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From: Scamper@cup.portal.com (Garen Lee Erdoisa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: AmigaBasic Woes...
Message-ID: <32569@cup.portal.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 07:34:34 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Does anybody out there in the world of the Amiga 2500 know the answers
or can point me toward the answers.  <Excuse me if this subject has already
been well thrashed on the net...>

1) The Amigabasic version 1.2 editor likes to crash the task it is running
   on when the Amiga is in the Z68020 mode.  <It works ok using the Z68000
   mode, but this limits the Amiga 2500 to just 1 meg of it's memory.  The
   basicdemos still run ok so far as I can determine, but when the 
   basic editor is messed with, for the demos, or for writing another
   program, it works intermittantly.  Especially when a lot of background
   tasks are also running.>

     * Is there an easy fix to this? 

     * Is there an upgraded version that fixes this bug?  egro: a version
       of Amigabasic that is compiled for Z68020 code?  If so I would
       like to know.  Also where to find it.  I have asked two dealers
       about this problem, but they eather do not know about the problem
       at all, or say tough luck.

     <I have demenstrated the bug on different machines.  It also shows
      up using any machine that is running the Z68020 or Z68030 
      microprocessors.  Also I have heard rumors that Commodore is
      planning an upgrade of Amigabasic soon.  Does anyone know
      if this rumor is true, and if so where I might obtain a copy of
      the newer version.  Hopefully with the editor bugs removed.>

2) When using the Amiga 2500 in the Z68000 mode, is there any way to 
   increase the amount of memory available to more than just 1 meg?
   (Such as a utility program that can be placed in the Startup-sequence>

   <For anyone with an Amiga 2500 or an Amiga 3000 that does not know
    how to place the Amiga into different processor modes, you just
    re-boot with the CTRL-Amiga-Amiga keys while holding down both the
    left and right mouse buttons.  A processor selection menu will show
    up, and you click in the box next to the processor mode you wish to 
    use.  The only valid modes I have seen are Z68000, Z68020, and Z68030.
    There is also a menu item called Amiga-UX, but I have no idea what this
    is for.  Unix perhaps?  It crashes my system when I try it.>

Thanks in advance for any help on these subjects!

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P.S. Please do not include any comparasons of Amigabasic vs <any other
     computer language>.  I am already fluent with several computer
     languages and am currently in the process of becoming fluent with
     Aztec C. <tm>  :)  .  Yes I know that ANY basic is relatively slow.
     I am digging into this problem mainly because I shouldn't have to.
     I figure that the AmigaBasic program should have worked when I 
     or anybody forked over good money for the machine and the program.
     The fact that it doesn't work like it should, is reason enough.
     :)