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INC on byte arrays

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Think I got a bug. inc a(1) This works as expected with WORD arrays but gives an error with BYTE arrays

ukcroupier

Cross compiler sometimes fails to link floating-point SIN/COS constants

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very minor issue. I'm getting errors when printing with commas in floating point version of the cross compiler. The following line: ? 1,2 Gives an error (it works fine in...

ukcroupier

Source File Inclusion (enhancement)

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Possible to add a statement to include other source files, such as $INCLUDE "INITVARS.FBA", as a compiler directive? Thanks

drarem

Hi, would it be possible to create some kind of local variables for subroutines? In order to write new games for the Atari I would first create some generic routines,...

SteveB69

Modular loading and unloading of "addons"

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Some akin to dlopen in C - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/functions/dlopen.html would be great to have. The advantage over a RUN "Dx:Filename.ext" is that you would not unload the initial program, keeping any...

rickcollette

inc/dec memory

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Any chance we could use inc/dec directly on memory eg INC &1536 instead of poke 1536,peek(1536)+1

ukcroupier

The command line compiler could be used from the command line, as "FBC FILE.BAS" Reported by janzh at AtariAge: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/318133-fastbasic-45-2021-release/?do=findComment&comment=4806423

dmsc

Try many sample programs

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Since fastbasic is similar to TURBO BASIC XL, and TURBO BASIC XL is similar to GFA-BASIC, and GFA-BASIC is similar to X11-Basic, you might want to try out some of...

kollokollo

Auto new line

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There are many commands that could be seen as the end of a line and yet we still need to use a colon to denote a new line/command. eg. endif...

ukcroupier

Unsupported Commands from other Atari Basics

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I see a few commands were removed from Atari Basic. If code is being ported over, there should be a list of in unsupported commands and functions. I see GOTO,...

ghost