Earok's Blitz Basic tutorial

[earok]

Going live in 30 minutes on Amiten TV!

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[Jackoland]

Will this be available to view. It says I can't view it. Cheers

[earok]

Originally Posted by Jackoland

Will this be available to view.

I honestly don't know, it seems that the video itself was blocked on some copyright claim, but also it seems sadly Amiten is closing down his channel.


I still need to package up the resources for the tutorials and upload, after that's done I'll be happy to field any questions about clarifications if the video tutorial remains unavailable.

[turrican3]

It's exactly what i was looking for !!!! great !!!!
For the moment i'm not super healty but i promise you when i'll do better, i'll try my best to give back to the amiga all he gaves me.
This computer should have survived the 90's but you are there the amiga community.
We should try to have some agreement with some society to port their games on amiga (old games)... For not finshing with troubles. You know what i mean.

[earok]

Looks like the third part of the tutorial is back up! I'll upload the resources I promised in the video sometime by the weekend.

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Amiten needs to get 1000 subscribers to continue running the channel. Right now, the best thing you can do to help ensure the tutorial series continues with at least a 4th part is to subscribe if you haven't done so already - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJ...6ms2lKjRo3dbEg

[earok]

Latest resources set is up, with all of the source code for the three tutorials - http://earok.net/games/earokbbtutorial.zip

[saimon69]

Got a zero size file from the link: can you verify is working correctly?

[earok]

Yes, that's the correct link. I can't explain why it's returning zero file size, I was able to download it OK from clicking it at my end.

[Havie]

Worked fine for me if that's any help?

[kgc210]

I don't know if you have changed something but it's downloaded for me ok got a zip 917 KB (939,063 bytes)

@ earok Thank you.. This is massively appreciated
@ amiten subscribed! Please don't close your channel

[MikeyG]

Could @earok please elaborate on how the Make file he uses that copies the file over to WinUAE and the setup involved.
I've tried to replicate this but getting error when I try to copy a file in the startup file which seems very basic.
But if I do load up a file in Blitz Basic 2 that has been created in notepad++ there is garbage at the end of each line. Not sure what's going wrong :/

[earok]

Originally Posted by MikeyG

Could @earok please elaborate on how the Make file he uses that copies the file over to WinUAE and the setup involved.
I've tried to replicate this but getting error when I try to copy a file in the startup file which seems very basic.
But if I do load up a file in Blitz Basic 2 that has been created in notepad++ there is garbage at the end of each line. Not sure what's going wrong :/

I'm guessing it's a linebreak issue. Amiga uses Unix styled linebreaks, Notepad++ sets to Windows by default.

In Notepad++, go to edit -> EOL conversion -> Unix, then save.

[MikeyG]

Originally Posted by earok

In Notepad++, go to edit -> EOL conversion -> Unix, then save.

Thank you earok.

The Make file you use in the tutorials, I'm guessing that is a workbench startup file.
I've tried to make sometime similar. DH1 is my Coding folder and DH0 is my BlitzSystem:
I try to do a copy in my Make startup file

Copy DH1:Test.bb2 TO DH0:build.bb2
Blitz2:blitz2 build.bb2

But it comes back with unknown error on the first line, the copy part. I must be missing something obvious but can't see why.
Appreciate any advice.
And thank you earok for the tutorials!

[MikeyG]

I worked it out now. The copy command was making a directory called build.bb2 and then copying the contents of DH1 into it. Not what I'm asking it to do. Maybe an old bug.
Anyway adding a CD command at begging to go into DH1 seems to solve it.

CD DH1:
COPY test2.bb TO DH0:blitz2/build.bb2
blitz2:blitz2 blitz2:build.bb2

[frakswe]

Hi, newbie here. Was just wondering if theres a way to access the mouse scroll wheel?, it's not critical but would fit the game i have in mind.


Thanks.

[Daedalus]

Welcome along

Originally Posted by frakswe

Hi, newbie here. Was just wondering if theres a way to access the mouse scroll wheel?, it's not critical but would fit the game i have in mind.

I don't think there's a standard way under OS3 (OS4 has a standard mousewheel event), but the scrollwheel drivers under OS3 generally create keypress events for windows that don't have direct scrollwheel event support, so maybe that would be enough? For example, something like this:

WbToScreen 0

Window 0, 0, 0, 300, 300, $140E, "Test", 0, 1

DefaultOutput
Repeat
  ev.l=WaitEvent
  Select ev
    Case #IDCMP_RAWKEY
      Select EventCode
        Case 76 ; Up arrow
          NPrint "Scroll Up"
        Case 77 ; Down arrow
          NPrint "Scroll Down"
      End Select
  End Select
Until ev = #IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW
End

You'll need the amigalibs.res file added to the compiler setting for the constants to be recognised.

[frakswe]

Thanks, that would work just fine.I'm still learning the language but thought i might aswell ask so i know beforehand what's possible with BB2.

[activist]

Sorry to post in an old thread but, has anyone saved or have these video tutorials anywhere? Part 2 & 3 are gone from the channel unfortunately. Part1 is still there thankfully. Thanks

[Havie]

I'd like to watch them all - think I only managed to catch part 1?