+hloberg Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 To help me learn Action! I have started a tutorial on Action! in my Atariage blog. I'm up to lesson 4 on my blog. I post about once a week or so. below is part one. http://atariage.com/forums/blog/528/entry-15422-learning-action/ 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Hi, I remember Action was cartridge only, and you needed the cartridge for the run-time routines, though I think at some time a disk based version might have been released. Is it worth writing up how to set up a new development environment sometime, e.g., get this disk image for the Action compiler, it works with this dos, etc., here's a hello world program, you compile and run it like this, etc., etc.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugbear Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 (edited) There are/have been/were two attempts at a cross compiling version of Action!http://gury.atari8.info/effectus/http://www.noniandjim.com/Jim/atari/Action_Compiler.html I do not know how far they got, wether they were finished, or wether they still work. BugBear Edited January 24, 2019 by bugbear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Effectus is still alive, but it was not maintained for a while, I agree. I will return to it very soon. Gury 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Hi, I remember Action was cartridge only, and you needed the cartridge for the run-time routines, though I think at some time a disk based version might have been released. Is it worth writing up how to set up a new development environment sometime, e.g., get this disk image for the Action compiler, it works with this dos, etc., here's a hello world program, you compile and run it like this, etc., etc.? you can run Action! with the runtime package disk without the cartridge. I have the runtime disk included with the resources for Action! I posted. http://atariage.com/forums/blog/528/entry-15424-learning-action-part-2-resources/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Hello world in Action! PROC main() PrintE("Hello World:") Return Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 If you use the OSS runtime, make sure you patch it with the fixes from bugsheet #3. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geister Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Is there an alternative to the OSS runtime? Where can you find this bugsheet #3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 There are some other runtime packages, have a look here: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action#section-Action-Runtimes Bugsheet #3 is there as well: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action%20Bugsheet#section-Action+Bugsheet-3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 now there is a project, fixing up all known action issues and cleaning up... new Action ROM would be nice among other things... ducks behind the shrubbery and runs out of sight and picks a hiding place... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
777ismyname Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 now there is a project, fixing up all known action issues and cleaning up... new Action ROM would be nice among other things... ducks behind the shrubbery and runs out of sight and picks a hiding place... It would be very nice! I bought Action (and some other OSS stuff) in the last 1/3 of the 80s. I never opened it. Somewhere or another I have a new in the box Action. Partying and girls dictated that I was not going to learn more about coding for a few decades Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 All your questions should be answered from here: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action If you have accidently the 2 missing Action! programs, please let us know. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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