Amiga Basic

[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.

[marcfrick2112]

melott: I was wondering, what processor you had in your 2000, I had read the only real problem with Amiga Basic was that it didn't run on anything better than 68000, or possibly 68010 ?? anyway, I am certain that AmigaBasic stopped working after my first accelerator purchase..('030/50Mhz) I had read somewhere that there is a workaround for this...

One thing I know, AmigaBasic ran fine with Kickstart 1.3, I never used any earlier version KS... (the 500 did come with a '1.3 enhancer pack (sp?)' though... but Amiga Basic worked fine...)

[motorollin]

All you Basic fans might like RealBasic. It has a beautiful IDE which IMO rivals all of the pro development environments (very similar to the one in Delphi 7 before they changed it), the code completion works properly, it has a powerful class system with many useful classes built in, and despite all those features it is still really easy to and the code is nice and readable.

Also, it can cross-compile for Windows, OS X and Linux.

--
moto

[Fester]

motorollin wrote:
All you Basic fans might like RealBasic.
--
moto

I just downloaded it for Windows. Will give it a whirl. The pro version is $500.

[motorollin]

I registered the standard version. Can't remember what the difference is now, but I haven't come across anything I can't do in the standard version!

--
moto

[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

[Heinz]

aristarkos wrote:
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?

You could try freeBasic

It is an open source version of Microsoft Quickbasic.
As AmigaBasic was made by Microsoft too, the syntax is probably very similar.

FreeBasic can compile your Program to a real executable, so you wont need a Basic Interpreter anymore.

[Fats]

motorollin wrote:
All you Basic fans might like RealBasic.
--
moto

I'm not so much into basic but I have gambas in my bookmarks.

greets,
Staf.

[beller]

At one point Real Basic was available for the Amiga after Microsoft abandoned the platform.  I'm not sure if it was still working when the OS went to 2.0.  The cross platform nature made it the best choice in the late 80s.  Glad to see them still around!

[asymetrix]

try

Purebasic for mac/windows/linux/amiga
http://www.purebasic.com/

its the *only* basic programming language thats almost write once - run anywhere for these platforms.

or

Visual Basic 'just to get it working' on windows.

[ferrellsl]

@moto

Yes, I agree.  AmigaBasic was one of the better BASICs for the Amiga.  It's too bad that Microsoft didn't continue supporting it with versions that supported processors > 68K and Fast RAM.

For "modern" BASIC programming on the Amiga PureBasic is without a doubt the best.

[InTheSand]

Aww... And nobody's mentioned Microsoft's Small Basic!  :lol:

 - Ali

[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

[Fester]

melott wrote:
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

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

[hardlink]

asymetrix wrote:
try

Purebasic for mac/windows/linux/amiga
http://www.purebasic.com/

its the *only* basic programming language thats almost write once - run anywhere for these platforms.

Unfortunately:
December 10, 2006

    PureBasic v4.00 for Amiga is released as open source due to no longer being officially supported.

[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