| From: | Mikkel L�kke |
| Date: | 3 May 2000 at 18:42:54 |
| Subject: | Re: Blitz Basic on the PC! |
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, 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>
> Don't get me wrong, this has got to be a good thing. Just don't expect
> to translate your programs over to it easily.
> I hope it doesn't suffer as many problems as the amiga version ;)
Right, as if anything on the PC has less problems than it's AMiGA equal. (Okay,
so there are a few exceptions such as Photoshop and Acrobat Reader, but
remember, those where originally Macintosh applications :o>)
Greets,
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