[net.micro.amiga] New Amiga Basic

cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray) (01/08/86)

[Down line-eater, down!!]

I've been asked by a couple of fellow Amiga owners (and me too!) to see if
anyone out there has documentation on the new Basic (the one that came with
the Version 1.1 Extras, and may or may not be by Microsoft). If anyone has
any computer readable documentation on it, could you please mail me a copy?
It would probably be worthwhile to post it, since most Amiga owners should
have the new Basic by now. The sample programs show how to do quite a bit
of stuff, but they don't make a very good reference manual.

Also, if anyone wants a simple Robots game in ABasiC, a friend and I whipped
one up last weekend. I can't transfer it to this UNIX machine yet, but
hopefully by next weekend I should be able to. Let me know if you want me
to mail you a copy when I get it uploaded.

	Chris Gray   {allegra,ihnp4,sask,ubc-vision}!alberta!myrias!cg

cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (01/08/86)

You should be able to get a copy of the manual for Amiga BASIC from the
dealer who gave you the binary. It is a) quite readable and b) quite thick
and tus does not lend itself well to porting into machine readable form.

--Chuck

> [Down line-eater, down!!]
> 
> I've been asked by a couple of fellow Amiga owners (and me too!) to see if
> anyone out there has documentation on the new Basic (the one that came with
> the Version 1.1 Extras, and may or may not be by Microsoft). If anyone has
> any computer readable documentation on it, could you please mail me a copy?
> It would probably be worthwhile to post it, since most Amiga owners should
> have the new Basic by now. The sample programs show how to do quite a bit
> of stuff, but they don't make a very good reference manual.
> 
> Also, if anyone wants a simple Robots game in ABasiC, a friend and I whipped
> one up last weekend. I can't transfer it to this UNIX machine yet, but
> hopefully by next weekend I should be able to. Let me know if you want me
> to mail you a copy when I get it uploaded.
> 
> 	Chris Gray   {allegra,ihnp4,sask,ubc-vision}!alberta!myrias!cg

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hr@uicsl.UUCP (01/16/86)

RE:
"You should be able to get a copy of the manual for Amiga BASIC from the
dealer who gave you the binary."

My problem is that my "dealer" is Commodore. The local dealer said he
only had enough copies for the people that bought systems from him.
He wouldn't even let me copy the disks. He didn't mind selling
me Deluxe Paint, but it was too much bother to let me copy the Kickstart
disk so I could use it.

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	harold ravlin		{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!uicsl!hr