- This article is about Turbo-Basic XL, a dialect of BASIC for the Atari 8-bit family. There is an article on the Borland version of Turbo BASIC.
Turbo-Basic XL is a superior version of BASIC for the Atari 8-bit family of computers that is compatible with the standard ATARI BASIC. As well as being much faster, it adds some extra commands to the language. A Turbo-Basic XL compiler was also made available that created binary executables that were even faster.
Amongst the extra features that were added to the language were
structured programming constructs, simple debugging features, more flexible IO commands, enhanced multimedia commands, a few miscelaneous functions, and disk-operations.
Turbo-Basic XL was developed by Frank Ostrowski and published in the German language Happy Computer Magazine in December 1985.
Turbo-Basic XL and Turbo-Basic XL Compiler are Copyright 1985 Frank Ostrowski and Markt und Technik Verlag.
External links
- http://www.tmeyer.de/atari/index.html – Scans of the Turbo-Basic XL listing and Turbo-Basic XL compiler listing from Happy Computer Magazine. Also lists the new commands added to the language.
- TurboTari (http://kikabo.co.uk/) – An extended BASIC emulator (based on Turbo-Basic XL) and 6502 emulator/Atari architecture emulator all in one. Currently unfinished.
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