Author: Elliot Swanton (193.113.243.45)
Date: 07-26-1999 07:50
STOS is a version of basic which is geared towards game programming, it also has the ability to have “extensions” plug into it to give it extra commands. Knowing a few tricks can produce very good effects and start producing stuff very quickly. I do not think that the program is free and I also think that the company that produced it have moved on. I do remember it being released on an ST Format cover disk which may be free (no manuals though). It was also released as part of an Atari package so you may be able to pick on of those up.
Devpack V1.0 (assembler) is free I am sure and later versions my also be available (I am not to sure about the copy write laws for programs which are not distributed any more).
C and Pascal were about but I never managed to do much with them.
I have a number of documents giving hardware details, registers, TOS calls, etc which I thought useful when programming. When I find a twain drive that will work in 98 for my scanner I will post them to you.
An ST Emulator will have a hard time trying to do tricks (rasters, border removal, etc) so you will need to get a real ST if you do not have one already.
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