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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga/MorphOS/AROS Programmers Forum => Topic started by: fishy_fiz on August 07, 2016, 07:35:56 PM

Title: Cursor 1.x
Post by: fishy_fiz on August 07, 2016, 07:35:56 PM

I still have a few hundred amiga magazines from the amiga's heyday. Often I'll flick through a few issues while in bed and retiring for the night as there's always something Ive previously missed or forgotten about. A few nights ago I stumbled across something I had no idea existed by the name of "Cursor", which is basically a compiler for Amiga Basic. Although I dont really use them beyond experimenting I have a bit of a fetish for crappy programming languages and/or software development tools.
While I do have a lot of the magazine cover disks, it seems Im missing this one.
Long story short, does anyone know where I might find a copy of Cursor 1.x? Unless Im mistaken it was issue 31 of Amiga Computing where I learned about this software, and it was included on the magazines coverdisk as freeware.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Cursor 1.x
Post by: Matt_H on August 07, 2016, 09:27:41 PM

This (http://amr.abime.net/issue_470_coverdisks) seems to be the mag in question, but they don't have the disk either...

Title: Re: Cursor 1.x
Post by: Merc on August 08, 2016, 12:26:37 PM

Quote from: Matt_H;812250

This (http://amr.abime.net/issue_470_coverdisks) seems to be the mag in question, but they don't have the disk either...

I actually used to play with Cursor a bit.  It was pretty decent.  It was something like an AmigaBasic replacement and being compiled the code ran much faster.  I have an HD image somewhere with a copy installed but I think it might be corrupt.  I'll try to remember to check it out.

Title: Re: Cursor 1.x
Post by: Merc on August 08, 2016, 05:48:43 PM

Oh, it's on Aminet:  https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://aminet.net/package/dev/basic/Cursor&ved=0ahUKEwjcibiporLOAhVX9GMKHbvFAD0QFggjMAI&usg=AFQjCNEE3n0nEcxPhnJOgZAWCOzh1Lidzg&sig2=DwnWn6y39V0CyDDYZP2TQw