CompuServe Messages

Jesse, I think the perceived shortcomings with AmigaBasic are valid. These are the ones I know of: 1 – The use of the upper Address bits in address registers causes the software to fail on processors other than the 68000 if memory above 16 meg is decoded (normal for a 68020, for instance). This was stupid, ie Bad. 2 – The program crashes often, steps on low memory, and just generally doesn't restore the Amiga to the state it was in before AmigaBasic was invoked. Not a particular basic program, mind you, just AmigaBasic itself. 3 – The editor is incredibly slow, as are all requester operations, in a machine with probably the fastest window managment of any reasonbly priced micro. This is due to lack of care on the part of the programmers. Other window/refresh modes are available, they just were to lazy to do it _right_ 4 – There is no compiler unless you go to third parties. All of this in mind, AmigaBasic is VERY fast – for an interpreted basic – and it's reasonably flexible. It's also free, which is not to be sneered at, except possibly to note that it's easily worth more than it costs. 🙂 Finally, it's not been updated since approximately the pre-cambrian era, not something you like to hear about the tool your doing important work in.