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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Basic On a 3000?
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.221755.2667@agora.uucp>
Date: 21 Aug 90 22:17:55 GMT
References: <14617@venera.isi.edu> <5836@uwm.edu>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <5836@uwm.edu> dannys@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Shurilla) writes:
: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.
:>
:Has anyone with a 3000 tried any programs compiled with the AC BASIC compiler.
:In the absence of a 2.0 compatible BASIC interpreter this would be attractive
:to we lowlife BASIC programmers ;-)

	Our program (The Disk Labeler) is compiled AmigaBASIC using AC BASIC.
It works just fine with the 3000 and 2.0. My guess is Absoft did things right.
Now, if we could just get Microsoft on the bandwagon... :-)

:dannys@csd4.csd.uwm.edu


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