Amiga Basic

[aristarkos]

Long ago I wrote a little Amiga Basic program for a game called Master Mind. Now I'm an old newbie. How can I get my old program to run on my PC?

[Schoenfeld]

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

[Fester]

I've successfully compiled Amiga Basic using ACE, but it will only run on an Amiga of course, or in my case, the WinUAE emulation.

If you have the text of your basic script, can you not re-write it in a Windows basic interpreter? There must be some of those out there that look similar to the old Amiga Basic.

[ManRaven]

Once upon a time, many decades ago I was given a basic
program written by a friend. It was in Apple II Basic.
I re-wrote it for the C64 and eventually for the C128 using
Basic 7 and then Basic 8. I added graphics and fancy fonts.
I had thought about converting it to the old basic that came
with the old crappy IBM machines that were around then. But
never got around to it.
There is some very good basic programming software out
there for the Amiga but I don't know any names.

[aristarkos]

Thanks for all the ideas.

I have an emulator, but I'm new to it. How would I get Amiga Basic running on my emulator?

I'm liking the idea of re-writing for Windows because then I could share it more easily. I was able to get a six page printout of the program. After a text-scan and few fixes, I have the program in text form. Except for possibly the SAY and SOUND commands, I would guess that it's close to being compatible to several of the easier languages.

I found Liberty Basic. Heard of that?

Meanwhile I'll still be looking for more old games for the emulator...

[LoadWB]

hrmmmmm interesting thought: an Amiga Basic emulator for Windows which does not require a full AmigaOS in UAE setup.

[jj]

What version of windows are you running.  You might have a basic with it.  Open a command prompt on your windows machine .  Windows key +  R , then type cmd and enter.

when the comand p[rompt comes up, type qbasic

[bloodline]

LoadWB wrote:
hrmmmmm interesting thought: an Amiga Basic emulator for Windows which does not require a full AmigaOS in UAE setup.

No... Please no... AmigaBasic has no right to live...

Why not use this project as an excuse to learn C? Bloodshed's Dev C++ is a nice IDE...

[jj]

Or VB, nothing wrong with latest versions of VB .net good place to start.

[bloodline]

JJ wrote:
Or VB, nothing wrong with latest versions of VB .net good place to start.

Or ECMAScript which I personally prefer to VB, since it's more structured and portable...

[jj]

Isnt that basically javascript and mainly web geared ?

[bloodline]

JJ wrote:
Isnt that basically javascript and mainly web geared ?

The latest JavaScript is a form of ECMAScript, but ECMA Script is not limited to the DOM as used by browsers... Though with HTML 5 comming through, the DOM is set to become a REALLY powerful system (chrome)... Expect to see lots more apps written in this!!! :-o
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[amiga_3k]

Use JAVA-script for ultra portablility. I used it when I wanted to convert my MasterMind version from AmigaBASIC to Windows/Linux.

Old school BASICs like GWBasic and QBasic (the latter shares a lot of commands with AmigaBASIC (which is no surprise, both come from MicroSoft)) tend to trip over 64-Bit Windows-versions.

Shameless plug to my implementation (CSS capable browser like FireFox needed!): Spongebob Mind

[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
 

[amiga_3k]

@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.