Action!

There was a really nice language for the 8-bit series of Atari computers (400, 800, XL series, XE series) called "Action!" It was similar in syntax to C and Pascal, but had a lot of similarities to BASIC (at least Atari BASIC :) ). Back in 1997 I wrote a fun little puzzle game for the Atari XL using it, and easily ported it to C to run under Unix/X11. (See: http//www.newbreedsoftware.com/gemdrop/ and http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/gemdropx/ )

; HELLO.ACT

Proc Main()
  ; Internal hardware value for the
  ; last key pressed.
  Byte CH=764


  ; Clear last-key-pressed value
  CH=255


  ; Main Loop:
  While CH=255 Do
    PrintE("Hello World")
  Od
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submitted by: William Kendrick (nbs@sonic.net>