read.AmigaBasic: Read Amiga Basic files

In AmigaFFH: Commodore Amiga File Format Handler

Read Amiga Basic files

Description

Read an AmigaBasic() script from its binary format.

Usage

read.AmigaBasic(file, ...)

Arguments

file	A character string of the filename of the Amiga Basic file to be read.
...	Currently ignored

Details

Normally Amiga Basic code is stored encoded in a binary format (rawToAmigaBasic()). This function reads the binary data from a file (which can be stored on a virtual disk (adf_file_con())) and converts in into an AmigaBasic() class objec.

Value

Returns an AmigaBasic() class object read from the file.

Author(s)

Pepijn de Vries

See Also

Other AmigaBasic.operations: AmigaBasic.reserved(), AmigaBasicBMAP, AmigaBasic, [.AmigaBasic(), as.AmigaBasicBMAP(), as.AmigaBasic(), as.character(), check.names.AmigaBasic(), names.AmigaBasic(), rawToAmigaBasicBMAP(), rawToAmigaBasic(), read.AmigaBasicBMAP(), write.AmigaBasic()

Other io.operations: read.AmigaBasicBMAP(), read.AmigaBasicShape(), read.AmigaBitmapFontSet(), read.AmigaBitmapFont(), read.AmigaIcon(), read.SysConfig(), read.iff(), write.AmigaBasicShape(), write.AmigaBasic(), write.AmigaBitmapFont(), write.AmigaIcon(), write.SysConfig(), write.iff()

Examples

## First create an AmigaBasic file
write.AmigaBasic(as.AmigaBasic("PRINT \"Hello world\""),
                 file.path(tempdir(), "helloworld.bas"))

## Now let's read the same file:
bas <- read.AmigaBasic(file.path(tempdir(), "helloworld.bas"))

## There's also a demo file included with the package
demo.bas <- read.AmigaBasic(system.file("demo.bas", package = "AmigaFFH"))
demo.bas

AmigaFFH documentation built on April 3, 2025, 11:35 p.m.