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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: True Basics' Calculus & Dougs' Math Aquarium
Keywords: Math Calculus Basic
Message-ID: <14686@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 90 15:27:32 GMT
References: <1965@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <1965@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes:
>Does anyone know/remember if True Basics' Calculus requires True Basic?
     As I recall, it does. It's described as an extension to True Basic.
>If I 
>remember correctly True Basic is/was a compiler (not interpreter)
     Nope, it's an interpreter "sort of." It "compiles" to a P-code which
it then interprets. They call this "compiling," but it's not; you need their
run-time package (which was, when I got True Basic, an extra $100) to use
"compiled" code if you don't already own True Basic.
>It doesn't look like
>True Basic is available anymore, so if Calculus was source, it wouldn't be
>much good.
     If it's like True Basic, it won't be much good even if you get a copy
of True Basic. I really recommend that you do not waste your time with True
Basic. It's astoundingly slow, scraps many Amiga features (such as sound
beyond one channel) in favour of "system to system portability" (which doesn't
exist anyway - I had to write a convertion programme to port code to the PC),
doesn't work on 68010 processors or up (the 04 GURU, of course; DeciGel fixes
it), and locks up at random, even on a 68000. (I quickly learned to save my
code after each major change...) I was required to buy it for a graphics clas
I took in my undergraduate days - they dropped this requirement after only one
semester because of all the problems with TrueBasic both on the Amiga and on
the PC.
                                                      - R'ykandar.
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