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- User Manual
- MaxonBASIC 3 for the Amiga Computers
- By MAXON, HiSoft
- © Copyright 1994 MAXON Computer GmbH, HiSoft.
- All rights reserved.
-
- Program: designed and programmed by HiSoft.
- Manual: written by David Nutkins, Alex
- Kiernan and Tony Kendle.
-
- This guide and the MaxonBASIC 3 program
- diskette contains proprietary information which
- is protected by copyright. No part of the
- software or the documentation may be
- reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval
- system, translated into any language or
- transmitted in any form without express prior
- written consent of the publisher and copyright
- holder(s).
-
- MAXON and HiSoft shall not be liable for errors
- contained in the software or the documentation
- or for incidental or consequential damages in
- connection with the furnishing, performance or
- use of the software or the documentation.
-
- MAXON and HiSoft reserve the right to revise
- the software and/or the documentation from time
- to time and to make changes in the content
- thereof without the obligation to notify any
- person of such changes.
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- Contents
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- BASIC Tutorial
- The Building Blocks of BASIC
- The Heart of a BASIC Program
- Passing Control Within a Program
- Choosing where to go
- Sub-programs
- Functions
- More about Numbers & Text
- Closing Down
- The Screen
- Graphics
- Talking to the Outside World
- Managing Files
- Reading and Writing Disk Files
- Error Handling
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- Concepts
- Character Set
- Program lines and labels
- Data Types
- Constants
- Arrays
- Operators
- Sub-programs and User Defined Functions
- Variable Parameters
- Value Parameters
- STATIC variables
- SHARED variables
- Recursion and Local variables
- User-Defined Functions
- Advanced Arrays
- Limitations Imposed by the Compiler
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- Debugger
- Introduction
- Debugging BASIC Programs
- Understanding the generated code
- MonAm Concepts
- MonAm Overview
- MonAm Reference
- Breakpoints
- Searching Memory
- Miscellaneous
- Command Summary
- Bug Hunting
- Exceptions
- Restrictions
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- FDtoBMAP
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- Operating System Support
- The Amiga header files
- Libraries
- Devices
- Resources
- Gadgets
- Datatypes
- BLib
- Other
- Obsolete names
- C for BASIC programmers
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- Appendix A Converting
- Introduction
- General Conversions
- HiSoft BASIC 1
- AmigaBASIC
- De-tokenising
- Old-Style Microsoft BASICs
- New-Style Microsoft BASICs
- HiSoft BASIC 2 on the Atari
- Writing for compatibility
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- Appendix B Hints & Tips
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- Appendix C Reserved Words
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- Appendix D Compiler Options
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- Appendix E Error Messages
- AmigaDOS Error Codes
- Runtime Errors
- Compilation Errors
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- Appendix F Linking
- Code Generation
- The Heap and Descriptors
- Memory Formats
- Linkable code
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- Appendix G New Features
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- Appendix H Bibliography
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