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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaBASIC on WB2.x HELP please.
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 17:55:07 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
- Message-ID: <17766FC03S86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl>
- References: <19960407.E15E338.4070@hydra.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
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- In article <19960407.E15E338.4070@hydra.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
- starecjc@hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Flexy) writes:
-
- >
- >>AmigaBasic is not supplied with the OS2.1 package, and small efforts
- >>in trying to copy the files from the WB1.3 disks and running BASIC
- >>program will cause a software failure.
- >>
- >>I know there's a solution somehow, (Dr Kittel used to help people with this)
- >>I need this solution please, the customer would like to use his BASIC programs
- >>on his new upgraded Amiga.
- >>
- >
- >Q: Why do you like to use such an outdated, slow, ugly language
- >which doesnt even support OS2.0 (and up) ?
- >
- >If you really want a good language which is not too dificult to switch
- >over if you're coming from Basic then take a look at Amiga-E...
- >
- >AmigaBasic has no future so i ask what you get for if you spend lots of time
- >to get that dinosaur (maybe) runnin' under OS2.0 ?? nuthin...
- >
- And I guess you are going to reprogram the entire program free of charge,
- right?
-
- To the original poster: Try ACE, a compiler on Aminet that is largely
- compatible with AmigaBasic. It comes with a AmigaBasic to Ascii program,
- so if you do not succeed getting it to work under ACE you can always try
- one of the many other Basics around.
-
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