OT: Anyone want to help me with a small basic program?

Gandalf Parker · #1 July 15th, 2004, 11:30 PM

by the way, I think its referred to as "fractal terrain". http://www.gameprogrammer.com/fractal.html#intro
is that what you were working on?

Ed Kolis · #2 July 15th, 2004, 11:31 PM

People actually still program in BASIC?

(and I'm not talking Visual Basic, that's diverged so far from BASIC it's not really BASIC anymore

)

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 July 15th, 2004, 11:37 PM

I thought that's what I was doing?

Yeah, fractal. Well, semi-fractal, I think.

I bought a 3d space flight combat game made with darkbasic, not even the proffesional Version that had better nebulea than freespace 2 and the best evasive ai I have ever seen in a flight sim. The screenshots page: http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/gallery.htm

Not sure if it'd run in your compiler, there's specialized commands. But there's a 30 day demo.

Project file: http://www3.telus.net/funnybnz/WalkDemo.dbpro
Code file: http://www3.telus.net/funnybnz/WalkDemo.dba

[ July 15, 2004, 22:45: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

DarkAnt · #4 July 15th, 2004, 11:55 PM

wow, that is really nice. thanks for the link

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 July 15th, 2004, 11:59 PM

Welcome.

Oh, a side note. I've got some untested code in there for automatically adjusting for a larger heightmap than the matrix command will support. Not even sure it works. Shouldn't affect anything.

Uh, does anyone know where I might find the freespace 2 demo?

[ July 15, 2004, 23:01: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Gandalf Parker · #6 July 16th, 2004, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
People actually still program in BASIC?

(and I'm not talking Visual Basic, that's diverged so far from BASIC it's not really BASIC anymore )

That didnt surprise me as much as how many of them there are. Seems like every time I talk to someone who uses basic, they are using a different one. Oh well, most of them are fairly inline with the ansi-basic rules and I can still read what they are doing.

Mine isnt as pretty as some of them but it was free and came with the linux OS. It lets me whip out fast scripts or CGI's to do things, it works on my linux and my winxp, compiles, and when I look at it a year later I can still read it.

So far I havent found much of a reason to switch.

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 July 16th, 2004, 12:15 AM

This ones wacky good: http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com...ase_view&i=135