Mark Sibly, the creator of Blitz Basic has sadly passed away.

[luwal]

Mark Sibly, the creator of Blitz Basic (as well as one of the developers of games like Gloom, Skidmarks and Guardian) has sadly passed away.

https://www.syntaxbomb.com/general-discu...ssed-away/
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=119298

[1micha.elok]

This was shocking news ...
Thanks for Blitz Basic
RIP Mark Sibly

[Marcus]

That's really sad I used Blitz Basic 2 on Amiga, and I played the shit out of Gloom.

[luwal]

His Blitz languages got many people interested in programming. This is very certain.