GFA Basic Compiler question

[Fletch]

I've owned a copy of GFA Basic 3.5 for decades and honestly never did anything with it. On a whim last night I decided to give it a go and wrote a couple of very simple programs.

 

What I could not figure out is the process to compile a program. I loaded the MENU program on the compiler disk and chose COMPILE. After a second or two it seemed to finish, but I had no option to save the compiled program.

 

What am I missing?

 

Thanks!

 

-Pete

[danwinslow]

IIRC, it just compiles it to disk. Did you check for the presence of any new executable? Its been a long time, though I may be mis-remembering.

[+Gemintronic]

Seems like a good site for GFA Basic help:

http://userpages.bright.net/~gfabasic/

 

Also, you could break down and use the Windows version

http://gfabasic32.blogspot.com/

[Fletch]

IIRC, it just compiles it to disk. Did you check for the presence of any new executable? Its been a long time, though I may be mis-remembering.

 

I looked for that, but nothing seemed to be there, there must be a step I'm skipping or something.

[Fletch]

Seems like a good site for GFA Basic help:

http://userpages.bright.net/~gfabasic/

 

Also, you could break down and use the Windows version

http://gfabasic32.blogspot.com/

 

I'll give that a look. Thanks!

[ggn]

My usual ritual is: hit F2 (menu item "PRG=GFA" or something similar), select file, compile, link, done.

[Fletch]

My usual ritual is: hit F2 (menu item "PRG=GFA" or something similar), select file, compile, link, done.

I'll give that a go tonight!

[lp060]

Normally if your source file is named something like blabla.gfa, you should find blabla.prg in the same directory if all goes well.

[Fletch]

Ok! Turns out I had to have the .GFA file in the folder with the MENU.PRG for whatever reason. If its anywhere else it doesn't save to the disk. Worked like a champ from that folder though.

 

Not sure if that is normal behavior or not, but seems so here.

 

Thanks for the help!

 

-Pete