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Offline DarkShadowTopic starter

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AmigaBASIC Reference
« on: December 28, 2004, 01:20:20 AM »
Hello everyone,

I'm new to this place, which I'm lovin more and more.  I have a question.  I've been looking all over the web but can't seem to find any kind of online reference for AmigaBASIC. I know there's AMOS, Blitz, GFA Basic and others much better than AmigaBASIC, but for the sake of my good ole emulator, running smoothly Workbench 1.2 I'd still like some good AmigaBASIC reference.  

Anyone know where I can find any PDF or HTML type reference?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2004, 03:03:46 AM »
@DarkShadow

What kind of references are you looking for??
Maybe I can help.

You have to forgive the guys here  :-D  to most
of them 'AmigaBasic' is like a dirty word.
I kind of like it and ignore the nagative comments.
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2004, 07:27:53 AM »
Whaddaya want AmigaBASIC for?!?!? It sucks!!! :-D

Seriously, though, I think I have a reference manual in Swedish, if that helps. I dunno if I sold it off with the rest of the Amiga-stuff I had.
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2004, 10:31:06 AM »
Well any reference would be good...but something that can, dare I say, push AmigaBASIC to it's limits.  So A good reference of every command and function available.  to create GUI elements (or at least use them), file access and I/O, file management, basically everything I need to make a semi decent program knowing in advance that it is AmigaBASIC :-).  

Also if there's some place or some reference with plenty of example programs (not just games but utilities, semi applications and tools would be good to).

Of course I don't want to buy books per se, so I'm hoping the reference you might have can be downloadable some how, or sent to my email. :-).

In english or french since I can't read swedish or german or spanish or italian or any other language

Thank you :-)

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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2004, 12:30:45 PM »
I have a text file with the all the commands and syntax, no examples though.

Email me at pjhutch AT pcguru.plus.com.

(Replace AT with @)
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2004, 03:14:34 PM »
@DarkShadow

What Is 'ADA'??

Put a plug in about your web site, tell us what its about
and put the site address up so all can see it.

As far as references are concerned, about the only thing
I know of is the old 'Fish' disks. There is a lot of
basic prgs on the early disks. The source is easy enough
to get as long as they are in binary.
No tutorials though.

@DarkShadow
or anyone else interested in playing around AmigaBasic

Feel free to EMail me at  melott1@netonecom.net
I'll try to help........
AmigaBasic is better than its given credit for.
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2004, 05:14:43 PM »
Ada, not ADA :-).   is a programming language originally designed by the Department of Defense of the United States. It's an old language that can kick ass so to speak at any other language I've seen.  performance and readability.  It's a standarized language (as in a group from ISO standard is defining what the language should be). to give you a general idea you can call Ada a superset of Pascal but that's where the similarities end.

Ada World http://www.adaworld.com is my website that made for the language. It's a central place where you can go to find out what Ada is, learn to program in it (thanks to my learning center that features tutorials and downloadable references). Learn what's being developed and what's available to Ada Developers. Feel free to visit ;-).
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2004, 06:03:06 PM »
@ DarkShadow

Do you have the AmigaBasic user manual? I don't know how useful it is, but it's very easy to find.
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2004, 06:58:00 PM »
Nope, I don't even have that...it's what I'm hoping to find...my searches haven't been to fruiteful.  If you can find it can you send me a URL so I can download it?
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2004, 07:10:24 PM »
Hello,

   I'd check Ebay. I'd found one Amiga Basic reference that's really useful published by Compute! in 1986. This contains examples of writing programs with sound and GFX. It's called Compute! Amiga Programmers' Guide. I had a copy of this and it helped quite a lot. I'd written a Solitaire clone way-back-when in Amiga Basic using this book. Ah! Memories...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=378&item=4506865191&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2004, 07:54:10 PM »
Thanks..maybe eventually I'll get a hard copy...I was looking for an online version (html or pdf) of somekind of Amiga Basic reference.
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Re: AmigaBASIC Reference
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2004, 08:07:35 PM »
DarkShadow,
I have two copies of the AmigaBasic Manual (CBM Product Number 327273-02 Rev C). I would gladly mail you one of the copies - just cover the cost of postage. Let me know, here or legopete69 (at) netscape (dot) net.

Pete
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