@scruss The “IDE” as you’d call it nowadays (the interpreter) of GFA-Basic didn’t run on all TOS versions to begin with, yes, and needed patches for rather new ones.

But the compiled code would run easily on TOS 1.04, for example, not just TOS 1.02. Unless the author did something rather dirty, like assuming fixed addresses in the memory map, and circumvented OS routines.

BTW: DYK that there are patched versions now of GFA-Basic for multitasking TOS setups? :)

^g

#gfabasic

@Nowhereman Genau. Die erste Festplatte, 20 MB MFM an MFM-SCSI-ACSI-Adapter („SH205“), wurde gleich in _fünf_ Partitionen unterteilt. Weil der neue Treiber, CBHD, ja mehr als 4 Partitionen konnte. Mußte man dann ja auch nutzen!

Gut,die letzte Partition hatte nur 3,6 MB, aber für GFA-Basic 2.0 und Compiler reichte es.

#atarist #gfabasic #frühefestplatten

There's a long "GfA: Grafik für Anspruchsvolle" (for the discerning?) type-in which seems to be a mid-sized paint program? Which is SILLY given that the ST had many good paint programs, like Degas Elite, Neochrome (HAM hi-color), etc.

Also wow I forget how annoying GFA BASIC is to read, it had one statement per line, no structs, so

If Ho=1
Hoehe=6
Endif

etc for 600 lines. Auto-indents at least.

I wrote many large programs in it.

#atari #retrocomputing #basic #gfabasic