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This .readme file is a shortened version of Readme.txt in the archive.
ABasiC patches for Kickstart 2.0 (V36) and PAL/NTSC
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Version history
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2012-03-17 0.4 Fixed issue on machines with more than 512KB chip RAM;
arrays already in chip RAM could unnecessarily be
moved. Added section about the VARPTR problem. Added
experimental patch to enable detection of right mouse
button state.
2012-03-06 0.3 Increased size of the sound task stack. Mention where
the ABasiC user manual can be downloaded from. Updated
Tips section.
2012-02-05 0.2 Added reverse patch, so you can revert a patched
executable back to the original. Added NTSC-to-PAL/
PAL-to-NTSC patch files and information.
2003-05-05 0.1 First public release. This can be considered
preliminary; please report any problems!
Introduction
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Back in 1985, the first Amiga 1000 computers came with Metacomco's ABasiC
language. With version 1.1 of the Amiga OS, ABasiC was replaced by Microsoft's
AmigaBASIC. ABasiC and AmigaBASIC are very different. ABasiC is a more
"traditional" environment than AmigaBASIC, and seems faster and less buggy.
Unfortunately ABasiC does not work under Kickstart 2.0 (V36) and later, but
this patch fixes the problem.
ABasiC is hard-coded to use the default NTSC screen height (200 lines). While
ABasiC works fine on both NTSC and PAL Amigas, you can also patch it to use
256-line screens, so filling the whole PAL screen area.
Apart from historical interest, David Addison wrote some excellent games in
ABasiC which are available on early Fred Fish disks and Aminet. Now you can
take a virtual trip back to 1986 and play his versions of Klondike, Othello
and others! They are surprisingly good, considering they are written in BASIC
and run on a 256K machine.
Where to get ABasiC
-------------------
If you don't have ABasiC but would like to try it, it can be obtained from
Rainer Benda's web site at http://www.rbenda.de/commodore/software.html
Several archives which include ABasiC and various programs are available from
ftp.back2roots.org. See the corresponding .txt files for file listings:
http://ftp.back2roots.org/back2roots/disks/17bit/dms/00xx/17bit-0071.dms
http://ftp.back2roots.org/back2roots/disks/apdc/dms/00xx/apdc-0003.dms
http://ftp.back2roots.org/back2roots/disks/apdc/dms/00xx/apdc-0004.dms
http://ftp.back2roots.org/pub/back2roots/disks/bavarian/dms/00xx/bavarian-0031.d
ms
http://ftp.back2roots.org/pub/back2roots/disks/cam/lha/00xx/cam-0006.lha
http://ftp.back2roots.org/pub/back2roots/disks/slipdisk/dms/00xx/slipdisk-0001.d
ms
http://ftp.back2roots.org/pub/back2roots/disks/slipdisk/dms/00xx/slipdisk-0002.d
ms
http://ftp.back2roots.org/pub/back2roots/disks/slipdisk/dms/00xx/slipdisk-0026.d
ms
Where to get the ABasiC user manual
-----------------------------------
I recently took pictures of each page of my ABasiC user manual. The quality
isn't wonderful, but it should all be legible and is better than no manual
at all. At the time of writing that can be downloaded from
http://www.fileserve.com/file/j98VfEW/ABasiC_manual_mark_k.zip
Someone converted the JPEG images to PDF. The URL is shown at
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=801303
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Contents of dev/basic/ABasiC_patch.lha PERMSSN UID GID PACKED SIZE RATIO METHOD CRC STAMP NAME
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[generic] 187 564 33.2% -lh5- 3358 Mar 11 1980 ABasiC Patch 0.4/ABasiC_NTSC-PAL_0.4.gpch
[generic] 527 1537 34.3% -lh5- 2995 Mar 11 1980 ABasiC Patch 0.4/ABasiC_patch_0.4.gpch
[generic] 164 340 48.2% -lh5- 4446 Mar 11 1980 ABasiC Patch 0.4/ABasiC_RMBTRAP_patch_0.4.gpch
[generic] 13054 21448 60.9% -lh5- 13d1 Sep 6 2002 ABasiC Patch 0.4/GPatch
[generic] 5987 14454 41.4% -lh5- af9d Mar 18 1980 ABasiC Patch 0.4/Readme.txt
[generic] 1593 3491 45.6% -lh5- 2bcc Mar 18 1980 ABasiC_patch.readme
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Total 6 files 21512 41834 51.4% Mar 18 12:46
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