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Commodore famously licensed Microsoft BASIC on a "pay once, no royalties" basis, and independently kept developing it for its 8-bit line of computers. If you're
by MagerValp 12y ago
Commodore famously licensed Microsoft BASIC on a "pay once, no royalties" basis, and independently kept developing it for its 8-bit line of computers. If you're interested in its history David Viner has posted the source for version 4.75 from 1982 with several enhancements:
http://www.davidviner.com/cbm9.html http://www.davidviner.com/cbm9.html
- aruggirello 12y agoInteresting. Perhaps this BASIC reached as far as the C=64, 128 and Plus-4 too? BTW AmigaBASIC must have been a very interesting affair too. I think Commodore's agreement with Microsoft was somehow broken after release; it was never updated, it was never really integrated into the system - Intuition, the co-processors, the famous HAM mode, etc. So it left everyone unsatisfied. And it was slow and bloated. There was a compiler for it, the AC-Basic, which I successfully used for a short while, until AmigaBASIC was literally eclipsed by AMOS.
- MagerValp 12y agoYes, BASIC 3.5 (264 machines) and BASIC 7.0 (C128) were further developments, as well as the unreleased 3.6 (LCD) and 10.0 (C65): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC#Released_versions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC#Released_versio... AmigaBASIC was indeed a bit of a lame duck. I used HiSoft BASIC myself, which was backwards compatible but added a lot of features, including a compiler.