I like the free updates, and I suspect, mark does too, considering he doesn't have any obligations when releasing free updates. However we start getting alot of people crying because the updates don't have feature "X" then he might start charging, and neither us nor Mark *really* want that.
A producing being "dead" is really a relative concept anyways. Personally I think blitzmax should be made to replace all other versions of blitz, and that us blitzer's should get a discount on it when it comes out. I don't want to end up buying a bunch of seperate products for a single thing.
Like I started a game in 2D but using blitz3d, and not using the hardware accel features. I realized I would probably need to purchase blitzplus, so the file size would stay down, and so i could get the gui features of blitzplus.
Since BP came out, I shouldn't have even started a 2d game in blitz3d, but now I have... So I can release the game when it's done, in it's almost 1 meg version (because of all the b3d commands included) or I can buy B+ and recompile it get the gui commands as well as have the exe size be cut down at least in half. And don't speak to me about upx, because there's still the same thing with that, a b3d and b+ exe would get cut in half, so then i'd have to decide 256k verses 512k (and i know those aren't exact sizes but that's the relative size difference).
I hereby in front of all the witnesses herein, do solomnly apologize for asking for a blitz3d update, when so many other people have cried for an update. When an update was also on it's way but, just slowly because Mark was busy. Virtually Signed, Keith Weatherby II, in the year of our Lord, The 3rd of October, Two-thousand and three.
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A producing being "dead" is really a relative concept anyways. Personally I think blitzmax should be made to replace all other versions of blitz, and that us blitzer's should get a discount on it when it comes out. I don't want to end up buying a bunch of seperate products for a single thing.
Like I started a game in 2D but using blitz3d, and not using the hardware accel features. I realized I would probably need to purchase blitzplus, so the file size would stay down, and so i could get the gui features of blitzplus.
Since BP came out, I shouldn't have even started a 2d game in blitz3d, but now I have... So I can release the game when it's done, in it's almost 1 meg version (because of all the b3d commands included) or I can buy B+ and recompile it get the gui commands as well as have the exe size be cut down at least in half. And don't speak to me about upx, because there's still the same thing with that, a b3d and b+ exe would get cut in half, so then i'd have to decide 256k verses 512k (and i know those aren't exact sizes but that's the relative size difference).
I hereby in front of all the witnesses herein, do solomnly apologize for asking for a blitz3d update, when so many other people have cried for an update. When an update was also on it's way but, just slowly because Mark was busy. Virtually Signed, Keith Weatherby II, in the year of our Lord, The 3rd of October, Two-thousand and three.
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