AmigaBASIC

AmigaBASIC was a BASIC programming language implementation for the Amiga, designed and written by Microsoft. AmigaBASIC shipped with AmigaOS versions 1.1 to 1.3. It succeeded ABasiC, which was included in AmigaOS 1.0 and 1.1, and it was replaced with ARexx, a REXX-style scripting language, from AmigaOS version 2.0 onwards.

AmigaBASIC 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.

Articles

• AmigaBASIC bugs
• Search old Compute magazine articles on Amiga Basic

External links

• AmigaBASIC article on Wikipedia
• AmigaBASIC 2 ASCII 1.3 (Convert AmigaBASIC binaries to ASCII)
• Hardware Access Using AmigaBASIC And ARexx (archive.org copy)
• Cursor v1.7 (on Aminet. Compiler for AmigaBASIC)

Books

• the official Amiga Basic manual on archive.org which came with Amiga OS 1.3 (use the PDF, the online version has the pages cut off)
• Amiga Basic books on openlibrary.org

Dutch

• Data Becker - Het grote Amiga Basic boek (1989)
• Programmeren in Amiga Basic (1989)

English

• Amiga Basic (1985)