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Tero · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:37 pm

Hi PureBasic Amigans, and other OS's coders
I'm new to PureBasic and you may can answers some Amiga related questions :?:

1.How compatible is the sourcecode compared to the newer Purebasic for Win/lin/mac?

2.Is 3d on Amiga functional? warp,rtg? - (i just did a quick look to the doc's :mrgreen:

)

3. will there be a new version someday? (maybe Aros/OS4?)

Don't be shy - THX

Fred · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:00 pm

1. Not much IMHO, the build in functions are very old.

2. No

3. Probably not, all is written in 68x00 assembly on amiga.

Tero · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:07 pm

Fred wrote:

1. Not much IMHO, the build in functions are very old.

2. No

3. Probably not, all is written in 68x00 assembly on amiga.

Sad to hear...

Anyway, i will give it a try - at least for the classix's 68k :wink:

Dreamland Fantasy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:37 pm

I had pestered Fred for ages for an AmigaOS 4 version of PureBasic, but nothing ever happened. I was even going to offer a donation of an AmigaOne with AmigaOS 4.0 to try and help kickstart development, but sadly further development of PureBasic for the Amiga seems to be pretty much abandoned.

I would still love to get a native AmigaOS 4 version of PureBasic (hint hint @Fred :wink:

)

Kind regards,

Francis

Fred · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:33 pm

As i said, all the libs are written in 680x0 assembly, which makes them unusable on recent Amiga. If it was a recompile problem, i would may be do it, but here, it's a complete lib rewrite, which is too much for the very small audience.

Dreamland Fantasy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:09 pm

I can completely understand your position Fred. Although I would love to get a native OS4 version of PureBasic, I'm not expecting it to come.

Kind regards,

Francis

Tero · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:18 am

@Fred
Maybe you would re-think when Hyperion publish AmigaOS for other/newer hardware?
Chances are that a port could be done from mac/linux/win sources
ok, hyperion has to publish first - who knows what they will bring to us
i don't bother as i see your pov - but i had to ask that :mrgreen:

At last a present possibility...
How about Aros?
It is x86 and a port shouldn't be a hard task(at least from linux/mac sources)
If you don't know allready - here's the dev.forum with link's to all you may want to know
http://aros-exec.org/index.php

Regards,
Tero

blueznl · **Joined:** Sat May 17, 2003 11:31 am **Posts:** 6073

From a commerical point of view there may be little life left in the good ol' Amiga, perhaps sadly enough...

Oh well... <starting up an emulator and going another few rounds at SWIV> at least the games are preserved :-)

Fred · **Posted:** Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:58 am

Tero wrote:

It is x86 and a port shouldn't be a hard task(at least from linux/mac sources)

Unless you want PB produce GTK or Carbon based apps, i don't see why it should be easy to do the port

. It would takes really a lot of time.

Tero · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:42 am

Fred wrote:

Unless you want PB produce GTK or Carbon based apps, i don't see why it should be easy to do the port

. It would takes really a lot of time.

GTK and SDL is available in AROS :wink:

btw: AROS is API-compatible to Amiga, but i guess that doesn't count for ASM

There are some people not going to code for aros cause C is too hard or LUA-scripting isn't suitable for their tasks - so PB would be very nice addition :mrgreen:

(did i say that before? :roll:

)
Amiga community is a small one and Aros community even smaller, but it's slowly growing because of the full Amiga-experience on low-price hardware.

Sadly there is not much money to earn ( yet, i hope),

OK, i stop begging now - promise :lol:

regards
tero

Dreamland Fantasy · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:18 am

Tero wrote:

OK, i stop begging now - promise :lol:

Kind regards,

Francis

LCD · **Posted:** Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:10 pm

Damn! I just purchased an Amiga 1200 with 68030/68882 turbo card, just only to hear that Amiga development has been ceased... :shock:

Was Amiga version of PB not open source? Maybe the Amiga community can develop it further?

tinman · **Posted:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:15 pm

LCD wrote:

Damn! I just purchased an Amiga 1200 with 68030/68882 turbo card, just only to hear that Amiga development has been ceased... :shock:

Was Amiga version of PB not open source? Maybe the Amiga community can develop it further?

IIRC the libraries and tools are open source but the compiler is not since too much of the compiler code was the same as the non open sourced versions (Windows / Linux / Mac).

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