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- # This file contains product information that can be used by
- # KingFisher 2.0 and other similar tools.
-
- .name
- ACE
- .type
- Compiler
- .short
- FreeWare Amiga BASIC compiler + extras
- .description
- ACE is a FreeWare Amiga BASIC compiler which, in conjunction with A68K
- and Blink produces standalone executables.
-
- The language defines a large subset of AmigaBASIC but also has many
- features not found in the latter such as: turtle graphics, recursion,
- SUBs with return values, structures, arguments, include files, a
- better WAVE command which allows for large waveforms, external
- references, named constants and a variety of other commands and
- functions not found in AmigaBASIC.
-
- New features in version 2.0 include: gadgets, three standard requester
- types, serial I/O and menus (with optional command-keys for menu
- items). New commands and functions for this version include EXIT FOR,
- PTAB, SPC, DEF FN, ON ERROR and ERR (these last two handle file and
- serial I/O at present). INPUT and PRINT can now be used transparently
- for all screen/window combinations.
-
- All user-defined windows are now fully-configurable and may be used in
- conjunction with screens as per AmigaBASIC. Window close event
- trapping is also a new feature.
-
- In addition to event trapping, ACE now supports WAITing for both menus
- and gadgets. Waiting is more operating-system-friendly than event
- trapping.
-
- A simple graphical front-end (Integrated Development Environment) is
- also provided with the archive. This is written in ACE.
- .version
- 2.0
- .author
- David Benn
- .reference
- FFMCD01:Useful/dist/dev/lang/ACE/
- 1.0
- .distribution
- Freeware
- .address
- 181 St John Street, Launceston
- Tasmania, Australia, 7250
- .email
- dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au
- .docs
- docs/ace.doc
- docs/a68k.doc
- docs/blink.doc
- docs/history
- docs/ref.doc
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
- .submittal
- Downloaded via ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu.
- .contents
- ACE ACE is a FreeWare Amiga BASIC compiler which, in conjunc-
- tion with A68K and Blink, produces standalone executables.
- The language defines a large subset of AmigaBASIC but also
- has many features not found in the latter. A simple graph-
- ical front-end (Integrated Development Environment) is
- also provided. This is written in ACE. Version 2.0,
- freeware, binary only.
- Author: David Benn
-