codyr783 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Hello. I'm trying to get batari BASIC to work on XP.When I open the folder most programs I try to open just pop up real fast and dissapear.Only a few of the programs work in it(i.e. Optimize).If anyone can help that would be great! Thanks, Cody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atarius Maximus Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 (edited) Hello. I'm trying to get batari BASIC to work on XP.When I open the folder most programs I try to open just pop up real fast and dissapear.Only a few of the programs work in it(i.e. Optimize).If anyone can help that would be great! Thanks, Cody Hi Cody, batariBasic is a command line application, you'll need to run it from a command prompt window. A good place to start is with the 3 tutorial sessions written by SeaGtGruff, located here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...amp;hl=tutorial http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...amp;hl=tutorial http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...amp;hl=tutorial Steve Edited June 28, 2007 by Atarius Maximus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codyr783 Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 Thank you for the help but what I mean is that the command prompt will show for about a second and then dissapear.Is there any way to fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atarius Maximus Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Thank you for the help but what I mean is that the command prompt will show for about a second and then dissapear.Is there any way to fix it? You need to launch the command prompt before you start bB. Go to Start | Run, and type cmd. That will open a command prompt window. Now change to the batari Basic directory that you downloaded it to, like cd\bbasic (or whereever you put it), and you then can compile your code by typing 2600bas yourcode.bas. If you launch 2600bas.bat from windows explorer, it will just flash on the screen for a second and close, because it's expecting command line parameters. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codyr783 Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 Is there any way that you can change it to where Windows will run Basic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragnerok X Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 (edited) Is there any way that you can change it to where Windows will run Basic? Download 2600 IDE from: http://www.bataribasic.com/download.html Once set-up, it's really easy to use. I've used it to make every game featured on my website thus-far. I would recommend it to anyone using batari Basic. I hope that helps. Edited June 28, 2007 by Dragnerok X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+batari Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Has anyone ever tried to simply drag a .bas file on top of the 2600bas.bat file? Of course it won't work unless the path and bB environment variable are properly set in Windows, not DOS. This certainly isn't the best way to use the compiler but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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