Show 015 - Atari 8-Bit Programming

Randy and Earl discuss the various options for modern programming on Atari 8-bit systems, including the Atari 400/800 and their successors!

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• News/Personal Projects
• RP2040 Geek - https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-geek.htm
  
• z80pack on Waveshare RP2040-GEEK/RP2350-GEEK - https://github.com/udo-munk/RP2xxx-GEEK-80
• Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition - https://csscgc2025.blogspot.com/
• Article about the Crap Games competition on The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jul/06/people-competing-to-make-the-worst-computer-games-possible
• Show Topic
• Action! programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action
  
• FastBASIC programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=FastBasic
• ATR disk image for the Atari 8-bit computers and binaries of the cross-compiler for different platforms for FastBASIC - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378307-fastbasic-47-is-here/
• Visual Studio Code extension for FastBASIC - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricCarr.fastbasic-debugger
• FastBASIC manual - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/blob/master/manual.md
  
• Getting Altirra Running on macOS Sequoia 15.x (Andy Diller) - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/12/26/altirra-arm-and-sequoia/
• MADS Assembler and MADS Pascal - https://mads.atari8.info/
• WUDSN IDE - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/ide
• YouTube WUDSN tutorial with MADS and Atari 8-bit - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/productions-atari800/tutorials
  
• Interview with Peter Dell, author of WUDSN - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-27-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-peter-dell-wudsn 
  
• General information on 6502 - http://6502.org/
• Various online books for Atari, including De Re Atari and others - https://www.atariarchives.org/
• AtariAge 8-bit programming forum - https://forums.atariage.com/forum/51-atari-5200-8-bit-programming/
• Lots of great info on Atari 8-bit, including reference cards - https://gury.atari8.info/index.php
• ca65 assembler - https://cc65.github.io/doc/ca65.html
• Virtual 6502 Assembler - https://www.masswerk.at/6502/assembler.html
• Milfork Assembler - https://github.com/KarolS/millfork
• Mac/65 Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Mac65
• Atasm Assembler - https://github.com/CycoPH/atasm 
• Xasm Assembler - https://github.com/pfusik/xasm
• Atmas-II Cross Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atmas%20II 
• Notepad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• UltraEdit - https://www.ultraedit.com/
• 8BitWorkshop online IDE - https://8bitworkshop.com/
• TurboBASIC XL - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Turbo-BASIC%20XL 
• BASIC parser for TurboBASIC XL - https://github.com/dmsc/tbxl-parser
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Show 014 - The History of BASIC

Randy and Earl cover the history of the BASIC programming language, including its origins, and the wide adoption of BASIC on 8-bit systems in the 1970s and 1980s!

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• News
• BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium
• Show Topic
• “Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer” by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger (associate link) - https://amzn.to/3EzdPCp 
• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC 
• “Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Stephen Weyrich - https://amzn.to/4hFGkNy 
• “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It” by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith - https://amzn.to/42ZhBzc 
• “Commodore: A Company on the Edge” by Brian Bagnall - https://amzn.to/4gHvfdu 
• "101 Basic Computer Games" by David H. Ahl - https://amzn.to/3QitZTg or “101 BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition” - https://amzn.to/4hABxwT 
•  “BASIC Session”:The ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conference In Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1978 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198404 
• 2006 Salon Article - Why Johnny Can't Code - https://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/
• Microsoft Small Basic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Small_Basic
• Basic-256 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic-256
• Quite Basic - https://www.quitebasic.com/
• Dartmouth held a 50th anniversary celebration for BASIC on May 1st, 2014.  A short documentary film was produced for the event:
• https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI 
• Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal By Harry McCraken in Time magazine - http://time.com/69316/basic/
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