CompuServe Messages

Rick: I can understand the frustration you and your son are having with the 600, but maybe some of us can help. First, Microsoft Basic was removed from the Amiga line since the introduction of the 2.04 OS. The main reason this was done was because Microsoft did a very poor job on the AmigaBasic and was buggy to say the least. Plus it wasn't coded properly to work with the newer generation of 32-bit Motorola CPU's. However, since the 600 has the standard 68000 it should run AmigaBasic just fine. I wouldn't see any problem with your dealer giving you a copy of AmigaBasic, or getting it from someone in a local user group. If you have the current generation of the Amiga OS (2.04 and above) then Arexx should be on your disks unless someone purposly removed it. See if there is a program called "RexxMast" in the "System" drawer located on your boot disk. This program needs to be executed to initialize Arexx, and it probably is being executed by the startup-sequence file located in your "S" directory. You might check this file to see if indeed RexxMast is being executed in the startup script. If not, the easiest way to get it started is to click on the icon when you need Arexx capability, or drag the icon into your "WBStartup" drawer to have it execute each time you boot up the 600. One thing you should know, Arexx is not like some other languages where you load up the program and it comes back with it's own screen and gives you a "Ready" prompt. The language and scripting capabilities are there, but you have to bring up a text editor of some type and start writing the programs.