorry. Both are interesting languages for the A8!

     

    Carsten

     

    At the risk of hijacking this thread again, I think the Atari has such a rich and diverse range of languages. And many of those have several variants. Various Forth variants have already been mentioned, but also different C and Pascal implementations exist, and I wouldn't even like to hazard a guess at the amount of Basic interpreters and compilers that are out there.

     

    I think it goes to show, once more, how versatile the Atari 8-bit was and still is. There is pretty much a language for everyone.

     

    As people know, my primary language at the moment is Kyan Pascal, but when I move on to doing some games, I am probably going to use Quick or Action!. And when my son is older, if he is interested, I will teach him to program the old fashioned way, starting with Logo.

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    Here is final version of the program with some little amendments: title screen added, additional line at the top and some optimizations and bug fixes. Documentation and download is here: http://gury.atari8.info/sprite_engine/sprite_engine.htm

     

    DOS used is Atari DOS 2.5 with automatic loading of the program.

     

    Regards

     

    I've just had a very quick look at the final version, Gury. Love it. Very professional.

     

    I can see this being used by a number of games programmers.

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    I'm listing this here instead of the market place as I'm not after any money for this, apart from the postage costs.

     

    I have a PAL 800XL up for grabs.

    It has Rev B Basic and no modifications.

    The case has yellowed with age, but as far as I know, this works. I did have some trouble with this a few months back, for some reason it wouldn't start up, but I tried it out this morning and it seems ok.

     

    This was my original 800XL, bought new back in 1985. It comes with a power supply and RF lead.

     

    I just need to offload a lot of stuff as I have just had the notice to quit my current house and will be moving to a much smaller place in the next couple of months.

     

    So, for the price of postage, grab an 800XL :D

  17. Posted

    I think the XL line looks the best over all, however I do think that the XEGS (my preferred 8-bit) could have been the best looking. Those damn pastel buttons I think kill it. I guess I like the fact that the keyboard is detached and the Atari logo on it is larger than any of the atari computers. :)

     

    Funnily enough, the 800XL only has the Atari logo on the label on the underside with the serial number.

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    I got burned on EBAY as the buyer poorly packaged the ATARI 800 and I got it in pieces and there was no insurance available so that money was wasted but I did salvage alot of parts though for the 800 I got from another EBAY seller and it is in great shape.

     

    I hate it when that happens.

     

    I had a problem with the postal service recently. I bought a CD from ebay, but when it arrived, it was obvious that the packaging had been cut. Needless to say the CD was missing. I am currently trying to claim from Royal Mail for the item.

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