BASIC A+

BASIC A+ was developed by Optimized Systems Software of Cupertino, California, United States, to provide the Atari 8-bit family with an extended BASIC compatible with the simpler ROM-based Atari BASIC. This interpreter was developed by the same team that developed Atari BASIC.[1]

This is about the BASIC on the Atari platform, not IBM BASIC which is sometimes known as BASICA.
BASIC A+
Developer(s)Optimized Systems Software
Initial release1983 (1983)
Operating systemAtari 8-bit family
TypeBASIC
LicenseCopyright © 1983 Optimized Systems Software Proprietary

While Atari BASIC came on an 8 KB ROM cartridge, BASIC A+ was delivered on floppy disk and took 15 KB of the computer's RAM, leaving 23 KB available for user programs in a 48 KB Atari 800. BASIC A+ was offered at a price of US$80.00 in 1983, including the products OS/A+ and EASMD (Editor/Assembler), and being an extension of Atari BASIC, came with a supplement to the latter's reference manual as its documentation. In addition to being faster than its ROM-bound counterpart, BASIC A+ provided a number of extra commands for DOS operations, player/missile graphics, and debugging.

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References
  1. DeVore, Richard (May 1983). "Product Reviews, BASIC A+". Antic. Vol. 2 no. 2.
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