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TURBO-BASIC XL by Frank Ostrowski 1985#

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References#

Pictures form Frank Ostrowski#

Frank Ostrowski around 1985

Article of Frank Ostrowski's Turbo-Basic XL from 12/1985

Frank Ostrowski and his boss in the mid 80's

Frank Ostrowski in the late 80's

Source Code#

After years of investigation and paying government fees in 3 digits amount, AtariWiki can disclose, that the author of TURBO-BASIC XL, Frank Ostrowski, has left us in 2011 at age 50 due to a severe disease. Deep investigations, regarding his brother, his sisters, his colleagues and so on, come to the conclusion, that the source code is lost in time. Even the enhanced version from Thorsten Karwoth is lost, because of a water damage in Thorsten's home, which destroyed all listings and diskettes. That is a very sad status, but there is still hope. If someone out there in the galaxy can build a source code out of this marvelous program from the original object code, like Lorenz did with Star Raiders Star Raiders source code by Lorenz Wiest, we can rebuild it, we have the capability to build the best Basic for Atari ever, faster, stronger, better. We call the six million dollar Basic just simple Ultimate Basic. With all the source codes now in PD: Source Codes it should be possible. Stay tuned.

Frank, wherever you are, you really did a man's job, so outstanding and far ahead of your time. Germany is deep in your debt and so is the worldwide Atari community. We will never forgot your work and your contribution to the world. You belong to those, who are not replaceable and will never be forgotten. May god bless you, wherever you are now.

Well, sometimes miracles happen, so today: 5/22/17 ; Somewhere out there in the galaxy a very good soul (who prefer to stay in the dark) with a great heart at the right place had the source code und we can offer it now with the permission of the Ostrowski family. Here we go:

CAR-Images#

ROM-Images#

There is only one byte difference between the headers in the two files above, which is in the cartridge type definition section of the header. The Altirra CAR has the correct byte of "55" for a SIC cart, whereas the Atari800MacX CAR has "30", which is the type defined for a MegaCart 256 KB. Thank you MrFish from AtariAge for your help! :-)

ATR-Images#

XEX-File#

CAS-File#

Manuals#

Turbo-Basic XL 1.5-Handbuch by Marc Brings ; highly recommended by AtariWiki! :-)))

The above printed book includes everything you ever want to know about Turbo-Basic! It is in German language. Only few are available, orders can be made via the ABBUC shop.

Das neue Turbo-Basic XL 1.5 Handbuch. Das Buch wurde langjährigen Mitgliedern als Jahresgabe 2015 überreicht. Für alle, die dieses Buch nicht bekommen haben, gibt es jetzt die Möglichkeit eines der wenigen Restexemplare käuflich vom ABBUC shop zu erwerben.

Images#

Frost BASIC 1.4 - startscreen ; this was the predecessor of TURBO-BASIC XL 1.5 for the 400/800 machines, but was later published than TURBO-BASIC XL 1.5 itself. The characters after 1985 are by all means no mistake, indeed they match perfectly to: 'M&T SOFTWARE', which means: 'Markt und Technik Software'. Please look for yourself in the Atari ATASCII Table. :-)

TURBO-BASIC XL - startscreen

TURBO-BASIC XL - TURBO-BASIC XL 1.5, Compiler 1.1, Runtime and Linker in just one single cartridge

TURBO-BASIC XL - TURBO-BASIC XL 1.6 ; thank you so much THOR! We really appreciate your help, especially with Basic++

TURBO-BASIC XL - TURBO-BASIC XL 2.0 ; (C) 1990 LASER software

TURBO-BASIC XL - TT-BASIC XL 2.11 ; with TURBO 2000 SYSTEM; (C) 1988 J. Richter

TURBO-BASIC XL 3.2q for SpartaDOS, Startscreen ; (C) 1992 Tom Hunt

TURBO-BASIC XL - TURBO-BASIC_XL Compiler Version 1.1 - intro

TURBO-BASIC XL - TURBO-BASIC_XL Compiler Version 1.1 - main

Ron Fetzer