Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.13.0b
AmiBlitz 3.13.0b is described by its developer as "a milestone regarding memory handling". It now has a proprietary memory pooling mechanism to be used if the executable program is running on OS versions lower than V39 (Kickstart 3.0), which is said to reduce memory fragmentation a lot.
Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.12.0
Sven 'honitos' Dröge has released further updates to his BlitzBasic successor, "AmiBlitz". With version 3.12.0, he has begun consolidating the Blitzlibs: there were several Blitzlibs that performed the same tasks using different commands, e.g. file request operations or Chunky2Planar functions. He has also renamed several Blitzlibs to distinguish converted OS libraries from standard Blitzlibs.
Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.11.3
Sven 'honitos' Dröge has released further updates for his BlitzBasic successor "AmiBlitz". In addition to bug fixes, versions 3.11.2 and 3.11.3 now offer support of the identify.library.
Puzzle game: Pjusk 1.1
While the initial version was created with the Scorpion Engine, version 1.1 is a complete reprogramming with AmiBlitz3. Apart from that, the versions do not differ significantly, but the author has nevertheless included the following changes:
Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.11.1
Sven 'honitos' Dröge has released version 3.11.1 of "AmiBlitz", the successor to BlitzBasic. In addition to numerous bug fixes, the ability to specify the mouse port has been added, allowing usage of two mouse pointers. A programming example illustrates this; further examples that have been added relate to MUI.
Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.11.0 "Amiga40 Edition"
Sven 'honitos' Dröge has released version 3.11.0 of the BlitzBasic successor AmiBlitz, a detailed list of all changes can be found on the AmiBlitz Github page. Dröge lists the following new features as the "main achievements" in this release:
The new version 0.9.60 of the Game Construction Kit: RedPill has been released. We also have linked a tutorial video in our news item. So there are no more excuses not to give it a try! :)
Daniel
The Oasis BBS
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