Earok's Blitz Basic tutorial

[earok]

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: [ Show youtube player ]

The tutorial itself: [ Show youtube player ]

The files I made for the tutorial have been zoned.

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

[Daedalus]

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

[majikeyric]

Great! many thanks!

[earok]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it

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

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

[Havie]

Originally Posted by earok

Thanks guys, I appreciate it

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!!!

[Raislin77it]

Originally Posted by earok

Thanks guys, I appreciate it

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

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

yes, yes all please

[saimon69]

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

[Shatterhand]

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

[Daedalus]

@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...

[Shatterhand]

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

[earok]

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.

[earok]

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

[earok]

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.

[ Show youtube player ]

[Amiten]

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

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[AF2013]

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

[earok]

Originally Posted by AF2013

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

Thanks mate, I appreciate it

Next chapter going live in about seven hours: [ Show youtube player ]

[earok]

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.

[Amiten]

Download and upload to www.Amiten.es Too

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[earok]

Thanks mate

[wilshy]

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