PB pioneers

einander · Post by **einander** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:03 am

Now PB is growing very fast.
But who were the brave pioneers, First Registered Users?

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:03 am

Fred!

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:22 am

Fred?
No, he's still not registered, he hasn't paid any money for it

Dates, i want registration email receipt dates

2001-08-04

I was suggested by Mark Sibly stuff to visit www.purebasic.com just after i purchased BlitzBasic for windows and after i asked them for somethings there was in Amiga but not in PC windows version of BB.
I knew PB thanks to the Blitz stuff honestity...

PB · Post by PB » Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:33 am

> Dates, i want registration dates

I bought PureBasic v2.40 on 12 August 2001.

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:08 am

The pioneers would be those who registered the 1.x versions for the Amiga, but I can't remember when they were available and when I purchased it. However, I know there were people who registered before I did (Andre, VPureBasic and Hi-Toro are possibilities :).

Pupil · Post by **Pupil** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:50 pm

2001-05-28 ...

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:52 am

From now Pupil wins (at least he lie).
Tinman, was PB 1.xx for Amiga as nice as BB2?
Some more date?.......

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:13 am

I used PB way back in time, in the days when it only supported opening a window, buttons, text lines and edit controls in the amiga...

1996/7 i guess, still alpha or beta state...

I do remember sending a couple of bug reports and sugestions back too Fred!

[TIME JUMP]

Refound PB after many, many years...

Bought it december 2002

Hi-Toro · Post by **Hi-Toro** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:13 am

I think I must've registered at the end of 2000/start of 2001... do you know, Fred?

I do have an old archive called PureBasic_2.00.zip (664K), which was 'modified' on 18 December 2000, which sounds about right. There were tons of show-stopping bugs at that time, but to Fred's credit he quickly zapped them as they were reported!

I just had a quick play with PB 2.00, and functions can't return floats... and there's no 'Print' or 'Debug' either...

Aw, and look at its cute little 'About' box...

Looking at the (short!) credits, Andre Beer, Francis G Loch and Roger Beausoleil are there (as well as those who made Nasm, etc), so they were before me, and maybe a few others too?

Post by **Berikco** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:19 am

Nice cute about box

I'm new to PureBasic, version 3.00, June 1, 2002

Hi-Toro · Post by **Hi-Toro** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:21 am

I was suggested by Mark Sibly stuff to visit www.purebasic.com just after i purchased BlitzBasic for windows and after i asked them for somethings there was in Amiga but not in PC windows version of BB.

Sure it wasn't me (support @ blitzbasic . com)? I used to direct people to PB because Blitz wasn't going to support API stuff at that time (also used to 'plug' it in the Blitz FAQs, after asking Mark if that was OK!)...

I do remember when PureBasic was called PowerBasic, and started as just a bunch of stripped-down libraries for Amiga Blitz. I think Fred eventually sort of disappeared from the Amiga Blitz mailing list after saying he was going to write his own compiler!

Tinman, if you registered PB for the Amiga before the Windows version appeared, you beat me by far!

cykotic · Post by **cykotic** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:50 am

been using and enjoying pb since 3.30

pb > blitz* !!!! (yes.. the general power of purebasic far exceeds the "power" of blitz3d IMO) THANKS FRED!

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:38 am

Hi-Toro wrote:I do remember when PureBasic was called PowerBasic, and started as just a bunch of stripped-down libraries for Amiga Blitz. I think Fred eventually sort of disappeared from the Amiga Blitz mailing list after saying he was going to write his own compiler!

VPureBasic (Roger Beausoleil) was probably right in at the start because he was one of the guys who was interested in writing the fabled "Blitz 3" IIRC, and was involved with the initial stages of PB. But I don't know when he registered :)

Andre did the German support even way back then and Francis fixed the original AmigaGuide manuals and did some beta testing for the 68k and PPC code. He even wrote a few libs for doing low level stuff like bit shifting :)

Tinman, if you registered PB for the Amiga before the Windows version appeared, you beat me by far!

Ah, OK. I thought you were in at the early stages before BBPC appeared.

I've got the email from Fred about the 1.43 Amiga update which was dated 21st May 2000 but I can't find anything about when I purchased it in my email.

Hi-Toro · Post by **Hi-Toro** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:49 am

If I recall, Fred went off to do his own compiler because he started replacing all the Blitz libraries with smaller versions (one per command IIRC), but then found Amiga Blitz had a limit of something like 256 total libraries (not Mark's greatest design decision ever...

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:18 am

Hi-Toro wrote:If I recall, Fred went off to do his own compiler because he started replacing all the Blitz libraries with smaller versions (one per command IIRC), but then found Amiga Blitz had a limit of something like 256 total libraries (not Mark's greatest design decision ever... ;)

Nah, the libs (New Command Set) were pretty much like the curernt PB libraries. Small, fast and efficient libs meant to replace the standard Blitz libraries. You had a window lib, gadget lib, requester lib, etc. The "Blitz 3" I mentioned was going to have the same aims as PB (cross platform powerful basic) - I don't know if Fred was involved in those discussions, but I could probably find out.

You're right about the 256 libraries max though. Worse still was the 128 command per library limit (otherwise it would overlap with other libraries, as Paul Burkey found out with the Mildred library).

The Blitz library format was pretty neat, but it did have some harsh limitations when you got to a certain point (tokenisation was a double edged sword, number of commands/libraries).