Earok's Blitz Basic tutorial
 

I had the pleasure of being invited on Amiten TV to give a brief tutorial on Blitz Basic.

- My focus was primarily on the features of Blitz rather than the core language (eg there's an assumption that you know a bit of basic).
- Rather than attempt to show how to make something super simple or generic, I tried to show how a faithful conversion of 1942 could be done (to show off the Blitz Basic feature set).

Preview of I show how to make: https://youtu.be/XFa6VtHLVWQ

The tutorial itself: https://youtu.be/9JK7ZXfJMuw

The files I made for the tutorial have been zoned.

I intend to do a second tutorial sometime - feedback would be appreciated, cheers.

Awesome! Good work :) Hopefully things like this will result in more games appearing from the depths of people's minds!

Great! many thanks!:great

Thanks guys, I appreciate it :great

Any particular requests for a second part? Loosely my plan was to cover:

- Sprites
- Newtypes
- Bitmap text
- BlockScroll
- VBlank interrupt

All of the above please! But if I had to choose - sprites!!!

yes, yes all please :)

A how to build a basic tetris game would come handy :P

Sprites would be cool. I still don't know how to reuse sprites with the copper :)

@Shatterhand

A pretty convenient way is with the CustomSprites command, which resets the sprites automatically at a given Y position, allowing you to have an extra 8 sprites on screen. Beyond that command, you need to do it yourself by adding custom Copper commands, and that's something that's not really Blitz-specific, though an example Blitz implementation would be great to see...

Yeah, I would like to learn how to do it through Blitz. I know nothing about 68k asm, but I guess you have to use Inline asm to do it... the CustomSprites command is nice but very limited compared to what the copper can really do

There's an excellent library that you can use for total Copper control, no ASM needed. It's called the "RI CopperFX Library" and it's included on the Blitz Basic 2 CD.

Ok! Chapter 2 is going to be live streamed 8th of June on Amiten's YouTube channel. I'll post here with the exact time etc when it's ready.

Parts 6-10 of the tutorial will cover:

• Sprites
• New Types
• Collision Detection
• Bitmap text
• Block scrolling

I managed to get it ready already, but the tutorial itself won't be live streamed until next weekend. Preview at what I'll show you how to make.

https://youtu.be/gc8YXN-ixQk

Thank you Erik, sounds Great! Go for It , Saturday 8TH more BlitzBasic Class! , Talk soon.

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That is very Helpful for someone who is new to Blitzbasic 2 :)

Thanks mate, I appreciate it :great

Next chapter going live in about seven hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hjMjPah1g

Files for both parts of the tutorial have been uploaded to http://earok.net/games/earokbbtutorial.zip, I've removed the previous part from The Zone.

Download and upload to www.Amiten.es Too

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Thanks mate :great

Bookmarked - this could be really useful for me picking up a 5 year old project :)