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0 pointslazyjones7y ago0 comments

The most famous BASIC environment was the incredible GFA Basic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC

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I thought Omikron BASIC [1] was even better

but both were really awesome compared to what existed on other platforms back then. In particular, I liked their documentation. Those were great times for documentation (not just BASIC, also TOS, GEM etc from that time more than today's. Either there were more qualified tech writers per product, or the products were simpler ... or maybe just nostalgia.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omikron_BASIC

evo_97y ago

Ah yeah, I forgot about that one too. I had switched to True Basic at some point and completely forgot about GFA.

jacquesm7y ago

I built a full CAD-CAM environment in GFA that lives on to this day as the core of a lathe / mill combo with integrated software. It was an incredibly productive environment, the whole thing clocked in at 50Kloc and a few thousand lines of assembly code to make it run very fast.

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