After having spent some time transcribing and coding in a few BASICs, I think Atari 8-bit BASIC has an advantage over Commodore BASIC V2.
I felt quite a bit of nostalgia for Commodore BASIC, having learned it as a child, but it would be fair to say Atari 8-bit BASIC is more powerful.
Time to find a good Atari emulator for Debian 13...!
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@vidak Yeah, OG Atari BASIC is weird about strings, & slow, but so full of useful graphics & sound & XIO file system tools. BASIC XL and then TurboBasicXL quickly replaced/added to it.
The only other OG BASIC I liked was TRS-80, esp. CoCo had even better tools. I only used ZX-81 BASIC back then, but Spectrum is nice and weird, too.