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Re: Blitz2 or AMOS
« on: March 17, 2011, 08:52:20 AM »
Anyone would be crazy to use AMOS now. Blitz is faster, better hardware support, better debugging, better operating system support, has proper data structures, inline assembler, and yes it has plenty of 3rd party libraries including mod and med players... :)
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Re: Blitz2 or AMOS
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2011, 11:39:57 AM »
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Whatever happened to PureBasic? Last I heard they had ported it to Mac.
Yeah, I did try PureBasic about 10 years ago or so...  But by then I was getting into C/C++ and SDL, which had better cross platform support and all te advantages of the C languages... Also I don't think PureBasic ever got a UniversalBinary compiler... :-/
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Re: Blitz2 or AMOS
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2011, 12:14:24 PM »
Hmmm, just checked... PureBasic still seems to lack UB compiler support and also note that AmigaOS is depreciated, figures I guess :-/

I would have to point out that AMOS's lack of data structures is a killer for any real project... You can mitigate that to some degree with AMAL, which will allow you to encapsulate all your enemy data (and execution) in simple arcade games :)
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Re: Blitz2 or AMOS
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2011, 07:59:31 AM »
I thought that total wormage (the Worms prototype) was also written in Blitz... Or am I having FMS?
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Re: Blitz2 or AMOS
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2011, 08:34:09 AM »
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Technically you can use any editor with either Blitz or AMOS.
Both, by default, save out in a tokenised format... Which has its advantages... But both also import ASCII files just fine.

I seem a bit harsh on AMOS in this thread, so I want to add that I personally spent a lot of time with AMOS (read my blog), and owe it my entire basis of computer programming understanding.

Blitz on the other hand I only got hold of after I was already quite competent in ASM, and while I didn't spend much time using it, it is clearly the more powerful of the two languages. :)
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Re: Blitz2 or AMOS
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2011, 10:27:08 AM »
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Does anyone know where I can download the Blitz 2.1 manual? I have the original but it has about 12 pages missing...the pages to do with blitter and screen manipulation of all things *face palm*


IIRC Blitz came with a brilliant set of examples and Demos... I was able to pick up the syntax and commands quickly from them, and the F1 help ;)
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