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- Short: Amiga BASIC Compiler with Extras
- Type: dev/lang
- Author: dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn, Launceston, Tasmania)
- Uploader: mscheler@wuarchive.wustl.edu
-
- This is version 2.0 of ACE.
-
- + ACE is a FreeWare Amiga BASIC compiler which, in conjunction with A68K and
- + Blink produces standalone executables.
-
- The language defines a large subset of AmigaBASIC but also has many features
- not found in the latter such as: turtle graphics, recursion, SUBs with return
- values, structures, arguments, include files, a better WAVE command which
- allows for large waveforms, external references, named constants and a
- variety of other commands and functions not found in AmigaBASIC.
-
- New features in version 2.0 include: gadgets, three standard requester types,
- serial I/O and menus (with optional command-keys for menu items). New commands
- and functions for this version include EXIT FOR, PTAB, SPC, DEF FN, ON ERROR
- and ERR (these last two handle file and serial I/O at present). INPUT and
- PRINT can now be used transparently for all screen/window combinations.
-
- All user-defined windows are now fully-configurable and may be used in
- conjunction with screens as per AmigaBASIC. Window close event trapping is
- also a new feature.
-
- In addition to event trapping, ACE now supports WAITing for both menus and
- gadgets. Waiting is more operating-system-friendly than event trapping.
-
- A simple graphical front-end (Integrated Development Environment) is also
- provided with the archive. This is written in ACE.
-
-
- Bug fixes
- ---------
- - Improved memory management at compile-time.
- - The compiler now handles ctrl-c trapping correctly. In previous versions
- there was a conflict between ACE's user-break handling and that used by
- the C compiler used to produce ACE (Sozobon C).
- - In addition ctrl-c can now be trapped for all programs whether using
- screens or windows.
- - Some label names caused the assembler to generate syntax errors.
-
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-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 50149 50149 0.0% 19-Jan-94 15:47:52 AIDE.lha
- 95871 95871 0.0% 19-Jan-94 15:16:28 DOCS.LHA
- 2457 1137 53.7% 19-Jan-94 14:35:48 INSTALLATION
- 344 221 35.7% 14-Jan-94 20:39:36 INSTALLATION.info
- 235419 235419 0.0% 19-Jan-94 14:43:08 MAIN.lha
- 38484 38484 0.0% 19-Jan-94 13:45:10 PRGS.lha
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- 422724 421281 0.3% 21-Jan-94 12:24:56 6 files
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