AmiBlitz

[melott]

Hello...
 Does anyone know of a forum thats for AmiBlitz
 or Blitz2. I'm tring to get started but am having
 trouble. I need some place where they will talk
 to a BEGINING beginner. I know that some of my
 questions are going to be rather dumb.
 I just don't have anyone to ask.

Mel Ott
 :-?  :-?  :-?

[alx]

Try the mailing lists and forums here

[melott]

Well ok..
I want to start programing... I have several languages
and books to choose from. I decided to start with
(to much howling) AmigaBasic. I  set up a partition
on my HD and installed DOS 1.3. That took some
fiddling but I got it going and went through that.
I have a couple of apps in mind that I want to do
but AmigaBasic is too restictive. Blitz2 or AmiBlitz
looks good. I have the book on Blitz2, the problem
is, there are several examples I can load in to look
at. BUT what am I looking at. There seems to be
something missing. At the begining of the lines there
is a character or two, what are they (returns
maybe)?? Also some of the commands seem to be
missing. I can look at the code and guess what
should be there but not.I tried saving in ASCII to see
if that would bring out the missing code, NOPE.
These programs work, they will compile and run.
So there is something here that I am not seeing,
probably something obvious. But reguardless I'm
not seeing it. I'm looking for a little tutoring to get
to the point where I understand what I'm looking
at. I live out in the Boonies, and around here they
don't even know what an Amiga is. They couldn't
or wouldn't bother with me if I'm not using a
"Fee Cee". So ... any help?
Mel Ott
 :-?  :-?

[Madgun68]

Mel:

Hard to say what you're seeing. Where are you getting the examples from? Original Blitz Basic 2 stuff or from the AmiBlitz archives? (Or from the book?)

[JoannaK]

What book are you talking about?

If it's this recent "Learn to Program 2D Games in Blitz Basic" it's NOT for Amiga version of Blitz Basic. It's written for PC version whch have evolved a LOT sinceoriginal Blitz author  Mark Silby moved on PC coding.  Amiga version is many years old and there have been only minimal bug-fixes to it, so it's not compatible with that book.

I'm sure that book is good for ideas, but it can't be directly used with Amiga version.

[iamaboringperson]

melott wrote:
Well ok..
I want to start programing... I have several languages
and books to choose from. I decided to start with
(to much howling) AmigaBasic. I  set up a partition
on my HD and installed DOS 1.3. That took some
fiddling but I got it going and went through that.
I have a couple of apps in mind that I want to do
but AmigaBasic is too restictive. Blitz2 or AmiBlitz
looks good. I have the book on Blitz2, the problem
is, there are several examples I can load in to look
at. BUT what am I looking at. There seems to be
something missing. At the begining of the lines there
is a character or two, what are they (returns
maybe)?? Also some of the commands seem to be
missing. I can look at the code and guess what
should be there but not.I tried saving in ASCII to see
if that would bring out the missing code, NOPE.
These programs work, they will compile and run.
So there is something here that I am not seeing,
probably something obvious. But reguardless I'm
not seeing it. I'm looking for a little tutoring to get
to the point where I understand what I'm looking
at. I live out in the Boonies, and around here they
don't even know what an Amiga is. They couldn't
or wouldn't bother with me if I'm not using a
"Fee Cee". So ... any help?
Mel Ott
 :-?  :-?

blitz might be better than amiga basic, but C is better still!
you dont need these so called 'beginners' languages! go for the real thing!  :-D

[uncharted]

I think I may know what your problem is.

What program are you using to read/edit the source code?

[iamaboringperson]

oh did you know that qbasic & amigabasic are source code compatable to a certain extent!
i use to write small games on them and transfer the file between them without modification
 :-D

[melott]

Hi...
 These examples are from the origonal Blitz2.1
disks. I have the origonal version perchased
for my son several years ago. These files all
look simular.

Mel Ott
  :-?

[Madgun68]

There are a couple of possibilities as to why these aren't working as expected.. A couple I can think of:

-Library clashes (More than one with the same number)
-Changes to the libraries, making them incompatible.

List a couple of the examples you're having problems with, and I'll try it on this end.