Amos or Blitz

[jj]

Hi,

So I fancy doing a bit of old school basic programming on the miggy.  I used blitz a bit in the past and on the PC and always thought it was pretty powerful.  
Is blitz the best one to go with?  I want to use aga features if at all possible , do both have extra libs for AGA ?

Thanks

[jj]

Use Blitz, it's faster, has proper data structures, a real debugger, works properly with the operating system and doesn't need any extra libs to work with AGA.

The inline assembler is also a god send if you want to optimise an inner loop.

Also it gives full access to the interrupts, the most useful is the VBL interrupt... Which Amos "sort of" works with when you use the limited version (synchro on) of AMAL... But that is a bit of a pain to do anything serious with.

I could go on... Simply put Blitz is the more modern of the two.

Thanks.  You had me at proper data structures   was it blitz i remember having the type command ?

Anyway where to get blitz, manual etc legally  ? back2roots ?

[jj]

Amiblitz 3 is good and still maintained.  http://www.amiblitz.de/  There also the excellent PureBasic 4.0 but it's no longer maintained.  http://www.purebasic.com/index.php

Is there an english version of  that site ?

[jj]

found this

http://www.blitz-2000.co.uk

[jj]

will check out purebasic as well as this seems to be the sequel to blitz

[jj]

encapsulation is something I still find people struggle with.  Its the basis for all good code design and should not be restricted to OO languages.

Will have a play with all three but people seem to be leaning heavily towards blitz and pure basic.