Well anyway, back on topic ... (yes we bought a mac at a mac store) ... I think it would only be fair to say that Blitz Research wouldn't have put all the time and effort into creating BlitzMax as a cross-platform write-once-compile-anywhere solution only to give up on supporting that cross-platform compatibility by only eventually supporting Windows users. I'm sure there's probably more Windows users than the other two platforms, especially given most previous incarnations of Blitz run under Windows, but I don't think that means everyone will now just migrate to Windows or that BlitzMax will only end up there. Why would Blitz Research go to all these lengths to fulfill this vision only to give up on it. I have a bit more faith in BlitzMax being successful as a development tool for easy cross-platform deployment as well as for achieving great results on any of the given platforms.
And it would be great to see it even migrate to other platforms in future as well, to the Amiga perhaps, Acorn, BeOS, etc. It's definitely a big selling point for BlitzMax that it makes it so easy to get your creations out to a wider audience, and maybe it is even doing a service to mankind by trying to get people to let down their guards a little and act like we're all part of the same human race.
And it would be great to see it even migrate to other platforms in future as well, to the Amiga perhaps, Acorn, BeOS, etc. It's definitely a big selling point for BlitzMax that it makes it so easy to get your creations out to a wider audience, and maybe it is even doing a service to mankind by trying to get people to let down their guards a little and act like we're all part of the same human race.