Skate:
I love your idea of a space sim. I too wanna make one in the future. I noticed you talked about darkbasic here. You can make an original game in amospro...then port it to darkbasic/pc. All it takes is that you know what the commands do (get better at basic) in each language, then you can make a game in amos and remake it in darkbasic. I suggest you play with both, become better at basic, and code in both languages.
When you get better..you can code in either one then port. (and of course...there will be some stuff that cannot be ported...like darkbasic 3d instructions which do not have translation in amos). If you have an idea of how to code in basic...and master for ex. amos, then you can easily port your game to darkbasic.
cheers!!!
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