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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Basic On a 3000?
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.141358.1214@bushido.uucp>
Date: 20 Aug 90 14:13:58 GMT
References: <14617@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: Bushido Systems of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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In article <14617@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes:
>At first I found it rather strange that AmigaBASIC wasn't included with the
>software that came with my 3000. Not even with the 1.3 software. After trying
>numerous times to run different things, it appears to not work at all with 
>1.3 or 2.0. Under 2.0 if you try to load, save or run ANYTHING in Basic the
>machine crashed immediately. Under 1.3 programs will simply not run.
>
>Does this mean that I HAVE to program in C from now on? I don't have a C 
>compiler package at home and sometimes I found it easier to just do Basic
>instead of writing applications at work and downloading them to test it.
>Any comments on this?
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AmigaBASIC is for the most part incompatible with the 68020/30. When the
first accelerator boards came out for the 2000 this was the case too. I
suggest the following: 1) This is *ONLY* IF you don't mind totally loosing
your previous basic programs (if you do then check into one of the 
AMIGABASIC compilers out on the market that works with the 030 (look at
the one from Michtron, I have at least seen this work) 2) CHECK OUT AREXX
that came with your machine. For the most part it's function is similar
to BASIC, and there are some of us out here who think it's better than 
basic anyway (and more flexible). It also will give you some great 
IPC (InterProcessCommunication) between programs which support it..

As for a fix to AmigaBASIC, who knows?? With the AmigaBASIC compilers 
available that work with the 030, many won't care..

Thanks,

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