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Atari BASIC

Atari BASIC is an interpreter for the BASIC programming language that shipped with Atari 8-bit computers. Unlike most American BASICs of the home computer era, Atari BASIC is not a derivative of Microsoft BASIC and differs in significant ways. It includes keywords for Atari-specific features and lacks support for string arrays.

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Designed by
Paul Laughton Kathleen O'Brien Carol Shaw (manual) Keith Brewster (manual)
Developer
Shepardson Microsystems
Family
BASIC
First appeared
1979; 47 years ago (1979)
License
Commercial proprietary software
Platform
Atari 8-bit computers

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Atari BASIC

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Atari BASIC

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related to Differences from Microsoft BASIC · 24
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related to Graphics and sound · 23
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related to Input/output · 23
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related to Performance · 19
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related to Releases · 13
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related to Program editing · 11
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related to Tokenizer · 9
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related to Embedded machine language · 8
Atari BASIC → ADR, If, Machine, ROUTINE, The, USR, VAR1, VAR2
related to String handling · 8
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Atari BASICDesigned byPaul Laughton Kathleen O'Brien Carol Shaw (manual) Keith Brewster (manual)1.00infobox
Atari BASICDeveloperShepardson Microsystems1.00infobox
Atari BASICFamilyBASIC1.00infobox
Atari BASICFirst appeared1979; 47 years ago (1979)1.00infobox
Atari BASICLicenseCommercial proprietary software1.00infobox
Atari BASICPlatformAtari 8-bit computers1.00infobox
Atari BASICStable releaseRevision C / 1983; 43 years ago (1983)1.00infobox
Atari BASICis ainterpreter for the BASIC programming language that shipped with Atari 8-bit computers0.90text
Atari BASICis aslowest language ever created0.90text
higher pitch resolutioninstance ofpitch and distortion.Advanced capabilities of the hardware0.80text
high-pass filtersinstance ofpitch and distortion.Advanced capabilities of the hardware0.80text
digitised soundinstance ofpitch and distortion.Advanced capabilities of the hardware0.80text

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