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Title: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: Im>bE on January 26, 2004, 03:39:55 AM

The profesional BASIC programming language, Amiblitz2, has many improvements
over the much older BlitzBasic2.

Thanks to Bernd Roesch
and other cool people supporting it,

Amiblitz2 has gotten:
-Freeware/Opensource.
-Many times faster compile time.
-An optimize feature
 that can make programs go 3-4 times faster
 than it would when compiled with BlitzBasic2.
-Several BlitzBasic2 related bugs fixed.

And many other improvements
that BlitzBasic2 just seemed to lack.

You can get it here (http://no.aminet.net/pub/aminet/dev/basic/amiblitz_ful.lha)
or at any other aminet mirror.

Amiblitz2 sources should also be compatible
with BlitzBasic2 sources,
(and vice versa)
but that is not a guarantee.
Maybe especially not from AB2 to BB2.

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: pjhutch on January 26, 2004, 12:19:10 PM

I have used BB2 for games mainly its much better than anything else for quick game writing.

BTW, there is web site for info, downloads etc
at http://blitz2000.gazchap.com/
or http://blitz-2000.david-mcminn.co.uk/news.html
or http://www.amigau.com/b2k/htdocs/news.html

See official Blitz for PC site at
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Home/_index_.php

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: Velcro_SP on January 27, 2004, 03:00:26 AM

Does it support writing programs in Workbench windows? How is the graphics card support. Does it bang the hardware too much or is it well-behaved and suited for modern programming. Has anyone tried it on MorphOS? Is the current programming group supportive of getting things up to speed under MorphOS?

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: Hooligan_DCS on January 27, 2004, 06:39:58 AM

The last time I tried Blitz2, the debugger didn't appear to work under MorphOS.

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: pjhutch on January 27, 2004, 12:31:11 PM

Yes, it does support Workbench style programs and its possible to call P98/CGFX routines as well via the AmigaOS Libraries.
It includes a lot of commands for programming Amiga Bobs/Sprites and so on, so those will use the custom chipsets.

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: ChaosLord on January 27, 2004, 12:51:42 PM

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The last time I tried Blitz2, the debugged didn't appear to work under MorphOS.

Yes MorphOS still has a lot of bugs.

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: Hooligan_DCS on January 27, 2004, 02:36:48 PM

Define "lots"

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: ChaosLord on January 27, 2004, 04:20:15 PM

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Define "lots"

1. a great many.

2. a considerable quantity or number.

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: Madgun68 on January 27, 2004, 06:38:34 PM

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Yes, it does support Workbench style programs and its possible to call P98/CGFX routines as well via the AmigaOS Libraries.
It includes a lot of commands for programming Amiga Bobs/Sprites and so on, so those will use the custom chipsets.

There is also a fairly new library that you can use that can directly support gfx cards without making calls to libraries yourself.

Title: Re: New full archive of Amiblitz2 for new users.
Post by: Hooligan_DCS on January 27, 2004, 09:16:30 PM

@ChaosLord

When talking about an OS, lots is dozens. Less than dozens are a few :)

I'd be more worried about lack of features than bugs in MorphOS.