+Philsan Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Together with ABBUC's new magazine I received new Turbo-Basic XL Handbuch. Thank you ABBUC! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujidude Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Too bad I only know English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Too bad I only know English. I'm sure it can be translated soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 If someone can send me the text of the book maybe I can have a go. My German skills aren't the best ... but I do know some rough grammar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I would like very much to have an English version of this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 If someone can send me the text of the book maybe I can have a go. My German skills aren't the best ... but I do know some rough grammar. I may help you with that task, if the original author agrees. I'll hold off my decision making though until I've got my copy, I should be getting one soon. I've translated Hypra-Basic ( http://atariage.com/forums/topic/239241-hypra-basic/?hl=%2Btranslation&do=findComment&comment=3260051) but I'll see how many pages there are first. But if you want to do it yourself, feel free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Well, the book has 228 pages... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foft Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Since I know turbo basic I was wondering if I can use the book to learn German instead? It looks great but since I live in the French speaking part of Switzerland I'd better finish learning French first:-) Are there any popular French Atari boards, they might help? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Well, the book has 228 pages... I'll manage that in an afternoon then!! Sent from my Ultra using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I'd love help with this. Who knows, this might improve my German. I have been learning Swedish and have gotten really far with it, and while the grammar in German is different, a lot of the words are not that far off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, English, etc. are all Germanic languages, yet English has much earlier and thus deeper Romance (i.e. Norman) influence (e.g. words such as vessel, pork or beef) than any of the other Germanic languages (sometimes it is thus referred to as a "bastard" tongue/language). German has inherited some French words mostly from the Napoleonic period, but not to the same extent - and several of them have become old-fashioned (Chaiselongue - instead of Sofa - or Fisimatenten, e.g.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersoft Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 You're happy Atarians already got the book. As it was sent in two envelopes and german post service is not the best at the moment: I get the ABBUC magazine early this week but no book until today (but it was sent the same day)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 That is easily explained: the magazine is stamped as a letter (postage EUR 1.45), the book's envelope only bears a EUR 1.00 stamp and is labelled as "Büchersendung" (lit. "books' sending"). This is a second class service and thus may be delayed if the local postman is already fully engaged with the more important stuff he has to deliver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersoft Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Can't wait to read it finally. Got the original dutch version here but my dutch is not available, hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Being an abbuc member I also received this book. Very nice! (Also liked the 320K version of tapper a lot too btw. thanks Abbuc for sharing!) I also have the Turbo Basic book written by W. Braakman (Original copy, bought back in 1987 or so when I was a SAG Member), and the Abbuc translation of this book. (A pink paperback, unfortunately very discolored duo to sunlight influence). Ok but now my question. In none of these books I understand what the use is of %0 %1 %2 and %3. The examples are not clear enough to me. And I am getting a lot of errors … probably doing something wrong. Any suggestions are highly appreciated by me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Hi Marius- I looked that up not very long ago. I had thought that by using "%" in front of a number that it became an integer value, similar to how you can do in Fortran and I think Microsoft Basic. But if you have Ron. Fetzer's English expanded Turbo Basic XL docs, it explains on page 22 under Constants and Error codes that it treats these three values (%1, %2, %3) as constants to save memory. X=1 uses 10 bytes; while X=%1 uses 4 bytes. Slightly helpful, but I was disappointed since I thought we had some real integer arithmetic. Hope that helps. -Larry Edit: Make that four values, including zero. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted July 25, 2015 Author Share Posted July 25, 2015 Ron Fetzers's Expanded Turbo-Basic XL Documentation: Turbo Basic Original Documentation Translated by Western New York Atari Users Group: I can send you the PDF if you don't have them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Oops -- forgot the 0%! (Sorry about that.) -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 (edited) M! Just use %0 instead of 0 10 A=A+%0: 20 B=A+%2 more bytes saved=more game Received mine today! I don't read German either but the examples (code) are all fairly clear and you can make out more than you expect. Must have cost a lot of postage Edited July 25, 2015 by therealbountybob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Ron Fetzers's Expanded Turbo-Basic XL Documentation: Constants2.PNG Turbo Basic Original Documentation Translated by Western New York Atari Users Group: Constants.PNG I can send you the PDF if you don't have them. That PDF is unknown to me, so if it is free to share, I would appreciate that A LOT! Thanks again my friend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Turbo Basic fans checkout the great "Turbo BASIC Expanded Documentation" thread in the programming forum and download the English PDF. I've just posted a version of DOS2.5 that does return to Turbo BASIC from DOS option B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Together with ABBUC's new magazine I received new Turbo-Basic XL Handbuch. Thank you ABBUC! 2015-07-22 18.51.02.jpg I got mine in the mail today... Very nice softback book Five stars+++++ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 By itself, worth this years membership dues! -Larry 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtrooper of Death Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I also received this nice surprise from Abbuc. Thanks to Abbuc for it. I am native Dutch speaking, but can read German rather well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+playsoft Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Received mine today, what a wonderful surprise thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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