1) Come on, you can do this yourself.
2) Not really feasible.
3) Pixmaps are the closest you'll get to this, stop asking.
4) Again, come on.
5) So there's a difference between music and sound?
6) Already have options for this, and if they don't meet your needs, try it yourself and see if you'd want to do it.
7) See 1 and 4.
8) No idea what you're going for here.
9) No, because ^2 is not any more a special case as any other ^n. This defies logic.
10) See 8.
11) See 2. Study compilers and linkers.
1. Blitzmax is supposedly still geared towards games and easy to use. If you don't believe this I understand your point.
5. I don't know? What does that have to do with these file formats? I agree with Jason.
6. I know. I agree with Jason.
7. This is one of the most common problems people run into then have to ask in the forums. See 1.
8. Returns the next element in the list. Is slow because it has to search the whole list.
9. Definately possible. x^2 can be converted to x*x because 2 is a constant.
10. Blitz3d string() function.
11. I was referring to built-in functions only. Just an AutoFramework command. I have taken classes on compilers.