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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all around me seemed insufficient for the day. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

these days it is marketed more towards the later end, as that is where the big dollars is.. but its a industrial strength highly optomised compiler at heart, with a well designed framework and architecture (other than the VCL's still lacking non UNicode support !!!)

however i'd probably suggest C++, or a a game engine to base around such as torque, or conitect a5..

Karl

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Karl /GODCENTRIC
Visionary Media
the creative submitted to the divine.
Husband of my amazing wife Aleshia
Klumsy@xtra.co.nz

Check out my other site, www.blitzcoder.com, to see more about Blitz.

If, however, you're looking to break into the game industry as a developer or something, then I'd say go the C/C++ route.

All the best,

-Krylar

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I have been reading recently that you would prefer to keep this site more programming orientated. Therefore I decided to post here. I have visited Blitzcoder and have found it an excellent site. The only thing is, I do not think I would get an unbiased response for my particular question.

Christian, you are absolutely right that Blitz was available on the Amiga. That leads me to my second question. I own Blitzbasic 2 on the amiga, would I be better off starting with that instead of the PC version?
would it give me a better grounding in the basics?

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all around me seemed insufficient for the day. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Originally posted by Silicon_Chippy:
Check out my other site, www.blitzcoder.com I own Blitzbasic 2 on the amiga, would I be better off starting with that instead of the PC version?
would it give me a better grounding in the basics?

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Rather, I would recommend buying BB from the site shown ABOVE (in the quote)

as soon as you GO to that site, you immediately see GREAT deals on purchasing the programming language on the HOME PAGE ......AND if you fancy EBAY then some lucky ppl have stormed BB3D from EBAY for an INCREDIBLE £25 which is the bargain of the century

BlitzBasic IS the way to go! It's amazingly versatile and stable and for the prices shown on the HOME PAGE, well just go for it!

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ENTER the chiefyDUNGEON

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all around me seemed insufficient for the day. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Visit my site - diarmaid.tk

the program will accept six numbers and check them against all 15 of the members' chosen numbers

not all are SAT and WED members though, some are just SAT only
therefore if a SAT only member "wins," a "SAT ONLY" warning is displayed

a small menu allows access to a membership page, which shows the members' names, their "SAT and WED" status and their chosen numbers

I got this done and with half a dozen .wavs fitted it all onto a floppy disc
I copied it 15 times so that my members can check the lottery numbers TOO if they wish

having done that, it occurred to me, SOMEBODY will object to the names and published members lottery numbers that info is PRIVATE!!

I thought "what can i DO?"

so I put a DUMMY .WAV into the folder containing the real half dozen wavs

the dummy .wav is never called by the BB.exe and is only 2k in size

SO
1 option on the menu is called "SECURITY"
if pressed - the instructions state a pasword and to delete the dummy .wav

the next time the program runs it suddenly "finds" the dummy wav missing and immediately pulls in a password screen
after this - the "SECURITY" option is no longer 'available' from the menu

what do you think? I was well pleased with the "system"

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chiefyDUNGEON CLOSES on July 1, 2003 it's just getting TOO scary in there!

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all around me seemed insufficient for the day. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

thanks for the interest in my coding! much appreciated, but no I did not have any sleepless nights from that

I only had sleepless nights once from a message board and that was one time last year on blitzcoders when a young member unleashed a barrage of obscene language against me in his thread
the young lad had warned ppl NOT to go off topic
of course, a couple of members DID slightly and he warned them they could not do this
I must admit, I did not mince my words putting him straight (but I didn't resort to swearing!) but his reaction was like an atom bomb to me, I was speechless and couldn't even sleep that night, which is CRAZY
I did NOT reply to his incredible post but to my total amazement 2 or 3 blitzcoders "defended me" and put him straight, hehe when Krylar found out he was disappointed that we hadn't reported the matter, he dealt with the whole situation VERY firmly and we never saw that member (ironically named Sacred) again
(how did I get started on this boring story? oh well never mind!)

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from your old mate
c h i e f y
global chiefy to yer old seafarin' seadog maties

jokin

I think we all go off topic sometimes. These message boards are like conversation. It would be unnatural to go on about the same thing for 30 or 40 posts.

Cheers again

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all around me seemed insufficient for the day. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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