Next Without For

Author: earl@retrobits.com (Earl Evans and Randy Kindig)

At Next Without For, Earl Evans and Randy Kindig cover historical computer languages (compilers and interpreters) and modern programming tools for retro computers.
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Show 015 - Atari 8-Bit Programming
Friday, 23 May, 2025

Randy and Earl discuss the various options for modern programming on Atari 8-bit systems, including the Atari 400/800 and their successors! News/Personal Projects RP2040 Geek - https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-geek.htm z80pack on Waveshare RP2040-GEEK/RP2350-GEEK - https://github.com/udo-munk/RP2xxx-GEEK-80 Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition - https://csscgc2025.blogspot.com/ Article about the Crap Games competition on The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jul/06/people-competing-to-make-the-worst-computer-games-possible Show Topic Action! programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action FastBASIC programming language - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=FastBasic ATR disk image for the Atari 8-bit computers and binaries of the cross-compiler for different platforms for FastBASIC - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378307-fastbasic-47-is-here/ Visual Studio Code extension for FastBASIC - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricCarr.fastbasic-debugger FastBASIC manual - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/blob/master/manual.md Getting Altirra Running on macOS Sequoia 15.x (Andy Diller) - https://www.atariorbit.org/2024/12/26/altirra-arm-and-sequoia/ MADS Assembler and MADS Pascal - https://mads.atari8.info/ WUDSN IDE - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/ide YouTube WUDSN tutorial with MADS and Atari 8-bit - https://www.wudsn.com/index.php/productions-atari800/tutorials Interview with Peter Dell, author of WUDSN - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-27-the-atari-8-bit-podcast-peter-dell-wudsn General information on 6502 - http://6502.org/ Various online books for Atari, including De Re Atari and others - https://www.atariarchives.org/ AtariAge 8-bit programming forum - https://forums.atariage.com/forum/51-atari-5200-8-bit-programming/ Lots of great info on Atari 8-bit, including reference cards - https://gury.atari8.info/index.php ca65 assembler - https://cc65.github.io/doc/ca65.html Virtual 6502 Assembler - https://www.masswerk.at/6502/assembler.html Milfork Assembler - https://github.com/KarolS/millfork Mac/65 Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Mac65 Atasm Assembler - https://github.com/CycoPH/atasm Xasm Assembler - https://github.com/pfusik/xasm Atmas-II Cross Assembler - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atmas%20II Notepad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ UltraEdit - https://www.ultraedit.com/ 8BitWorkshop online IDE - https://8bitworkshop.com/ TurboBASIC XL - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Turbo-BASIC%20XL BASIC parser for TurboBASIC XL - https://github.com/dmsc/tbxl-parser Other Links Join the NWF crew on Discord! https://discord.gg/XAWv7PAFH4