Action! Programming for the Atari 8-bit Computer - Part 16 - Plotting Text in Graphics 8, Strings

The 16th in a series of videos in programming in Action! for the Atari 8-bit computers.
How to plot text to a Graphics screen in Graphics 8. Handling strings in Action! Some other tips.
Mark Miller's Atari BASIC code for the graphics demo in Graphics 8 can be found here: • Atari Basic programmin...
Piotr's new Discord Channel for Atari 8-bit Programming: / discord
Code for my videos are at my GitHub at GitHub.com/Davi...

[@davidarlington1206]

Yes, I realize the TV is artifacting like crazy in the first half of this video. I put it up anyway because a) I didn't want to record it again, b) it doesn't obscure anything from view and c) I knock the camera off halfway through and it's better after I pick it up. :) Think of it as a fancy background image. :)

[@TrockeyTrockey]

Very interesting. As young boy, at 80ties, I always wanted to learn Action! language. Thanks for sharing!

[@colbertbd]

Ahhhh... RETURN! not RETUN ... CTR not CHR :)
Backseat coding! :)
Wow, that editor is awesome. Jumps right to the error line. Thank you for the video. Makes me super interested in trying out Action.

[@davidarlington1206]

LOL I catch it before the video is over. Thank you Action! compiler!

[@hrivis]

Wow...

[@rscotthayes9448]

Thank you, very helpful, keep them coming!. Can you demo in Action! how to shift the bits within a character or byte on the screen so it doesn't jump 1 byte at a time. Not with horz fine scroll just a single byte. This sounds easy but I have yet to find any simple code that demonstrates it.

[@davidarlington1206]

Oh that sounds like a good challenge and idea for an upcoming video! Accepted!

[@metalhead5858]

nice do you have a movie how to make a standalone action program without the need of a cartridge ?

[@davidarlington1206]

Not yet. Maybe at some point in the future. I have a lot more to cover before that happens though.