Genuary 14 - Atari lines
Jan. 15th, 2022 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaFor the Genuary theme "Something you’d never make", I used Atari BASIC. It was the first language I learnt to program in, on an Atari 800XL.
I no longer have the Atari 800XL, so I instead installed an emulator (Atari800MacX) and loaded up BASIC and made it print a few lines of text to start with. I couldn't remember that much about how to use it, so I read some instruction manuals and made it draw a few random lines! I should have spent more time understanding how colours worked though.
Video on Flickr:
Lines
I no longer have the Atari 800XL, so I instead installed an emulator (Atari800MacX) and loaded up BASIC and made it print a few lines of text to start with. I couldn't remember that much about how to use it, so I read some instruction manuals and made it draw a few random lines! I should have spent more time understanding how colours worked though.
Video on Flickr:
Lines