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- Pilot 1.2
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-
- This is an Atari ST port and extension of an old MS-DOS interpreter for
- the Pilot language. Pilot is a very simple language once designed for
- absolute beginners. It's even easier than Basic.
- A commercial version of Pilot was released by Atari for their 8 bit
- computers. However, the language is not widely used anymore but hey - at
- least you can now say that your Atari speaks Pilot!
-
- The orginal version was programmed in 1985 by Dave Taylor (it is often
- reffered to as "Taylor-Pilot"). I have found his version by accident
- while looking for some Pilot files for "Tiny Pilot".
- "Tiny Pilot" is an even more simple version of Pilot. "Tiny" is an
- original Atari program written in GFA Basic. Tiny Pilot will be released
- soon.
-
- Usage:
- pilot <file>
-
- pilot.tst is a sample program for the interpreter. The interpreter requires a
- Pilot file. There are some Pilot sites out there, try a web search with the
- keywords: pilot language programming. Remember that in Taylor-Pilot all
- instructions have to be abbreviated (e.g. you have to write PA and not PAUSE).
-
- UPDATES:
- 1.2 18/08/2001:
- I found out that rpilot (a Pilot interpreter at Sourceforge) understands Y
- and N as synonyms for TY and TN. PILOT Atari now supports these synonyms. I
- don't recommend using these synonyms because I don't know if they're part of
- the standard.
-
- COLOR (CO) command added. An extension made by myself for Pilot Atari.
- If <condition>, which is a normal condition-part, is
- satisfied, the interpreter changes the text color to <color>. <color> is a
- value between 0 and 15. 0 is usually white and 15 black.
-
-
-
- 1.1 15/08/2001:
- PAUSE (PA) command added. This is an extension to the standard made by Nevada
- and Atari Pilot. If <condition>, which is a normal condition-part, is
- satisfied, the interpreter pauses for <expression> seconds.
- Example: PA(#test<3): 4
- Pauses program execution for four seconds if #test is lower than 3.
-
- TYPEHANG (TH) command added. An extension to the standard made by Nevada and
- Apple Pilot. The syntax is identical to TYPE (T). The difference is that TH
- doesn't print out a line feed.
- Example:
- TH: Hello
- TH: World
- Would print out as "Hello World".
-
- CLEARHOME (CH) command added. An extension to the standard made by Nevada Pilot.
- CH clears the screen.
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- Anyway, have fun with Pilot!
- Matthias Jaap
-
- Contact:
- mjaap@atariuptodate.de
- http://www.mypenguin.de/prg/
- Release date: 17.07.2001
- This version: 15.08.2001
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