Best Atari BASIC Compiler?
Tin Lunchbox
compiler. Anyone disagree?
Tin Lunchbox
Thomas Richter
> I think the best straight Atari BASIC compiler is Datasoft's ABC
> compiler. Anyone disagree?
Yes - because it depends on what you need. ABC does not compile to
assembly, but to a p-code which is then interpreted. The second problem
is that ABC only supports integers (24 bit integers, specifically), and
thus any type of floating point math is out. For many applications, this
is enough, but not for all.
The advantage of ABC is that you can reconstruct the basic program from
the pCode, thus de-compilers are available. It was also commercially
successful, a couple of Microprose games have been compiled with it.
If you need floating point, well, the TurboBasic compiler wasn't bad, it
just required a larger runtime.
So long,
Thomas
ricortes
*IF* you just want to compile straight Atari BASIC code, I had the MMG
compiler and thought it was quite good. It has the option of compiling
either floating point or integer. You could also save the assember
source code but it wasn't very useful except to see how they did their
magic. I seem to recall the MMG was a derivative of another, maybe
even the ABC. You really needed a double density disk ~180 of storage
to do anything useful with it though. I compiled some terminal
programs with it and had no trouble getting 2400 BAUD from a compiled
BASIC program.
Rick
jim
Hello:
There are a few basic compilers out, like CMP and there is another
one, my old mind cant remember that I have. I tried compiling games or
compiled a Sieve of The Greek guy(I am a bad speller) and it made some
work a lot faster but mad some games so fast they were not playable.
So find a Sieve program and compile it and see what makes things run
faster. Other than that if you are looking for compilers, let me know,
I can make Atari Image Files of any of them.
I love my APE interface
JIM