This was based on a version already written for Digital Research called DR-Basic, which was bundled with DR's CP/M-86 operating system.

[1] A further port of the same language called ABasiC was supplied for a time with the Amiga, but Commodore quickly replaced it with the Microsoft-developed AmigaBASIC.

[2] Typing x = 18.9 results in Similar commands, such as x = 39.8 or x = 4.725, crash the computer; the magazine described the results of the last command as "as bad a crash as you can get on the ST without seeing the machine rip free from its cables, drag itself to the edge of the desk, and leap into the trash bin".

257 ^ 2 not being equivalent) the magazine recommended "avoid[ing] ST BASIC for serious programming".

However, compilers and run-time executables started to appear for these BASICs that produced executable code that could run on all STs, and type-in programs became less fashionable, so there was no longer a need for a standard BASIC.