Love it! I got my 1040STe in about 1990, and absolutely loved it -- the prices were more reasonable then, and since I couldn't get it locally (I lived in a small town), I had to get it by mail order - mine was ATY Computer, from San Jose (only about 3 hours away from us) -- I didn't start programming on it until years later, with GFA Basic. I still need to fix up the STe that I have currently - would be great to have one up and running again!
Amazing how college changes things. My ask for high school graduation was all about college - the Amiga 500 and 1080 monitor. And it served me well into grad school.
I had no idea there was a C compiler for the Atari 8-bit. Looks like it was released just as I was moving on from the 8-bit to try things in life other than computers. However, ...
Love it! I got my 1040STe in about 1990, and absolutely loved it -- the prices were more reasonable then, and since I couldn't get it locally (I lived in a small town), I had to get it by mail order - mine was ATY Computer, from San Jose (only about 3 hours away from us) -- I didn't start programming on it until years later, with GFA Basic. I still need to fix up the STe that I have currently - would be great to have one up and running again!
Amazing how college changes things. My ask for high school graduation was all about college - the Amiga 500 and 1080 monitor. And it served me well into grad school.
I had no idea there was a C compiler for the Atari 8-bit. Looks like it was released just as I was moving on from the 8-bit to try things in life other than computers. However, ...
https://atariwiki.org/wiki/attach/C/Lightspeed%20C.pdf
"It contains all of the statements and most of the operators found in standard C, except for those dealing with structures, unions, and bit fields."
Woah, C without struct -- I don't think we can call that C at all.
That was the greatest benefit of the Atari ST to me -- I bought mine along with Megamax C in 1986.