| From: | Anton Reinauer |
| Date: | 4 May 2000 at 02:13:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Blitz Basic on the PC! |
On 04-May-00, Mikkel L�kke wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
>> > I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but Mark Sibly
>> > is doing a version of Blitz for the PC (using DirectX).
>> > Check out http://www.blitzbasic.com
>
>>> It says it will be ready in a couple of months!
>
>> This is probably good, but it is not as good as a lot of people are
>> thinking I'd imagine. Even if Blitz itself uses exactly the same
>> commands, and I can't see that being likely for eg. GUI work, then
>> most of our source won't be directly transferable because we use
>> either 3rd party libraries or OS functions.
>
> Well it doesn't even use the same commands AFAICT,
The only two that are different out of 60 commands there are:
#Graphics# and #Update# .
> so it won't the
> only reason he's calling it Blitz IMHO is because he was too lazy to
> come up with an original name, like say PureBasic or something :o>
As he came up with name originally, why would he change it? ;)
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