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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: spartados/turbobasic/superdos
Message-ID: <1906@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 14:40:20 EST
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.1906
Posted: Tue Mar  3 14:40:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Mar-87 23:50:13 EST
References: <8396@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio
Lines: 55

In article <8396@decwrl.DEC.COM> curzon@kaoa01.dec.com writes:
>
>TURBO BASIC
>
>  - is there a patch yet to correct the time functions for North
>     America?  (I tried the one someone posted here before, no go)
>  - how do you load handlers with it?
>  - anybody got any notes on how it uses memory?
>
>SPARTADOS
>
>Thanks to all those who answered my questions on Spartados
>and the US doubler... I bought it and am very pleased.
>
>I would say this is the height of the art of Atari command line DOS's,
>with batches, time/date stamp on files, and a few great utilities.
>
>Now I need MORE utilities..anybody got a boot sector, high speed binary 
>loader?  other goodies?
>
>
>				Dick Curzon
>				Digital Equipment of Canada

dick,
	i don't use Turbo BASIC much since it doesn't work with
SPARTADOS, but when I first got TB (before I had SpartaDOS), I remember
that all I need to do to fix the clock program that came with it was to
change a divide by 50 to a divide by 60... granted this was just a call
to a time function... I can't remember if TB has a time$ function, but
I never messed with it... 
	another reason that I don't use it is that I have deep blue C,
and recently got the ACE C pd C compiler (an extension of dbc and/or
related to it via the original pd C compiler that John Palevich built
dbc from), and I have Kyan Pascal... all of which work with SpartaDOS.
Kyan Pascal also comes with an excellent macro assembler, a real nice
program editor (the only thing it doesn't have is some sort of tabbing,
but that is understandable since you only have a 40 column screen to work
with), AND a neat little mini-Unix environment called KIX that runs
right on top of DOS 2.5 or SPARTADOS with ls, rm, mv, etc. and limited
redirection capability (e.g., ls *.* > file )...  well worth the $70.
The pascal compiler is ISO with support for Atari graphics and sound...
	I would recommend that you get your hands on dbc or ACE C and
build your own tools... (this is particularly pleasant if you have a
ramdisk to work from).

			brad banko
			...!decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!btb
			cleveland, ohio

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