RSS Bot Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Atari Programming with 55 Programs by Linda M. SchreiberThis is the book I learned the basics of Atari BASIC. One of the best beginners book on Atari BASIC and the Atari in general I have read.Linda Schreiber did not talk down to you in the book. But, she did give very complete instructions with lots of explanations and a line by line description of what ever programming she was demonstrating. She also gave several examples of some useful everyday routines. This was (ans is) invaluable in BASIC programs.Attached is a disk of some of the better routines. She tended to embed the routines into nice little programs, I just condensed out the useful bits. Here what they are: CLRSTR BAS 0002 GETKEY BAS 0001 MAKEPM BAS 0003 MOVEPM BAS 0005 MVCHRSETBAS 0002 SECONDS BAS 0002 TIMER BAS 0002 CLRSTR.BAS is the classic clear a string routine. You always need to clear a large string in Atari BASIC before you use it.GETKEY.BAS how to use GET to read the keyboardMAKEPM.BAS basic steps to creating a Player to display.MOVEPM.BAS a simple M/L routine to move a player up and down. Note:there are much better routines out there.MOVECHRSET.BAS little M/L routine to quickly move the character set to RAMTIMER.BAS using the timer peeksSECONDS.BAS using the same time peeks to click by every second (not in book, I created this) Here is a link to almost all the files in the book in .ATR format: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/209804-bookadvanced-programming-techniques-for-your-atari-by-linda-schreiber/ Here is the book on Atarimania: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari-Programming-with-55-Programs.pdf When I get around to it I'll post her ever better book on advanced programming techniques.Till then, enjoy. Attached File(s) BASIC-routines1.atr (179.64KB)Number of downloads: 0 http://atariage.com/forums/blog/528/entry-15546-atari-programming-with-55-programs-by-linda-m-schreiber/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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