Making an Atari 400/800 Basic cartridge Eprom type?

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Mon Jan 22 01:55:56 2001

> One reason I would think Atari BASIC would be a bit larger is
> the fact that it included support for all the advanced features of
> the Atari hardware, such as collision detection and player-missle

Jeff, keep in mind that Microsoft BASIC came from the same source tree no
matter what the target CPU. The interpreter was written in a kind of
macro language and run through a post processor for the target platform.
Because of this there was very little, if any space optimizing done unless
the OEM either got the generated source to work on, or they paid MS for
the task. A couple of years ago someone posted a bit of this macro like
code to alt.folklore.computers with a brief description of how it all
went together. A dejanews hunt might even find it.

g.
Received on Mon Jan 22 2001 - 01:55:56 GMT