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#Amiga LOGO

    09-Oct-89 23:34:15
Sb: #68977-#Amiga LOGO
Fm: Jim Ventola 70626,423
To: John Draper 76703,4322
larry, Here is some information I have garnered about AmigaLogo: It was a long long wait, but AmigaCOMAL is now shipping. The version shipping is considered final by the authors/programmers in Denmark. The manual is 160 pages, spiral bound. The main programmer was Svend Pedersen, who has spent about 4 years working on this system! Freddy Kristiansen gave a big assist (Freddy has written several other COMAL systems, including the CP/M COMAL). Finally, the founder of COMAL himself helped out! Yes, Borge Christensen was part of the AmigaCOMAL project. The system programmers are very responsive to "bug reports," fixing them very quickly. Any bugs reported are forwarded to Denmark for correction. All early AmigaCOMAL owners will get a free Update Disk when it is released! Anyone familiar with COMAL on any other computer, will feel right at home with AmigaCOMAL. The system costs $99.95 plus $34.95 for a compiler option (plus $4 shipping)… from COMAL Users Group USA. Regards … Len Lindsay The other good news is that this is in assembly and fast–Len says it is as good as IBM COMAL. Nick Sullivan has it and likes it. Also, the price of IBM COMAL has come down from $800 to $180. That means that COMAL is now a pretty nice developers option for the sorts of things I might want to do. Goodbye TRUE BASC, I hope! // jim