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== The ACTION! Toolkit ==

''The following description comes from the following book:''
https://atariwiki.org/wiki/attach/Action/action_rev_3-6_GBXL_2018.pdf

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Welcome to the Programmers' Tool Kit (V.3). This diskette contains routines written in ACTION! which extend your ACTION! programming capabilities. The following is a list of the files on the disk, together with a short description of what each file does.

'''ABS.ACT''' a routine which will return the absolute value of an INT.

'''ALLOCATE.ACT''' routines which allow dynamic runtime memory manipulation.

'''CHARTEST.ACT''' routines which perform various tests and functions on characters.

'''CIRCLE.ACT''' a circle drawing routine using neither Sine nor Cosine.

'''CONSOLE.ACT''' a routine which both debounces the console keys and allows you to tie routines into them.

'''IO.ACT''' routines which implement some advanced I/O operations.

'''JOYSTIX.ACT''' routines which make interpreting joystick input easier.

'''PMG.ACT''' player/missile graphics routines.

'''PRINTF.ACT''' an extended version of the ACTION! Library 'PrintF'.

'''REAL.ACT''' routines which allow you to use floating point numbers.

'''SORT.ACT''' QuickSort for BYTE, CARD, INT, and string data.

'''TURTLE.ACT''' an implementation of turtle graphics, ala LOGO.