Show 015 - Atari 8-Bit Programming

Randy and Earl discuss the various options for modern programming on Atari 8-bit systems, including the Atari 400/800 and their successors!

• News/Personal Projects
  • RP2040 Geek - https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-geek.htm
  • z80pack on Waveshare RP2040-GEEK/RP2350-GEEK - https://github.com/udo-munk/RP2xxx-GEEK-80
  • Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition - https://csscgc2025.blogspot.com/
  • Article about the Crap Games competition on The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jul/06/people-competing-to-make-the-worst-computer-games-possible
• Show Topic
  • Action! programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action
  • FastBASIC programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=FastBasic
  • ATR disk image for the Atari 8-bit computers and binaries of the cross-compiler for different platforms for FastBASIC - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378307-fastbasic-47-is-here/
  • Visual Studio Code extension for FastBASIC - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricCarr.fastbasic-debugger
  • FastBASIC manual - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/blob/master/manual.md
  • Getting Altirra Running on macOS Sequoia 15.x (Andy Diller) - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/12/26/altirra-arm-and-sequoia/
  • MADS Assembler and MADS Pascal - https://mads.atari8.info/
  • WUDSN IDE - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/ide
  • YouTube WUDSN tutorial with MADS and Atari 8-bit - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/productions-atari800/tutorials
  • Interview with Peter Dell, author of WUDSN - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-27-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-peter-dell-wudsn 
  • General information on 6502 - http://6502.org/
  • Various online books for Atari, including De Re Atari and others - https://www.atariarchives.org/
  • AtariAge 8-bit programming forum - https://forums.atariage.com/forum/51-atari-5200-8-bit-programming/
  • Lots of great info on Atari 8-bit, including reference cards - https://gury.atari8.info/index.php
  • ca65 assembler - https://cc65.github.io/doc/ca65.html
  • Virtual 6502 Assembler - https://www.masswerk.at/6502/assembler.html
  • Milfork Assembler - https://github.com/KarolS/millfork
  • Mac/65 Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Mac65
  • Atasm Assembler - https://github.com/CycoPH/atasm 
  • Xasm Assembler - https://github.com/pfusik/xasm
  • Atmas-II Cross Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atmas%20II 
  • Notepad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
  • UltraEdit - https://www.ultraedit.com/
  • 8BitWorkshop online IDE - https://8bitworkshop.com/
  • TurboBASIC XL - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Turbo-BASIC%20XL 
  • BASIC parser for TurboBASIC XL - https://github.com/dmsc/tbxl-parser
• Other Links
  • Join the NWF crew on Discord! https://discord.gg/XAWv7PAFH4