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MORTON STRIKES BACK                                    £4.50  Platform

MORTON STRIKES BACK AGA                                £6.00  Platform

PUFFY'S SAGA                                           £3.99  Puzzle

CRICKET                                                £2.50  Cricket Sim

DELUXE PAINT III                                       £7.00  Art Package

TRIVIAL PURSUITS (A600HD Only)                         £4.50  Board Game

NIGEL MANSELL AGA                                      £5.00  Car Racing

SCI-FI COLLECTION - Dalek Attack + Warrior Rats +
                    Suburban Commando                  £9.00  Games Pack

AMOS PRO COMPILER                                     £14.99  Requires AMOS

WORLD GOLF                                            £14.99  Sports Sim

BLOBZ AGA                                             £14.99  Puzzle


#5*S/BLITZ BASIC v2.1

Blitz Basic 2 ("BB2") comes on three compressed disks. The first contains
BB2 itself. The other disks contain loads of examples, utilities, and the
extra libraries. BB2 consists of two parts - the editor and the compiler.
The compiler is accessed from the editor using pull-down menus.

#5COMPILER
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This is where all your basic programs are turned into (very) fast machine
code, although, due to the fact that compiled code is slower than pure
assembly, programs do not run as fast as professional programs (although
they do come quite close). The machine code itself is quite small.
The compiler manages to convert around 200K tokenised text to 64K in 2-pass
mode.

#5LANGUAGE
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The language itself is quite good.  You don't need line numbers any more, and
it supports procedures and functions, called "statements".  AGA machines are
supported with extra colours and graphics. All necessary commands are there -
commands for string handling, mathematical calculations, displaying to screen,
bitmaps, speech, samples (you can play only 128K (6 seconds) worth for each
sample), sprites, windows, menus, bobs and structured programming commands
(REPEAT/UNTIL,WHILE/WEND). BB2 allows you to access all AmigaDOS ROM routines.
The language handles bytes, words, long words and floating point numbers.

#5COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS
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AMOS and HiSoft Basic are the only ones that you should look at really. HiSoft
Basic is new, so I don't know what it's like. AMOS is good if you're new to
programming; as unlike BB2, the language does all the hard work for you.
However, with AMOS, you have to buy a compiler as extra if you want faster
programs.

#5CONCLUSIONS
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The program scores marks for having the compiler built into the editor and for
a very fast compiling and running speed. Overall, BB2 is very good if you want
fast arcade games and/or want to access the Amiga's ROM.  However, you should
be patient enough to save your programs before every run, and to suffer
continual re-loading of BB2.


Blitz is a complete development package for the Amiga. Now with new editor,
extended AGA features, and superb 254 page step by step manual.

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