Posted an utterly minimal flashcard-style hex-to-binary conversion trainer to #AtariAge, as my first effort in #FastBasic.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349675-fastbasic-help/page/3/#findComment-5720208

#atari8bit #retrocomputing

I'm really enjoying #FastBasic on #atari8bit! 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 #AtariAge, 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 #retrocomputing 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 #FujiNet commands is intriguing, on top of the existing #XIO support.

#structuredProgramming #BWDOS

Nice bug here in the interaction between BW-DOS and FastBasic! I've managed to save a file with no name.

I'm about to mount this ATR using atrfs to find out what went wrong there. I must have specified the file path incorrectly while saving from FastBasic. D3:>MYFB.BAS doesn't seem to be valid, even though all the saving sounds are made, and no error occurs.

#atari8bit #FastBasic #BWDOS

Oh yum. The Fedora Hat from FastBASIC's demo programs.

Interestingly, some casual quacking failed to find any information about the origin of the Fedora Hat 3D plot; what field of science it emerged from, what it originally represented, when it was first rendered, on what hardware. If anyone knows, please share.

#retrocomputing #fastbasic #fedorahat #fedoraplot #computergraphics #computerhistory #vintagecomputing #atati8bit

First Atari ST program I've written in ~35 years. Let alone with Fast BASIC on cartridge! 😎

#Atari #AtariST #Atari16Bit #ComputerConcepts #FastBASIC #BASIC #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd

I've completed 'Cathode-Ray Tube' - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022 on my Atari 1200XL

https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/10

#AdventOfCode #atari #FastBasic #atari8bit

I just completed 'No Space Left On Device' - Day 7 on my Atari 8-Bit Computer in FastBasic - Advent of Code 2022

https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/7

#AdventOfCode #atari #atari8bit #RetroComputing #FastBasic

I've completed 'Tuning Trouble' - Day 6 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022

https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/6

#AdventOfCode #atari #atari8bit #FastBasic #RetroComputing