Re: No more BASIC for MAC?

["Richard W. Tarara" <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

But designed for 8086 and 286 machines (DOS version) so it runs VERY fast
on today's 486, 586, and 686 machines.  The Version5 is capable of off
screen graphics manipulations (similar to page flipping) so you can now get
very smooth animations.  Still a few bugs with this, but I'm in almost
daily contact with Tom Kurtz (one of the original creators of Basic and
part owner of True Basic) concerning fixing those bugs.  

Visual Basic can do what you want but the animation programming is quite
complex. 

For the Mac--smooth animations almost require that you buy into the Apple
Developers group, work in their version of Pascal, and purchase the reams
of documentation on the tool-box.  No third party has yet been allowed to
incorporate those routines into their language and hence to do anything
'slick' you have to make numerous calls to these ROM routines.  The
documentation is now available on CD-ROM at a reasonable price, but finding
what you need on the CD can be a laborious job.  

Rick
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> From: Jim Green <JMGreen@sisna.com>
> To: phys-l@atlantis.cc.uwf.edu
> Subject: Re: No more BASIC for MAC?
> Date: Friday, January 24, 1997 1:58 PM
>
> At 09:32 AM 1/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
> > True Basic  (www.truebasic.com) provides a structured, compiled basic
that
> > is much easier to use than Pascal, Fortran, C, C++.  While the new
Version
> But isn't the compilation to some pseudo language and not to machine
> language so it is not as fast as it could be???   I am in need of a
*fast*
> language so that a recursive screen refresh is not jerky.  Any
suggestion?
>   
>
> Jim Green
> JMGreen@sisna.com
>