Programming

Programming languages

This section lists all programming languages available to the Atari ST computer family. Available dialects and versions can be found on the main page of each language. Major products are listed as sub-items. This list does not claim to be exhaustive or entirely correct, and will therefore undergo some changes in the future.

• APL
• Assembly language
  • Assemble
  • GFA Assembler
  • HiSoft DevpacST
  • NASM65
  • REASS
  • Turbo Assembler
• BASIC
  • Atari ST BASIC
  • Basic 1000d
  • GFA BASIC
  • Omikron BASIC
  • STOS BASIC
• BCPL
• C
  • AHCC
  • HSC
  • Lattice C
  • Prospero C
  • Pure C
  • Sozobon ADB
  • Sozobon C
  • Turbo C
  • VBCC
• COBOL
• COMAL
• Forth
• Fortran
  • Prospero Fortran
  • F2C
  • Fortran 77
  • RATFOR
• Icon
• Lisp
  • CLISP
• Logo
  • Atari ST Logo
• Modula-2
• Pascal
  • Prospero Pascal
  • Pure Pascal (Pure Software GmbH - 1992)
  • HIGHSPEED Pascal (Christen Fihl and D-House - 1991)
  • Maxon Pascal
• Others
  • ELAN
  • Oberon-2
• Perl/RTOS
• PL/I
• Prolog
• Scheme
• Smalltalk

Programming tools

This is a list of tools that are related to programming.

• Debugger
  • Adebug
  • Bugaboo
  • MonST
  • Peace Debug
  • SID
• Dis-assembler
  • DESERT DRAIN
  • Disassembler
  • Easy Rider
  • TT Digger
• Text editors
  • 7UP
  • ALICE
  • CONTEXT
  • EVEREST
  • MINITEXT
  • SEDT
  • STEVIE
  • MICROEMACS
  • XEDIT

Rob Cowell has a page describing how to code on a PC or Mac using the VASM and VLINK programs. Full details on his webpage: [[1]].

Hardware documentation

Blitter

• Blitter manual, Manuel d'utilisation du BLITTER, Blitter execution times
• The Atari ST(E) BLiTTER in brief by The Paranoid of Paradox 2012

Disk drives

• WD1770/1772 5 1/4 " Floppy Disk Controller/Formatter
• Programming information for the Western Digital 1770-00 and 1772-00 floppy disk drive controllers

General

• Engineering Hardware Specification of the Atari ST Computer System (7 January 1986)
• Introduction to the STE

Integrated circuits

• MK68901 MFP (Multi-Function Peripheral)

Keyboard

• Atari ST Scancode diagram by Unseen Menace
• Keyboard Protocol, Protocole Clavier

Memory maps

• Atari ST/STe/MSTe/TT/F030 Hardware Register Listing
• Atari F030 and CT60 Hardware Register Listing V1.0

Graphics

• Chunky-to-Planar for Dummies: An in-depth tutorial by The Paranoid / Paradox

Sound

• Yamaha YM2149

Operating system

• Bomb error codes
• GEM error codes
• Line A
• TOS Desktop Survival Kit
• WHAT IS GDOS?
• DESKTOP.INF DOCUMENTATION
• Font Files, Formats and others fonts related information

Atari ST hardware related coding tips and tricks

Unless noted the following snippets and pieces of code do work on all Atari ST compatible machines including Falcon and TT.

• Lowering the priority of the IKBD interrupt by Atari Corp. (c) 1989
• Fullscreen programming on the Atari ST by Flix of Delta Force
• Exact timings for fullscreen and sync scroll programming in all known wakestates by Troed of SYNC et. al.

Atari Falcon specific coding

• Changing video mode using the Falcon XBIOS
• Drawing fast lines in 320x??? pixels truecolor on Falcon: Earx fast line algorithm

Atari FireBee specific coding

• Firebee Firmware: BaS_gcc Coding

Machine independent code

• Writing low level stuff on all ATARI (STf,STe,MegaSTE,TT,Falcon,CT60) by Leonard / Oxygene
• Fast Degas PC1 decompressor code for ST-LOW by GT Turbo / Cerebral Vortex

Using GNU toolchain

• Requirements
• Start up

External links

• Wikipendium (Atari 16/32 bits Systems and Programming)
• Jagopedia (Jaguar Systems and Programming) (don't work anymore, 2020.06.21)
• The introduction to TOS (tos.hyp)
• Atari Documentation Archive
• Atari Compendium (Browsable, on web.archive.org) and Atari Compendium (Complete CD)
• Bus Error Atari 16/32 Bit Development Info Page