Bywater BASIC interpreter v 3.20c
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This is an UPDATE to bwbasic v3.20
- fixed some bugs
- ported sources to SAS/C v6.58 for better optimizations
- added some cozmetics.
Bywater Basic interpreter v3.20c for classic Amiga,
recompiled from original UNIX source. Published under
GNU Public Licence.
The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large
superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978)
and a significant subset of the ANSI Standard for Full
BASIC (X3.113-1987) in C.
BWBASIC is an original creation of Ted A. Campbell, who stopped
working on it in 1993. Since then it has received contributions
from other programmers: Jon B. Volkoff, Paul Edwards,
Howard S. Wulf, Ken Martin and Jon Foster.
I recompiled bwBASIC from its original 3.20 sources, using
gcc v2.95 and SAS/C v6.58 with only minor changes to the source
code.(This release was compiled and optimized with SAS/C). Added
some custom makefiles for various CPU/FPU targets. Same source
easily recompiles under Linux and Windows, too. All you'd
need is gcc or mingw installed on the target system.
INSTALL
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bwbasic comes with optimized binaries for FPU/IEEE/STD math.
1. copy bin/<DIR>/bwbasic to C:
you might use a build that suits your Amiga, e.g.
COPY bin/FPU/bwbasic_040 TO C:bwbasic
2. Make bwShell work:
COPY s/bwShell-Startup TO S:
Keep the original installation folder somewhere on your hard drive.
It contains docs and examples for using bwbasic.
Make sure that you have a decent version of ixemul.library available
on your system.
USAGE
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Inside program, type:
help - show all commands available.
help commandname - show help for a specific command.
list - list source code for the program currently in memory
run - executes the program in memory from the start.
new - deletes the program in memory and clears all variables.
load "filename" - loads an ASCII BASIC program into memory.
save "filename" - saves the current program into the file "filename"
in ASCII format.
shell "command" - lets you run a SHELL or DOS command within bwbasic.
For example, to list the contents of the current
directory, in Linux type shell "ls -l",
in Windows or Amiga type shell "dir".
edit opens C:Ed with loaded source file.
quit - exits bwbasic.
bye - does the same
Michael Bergmann, March 2023
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