Blitz Research Ltd is an

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-based company which currently produces three BASIC based programming languages. Founded in 2000 by Mark Sibly, the company's first product was the now obsolete

Blitz BASIC Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. Th ...

2D, a PC version of the Amiga

Blitz Basic Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. Th ...

. It was released the same year as the company's foundation. In 2001, Blitz3D was released. This allowed programmers to create 3D games and applications in Blitz Basic using

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. In 2003, Blitz Basic 2D was rendered obsolete by the more recent BlitzPlus. BlitzPlus built on the foundations of Blitz Basic 2D and also allowed programmers to create true Microsoft Windows programs as well as games. In December 2004, Blitz Research released the BlitzMax programming language for

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, and

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. Unlike all the other Blitz programming languages, BlitzMax can use either

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or DirectX. In 2011, Blitz Research released the programing language Monkey along with Monkey X, a game engine producing C++, C#,

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, and

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code, among other languages. Blitz Research also produced the Maplet modelling tool, which is now no longer supported.

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External links

Blitz Research subsite
on

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(BlitzPlus, Blitz 3D, Monkey X, Monkey 2)
Monkey X subsite
(open source)
Monkey 2 subsiteblitz-research (Mark Sibly)
on

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(BlitzPlus, BlitzMax, Blitz3D, Monkey, BlitzMax, Blitz3D for MSVC-CE 2017)
Blitz Research website
(archived 3 June 2017)
Monkey X website
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