BlitzMax Update

Quote Mark:


Relating to http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=65396 but... update... yay!

Interesting, a christmas gift perhaps :) ?

I wonder if it will include the BRL.GLMax3D module :)

Leiden; you're allowed to dream!! :p

> you're allowed to dream!!

And procrastinate.

Hello.

But not procreate. Otherwise we'll have another Puki.

Goodbye.

Hahaha.

He'll probably release it after I've tested the new DX modules...maybe.

Mmeh. You test modules?

Mark has released a new BMax DX7 module to the public domain which fixes some problems with screensavers, task manager etc. I seem to have been the only one testing it so far. I suspect he'd like to release the new modules when he knows they are solid. It affects all DX7 stuff in BMax. The early test modules were, shall we say a teeny bit troubled, but it seems a lot better now.

I cannot realy see the point of releaseing a new DX7 Mod, why not just bite the bullet and go to dx9/10 theres a pub one knocking about somewhere, so why didnt Mark just co opt that?
You cannot even use the "Its to make it more cross platform", cos DX7 is just as much Win as DX10
The GL 1.2(I think) Mid and the DX7 mod work, so why not either do a GL 2.0 or a DX9 mod? And not mess about with the least usful DX7.
To be honest the whole thing sounds like a "make work" project, invented simply to put off doing anything else.
Dont get me wrong, if the Mod needs improveing/stablizing then so be it. But it doesnt seem very needed to me.
Its only cos you want to give a win DX option for your game by.. well today that you even bothered testing it grey.

Well then, if it's late, we'll all be looking your way, Mr. Alien!
:)

Actually, the DX mod had some fairly big shortcomings, which supposedly have all been addressed in the version that Grey mentions above... (As grey alien mentioned before in another thread, at least one of them was a show-stopper with one of the portal sites refusing to launch his game until it was corrected)

Mentioned here http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=65080 - sometime next week

H&K: I wasn't too bothered about the screensaver DX crash but as Xlsior says, Oberon won't distribute my game until it's fixed which is a stinker as it's Holiday game! Also they won't distribute Oz either. As for ditching DX7, as I've said in the actual thread about the new modules, this would be bad from the point of view of just slicing off a whole section of potential buyers from the market - not very sensible. I was worried about moving up from BPlus (DX1) to DX7 let alone moving up to DX9.