Thursday, April 13, 2006

To Blitz or not to Blitz?

Well after reading the intro chapter for 'Game Programming For Teens' 2nd ED. I've already come to a fork in the road. The author (Maneesh Sethi - shout outs to him by the way, for writing a book at such a young age) uses BlitzPlus to compile his games created in BASIC. Maneesh only adds a demo version of BlitzPlus and you (the reader) are suggested to either purchase the full version or use an older verson BlitzBasic. Now, the question is. Do I run out and buy Blitz?

Oh, for those who aren't aware, demo versions of Blitz are set to run only 30 times before locking up. Yes, Maneesh does state this in the book, but as the reader it would have been great if the full version was packed with the book. In anycase, it looks like if I dont' finish this book before my 30 runs of the Blitz demo, i'm done.

And must ask myself again, to Blitz or not to Blitz?

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