How to get AmigaBASIC running on Kickstart 3.1?

[ChaosLord]

Hey,

I am having a problem running AmigaBASIC on OS 3.9 on my Amiga 1200 68030. Is there a patch or a trick that allows me to run AmigaBASIC correctly on my Amiga 1200? Thanks in advance.

AmigaBASIC is actually M$ Basic.  It is the worst basic ever for Amiga and should never be used by anyone for anything.

If you need AmigaBASIC compatibility then you use an AmigaBASIC-compatible compiler.  There are a few to choose from.  Someone mentioned HiSoft BASIC.  A/C Basic is another choice.  I think there were others but I never used them so I can't remember their names.

A/C BASIC is like AmigaBASIC on steroids.  It is much better than silly 24-bit AmigaBASIC.

Of Course Blitz and AMOS are both widely regarded as being transdimensionally better.  But if you just absolutely must have M$-BASIC compatibility then you should definitely try out A/C BASIC.

[ChaosLord]

or a BASIC which supports the OS

Most BASIC programming languages for the Amiga do support the OS.  AFAIK there are only 1 or 2 that don't and all the rest do.

[ChaosLord]

I'm not aware of many books being published for some other type of BASIC on the Amiga, though.

FYI: There were gazillions of books published about True BASIC back in the 80s and 90s.  There are more books about True BASIC than all other versions of BASIC for Amiga put together.  Dozens of different books.

And there are lots more books about algorithms which are not about True BASIC per se, but they include True BASIC source code on the accompanying floppy disk.  Lots of different science books and algorithm books used that technique so they could support multiple langauges in a single book.

The thing is that True BASIC is a multiplatform language.  It is the same language on Amiga, Atari ST, Mac, Windoze and Unix.  This is why there were so many books written about it.

It has most of the advantages of JAVA, without all the horrible disadvantages of JAVA, 10 years before JAVA ever even existed.  It has write once, run anywhere technology built-in for free.  You can compile your programs into byte-code and distribute the byte-code versions.  Or you can distribute the source code.  Whichever.