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ant512 · 29 August 2003, 16:02

It's worth noting that the Amiga's OS was mainly written in C - it's the language to go for if you want speed but don't want to learn assember.

It's also worth remembering that Blitz Basic features an in-line 68K assembler, and *all* of the commercial games written in Blitz (Gloom, Super Skidmarks, Guardian, etc) were mostly written using Blitz's assembler. The BASIC language was only ever used to do simple things like disk I/O or setting up displays.

If you want to write pure BASIC programs, Blitz is much faster than AMOS but still not really fast enough for commercial-quality games.

29 August 2003, 16:02	#4
ant512 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 965	It's worth noting that the Amiga's OS was mainly written in C - it's the language to go for if you want speed but don't want to learn assember. It's also worth remembering that Blitz Basic features an in-line 68K assembler, and all of the commercial games written in Blitz (Gloom, Super Skidmarks, Guardian, etc) were mostly written using Blitz's assembler. The BASIC language was only ever used to do simple things like disk I/O or setting up displays. If you want to write pure BASIC programs, Blitz is much faster than AMOS but still not really fast enough for commercial-quality games.