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Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself to the community. I'm currently trying the PB demo on a Mac at work.

I started out programming on the ZX-81 when the twinkle in my fathers eye was still fading, then moved through Spectrum and Amiga to PC's and now program PC & Mac. I have industry experience at a variety of levels and roles but mostly write simple little freeware games, and at work I make the odd application.

I'm trying out PB because I need to write Macintosh software at work and would like to do a few more multiplatform games, and having tried a rival language first felt that was too low level to be viable for my workload so i'd give this a go.

Here is an example of a multiplatform game I wrote recently (not in PB): Space Corps. Most recently i've been working on a PC only thing in Blitz3D which I intend to finish, but i'd like to write a simple web server for PC&Mac and offer it as freeware because every week I speek to somebody who needs a quick/temporary solution for filesharing.

I tried hard not to laugh too loud as the family was asleep and my jaws ache from the effort. What can I say, glad another nut has made it back to the shell:)

Great blogs by the way.

Welcome and don't hesitate to report anything your find odd on OS X, as this version is quite 'young'.

In which case the function folding thing messes up when a procedure is on the 1st line of the editor (I had a few blank lines above 1st function then deleted them and the box dissapeared, appeared, drew wrong, and finaly said "har har, you missed a heartbeat") - not that this should cause issues in most projects.

I've not played heavily with it yet, as this is my 1st day with the demo and I have work to do (which i'm putting off) and a pizza to eat (which i've not put off), but overall i'd say the editor/product seems a bit unstable, regrettably. It has bailed to desktop quite a few times.

I need to get more familiar with the language before I can really be constructive though.

At the end of the day most applications in OSX only need the following two lines of code.

Hi Becky Rose,

Welcome aboard.

Liked your blog with it's varied topics, from elven to viral.

Welcome to our humble place

Feel free to post bugs, features and anything else that bother's you

I would advice you to start with the windows version 1st, cause it's much more mature than linux and mac (for now ), cause mostly all commands work out in all versions with little or no tweaking.

Also check out the examples in the example directory ( erh... they should work!? right Fred ?)

Welcome Your Space Corps game is fun!

Welcome Becky, very entertaining diary, I laughed a lot!

And hopefully the stupid level is lower yet the madness level is higher on these forums than other ones...

Actualy, these forums are rather dull, people actualy seem to program quite a lot so it's mostly programming talk.
Except the Off Topic section, which has a few things not directly tied to programming (but may have indirectly, you have been warned).

And any questions don't be afraid to ask, and make good use of forum search and the few sticky topics, especially the Beginners FAQ.

If that fail to answer your questions then some brainiac here here will most likely show their mad "skillz",
or possibly Fred the mastermind behind PureBasic or one of his little elves erm. I mean dev team will do the best to help you figure out a solution.

And if that fail, I may end up chirping in and really mess up your synapses,
at least I'm good at messing up my own.

Anyway, I'm off to terrorize the smoking poll over in the Off Topic section.

Good to see someone new welcome to the forums ^_^