Turbo-BASIC XL

Information

Genre

Programming - Language

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Keyboard

Players

-

Programmer(s)

Ostrowski, Frank

Graphic Artist(s)

[n/a]

Sound

[n/a]

Cover Artist(s)

[n/a]

Year

1985

Publisher

Happy Computer

Developer

[n/a]

Country

Germany

License

Magazine

Medium

Disk

Rarity

0

Serial

SH2

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 8.7/10 · Votes: 217 · Downloads: 7,483 · Hits: 41,198

Additional Comments

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Comments (13)

• munich — 25 Mar 2023

  ? EXP(0) 9.940680629E+43 instead of 1 Bug in altirra? No solution yet?

• munich — 4 Feb 2023

  ? EXP(1) ERROR- 3 VALUE instead of 2.718... can't run my code from 1990 - so sad bug in altirra ??

• Tony — 10 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 :(

• croupier — 19 Jun 2012

  Dump missing? try page6.org

• Level42 — 14 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.

• Paul — 12 Jan 2010

  To autorun Turbo-Basic: rename TURBOBAS.COM to AUTORUN.SYS in DOS (unlock file first)

• Paul — 12 Jan 2010

  There is a typed in version: http://freenet-homepage.de/mrbacardi/tools.html

• Mike — 30 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

• Gashpy — 21 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

• thilo — 20 Sept 2007

  it was the "previous version" for the gfa basic(St).

• Erroll — 10 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 Gánem — 14 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!

• Twitch — 26 Nov 2006

  Great Basic. Super fast and there was even a compiler, if I remember correctly. I wish I had found this Basic sooner.