Amiga Basic not running

[rcman]

Hi

I am trying to run Amiga basic in WINUAE with AmigaDOS 3.1.4 but its not working.

When I look at the info on AmifaBasic says it's executable but nothing happens when I double click on it or try it from a shell.

Any ideas?
Thanks
RC

[Photon]

Amiga Basic was written by Microsoft, so it sux ballz. The major problem is performance and lack of features. They were just behind and clueless as to what the Amiga could do.

I thought it was removed after umm WB 1.4? I plead innocence here, one look is all it took.

[Daedalus]

Yeah, it was dropped for Release 2.0 and replaced with ARexx. It does some pretty dodgy things like assuming 24-bit address space, which breaks it on anything higher than a 68000, so it's also very possible they're doing similarly dodgy things with the OS calls that makes it break under 3.1.4. But first thing to try is to make sure your emulation is set to 68000, then try again.

[tech3475]

Try KS/WB 1.x and emulating an Amiga 500/2000.

From wikipedia:

AmigaBASIC itself was rendered obsolete because of incompatibilities with AmigaOS 2.0 and the hardware successors to the Motorola 68000 CPU. Some incompatibilities were due to the disregard of programming guidelines set forth by Commodore.[citation needed] However, there were a number of third-party compiled BASIC languages released for the Amiga that could compile AmigaBASIC programs with minimal changes, like A/C BASIC or Cursor (see below). Some of these compiled BASICs continued to work with AmigaOS 2.0, and as they were compiled rather than interpreted, they generally ran much faster than the original.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaBASIC?wprov=sfti1

[jotd]

24-bit address space is the worst. I remember trying to fix a game for whdload that was written in BASIC. Gave it up.

Microsoft wrote most of 8-bit BASIC software. I guess they should have stuck to 8 bit... not 24.

[DrBong]

Originally Posted by rcman

I am trying to run Amiga basic in WINUAE with AmigaDOS 3.1.4 but its not working.

When I look at the info on AmifaBasic says it's executable but nothing happens when I double click on it or try it from a shell.

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by Daedalus

It does some pretty dodgy things like assuming 24-bit address space, which breaks it on anything higher than a 68000, so it's also very possible they're doing similarly dodgy things with the OS calls that makes it break under 3.1.4. But first thing to try is to make sure your emulation is set to 68000, then try again.

Originally Posted by tech3475

Try KS/WB 1.x and emulating an Amiga 500/2000.

Alternatively, you could use the AmigaBASIC patch to make it work on higher Amiga configs or use the much nicer ACE Basic compiler to execute AmigaBASIC programs.

http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/PtchAmigaBASIC

http://aminet.net/package/dev/basic/ace_final_r2

[Etze]

Isn't Hisoft Basic the better solution?

[rcman]

Thank you everyone! I used AmigaBasic for testing idea/code.

I posted my code to GitHub. I used it for basic stuff.


RC