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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Basica
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.07h5@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 09:19:04 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Wed 26 Aug 92 16:34, Alan.holmes@brunel.ac.uk (alan J Ho
- wrote:
-
- AJH> I have an IBM clone with a hard disc.
- AJH> I have tried to run basica from disc,
- AJH> the only responce I get is:-
- AJH> divide overflow
- AJH> What am I doing wrong?
-
- IBM's BASICA will only run on an IBM machine. IBM machines include a ROM
- with a very limited version of BASIC. BASICA expects to find that ROM to
- run the core BASIC functions. To run the BASIC interpreter on a clone, you
- must use GWBASIC or some other self contained interpreter.
-
- If you want a BASIC interpreter, I suggest buying QBasic - it is a striped
- version of MicroSoft's QuickBASIC compiler and works quite well.
-
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- Jim Johnson-
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