Which Basic for Amiga?

[trekiej]

I am looking for Basic for Amiga.  I have found some on Aminet and SoftwareHut.  What do you think is the best?

[swift240]

Well there are a few you can get, but myself on a personal level I use Amos Pro.
For some reason I get on better with that than than Blitz Basic.

I also use HiSoft Basic thats not bad either.

Mike

[Heinz]

Most peole say, that the most powerful Basic for Amiga is AmiBlitz:

http://www.cj-stroker.de/amiforce/amiblitz/ab_downloads.php

As far as I know it also the only one that is still under development and updated from time to time.

Large Program like HD-Rec are developed with AmiBlitz:

http://www.hd-rec.de/

[Heinz]

They moved to another site,
this is the recent version:

http://www.amiforce.de/amiblitz/ab_downloads.php

[SamuraiCrow]

You can get AmosPro from the Amos Factory website but you'll have to buy the manual from Software Hut.  There is a new sequel to AmosPro in the works that is going to recompile old AmosPro source code to run on many platforms but it is not ready for distribution yet.

[amiga_3k]

@trekiej:

Depends on what you want and what your background is. I tend to go the route of the least resitance (stick with what you know ;-)). When we first got an A500 it came with AmigaBASIC, so it was pretty obvious to learn that, so I did. Once ACE BASIC became available I moved to that as it was similar to AmigaBASIC (same syntaxes) with a bonus of creating standalone executables that would run on any Amiga 65k OS.

AMOS is good for a quick and dirty program, downside is, atleast that's my opinion, that it doesn't default to Amiga's intuition components.

[SamuraiCrow]

AMOS is good for a quick and dirty program, downside is, atleast that's my opinion, that it doesn't default to Amiga's intuition components.

That's true but it will definitely be fixed in the sequel, tentatively named Mattathias.

[trekiej]

Thanks for the feedback.
The langugages I have been introduced to are:

Assembly
Basic
C/C++ needs more work on the C++ area
Cobol
Little bit of Java and Python.

BlitzBasic is still around for Win,Mac,Linux.
SoftwareHut sells it for Amiga.

[SamuraiCrow]

Don't buy Blitz Basic.  It has since been re-released as open-source and renamed as AmiBlitz.  AmiBlitz is just Blitz Basic with new features added and bugs fixed.

Also, incidentally, the versions of Blitz Basic for the PC, Mac, and Linux are a total rewrite and are completely incompatible with the original Amiga version of Blitz Basic.

If you want to write software that will work on all of those platforms and Amiga as well, stick to using C and use the SDL APIs.  (Note that this will require a graphics card on your Amiga.)

[trekiej]

I am happy to work with the Amiga for a while.
I want to access the hardware at times for projects.

[Karlos]

It had its quirks, but Blitz Basic was reasonable back in the day. It was good for knocking up quick programs in a hurry. I dare say AmiBlitz is perfectly acceptable as a Basic language, though I haven't actually used it.

[SamuraiCrow]

AmiBlitz/Blitz Basic support the AGA chipset if that is what you are currently using.  It's harder to use AmiBlitz than it is for AmosPro but it has an add-on that lets it access the system libraries directly like C does.

AmosPro has some AGA supporting extensions but no native support at the moment and Mattathias is behind schedule so I'd expect an SDL version of Mattathias before an AGA version comes out.

The author of ACE basic has been struggling to get his system library written in C so it will work on PowerPC and x86 under AROS, AmigaOS 4.x and possibly MorphOS.  It should be fine for classic Amiga work, though.

[balrogsoft]

Take a look to PureBasic, is open source for Amiga now, is a bit unstable on my system, but Amiblitz is also unstable.

[justthatgood]

Just the thought of touching Basic anymore makes me shudder. I'm so stuck on C....

No, lets make a Visual Basic for Amiga, because Visual Basic is so much cooler then C/C++..

He he he..

[trekiej]

I have an A500, A1000, and an A1200.
I miss my old A2000 and A3000T.
What if I want to do GUI apps, What do you recommend?
I would like to design a CNC controler program.