REALBasic 2.1.2 language reference

[TechEdison]

Does anyone have a copy of this or know where to find it? It's not on archive.org.

here is the directory listing: https://web.archive.org/web/20000817012936/http://www.realbasic.com:80/files/

the file itself should be at realbasic.com/files/LanguageReference.pdf but it just redirects to another page on archive.org.

 

[Dog Cow]

It's not on archive.org.

Oh my God, that means it doesn't exist!!!!!  8-o

Is this what you're looking for? This is a newer version than what I think you're asking for, though.

 

[TechEdison]

Yea that one's a bit too new. I did find documentation for version 4 and have been managing to get it to work using that.

Side note: when I try to run these apps (compiled for 68k) on my macintosh classic, it gives an address error bomb and has to restart. It does the same thing after having installed the CFM68k enabler. Any ideas?

 

[dcr]

The requirements for REALBasic 2.1.2 are "Macintosh Computer running System 7.6.1 or later, 68020 or PowerPC Processor, 4.5 megabytes of available memory (with Virtual Memory on), and a hard disk with 6.5 megabytes of free space."

If I remember right, don't the compiled apps have the same system requirements as the IDE?

 

[TechEdison]

The compiled applications should run on system 7.1 with CFM68k. They can be compiled to use as little as 512k of ram as well.

 

[techknight]

but CFM68k wont run unless your "32-bit clean". 

I vaguely recall getting it to run on a base 68000 using the 020 emulator or enabler or whatever it was called. But its been 15+ years. 

 

[TechEdison]

I guess that makes sense now. Thanks for the info.

In other news, progress on this chat app is going well. In fact its almost done!

 

[techknight]

Nice! Which language did you end up going with?

 

[TechEdison]

Ended up using RB2.1.2 for a while, but went to 3 after 2 had a nasty habit of not saving my work.

The built in TCP functionality made it the ideal candidate for the client.

The server software is currently written in PHP, but I may change it later on (thank goodness I documented the API well)

 

[TechEdison]

Official release for this app is coming as soon as I can get it to run on windows again.... it worked ONCE, then I changed a couple menu enable settings and it quit working.

On the mac end of things, it is totally functional.

 

[LaPorta]

I'll have to see what version I have on my shelf, but I have the original books, disks, etc, here.

 

[techknight]

Official release for this app is coming as soon as I can get it to run on windows again.... it worked ONCE, then I changed a couple menu enable settings and it quit working.

On the mac end of things, it is totally functional.

Yea, the early versions of RB were very finicky. It had a tendency to corrupt the code during compilation. Especially if its not allocated enough memory. 

I have a license to the latest version of it which is now Xojo, and its still a hot mess, although better. 

 

[TechEdison]

I'm considering compiling the windows version in a later version of RB. The FAT, 68k, PPC, and OSX binaries work just fine. It's only the windows one.