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Re:A constructive look at the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge by behringer on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:17PM (#25667228)
Might I recommend the Color Computer for BASIC programming as an example of a highly useful and powerful version that's still being used today to create new games for the system, as well as a simple programmatic access to the peripheral interfaces.
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Re:A constructive look at the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge by ansible on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:17AM (#25667540)
Even the ZX80 / 81 had far more usefulness than Atari BASIC.

People wrote video games for it. Puzzle games like Black Box, board games like Chess (yes, I know the 2600 also had Chess, but you couldn't develop a Chess program on the platform itself).

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