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The language was distributed as an 8 KB ROM cartridge for use with the 1979 Atari 400 and 800 computers and included the Atari BASIC Reference Manual written by Carol Shaw and Keith Brewster. [2] [3] [4] Starting with the 600XL and 800XL in 1983, BASIC is built into the system. There are three primary versions of the software: the original ...
Atari, Inc. published two assemblers. The Atari Assembler Editor cartridge is a friendlier, integrated development environment using line numbers for editing source code similar to Atari BASIC. The professionally targeted Atari Macro Assembler shipped at a higher price on a copy protected disk without editor or debugger.
OSS purchased Atari BASIC, Atari DOS, and Atari Assembler Editor from Shepardson Microsystems who had concluded that their versions of BASIC and DOS were not viable. [citation needed] The new company enhanced the programs, renaming them OS/A+ (the Disk Operating System), BASIC A+ (a disk-based language), and EASMD (an update to the Assembler ...
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Antic Software was a software company associated with Antic, a magazine for Atari 8-bit computers. Bound into issues of the magazine, the Antic Software catalog initially sold Atari 8-bit games, applications, and utilities from the recently defunct Atari Program Exchange .
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BASIC Programming is an Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) cartridge that teaches simple computer programming using a dialect of BASIC.Written by Warren Robinett and released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, this BASIC interpreter is one of a few non-game cartridges for the console.
The cartridge version was called Atari Microsoft BASIC II. Although more feature-filled than Atari BASIC, Microsoft BASIC never had the popularity that Atari BASIC had. The biggest problems were: increased memory needed (at least 32 KB) disk drive required; performance (faster than Atari BASIC, but slower than Turbo-Basic XL and BASIC XL) not ...