AmigaBasic

[melott]

Hello....
 I know this is going to sound silly when all these
 newer and better languages are available but
 I would like to run AmigaBasic. I want to learn and
 I have a book I bought many years ago on AmigaBasic. This book will take an IDIOT (me) and
lead him by the hand through the process. I have
several other programing languages but
AmigaBasic seems the easiest to start with.
The problem is it doesn't seem to run on my A3000.
 I've setup a seperate boot drive on my HD and installed Dos 1.3.
I'm wondering IF it will run on an A3000???
It seems to run but I can't load or save a file.
I don't think the prg.file will run eather.
I've went through the usual things, assigning &
pathing and such.
It doesn't even run when I try strictly from floppy.
Does anyone know how to make it run on an A3000??
I'm sure it ran on my A500.
Any help out there??

Mel Ott :-?

[melott]

I thank all the people who responded with
advice. I have a (in my opinion) good reason
for starting with AmigaBasic. True, its crap,
but there are lots of books on it and they give
good detailed explanations on how and why
things are done the way they are. For someone
of just average inteligence that is a big plus.
Once I understand the concepts I'll move on to
something better. AmiBlitz is free on aminet.

And yes AmigaBasic does run on an A3000.
It took a little fiddling, but it does run.
If anyone is interested, Email me and I'll let
you know what it took to make it run.

Mel Ott
 ;-)

[melott]

OK OK....
I'll explain myself again..
I  OWN .. (nothing pirated) AmigaBasic, Blitz,
AmiBlitz, Amos Pro& Amos 3D, GFA basic,
SAS C, Dice C and a ML assembler.
I have all the manuals.
The reason I wanted to start with AmigaBasic
is because the manuals are the easest to
understand. Everyone had to start at the begining.
I have looked through all these manuals and
The origonal AmigaBasic manual explains things
better than any of the others. And when you are
starting from scratch its a big difference.
Maybe there are some people who can pick up
a book on "C" , read it and say "sure..piece of cake"
but I'm NOT one of them.
SO I choose to start with the easiest , best
documented one "AmigaBasic". Any or all these
others will come after I finish AmigaBasic tutorial.
It just make sense to me to do it that way.

Mel Ott

 :-D