Conference hydra::amiga_v1

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Dave

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	>Since the manuals are not too great, which books do I buy first?

	What are you planning on doing with the Amy?

	For starting programming in C, f'rinstance, my vote goes to Rob Peck's
	"Programmer's Guide to the Amiga". First book about the Amiga's 
	operating system I could understand, which is saying a lot for the
	clarity of his writing.

	Welcome to the Amiga community, enjoy.
	John O.

    
    	Well first of all I would just like to know about AMIGA DOS,
    CLI, etc.
    
    	Then a good manual on the AMIGABASIC would be next.
    
    	I most definitely want to try some animations so a book on that
    	would be good too.
    
    	Rich.

I have seen a book that would be perfect for you.  The book is about 
Amiga Graphics using Amiga Basic.  I wish I could remember the name, 
maybe someone else can help. "Amiga Graphics"?  I saw it at that bookstore
in the Framingham/Lechmere Mall.

The performance of animation from basic isn't great.  You couldn't write 
asteriods (I tried) but you could write "PONG".  

When you get serious about programming animation, you'll need to switch to
a compiled language like C or MODULA-2.

Or.... if you just wanted to do animation, but aren't really interested in 
programming, then there are plenty of software packages.

    What is the name of the program to compile Amigabasic programs?
    
              Matt
    

    is this AC-BASIC program found on the Basic disk that comes standard
    with the Amiga??
    
    how is it used - ie: by icon selection or as a basic keyword after
    loading amigabasic??
    
    Phil

    Nope, sorry. AC Basic is an after market basic compiler.  I've seen
    ads for it as low as $120  It seems to be compatable with AmigaBASIC
    with a few modifications thrown in.  The only major one I can think
    of off the top of my head is that it add a SELECT CASE statement
    so you dont have to write about a million IF THEN ELSEIF statements.
    I only played with it for a few days and then had to send it back
    to the rental place (will furnish you or anyone else the name on
    request).  Looked pretty good.

    AC-Basic is a good product with good support. I received an automatic
    free update to V1.3 from them. It dramatically (I really mean that)
    increases the speed of AmigaBasic programs. It also does a nice
    job of debugging them. The only drawback is the size of the linked
    program. I believe it adds about 40K to the program. Yioou can get
    around that (if you have an AC-Basic license) by omitting the RTL
    during compiling, and relying on the copy you have on your system.
    The Orbits program on MTWAIN::USER:[MACDONALD.AMIGA]MISCAPP]ORBITS.ARC
    is an AC-Basic-compiled program.

Re: < Note 2080.2 by JFRSON::OSBORNE "Blade Walker" >

>	For starting programming in C, f'rinstance, my vote goes to Rob Peck's
>	"Programmer's Guide to the Amiga". 

	John, I am trying to locate this book in mail-order lists and can't
	seem to find it. It wouldn't be "Amiga Programmer's Guide" would it?

	Could you post the publisher and ISBN info please?

Thanks,

Keith

	Programmer's Guide to the Amiga
	Robert A. Peck

	1987, Sybex, Inc., 2021 Challenger Drive #100, Alameda, CA 94501

	US$24.95

	ISBN 0-89588-310-4

	You can also get a disk that contains the code that appears in the
	book.  Details are in the book.


	- Cliff

Thanks, Cliff- I don't get to read this file as much as I did...

John O.