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Using zip files with Blitz Basic
How to use zip files within Blitz Basic applications. Open and create archives and compress your data.
New Resource - Blitz.ZipApi
What is Blitz.ZipApi?
Blitz.ZipApi is a userlib and set of helper functions for BlitzPlus and Blitz3D that allow you to use ZIP functionality, such as compression and decompression of data. The helper functions take care of the most common operations, such as adding data (either from a file or a bank) to an archive or extracting a […]
What’s going down…
As many of you will know, hot weather and software development do not go together. The last few weeks have seen temperatures in Britain hit the high 90s, which wouldn’t be so bad if I had air conditioning. Suffice to say, my productivity hasn’t been as high as I’d like it. Still, at least I […]
Protean goes free
Protean IDE, an IDE for Blitz Basic has gone free today, along with a source code release. It’s a shame that development fizzled out towards the end, but it was a heavy duty IDE that towered over the original Blitz editor. It’s use of the .NET framework seemed to put a lot of people […]