In the following article, I will describe how I install BlitzMax on OS X Leopard from the official Blitz Research Limited Subversion (short: SVN) repositories. According to Wikipedia, “a repository is a place where data or specimens are stored and maintained for future retrieval.” The repository that we are interested in here is the storage [...]

Quite frequently, a discussion pops up in the BlitzMax community about a cell phone port of the BlitzMax compiler. As of today, BlitzMax supports four major platforms: Win32, OS X/PowerPC, OS X/x86 and Linux/x86. Most so-called smartphones use the ARM processor architecture, so when we are talking about BlitzMax for mobile phones, we are firstly [...]

This was intended to be the preface chapter of a book that I was planning to write about the BlitzMax programming language. I am no longer sure if this project is ever going to happen; BlitzMax only occupies a very small niche in the language market, and I am not convinced that a mammoth project [...]