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From: shafferj@bknlvms.BITNET (Jim Shaffer, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: AdvanBasic
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Date: 7 Apr 88 09:18:40 GMT
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Does *anyone* on this list use Advan Basic? I've never met anyone else who
does, and it's pretty frustrating. It's a great product (my only major gripes
are the price and the fact that it can be slower than one expects from a
compiled language, but the available commands and functions are excellent).
Unfortunately, Action! seems to be the language of choice. I don't know
whether that's because it came out first, or if the vast majority of
Atarians learned C or Pascal as their first language (although Action! is
really neither), or just what the situation really is.

If there are any users here, have any of you written any useful programs,
functions, or subroutines that you'd like to share?

Can anyone tell me if there's any Advan software on CompuServe? I haven't
seen any, but it's been a while since I checked.

Thanks in advance,
Jim "Headroom" Shaffer, Jr.
Internet: ShafferJ%Bknlvms.Bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu (and other assorted gates)
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"Holographic images? Well, if you put in a VBI to flip pages, and connected
 a pair of LCD glasses to the joystick port....."
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No guys, I haven't done that. But would it be possible?
(Those not familiar with the concept should see the Antic catalog,
Atari ST section. The same scheme is also planned for television.)
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