iesposta Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Anyone recall what I think was a magazine program where it took Atari Basic and made a machine language runtime? This was my biggest achievement on the 800XL. I had a Basic demo coded with the 4 players as balls and the 5th player as a ball also. I have the basic program files still. I have lost the disk with the binary file. They just moved up and down, left and right changing directions at the edges. Then there was this program that turned basic into machine code. The thing is you could only use peek, poke, if/then and I think goto. I rewrote my basic demo using just those commands. It ran even slower than my original basic code. But after running it through this converter, you could RUN it from the DOS menu and it really ran fast! I showed it at my Atari users club, explaining how I made it. It did not "wow" other members, but I always liked it due to how it was machine language compiled from Basic. Anyone remember this compiler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 (edited) ABC by MONARCH DATA SYSTEMS THE BASIC COMPILER by DATASOF’T BASM by COMPUTER ALLIANCE Link: http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an11/compilers.htm Also TurboBASIC XL Compiler and Linker is good, make sure to get the proper NTSC or PAL version if you need time functions. ADVAN BASIC Compiler: http://advan.atarinet.com/ Edited November 29, 2013 by Kyle22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 There was an ANALOG program as well, I think, that supported a limited subset of Atari BASIC. Don't recall which issue, though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted November 29, 2013 Author Share Posted November 29, 2013 There was an ANALOG program as well, I think, that supported a limited subset of Atari BASIC. Don't recall which issue, though... That has to be it. I though it was from a magazine. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Found it. Mini comp from ANALOG #23. http://analog.katorlegaz.com/analog_1984-10_120dpi_jpeg_cropped/analog_1984-10_029.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 And here's the disks Analog Computing 23 1984-10 1 Fire Bug.atr Analog Computing 23 1984-10 2 Fire Bug.atr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Interesting that this subject came up. I just had #23 out last week for a little project, and with the Analog ATR that I have, every time I try to run the MiniComp program, it starts out with the title (screen) messed up. Tried both XL and 800 OS's. Perhaps my ATR is bad. I found no updates or fixes in I'll take a look at these references. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitrofurano Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 would be really great having these compilers remade as cross-compilers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmsc Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 Hi! would be really great having these compilers remade as cross-compilersYou have Fastbasic https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baktra Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hi! You have Fastbasic https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic But you have to rewrite your existing Atari BASIC code to FastBasic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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