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Atari MS BASIC did get much love back in the day. I, personally, have always liked it. It's fast, easy translate programs in and has lots of features.

So, a while back, I wrote a couple simple games for in Atari MS BASIC. Uno (the card game) and Awari (see David Ahl Computer Games book for description) to make a little demo of it's capabilities.

I can't remember If I posted these a while back, my check i didn't see any, but if i did I apologize. I been hang out in the TI99 forum for a couple years working on some projects and just getting back to the 8-bit.

 

 

 

Awari-MSB.ATR Uno-MSB.ATR

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Those are the first games I've seen written in MS BASIC.

 

Awari looked like Mankala but with a bit different rules.

 

I was curious about the BASIC syntax and listed Uno. I was surprised how some structured programming worked, which is very different of what TurboBasic XL has.

 

Nice contribution... Thanks!

 

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23 minutes ago, vitoco said:

Those are the first games I've seen written in MS BASIC.

 

Awari looked like Mankala but with a bit different rules.

 

I was curious about the BASIC syntax and listed Uno. I was surprised how some structured programming worked, which is very different of what TurboBasic XL has.

 

Nice contribution... Thanks!

 

I've played mankala and there are essentially the same. I had thought about allowing to play Awari rules or Mankala rules but was too lazy to implement it. ;)

 

I also translated Uno to TBXL at one time and the speed was about the same. oh, and feel free to play with the code and if you come up with a better MSBASIC version, post it.

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13 minutes ago, hloberg said:

oh, and feel free to play with the code and if you come up with a better MSBASIC version, post it.

By these days, I'm programming using FastBasic, which does not require line numbers, and all the code must be structured. I feel it would be a step back to return to GOTOs, which I'm doing only in my tiny Atari BASIC tenliners exclusively when required. ?

 

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1 hour ago, vitoco said:

By these days, I'm programming using FastBasic, which does not require line numbers, and all the code must be structured. I feel it would be a step back to return to GOTOs, which I'm doing only in my tiny Atari BASIC tenliners exclusively when required. ?

 

need to give FastBASIC a look. sound interesting.

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4 minutes ago, Philsan said:

Microsoft Basic II is a nice language but I think it was used by very few people.

 

It would be nice to find more programs made with it.

 

You can find latest FastBasic release here:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/308797-fastbasic-44-beta/?do=findComment&comment=4599760

 

 

The book "Adventures with the Atari" includes two adventures written in MS Basic (and also two programs written in Pilot). Thanks to Allan for typing it in...   http://ataribasiclistings.mygamesonline.org/Adventures_With_The_Atari.7z

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7 hours ago, CharlieChaplin said:

 

The book "Adventures with the Atari" includes two adventures written in MS Basic (and also two programs written in Pilot). Thanks to Allan for typing it in...   http://ataribasiclistings.mygamesonline.org/Adventures_With_The_Atari.7z

thanks. I'll add it to my other MSB.

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7 hours ago, Philsan said:

Microsoft Basic II is a nice language but I think it was used by very few people.

 

It would be nice to find more programs made with it.

 

You can find latest FastBasic release here:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/308797-fastbasic-44-beta/?do=findComment&comment=4599760

 

I have a few other MSB stuff I had been working on and put to the side I'll eventually post.

note: the games I posted had a homebrew variant called MSB 2.7. whoever modded it took out a few unnecessary bytes and made it to be able to boot a MSB program after it loads. it also does not require a MSBII cart as it loads from disk. It's actually a variant of MSB 1.0 even though it's named 2.7.  

and downloaded the fastbasic, thanks.

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On 8/13/2020 at 2:44 AM, CharlieChaplin said:

 

The book "Adventures with the Atari" includes two adventures written in MS Basic (and also two programs written in Pilot). Thanks to Allan for typing it in...   http://ataribasiclistings.mygamesonline.org/Adventures_With_The_Atari.7z

here is the book and the files. both MSB games are on disk 1.

MSB games Adventures_With_The_Atari.7z

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