It is an awesome compiler and i always sing its praise to all my friends even those who are not interested in programming (much to their dismay he he) Well done to all involved in the birth of PB!
Try March 1998. It mentions "Pheonix" which I think might have been the codename for Blitz 3 when it was being planned.Hi-Toro wrote:do admit I could be having false memories here though! I think I'll hit Aminet again (always good for a nostalgia trip), as they have the old Blitz mailing list archives...
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Laboureur
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:57:44 +0100
Subject: Phoenix
Hi Blitzers,
Someone has told me that the commands replacement I wrote could be a =
good
start for a Blitz Independant project. That's my goal. Propose a set of
maximum usable/optimized functions for any use. All the sources are fully=
and freely availables. For now they are written for the Blitz2 but I thin=
k
they could be reused like that for a new langage... We just need a linker=
;-)
Asm pros, I'm witing you...
For now,
Fred =
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) and it took me a while to get an almost working version. With the help of the first Windows users, it was fixed step by step and we got a langage as you can know it now. Check the History part to feel how the progress was made (quite understandable).
Well, it should be nice if in the PB package included an little history (in History PBhelp section, for example) of PB, from the beginning. Perhaps Fred with some other one like Roger Beausoleil (VPureBasic), Andre ... could write it.> I have read www.blitzbasement.com Forum and FAQS. But i get advantage
of this email for to request you.
> I am very intestested in to know some things about Blitz Basic language.
> To the Blitz Basic design team:
>
> - I really know that BB conception is for making games, but will it be
possible to do things with windows (Forms) (like in Amiga version) ?
I'm afraid not -- as you say, Blitz is now aimed solely at games
development. This stuff *may* come in Blitz Basic Pro, sometime next year,
but that's not at all certain.
> - What about A+4 (like in Amiga version) or += , -= , *= , /= , %= , and
so on; in place of A=A+4 ?
Afraid not...
> - What about (like in Amiga version, too) Intel assembly languaje in BB
for PC MSWindows?
Again, no, but there are lots of requests for this -- my guess is that this
would come in Blitz Pro (eventually).
In the meantime, if you just want to do Windows GUI stuff, try PureBasic
(www.purebasic.com) -- it's a very good clone of AmiBlitz, and has all those
features (but Blitz Basic kicks its behind when it comes to games of course
See ya,
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James L Boyd
Connected from Fife, Scotland.
http://www.hi-toro.com/
http://www.blitzbasic.com/
All Your Basic Are Belong To Us.
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Thanks for the compliments, Fred.Fred wrote:About the pioneers, Andre was here since the beginning (1998 ?), and I should say he has done (and is still doing) an amazing work.
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