Talk:Amiga Basic

message: Sorry, AmigaBASIC was a gimptastic disaster. Here are two facts that I find more than sufficient as a form of circumstantial evidence:
1. Amiga had no memory protection.
2. AmigaBASIC was written by Microsoft.
Some people might say #2 is not necessarily a bad thing and that I'm being biased. If you're really intent on saying that, bring a few instances of their first version of anything nearly as complicated being of few enough bugs that a system with no memory protection wouldn't crash frequently on it (with the idea that they would have developed it without beneift of memory protection alerts as well).
Further there aren't many demonstrations of worthwhile AmigaBASIC based apps. Last one I saw that was close, crashed the whole system like clockwork.
The article could use some upbeat factoids, good luck finding them outside of marketing materials.
* I wrote a version of the memory game using AmigaBasic around 1990.  It was certainly possible to write non-trivial applications with it.  It was a good starting point before I moved onto C.  --Dan East 01:33, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I see no problem whatsoever listing other BASIC languages for the Amiga and stating their strengths.  AmigaBASIC did certain things well and other things poorly.  Languages like BlitzBASIC were very good at graphics work, but not well suited for work within Intuition library.  Contrasting AmigaBASIC to other BASIC dialects is not offering "praise" to the other interpreters.  It's merely maintaining a balanced POV.  --Dan East 12:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Praising other interpreters 

message: We need to clean this article up and get back to a balanced POV.  Obviously some early contributors had something against AmigaBASIC.  I'm not saying it was the greatest thing to ever grace the Amiga, however I think the article should better reflect its historic importance as a programming language.  The Amiga was so far ahead of its time, both hardware and OS, that I don't think anyone, especially MS, knew how to create a programming language that could properly encapsulate it all.  That is essentially part of what a BASIC language is - a simple structural syntax that also transparently exposes methods for accessing APIs.
Here are some items I think need to be corrected or added to the article.  I'll work on them myself as I have the time. --Dan East 14:30, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing the article 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:AmigaBASIC.png

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Moved, unopposed (closed by non-admin page mover) BegbertBiggs (talk) 22:50, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: AmigaBASIC →  – The form "Amiga Basic" is found in the official manual: https://archive.org/details/AmigaBasic/page/n1/mode/2up. It is also found in some of the further reading in the article. Dan Polansky (talk) 09:07, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 December 2023 

message: Some deletionist at some point in the past decided to remove large quantities of information without actually checking the relevance. As a result there's an orphaned reference to two BASIC compilers with the words (See below) after it.
I tried removing it, but apparently removing garbage is "vandalism" according to the people who write bots for this kind of thing, because reasons.
Can someone else who's registered here try to remove those words or else escalate this to someone with the power to overrule malfunctioning vandalism bots?
Ta 2601:584:300:345E:F53B:7E62:1A9D:68EE (talk) 13:45, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  (See below)