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Anyone remember RedOktober? (I think that was his username).

He had a sub game in development but sadly, passed away before finishing it.

Quote from: Pakz on March 12, 2021, 08:51:39
I'm not sure anymore. Blitzcoder first was Christian coders. Before that there was a official blitz basic forum there was a unofficial blitz basic forum. I recall it might of been "shane monroe" who ran it?

It has been 20 years ago though.

Yep, it was absolutely Shane R. Monroe who hosted the first "BlitzBasic forums", and he (I believe) wrote the Blitzbasic manual/documentation (with others).

There was a falling-out at some point though, and shortly after (or perhaps because of?) Mark started up his own forum elsewhere.  The rest is history.

[edit]  I always have a hard time finding a copy of that original Blitz forum, but how many people remember the Blitz Basic Professional forum, set up for people who were earning a living (in theory) from coding in Blitz Basic (this is long before Blitzmax/Blitzpro)?  Check it out HERE.

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RedOktober

I remember him, and his sub game, and yeah, he passed away, sadly I think the end of his life was pretty bare, like, he never had a single pot to piss in, and I'm 100% certain there was a gofundme for his funeral too... Bless him!

Dabz

some old blitzbasic forums i sometimes search for answers (i use google translate to translate german and russian)

english :
mojolabs.nz

german :
blitzforum.de/forum/

russian :
forum.boolean.name

french :
btfr.free.fr/_forum/
bobysait.free.fr/o2php/
mdt.bigbang.free.fr/blitz3dfr/_fofo/

QuoteHe had a sub game in development but sadly, passed away before finishing it.   

I remember RedOktober and his posts about his sub game - sad to hear he has passed away, the pictures of his sub game were always great stuff!

Ahh, shame. RedOktober was a decent guy and always working on his sub game. Sad news however long ago it happened.

I'm quite sure I bought 'blitz3d' around 2007-2008 - I found some CD rom I did for backup (and a piece of paper with my registration code!). Sadly I have no more a cd/dvd drive at home so I can't read it :-)
I'm quite sure I bought immediately BlitzMax when it was released.
Too much time passed!

QuoteThat would of been Krylar, the American chap your on about, he ran BlitzCoder, some good members on there too... theChange, Cyberseth, I remember mearrin69, Eikon, DarkEagle... Oh, and dont forget Ashcroft, he was a card, always popcorn at the ready when he was floating about...

Blitzcoder was some site, At it's peak didn't it have about 10,000 members or something
I think it was the free copy of blitzbasic on amiga format that got a lot of people turned onto blitz
Was a great resource for Blitz code and snippets and always busy
I remember Ashcroft too always good for an argument 

Quote. I think it was the free copy of blitzbasic on amiga format that got a lot of people turned onto blitz   

I suspect that's where my exposure to blitz started 🤔😉

Although I can't quite recall for sure, slept since then!

I was also shocked when blitzbasic.com was shut down (I joined them after the open sourcing of BlitzMax). And since then I have been lurking at syntaxbomb. Since 2003 I have been visiting the purebasic forums (the English, German and sometimes also the French forum) and I am very happy that some members are still visiting the purebasic forums for almost 18 years like me. Good memories. And I can fully feel the loss the blitzbasic community had to suffer after the closing down of their forum!

And a special greeting to wombats who is also a member of both the SyntaxBomb and PureBasic forum!

RedOktober was passionately pursuing his sub game back then and produced some very nice visuals for the time in Blitz3D - especially when it came to simulating water.  RIP.

Quote from: Madjack on March 12, 2021, 23:53:58
Anyone remember RedOktober? (I think that was his username).

He had a sub game in development but sadly, passed away before finishing it.

Jesus! I remember fondly watching the progress of his game. I didn't know he had passed, RIP.

Quite scary to think that a lot of us have been hovering around from the whole Blitz scene of 20+ years - I think I was member no. 7 on the original Blitz forum. Erm, for anyone I pissed off on the original Blitz forum I apologise

I never really posted much work on the forums so if anyone remembers Qube, I'm here

Well folks, when you're ready let me know so I can make the text and buttons bigger so we can all still see and post - I already have my game planned for 2031, "Zimmer Frame Rally" 

SyntaxBomb

"They mostly code wearing Tena For Men!"

Dabz

Okay, I confess - showing my age (or lack of it....) Tena for men wtf?

Ahhh, I see now.      Only 40 quid for superdry   

My western shoot em up will probably morph into 'EastisBest' by 2031.

Should finish it by 2040 - you heard it here first 

Never had tinternet on my Amiga..... first tinternet machine was Windows 98SE, wheres the decades gone?

Blitz3d's forums were useful back in the day, I came across it back in 05-06
b3d is still alright to make games with as hobby. I would think most of the old bean's moved to other tool's or dropped out
all together due to the quick release of the other engines.