Amiga Basic

[melott]

Schoenfeld wrote:
AFAIK, not at all, unless you run an emulator. AmigaBasic requires a specific kickstart version (V1.2) to run, and the source code is saved in a non-standard tokenized format that only the Amiga Basic interpreter understands.

Jens

NOT TRUE .........

I have Amiga Basic running on my A2000 with 3.1 roms and
OS 3.1. (runs great)
I really don't know why they bash Amiga Basic so much.
Its easy to use, there's plenty of books written on it
and a forum (ACE Basic) on YAHOO supporting it.
I have been playing with it for several years.
I have Blitz, and AMOS but I still like Amiga Basic better
for its ease of use (I ignore the NAY-Sayers.

Mel
 

[melott]

amiga_3k wrote:
@melott:

I've done a lot of programming in Amiga BASIC and was extremely happy when the ACE version became available. Made life a lot easier.

However, I partly agree with you on the compatibility of Amiga BASIC and more modern systems. When programming on the Amiga 3000 with some FAST RAM and kickstart 2 (and later 3.1) I had to use 'NoFastMem' to get it to work. Otherwise it wouldn't. This 'NoFastMem' trick wasn't needed after the conversion to ACE BASIC.

Yes... I've run into that problem also. I don'r really know
why its that way (turn off FastMemory) on my A3k 3.1 roms
and 040 WarpEngine.
I have an A2000 with 3.1 rom and an 2630 accelerator and
4 megs ram with Amber card (scan doubler) that I use for
playing around with in Amiga Basic. I 'DON'T' have to turn
off FastMemory on the A2k.
I have also used an A2620 card and an GVP TeckMagic 060 @50
with 128 megs.
Didn't need all that Horse power of the 060 so I sold it.
I'm happy with the 020 or 030, they are fast enough for
what I do in AmigaBasic.

Mel

[melott]

No one has mentioned that AmigaBasic is compilable
using the ACE compiler and supported in the ACE forum.
It appears that most Amigans are not aware that
ACE is an upgraded version of AmigaBasic.
And again, all these other basics mentioned are not
nearly as well documented on the Amiga.
So it seems to me that the logical choice for the
novices and intermediate  programmers is AmigaBasic.

Mel

[melott]

Fester wrote:

Actually, I did mention ACE (Third post from the top). I've used to compile Amiga Basic.[/quote]

Yes you did ... sorry,.. I guess I was just reiterating
what you said.

Mel
 

[melott]

An interesting discussion ..
Am enjoying and learning from it.

Mel