| I found ST BASIC to be pretty bad, and was really disappointed with
it.
On the other hand, I bought GFA BASIC and love it. It has a rich
set of commands and a nice interpreter. Probably one of the nicest
features, from my point of view, is that once you have developed
your programs in the interpreter, you can use their compiler to
make them run faster and be standalone! Few, if any, other languages
for the ST have this feature.
There are many versions of BASIC for the ST available, tho. A friend
of mine has True BASIC and likes it almost as much as GFA BASIC,
which he also has. I believe there are several BASIC compilers out
there.
But in summary, I think I've read that GFA BASIC has sort of become
the standard BASIC for the ST. At lease one ST magazine has a monthly
column devoted to it.
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| I tried to give an introduction to uploading and downloading in note
number 52.3 of this conference. I briefly discuss the options
available for uploading and downloading, how to identify the file
formats you are likely to find, and the most common problems
encountered in the process. I also tell where some of these programs
are available for downloading, and to some extent, address the problem
that you can't get any of these files until you have a way of
downloading :-).
Other writers have added their own experiences in the same topic.
Topic 9 is supposed to be a list of software that we each keep
available for downloading, so that once the channel is open, there's
plenty of material.
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