Atari 8-bit - Happy Computer - 1985

Turbo-BASIC XL

Name: Turbo-BASIC XL
Rating: 8.7 (217 reviews)

Genre: Programming - Language
Year: 1985
Language: Machine Language
Publisher: Happy Computer
Controls: Keyboard
Developer: [n/a]
Players: -
Country
Programmer(s): Ostrowski, Frank
License: Magazine
Graphic Artist(s): [n/a]
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Sound: [n/a]
Rarity: N/A
Cover Artist(s): [n/a]
Serial: SH2
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

From Happy Computer's "1. Atari Sonderheft" dated December 1985.

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Rating8.7/10

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COMMENTS (13)

munich25 Mar 2023
? EXP(0) 9.940680629E+43 instead of 1 Bug in altirra? No solution yet?
munich4 Feb 2023
? EXP(1) ERROR- 3 VALUE instead of 2.718... can't run my code from 1990 - so sad bug in altirra ??
Tony10 Dec 2012
I Loved this basic, fast, powerful, came with a compiler! Sadly I had trouble giving the games I wrote away because many Atari Users I knew loved their SpartaDOS, and that used a memory region that conflicted with TB :(
croupier19 Jun 2012
Dump missing? try page6.org
Level4214 Oct 2010
The best programming language on the Atari 8 bit machines EVER ! I clearly remember the magazine that launched it and it was a HUGE success immediately. It wiped out the original Atari Basic. The great thing was that it _was_ compatible with it and of course that compiler was brilliant. The guy who wrote it was jobless at the time I remember and he went on to start GFA and write GFA Basic for the ST.
Paul12 Jan 2010
To autorun Turbo-Basic: rename TURBOBAS.COM to AUTORUN.SYS in DOS (unlock file first)
Paul12 Jan 2010
There is a typed in version: http://freenet-homepage.de/mrbacardi/tools.html
Mike30 Jan 2009
Love this programming language. Faster than the built in basic plus it had extra features. Used it exclusively when I was programming in the late 80's early 90's
Gashpy21 Feb 2008
I liked it very much: started the 800Xl only with this... If you have time enough you can type in it from here: http://www.tmeyer.de/atari/index.html
thilo20 Sept 2007
it was the "previous version" for the gfa basic(St).
Erroll10 Feb 2007
I had written a somewhat lame game where you dodge space ships that fly at you and used Tom Hudsons player/missle vertical routine for the vert movement. Worked great, was fast enough... but when I compiled it in turbo basic xl, it flew. :)
Enrique Gánem14 Dec 2006
I used a program called "Topographic Mapping" on the Apple II - to make maps, of course -. It took between 6 and 10 hours to interpolate some 100 data points. To make this story shorte, I translated the original Apple BASIC program to Turbo Basic. With all the tricks (including disabling ANTIC during computation), the interpolation time dropped to about 10 minutes. That´s ATARI for you!
Twitch26 Nov 2006
Great Basic. Super fast and there was even a compiler, if I remember correctly. I wish I had found this Basic sooner.