GFA BASIC

dialect of the BASIC programming language

GFA BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language. ==History== GFA BASIC was developed by Frank Ostrowski at "GFA Systemtechnik GmbH" (later "GFA Software"), a German company in Kiel and Düsseldorf, as a proprietary version of his free BASIC implementation, Turbo-Basic XL. GFA is an acronym for "Gesellschaft für Automatisierung" ("Company for Automation"), which gave name to the software. The first GFA BASIC version was released in 1986¹. In the mid and late 1980s it became popular for the Atari ST, because the Atari ST BASIC shipped with them was more primitive. Ports were later released for the Amiga, MS-DOS, and Windows. Version 2.0 was the most popular release of GFA BASIC as it offered more advanced features compared to alternatives. GFA BASIC 3.0 added support for user-defined structures and other agglomerated data types. The final released version was 3.6. Around 2002 GFA software ceased all GFA BASIC activities and shut down the mailinglist and website in 2005. Due to official support of GFA BASIC having ceased the user community took over the support and installed an own communication infrastructure. ==External links== GFA-Basic editor - GFA-Basic support for Atari ST, GEM editor for GFA applications, patches for compiler+linker GFA-Basic Community GFA-BASIC 32 for Windows — Free Community version GFA-BASIC 32 (FAN-SITE) on YouTube — A fan hosted YouTube channel to promote the fun of coding. X11-Basic — a free cross-platform BASIC with very similar syntax, including GUI functionality Atari GFA Basic 3 (LST format) to Java 1.0 converter RUN! Software — comprehensive IDE, application builder, run-only interpreter, library with new features and bugfixes (site German, documents English) https://web.archive.org/web/20170304121818/http://www.vistoso.de/jh/programmer.html Code and Downloads for Windows 16-bit and 32-bit (German) https://github.com/codeprof/GFA-Basic-to-VB.Net-converter Converter program to convert GFA-WIN 16-Bit sources to VB.Net

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