Английская Википедия:Amiga Basic
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox software Amiga Basic is an interpreted BASIC programming language implementation for the Amiga, designed and written by Microsoft. Amiga Basic shipped with AmigaOS versions 1.1 to 1.3. It succeeded MetaComCo's ABasiC, which was included in AmigaOS 1.0 and 1.1, and was superseded by ARexx, a REXX-style scripting language, from AmigaOS version 2.0 onwards.
History and description
Amiga Basic provided not only the common BASIC language, but also attempted to provide an easy-to-use API for the Amiga's unique graphics and sound capabilities. OBJECT
commands, for example, made it easy to create moving objects – sprites and bobs that could be drawn with an external drawing program, Object editor, that was supplied with AmigaBASIC. An unusual feature of the language is that it theoretically allowed the calling of handwritten assembly language subprograms; however, this feature never worked because of a bug that failed to align the assembly language instructions correctly on a word boundary, as required by the Amiga's native MC68000 processor.Шаблон:Citation needed
Compute!, a popular computer magazine published while Amiga Basic was still being shipped, included many AmigaBASIC type-in programs in their articles. These were typically implementations of simple programs such as rudimentary games, system and file utilities and desk accessories such as analog clocks and address books.
Amiga Basic 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.Шаблон:Citation needed However, there were a number of third-party compiled BASIC languages released for the Amiga that could compile Amiga Basic 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.
Although Amiga Basic was superseded by ARexx in AmigaOS 2.0, the two languages had very different functions and capabilities. Hobbyist programmers had changed by the time of AmigaOS 2.0's release and were more likely to be interested in scripting existing third party applications than in writing new programs entirely from scratch. ARexx was seen as better fitting their needs than BASIC.
Along with Microsoft's very similar BASIC for the Macintosh, Amiga Basic was the first BASIC interpreter from Microsoft to not require line numbers,[1][2] adopting instead a top-down approach to executing the lines of code, and labels to indicate the GOTO
instruction where to jump. However programs that contained line numbers were able to run; the line numbers were simply treated as labels for the purpose of flow control. It was also the first Microsoft interpreted language capable of calling OS functions and dynamic libraries through the command LIBRARY
. For example: LIBRARY Graphics.library
command invokes the standard Amiga Graphics.library from which to call functions.
Hello World in AmigaBASIC
' Hello World for AmigaBASIC
PRINT "Hello world!"
You can go one better by adding the following line:
SAY TRANSLATE$ ("HELLO WORLD")
The Amiga will then say "Hello world" using speech synthesis in addition to displaying it on screen.
References
- Notes
- Amiga Basic by Paul Fellows, published by Dabs Press, December 1992, Шаблон:ISBN
- Amiga Basic by Henning Horst Rainer, published by Jackson Libri, 1989, Шаблон:ISBN
- Amiga Basic Inside and Out, by Christian Spanik and Hannes Rugheimer published by Abacus Books (Abacus Software Inc.), Jan 1988, Шаблон:ISBN
- Elementary Amiga BASIC by C. Regena, published by Compute! (Compute! Publications Inc., U.S.), April 1987, Шаблон:ISBN
- Advanced Amiga basic by ~ Tom R. Halfhill and Charles Brannon, published by Compute! (Compute Library Selection) July 1986, Шаблон:ISBN
External links
- COMPUTE!, August 1987, pg 89 Fractal Mountains For Amiga – Source code listing of a fractal mountain generator.
- COMPUTE!, October 1987, pg 71 A Button Command – Source code listing for enhanced buttons, such as radio-style buttons.
- COMPUTE!, November 1987, pg 86 Masked Input For The Amiga – Source code listing for a masked text input box.
- Amiga Coding! Шаблон:Webarchive – Extra information about AmigaBASIC.
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