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And you shouldn't think this is a plain text editor with a compiler. It's a structured BASIC editor that only beeps and doesn't let you leave a line that's invalid. Then it reindents it and sets uppercase keywords.

If you don't know what you're doing in it, it's reset-your-ST time.

Kids Today™ whine that they can't figure out :wq in vi, they need to use GFA BASIC and understand that you read the fucking manual before operating a program.
#retrocomputing #atari #atarist #basic

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GFA keyboard controls are nuts. Top bar shows shift-F-keys, then F-keys. ESC flips to the graphics window/command line.

You might say "well it was early times", but no, GEM programs have alt-XCV clipboard, shift-arrow select, etc. VERY like Lisa/Mac not at all legally dubious. Mark Williams C has a standard microemacs and sh, with vi or emacs modes. I could install SteVIe and have a very nice vi. No, this program is just *weird*.

And then because I was annoyed with modern coding, but I'm still too caffeinated, I got back to dinking around with the Atari ST. Hisoft BASIC crashes too often for my fun, so GFA 3.5 it is.

But PRINT goes thru the VT-52 emulator, so you can't draw control chars. Gotta hit the AES(?) routines, which draw weirdly.

Program in alt text.

I could build something interesting on this stuff…
#retrocomputing #atari #atarist #basic

Steinberg's Cubase was the standard for music production software on the Atari ST in the late 80s/early 90s for professional and hobby musicians alike (if they could afford the software...).

However, it seems to be hard to find files with actual music created with Cubase nowadays (.all/.arr file formats). Is there an archive of Cubase-created songs somewhere? Ideally some 1980s synthpop/new wave style music to run a demo in our retrocomputing lab next week.

#AtariST and #Atari 8-bit users, here is a playlist of videos on PeerTube about these computers:

:atari: fedi.video/w/p/u7E2A1QSFkQETNk

- If you're on a phone, scroll first two video titles at the bottom to see rest of the playlist.

- If you're on a computer, choose a video from the playlist on the right.

- If you're watching embedded, click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in the playlist.

cc @atarist

This world has me really freaked out lately and I am struggling to make sense of anything. I'm trying to distract myself by making silly programs in BASIC and for a brief time that helps.

I programmed this for me, but hopefully you like it too. #Atari #AtariST

Be safe everyone.