@fluidlogic@oldbytes.space avatar fluidlogic , to random

I'm really enjoying on ! It feels much more modern* than other languages on the platform, and the native IDE booting from BW-DOS has just enough utility to make it viable to write code on an Atari 800 or equivalent. (I miss vi's 'join' and a search and replace utility, but the edit/save/run cycle feels very natural.)

FastBasic's author is active on , and has also contributed to the recent 1.5 release of BW-DOS, in conjunction with Jiří Bernášek, the original author of BW-DOS.

It's extraordinary; the scene is more lively and robust than ever, between new hardware add-ons and new programming languages.

  • Well, 1970s structured programming modern; in FastBasic, there's no scoping of variables, nor functions that return values, nor hand-holding error messages. Lots of great utility in the several looping constructs and 16-bit DPOKE and DPEEK, and the recent addition of commands is intriguing, on top of the existing support.

..... PROCedure definitions ..... PROC ToggleBit bitPos . ? "Toggling bit " bitPos newBits$="" FOR pos=1 TO LEN(plyrBits$) IF pos=bitPos IF plyrBits$[bitPos,1]="⚪" newBits$=+" " INC pos ELSE newBits$=+"⚪" INC pos ENDIF ENDIF newBits$=+plyrBits$[pos,1] NEXT plyrBits$=newBits$ ? clrScrn$;pad$;plyrBits$ ENDPROC
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