Hey Phantom, what are you going to be using Blitz Basic for? I'm also looking to buy a copy, for that hard to come by manual, because my girlfriend and I are going to learn to code and make some games.
AmiBlitz is the successor to Blitz Basic, and is going to be awesome, but it seems development has been very slow on it. With any luck, it'll continue development and we can make some kickarse apps and games with it.