• 11.06.02 new: M1 Tank Platoon (Microprose) done by JOTD
• 11.06.02 new: Killerball (Microids) done by JOTD
• 11.06.02 new: Guy Spy (Ready Soft) done by JOTD
• 11.06.02 improved: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) supports another version, new icons
• 10.06.02 new: Dream Web (Empire Software) done by Dr.Zarkov
• 10.06.02 new: Invasion (Sector Software) done by Codetapper
• 10.06.02 improved: Deuteros (Ian Bird) supports another version
• 10.06.02 new: Blasteroids (Tengen/Image Works) done by Psygore
• 10.06.02 improved: Super Cars (Gremlin) now compatible with emulators, manual included
• 05.06.02 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) minor changes

editors note:
We are not able to say something about the differences between the above version and the one reported by Amiforce on 08.06.2002. If you anything about it feel free to tell us.

Update 12.06.2002:
David McMinn explained us the difference:

I saw your note on the AmigaNews site, that you could not see the difference between the different AmiBlitz distributions, so I thought I would clarify.

First of all, Bernd Roesch has updated the editor and compiler greatly, and convinced Acid software to release Blitz Basic 2 for free, under the name AmiBlitz2. However, Bernd did not provide a ready-made package for users to download and use, only updates.

I decided to create an user distribution which would provide everything a person needs to start programming in AmiBlitz as I have been maintaining the Blitz2000 site for a few years. Of course, since AmiBlitz is free, anyone can do this if they choose, such as CJ Stroker has done on the AmiForce site.

The differences between the distributions on the Blitz2000 and AmiForce sites are that they have different contents and are aimed at different people. For example, the distribution provided by AmiForce does not seem to have the acidlibs and deflibs files, so you already need a working installation of AmiBlitz to use it (they might have it in other archives on the site though, I have not looked through all of them). The AmiForce site is also more useful for German speaking programmers, as a lot/most of the documentation they have is available in German (for example, the AmiBlitz manuals). The distributions on the Blitz2000 site are available in different sizes and have all the documents for the libraries included in the archive, as well as useful tools and the library files mentioned above.

The only thing which would be nice to keep the same between all distributions is the default set of libraries that are provided. Bernd suggested this as it makes everything easier from the viewpoint of everyone has the same libraries to start off with.

Sorry for the long mail, but I hope this clears the situation up :)

• mcp1_39.lha (912K)
• mcp1_39u.lha (450K)

• Screenmode requester
• GadTools user interface
• Most requesters operable via keyboard
• CAMD library
• New 32 colour design
• Localisation
• German catalogue included
• and much more

The start make some cosmetic changes that had taken most of the time. Many errors had been removed and especially the selected colours got a change after some criticism. Whether it looks better now may be judged by everybody on his/her own. ;-)

Amiblitz:
There's now a new, error reduced version of Amiblitz 2.26 in the Amiblitz section. It's again an update archive that contains next to the English version also the German one. A new Image.res that enhances Amiblitz with further graphical possibilities is also included. GlowIcons are now used and bring the boring old fashioned look to an end. As the old archive contains the new one bilingual docs.

Download: amiblitz2.26.lha (658 KB)

Furthermore there's a little 3D tutorial in the Amiblitz section included. This will be removed in the near future again, though, as it will be completely revised and expanded with example sources. Soon will a beginners course be started that will then lead to different areas. The 3D part will be done by Sterix (a programmer and my best guy) who is training at present on Amiblitz. The first sources look really great. In this direction there'll come quite some things. ;-) Some examples (demos) that could make people very interested in Amiblitz will follow, too.

Softguide:
The softguide section had been opened, too. The beginning is done with Amisat. For this there'll be soon a detailed manual in the helpguide rubric released. The other sections will be updated again, too.

Forum:
Amiforce has now a new forum, too. All interested are invited to enter. Almost all contributions of the old forum had been taken on. So it's not a start at zero. Thanks go to Matthias Münch for his support.