DegasElite Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) Hello, everyone: I have a question. I just joined the forum tonight. Are there any programming tutorials for BASIC and assembly language code for beginners on the Atari platforms that can be accessed on here? If not, will they be available? If so, I am duly interested in learning more about programming, primarily on the 8-bit platform as a base. I also want to learn how to program on other Atari platforms as well. Could there eventually be tutorials on those systems as well? Thanks for reading this post and for having me on here as a new member. I appreciate the opportunity. Edited December 12, 2014 by DegasElite DeLorean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 13, 2014 Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 The last 2 years at the Houston ArcadeExpo, Darrell Spice Jr. from Spiceware has done presentations about how to write & program for the Atari VCS/2600. His site is http://spiceware.org/ I know there is a program called Batari to write programs but there's some other program that Darrell uses. If you watch his presentation its listed in there. Hope this helps you. DegasElite 1 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted December 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 The last 2 years at the Houston ArcadeExpo, Darrell Spice Jr. from Spiceware has done presentations about how to write & program for the Atari VCS/2600. His site is http://spiceware.org/ I know there is a program called Batari to write programs but there's some other program that Darrell uses. If you watch his presentation its listed in there. Hope this helps you. Thanks for the response. I will check that out. I do have Batari BASIC already, but I just have not used it yet. I am hoping that, just like AtariAge, we have programming tutorials on this forum to see. Just a thought. Anyway, there are other platforms other than the 2600 that I want to learn, like the Lynx and the 7800 platform. Batari BASIC seems intuitive enough, however, and it even has a user interface that can be downloaded (called Visual Batari BASIC) which I also have. It's pretty cool. I guess that could be a start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Outside of those programs I'm not familiar with any others - sorry. Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted December 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Outside of those programs I'm not familiar with any others - sorry. That's not a problem. Batari BASIC seems quite intuitive anyway, it seems. I can go from there. Thanks again. Arenafoot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 curently there are three atari game systems that have basic complier language (which is basically when you type up a code basic language then you run it into complier to make bin(or rom ) format): BatariBasic for 2600:http://atariage.com/forums/forum/65-batari-basic/ 7800 basic for 7800: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222638-7800basic-beta-the-release-thread/ Raptor Basic + for the Jaguar: http://atariage.com/forums/forum/161-raptor-basic/ I programed in bBasic and its prettty simple I recommend that you get ide V bBasic it will help program a lot faster. DegasElite 1 Quote AVC Online:atari-video.club VGS website: http://videogamesummit.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted May 28, 2017 Report Share Posted May 28, 2017 (edited) Are there any programming tutorials for BASIC and assembly language code for beginners on the Atari platforms that can be accessed on here This is not on here but here: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari-BASIC-Tutorial.pdf Mind you though it is a slow loading website so once you get the whole .pdf, i suggest you save it to your PC for the next session. EDIT: Ooops, didn't check the date on the original post, anyway the link may help someone else, as for the OP, he probably is a BASIC expert by now. LOL Edited May 28, 2017 by atari8warez DegasElite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted July 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 (edited) curently there are three atari game systems that have basic complier language (which is basically when you type up a code basic language then you run it into complier to make bin(or rom ) format): BatariBasic for 2600:http://atariage.com/forums/forum/65-batari-basic/ 7800 basic for 7800: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222638-7800basic-beta-the-release-thread/ Raptor Basic + for the Jaguar: http://atariage.com/forums/forum/161-raptor-basic/ I programed in bBasic and its prettty simple I recommend that you get ide V bBasic it will help program a lot faster. I once had Visual batariBASIC. I should give that a shot again. Thanks. I will also try 7800basic. Edited July 18, 2017 by DegasElite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted July 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 This is not on here but here: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari-BASIC-Tutorial.pdf Mind you though it is a slow loading website so once you get the whole .pdf, i suggest you save it to your PC for the next session. EDIT: Ooops, didn't check the date on the original post, anyway the link may help someone else, as for the OP, he probably is a BASIC expert by now. LOL I am going to get the PDF from this web site to study it. Thanks again, folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted July 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 Say, does anyone know how to find an English tutorial on Turbo-BASIC? I found something, but it is in Polish. Thanks for everything else, as it will come in handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted July 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 The last 2 years at the Houston ArcadeExpo, Darrell Spice Jr. from Spiceware has done presentations about how to write & program for the Atari VCS/2600. His site is http://spiceware.org/ I know there is a program called Batari to write programs but there's some other program that Darrell uses. If you watch his presentation its listed in there. Hope this helps you. Oh, yeah. The programmer of the game "Space Rocks". I will check his site out. Thanks. Arenafoot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Oh, yeah. The programmer of the game "Space Rocks". I will check his site out. Thanks. Yes Darrell Spice Jr.- Space Rocks, Medieval Mayhem, Stay Frosty, Stay Frosty 2: Stay Frostier, Draconian, etc....... Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted July 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 UPDATE: I found some interesting information on Turbo-BASIC XL. Here is the link: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/attach/TURBO-BASIC%20XL/Kurzreferenz_zur_TURBO-BASIC_XL-Erweiterung.txt It is mostly in German, but also a lot of the files are in English. There you go. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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