| From: | Anton Reinauer |
| Date: | 4 May 2000 at 02:14:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Blitz Basic on the PC! |
On 04-May-00, Roger Light wrote:
> Anton Reinauer wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
What I thinking, was to write a converter program- if the parameters
of the given commands are the same or similar, it should be easy-
you'll have to do one for PureBasic anyway, so just do another (assuming
the above of course).
We'll just have to see what commands the PC one uses I suppose.
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