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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

5346.0. "From Amiga to Apple or Macintosh" by BASVAX::STOPAR () Tue Jan 14 1992 11:42

    HELP!
    Is there any easy way to convert an Amiga program to Apple or Macintosh
    inexpensively and quickly. The program in question is written in Basic.
    Also what features of the Amiga 3000 are not convertable(such as
    sound)? I'm in 7th grade and creating a computer program for a school
    project and I need to convert my program to work on the schools
    computers.
    
    
    Thankx for any help you can give me, 
           
                                                            J.S.

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5346.1 ULTRA::KINDEL Bill Kindel @ LTN1 Tue Jan 14 1992 16:10 22

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5346.1		ULTRA::KINDEL	Bill Kindel @ LTN1	`Tue Jan 14 1992 16:10`	22
	Re .0: > Is there any easy way to convert an Amiga program to Apple or Macintosh > inexpensively and quickly. The program in question is written in Basic. > Also what features of the Amiga 3000 are not convertable(such as > sound)? There is good news and not-so-good news when it comes to converting BASIC programs from one system to another. The good news is that computational stuff should convert with little or no effort. You'll probably have to apply line numbers to your Amiga BASIC source files and you may have to do away with any of Amiga BASIC's fancier features, like named labels (instead of line numbers) and WHILE loops. The bad news (as you suspected) is that there's no single standard for sound and graphics stuff, so each system does them differently and you'll have to hand-tailor most of those parts. Get the BASIC manual for the target system and compare the commands available to you. If you're writing new programs, try to limit yourself to the commands that are common to both versions of BASIC. That means you'll have much LESS to convert when the time comes.

    Re .0:
    
>   Is there any easy way to convert an Amiga program to Apple or Macintosh
>   inexpensively and quickly. The program in question is written in Basic.
>   Also what features of the Amiga 3000 are not convertable(such as
>   sound)?
    
    There is good news and not-so-good news when it comes to converting
    BASIC programs from one system to another.  The good news is that
    computational stuff should convert with little or no effort.  You'll
    probably have to apply line numbers to your Amiga BASIC source files
    and you may have to do away with any of Amiga BASIC's fancier features,
    like named labels (instead of line numbers) and WHILE loops.
    
    The bad news (as you suspected) is that there's no single standard for
    sound and graphics stuff, so each system does them differently and
    you'll have to hand-tailor most of those parts.
    
    Get the BASIC manual for the target system and compare the commands
    available to you.  If you're writing new programs, try to limit
    yourself to the commands that are common to both versions of BASIC. 
    That means you'll have much LESS to convert when the time comes.