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I loved Blitz Basic. It was great how it gave you access to the whole Amiga. You could use the built-in commands, write inline assembly, and easily use operatin
by richardjdare 11y ago
I loved Blitz Basic. It was great how it gave you access to the whole Amiga. You could use the built-in commands, write inline assembly, and easily use operating system functions/structures. Modern "game BASICs", even the latest iterations of Blitz are limited sandboxes in comparison.
Mainstream Amiga programming in C or assembly language was very expensive compared to today. As a teen I couldn't afford Devpac, or the Hardware Reference Manual, but Blitz gave me what I needed to make real progress as a programmer. One of my friends even got texture-mapped 3d going, although it wasn't quick!
- bwldrbst 11y agoI've recently got back into messing around with Amigas and Blitz is still fun, though a little weird for someone used to C#. It's amazing how much more accessible all the documentation and tools are now. HTML versions of the RKMs are available on the web and for C there's a cross-compiling toolchain available on github (https://github.com/cahirwpz/amigaos-cross-toolchain https://github.com/cahirwpz/amigaos-cross-toolchain)