gamer1682 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Knowing that that FB3 might be a 800 in a 5200 case, Is there a possibility of having Atari BASIC either packaged or embeded in the system? In a way that could let you create your own games on the system, almost like a miniature development unit inside the system itself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 That would be cool, but how would you access it, unless it had a jack to add on a typical PS2 keyboard... Then you'd need storage to save your games. A USB port to connect to a PC would suffice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobo Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 I think it would be a great buying incentive to be able to make your own simple games. They could just have a usb port and SD slot to take care of the keyboard and storage problems. Maybe Turbo BASIC instead of Atari Basic though. Advan BASIC would also be good I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 I'm assuming that it's going to be an XL internally, not an 800, so it would have Basic, but you wouldn't see it since the system would autoload a menu app. You'd have to hack the unit to add a keyboard or SIO port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_mike Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Knowing that that FB3 might be a 800 in a 5200 case, Is there a possibility of having Atari BASIC either packaged or embeded in the system? In a way that could let you create your own games on the system, almost like a miniature development unit inside the system itself! That would be toooootally sweet! I would buy one just for that! We'd need to have a hack for keyboard and disk input... that would rock! Thanks, Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 That would be toooootally sweet! I would buy one just for that! We'd need to have a hack for keyboard and disk input... that would rock! Thanks, Mike Well, according to the (tentative) specs that Curt has posted elsewhere, the FB3 will have both: a footprint for a PS/2 keyboard port, and an SIO port header. As for BASIC on the FB3 ... sure, why not? Because most games don't require it, BASIC probably won't be enabled by default as it was on the XL and XE machines. Perhaps the FB3 will be like the XEGS and won't load BASIC unless it detects that a keyboard is attached. But even if it isn't built into the unit at all, you could simply get a binary file version of BASIC and load it like you would any other executable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Haha - might be time for me to track down my audio cassette of my Star Trek game I programmed on my 800XL back in the day.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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