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Johnson/!Converter/Docs/WB
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Acorn User » AU 1998-02 B.adf » Extras |
| Filename: | Johnson/!Converter/Docs/WB |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 036B bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
WIMPBASIC WimpBasic is an application designed for those who can program in BASIC but have not come to grips with the Acorn WIMP system. The application is so easy to use, that from v1.00 to v1.26 has taken me less than 1 hour (just) to write and debug. There is no messing with template designers, wimp calls or playing with windows in this application as the program does it for you. You just create the windows, write the code, link it up and WimpBasic will compile it for you to a stand alone application. The program (say the authors) is not designed for large apps (such as word processors or spreadsheets), but there is no reason why it can't be used for them. To prove the point, I'm going to write a database with it. I think it will be about 100k long (at a guess. The BBC B version was 15K long and not very sophisticated). It cost's 50 quid from Clares.
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