Editing GFA BASIC (section)

==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 1986. In the mid and late 1980s it became very popular for the [[Atari ST]] home computer range, since the [[Atari ST BASIC]] shipped with them was more primitive. Later, ports for the [[Amiga|Commodore Amiga]], [[DOS]] and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] were marketed. Version 2.0 was the most popular release of GFA BASIC as it offered then many more advanced features compared to alternatives. GFA BASIC 3.0 included further improvements like support for user-defined structures and other agglomerated data types. The final released version was 3.6. Around 2002 GFA software [[End-of-life (product)|ceased all GFA BASIC activities]] and shut down the [[mailinglist]] and website in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031216035228/http://www.gfasoft.gfa.net/ Welcome at GFA Online!]</ref> Due to official support of GFA BASIC having ceased the user community took over the support and installed an own communication infrastructure.<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/gfabasic322/ GFA-BASIC 32 for Windows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406045704/https://sites.google.com/site/gfabasic322/ |date=2016-04-06 }} on google.com</ref><ref>[http://gfabasic32.blogspot.de/ GFA-BASIC 32 for Windows Stuff] by Sjouke Hamstra</ref>