Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: [Really Microsoft C] Summary: really carping about Amigabasic Message-ID: <1429@neoucom.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 02:35:31 GMT References: <1896@ndsuvax.UUCP> Sender: wfd@neoucom.UUCP Distribution: na Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 21 I agree totally; Amigabasic could definitely use some cleaning up! That editor is really yucky! It seems like the windows wind up getting in the way more than they do helping out. Walter also pointed out one of my Amigabasic pet peeves - those naughty little requesters that say "Sayntax error OK?" that don't go away until moused. I just saw Microsloth's Quickbasic 4.0 for the IBM world yesterday .. that is what Amigabasic should be like. I'm no big fan of the boys from Redmond, but I actually like qb 4.0. My vote would have been to keep the ABasiC that was distributed with the Amiga O/S version 1.0 and fix it up. I liked ABasiC as it was relatively lean and mean compared to Amigabasic. I still find myself using ABasiC for prototyping things, as it isn't braindamaged about the serial port as is Amigabasic. I wrote a simple Midi librarian for my DX7 in ABasiC using the AUX: device driver posted to the net. I tried Amigabasic, but it strips all the non printable characters from the serial port I/O (and it doesn't go up to 31.5 Kbaud needed for Midi either). --Bill