| From: | David McMinn |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 11:13:23 |
| Subject: | Re: Blitz advice |
> I am going to start learning blitz basic but I dont know where to
> begin..
There is no single location that tells you how to program in Blitz.
The way I think most people have managed it is to struggle through the
poor manual, understand the basics, and then found information off the
net for more specific things. There is loads of sources on the net,
just have a look on Aminet.
A couple of good sites are:
http://freespace.virgin.net/jason.hayman/
(follow the BlitzCBL link - it's an incremental tutorial on how to
program games in it)
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~fish/HTML/blitzman/
> Is there any One who can tell me what I should be doing to learn
> blitz so I can get on and make a game.
>
> Should I learn blitz first or go straight to c ?
It depends what you want to do. If you just want to make a hardware
banging AGA/ECS/OCS game then I'd say do it in Blitz, simply because
it's so easy to use (once you know how) and you can program things
like this quite quickly in it.
However, if you're looking to create something more up to date that
will run on modern processors, gfx cards and sound cards, you're
probably better off using C. You can still do all this stuff in Blitz
using the OS functions and there's a fantastic chunky drawing library,
but if your target is those kind of machines then the base language
itself isn't optimised enough to run fast.
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