Seems to me that BlitzMax is just not ready to develop games.
I would agree and I'm just glad that we have people like Grey to thrash out the issues that I don't have the time nor dedication to myself ;)
Shambler, that's intentional actually, because it HAS to go to windowed mode before it can minimise. However, I could change the behaviour if it threw you off kilter...someone else mentioned this once before so that's two people now.
That's OK, I just wanted to make sure it was a feature and not a bug ;)