things i dislike about bMax

1- the linux IDE é kinda ugly.. i saw it running on a windows machine and was a little better.

2- no method overloading ? No overloading at all ?

I cant even call a variable "ship" if there is a type called "Ship" ? Hum, thats bad.. really bad.

3- the way the construtor works is kind weird. Why not making it more like java, python or ruby ?

4- Pointers.. if the way methods works were more like java, pointers could have been avoided.. i hate pointers.

Java is NOT designed for speed which is vital in games programming

in java, someAtribute will be just a pointer to someVar. In blitz, it would be a different variable, so to do something like that in Blitz, u need pointers..

I'm into making commercial games that have a high compatibility and reaching the largest market I can.

I have a have done GDI 2d module.

SDL is great for unaccelerated 2D; but AFAIK, it can only do 3D acceleration with OpenGL?

I believe it relies on Mesa3D for 3D, so it will provide software rendered 3D if no suitable OpenGL hardware driver is found.

There's a way to figure out of an OpenGL driver is software or hardware?!

That's only if you've got Mesa3D installed as your OpenGL driver.

On Windows it depends on the OS version, graphics card and numerous other factors.

That on the other hand is probably a good thing. Why would you want to, anyway?

Pointers are great, theres no need to deal with them if you dont want to then so can't see why you "hate it". Just simply dont use pointers.. easy peasy.

pseudo-java code, a tile with a Map reference.

public class Tile {

    private Map map;

    public Map( Map myMap ) {
        map = myMap;
    }

}

I reckomend using Eclipse (and brucey's litte plug-in number) for all your BlitzMAX/IDE needs! It really does make programming a joy! (A shame there's no background compilation, but I suppose you can't have your cake and eat it.)

In java, most of the time i call an object the same name of the class. Example : Map map = new Map();

Its not that simple. For example.. i have a Type called Map and there is LOTS of informations on that type. I also have lots of objets of the type Tile, and all of them need to access the Map object (and i dont wanna make anything global, cuz its make code messy and hard to expand/maintain).

In java, i just need to pass Map as a parameter to the tile construtor, and all of the tiles will have a reference to the same object Map. In Blitz, to do the same thing i MUST use pointers, otherwise each object tile will have a reference to diferent Map objects, and this will consume all my memory.

That's only because Java is case-sensitive. You can't do Map Map = new Map(); , for example. BlitzMax is not type-sensitive.

public class SomeObject {

}

----

public class Test {
  public static void main( String[] args ) {

    SomeObject SomeObject = new SomeObject(); // The name of the object is the same name of the class, and i get no errors.

  }
}

No you don't. BlitzMax works exactly like Java in that respect. Objects created with New are passed by reference, basic types (int, float etc.) are passed by value (unless you use Varptr or Var to obtain a pointer).