pyatari

Python tools for working with Atari BASIC

(early work-in-progress)

Deps to watch out for:

• https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing/

References:

• Altirra BASIC (implementation is assembly so not that helpful)
  • https://www.virtualdub.org/downloads/Altirra%20BASIC%20Reference%20Manual.pdf
  • https://github.com/joelsgp/altirra/tree/main/src/ATBasic/source
• https://www.atariarchives.org/dere/chapt10.php
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_BASIC
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATASCII
• http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Atari_BASIC_tokenized_file

Relevant searches to check this doesn't already exist:

• https://pypi.org/search/?q=atari
• https://github.com/topics/atari-basic
• https://github.com/search?q=atari+basic+python&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc

Results:

• https://pypi.org/project/atrcopy/
• seem to be related to playing atari games with ML