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From: oaa@houxl.UUCP (O.ALEXANDER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Turbo Basic for XL's  Part 0/2
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Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 11:20:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 11:20:16 1986
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I would like to start posting some programs to the net that appeal
to the general audience out there.

I assume that people have access to local BBS where they can obtain
programs, so there is no need to post some of the more popular public
domain programs.  I also assume that not everyone accesses the net
through a UNIX computer or other large computer so I should not use
"uuencode" or "arc" to encode binaries.  If I am incorrect on these
points let me know.

I would like to start by posting a program called "Turbo Basic-XL".

Apparently it's a public domain program from somewhere in Europe
that provides a Basic interpreter that's 100% compatible with
Atari Basic and provides many new and valuable features including:
many new commands and functions, faster execution of programs (3
times faster, so you can tolerate using some of those Basic games),
and a little more available memory.  It's basically similiar to
Basic-XL or Basic-XE from OSS.

The only bad part is that it only works in XL and XE machines.
(An 800XL is really an excellent buy for Atari owners at ~$70,
and with 256K ram added a real joy to use.)

I'll post the docs and binary separately.  I'll use BINHEX to
encode the binary since that will work for just about everyone.

				Owen Alexander