home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky alt.sys.amiga.demos:1696 comp.sys.amiga.applications:8745 comp.sys.amiga.introduction:1556 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:8977 comp.sys.amiga.misc:16990 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:29315
- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!amigans!durie!liam
- From: liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Programming
- Message-ID: <liam.09hq@durie.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:05:20 GMT+12
- References: <OAHVENLA.92Nov15131903@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>
- Organization: It's Home, really...
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
- Lines: 27
-
- If people are interested in a Basic language that is good for machine
- bashing games and demo coding, and has support for the OS in a a reasonable
- manner they could do worse than take a serious look at Blitz Basic 2.
- It has the old Blitz mode where you throw away the OS and bang the
- hardware, but it now has _much_ greater suport for the OS. It also
- implements linked list stuff, and C like structures. Reasonable support
- (they do a user mag with disk) and the language implementation has been
- modularized, so they can upgrade it without a completely new version. My
- last upgrade added Arexx support for your apps, Dpaint anim support, more
- serial handling, MED sequencer.
-
- Blitz Basic 2 is written by Mark Sibley, and is available direct from
- Acid Software, 10 St. Kevins Arcade, K Road, Auckland, New Zealand
-
- I paid $NZ250, but that was at the WOC in Sydney, so I don't know what
- the retail is. Sorry about all the guff, but I don't use it much at the
- moment (too much to do at work :-( ), so I don't want to get into
- e-mail conversations about it and thought I'd better stick all I could
- think of in at once.
-
- Hope this helps, Liam
-
- --
- Liam Greenwood ------ liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz ------ Wanganui, N.Z.
- Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer,
- she thinks I'm a piano player in a brothel
-
-