29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
3:57 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:11:07PM +0000, Andrew Burton wrote:
I'm relatively new to the Amiga scene (6 years
experience - 5 on real hardware, 1 under emulation), but I have never heard about any of
them being for the Amiga. I know you can program on the Amiga using the following
languages:
Assembler
Amiga BASIC
AMOS BASIC
Blitz BASIC
Rexx
Arexx
C
Machine Code
I don't think I missed any.
Perl?
I also recall writing a few AmigaDOS scripts for complicated environment
stuff for setting up the C compiler, and such. It's less capable than,
say, bash or csh, but in the style of DOS .BAT files, you do have loops
and control statements, not just invoking external binaries.
Also, after AmigaDOS 3.0 came out, there was a graphical programming
language intended for multimedia apps, called AmigaVision. You could
display images, play sounds, direct a laserdisc player to display
specific frames or clips, detect mouse clicks, etc. Even though it came
for free with the A3000, it wasn't very popular, and there were a few apps
you could download written in it.
The most complex AmigaVision app I can recall off the top of my head was
a walkthrough tour of Shakespeare's Globe theatre. I probably have a copy
of it on an A3000 or A4000 drive at home.
-ethan
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