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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: motorollin on January 29, 2009, 08:31:32 PM
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I have downloaded an AmigaBasic programme and am trying to load it in to the AmigaBasic interpreter. When I enter the name of the file I get an error saying "File not found". It does this even if I give the full path to the file. Any ideas?
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moto
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I seem to recall that AmigaBasic is buggy but there is a utility with ACE Basic that will convert AmigaBasic source files to plain text so you can read them and try to compile them with ACE.
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On which system?
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Thanks! The AmigaBasic programme is already in an ASCII file. I have just downloaded ACE Basic and tried to use it to compile the AmigaBasic programme, but it failed with loads of errors. Do you know if I need to do something to make it interpret the source as AmigaBasic? I did have a look in the manual, but couldn't see anything specific about this.
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moto
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@zipper
Amiga OS3.1 under UAE.
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moto
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Amiga Basic doesn't work on KS2.+ IIRC - or was it 020 + processors?
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It was both, AFAIK. Try emulating a straight 68000 with Kickstart 1.3 and it should work. ACE isn't 100% AmigaBasic compatible so getting stuff to compile sometimes takes some work.
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You also have to run the NOFASTMEM utility for AmigaBASIC to run porperly.
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AmigaBasic... Hassle... just rewrite it in C... :lol: ;-)
To run AmigaBasic, you'll need to set UAE up to be pretty much a stock 1.3 A500 :-(
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SamuraiCrow wrote:
It was both, AFAIK. Try emulating a straight 68000 with Kickstart 1.3 and it should work.
Ahh that worked. It runs now! I do get an error that it can't find graphics.library, which is weird since it seems to be resident. I removed the line which tries to load it but then certain functions of the app don't work :-(
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moto
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bloodline wrote:
AmigaBasic... Hassle... just rewrite it in C... :lol: ;-)
That would spoil the nostalgia :-)
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moto
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motorollin wrote:
bloodline wrote:
AmigaBasic... Hassle... just rewrite it in C... :lol: ;-)
That would spoil the nostalgia :-)
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moto
Ok, recode it in C and compile it with SAS/C 6 :-D
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bloodline wrote:
Ok, recode it in C and compile it with SAS/C 6 :-D
:lol: I might try...
Anyway, I got it working! For some reason it didn't like being opened in to AmigaBasic as loaded from the Extras 1.3 disk. When I ran it from the disk as it is supposed to be, it worked. Not sure what the difference is - perhaps a tooltype in the icon sets some paths or something.