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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Action! Programming
Message-ID: <1747@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 13:44:55 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 13:44:55 1985
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Keywords: Action! 8-bit

In article <192@sdcc7.UUCP> ln63fkn@sdcc7 writes:
>Don't see how you could have come up with a price of $99 for the Action!
>cartridge, I got mine for $59.00.  Shop around!
>
  I think I got the $99 from adding in the cost of the run-time thing.  It was
over a year ago that I was considering buying it, so my memory is admittedly
hazy.  I wasn't trying to scare anybody away from Action!  Honest!
Incidentally, now that I have had a good chance to find out what a royal pain
it is to use either assembler or cheap C "compilers", I'm once again
considering buying Action!.  I'd be interested in hearing about the program you
mentioned.  I'd also be interested in your experiences with selling it
to Analog, if you decide to go that route.
   One more question I have about Action!: is it a true source-->machine code
compiler, or does it translate to p-code a la Deep Blue C?

 - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)