The FMOD problem, Nomen luni? Or are there other major issues you ran into?
BlitzMax is the only thing for the Mac that comes anywhere near a development platform that is compatible with --me--, so I almost gave up looking for alternatives. Were I still on Windows, I'd most likely use C with VistaDB as my database engine of choice and probably SharpDevelop instead of Visual Studio (I like underdogs). But the Mac brought me to BlitzMax. ;-)
BlitzMax is the only thing for the Mac that comes anywhere near a development platform that is compatible with --me--, so I almost gave up looking for alternatives. Were I still on Windows, I'd most likely use C with VistaDB as my database engine of choice and probably SharpDevelop instead of Visual Studio (I like underdogs). But the Mac brought me to BlitzMax. ;-)