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by Xerol
Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:47 pm
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: QB Express #29 NEEDS submissions!
Replies: 13
Views: 64433

As usual I have more incomplete project updates. Haven't done much on any of the games (aside from some music for STRPG) but probably the biggest update is to Generations. It's somewhat interactive now and farther down on the page you'll see what's been added, changed, and planned.
by Xerol
Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:08 am
Forum: Freebasic Questions & Answers
Topic: Compiling in FB with OpenGL
Replies: 18
Views: 40221

There seems to be an extreme slowness problem with certain video cards and opengl mipmaps in FB. A year and I haven't been able to exactly figure it out. One thing to start using early is glPushMatrix and glPopMatrix. glLoadIdentity is relatively slow (push and pop matrix are actually just pointer s...
by Xerol
Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:08 pm
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: QB Express #26 Deadline: November 24th
Replies: 37
Views: 161629

It's not entirely programming related (and not FB related at all) but I've got an article up on finding a pretty big bug in Office XP.

http://h.xerol.org/viewstory.php?s=33
by Xerol
Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:25 am
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: QB Express #26 Deadline: November 24th
Replies: 37
Views: 161629

I should probably have another update on the game before the weekend, so just keep in mind this probably isn't the final format.
by Xerol
Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:15 am
Forum: Pete's QB Site News
Topic: QB Express #26 Deadline: November 24th
Replies: 37
Views: 161629

I'm working on a 3d Game of Life simulator, which I'm turning into an FPS-style puzzle game.

http://h.xerol.org/viewstory.php?s=30

Edit: BTW, I'm totally not dead or missing.
by Xerol
Fri May 05, 2006 10:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Need advice from Squaresoft fans...
Replies: 18
Views: 46256

RayBritton wrote:yeh sorry, on ff9 you can revisit anywhere until disk 4, then something happens and you can't return some places
I never finished FF9 (defective second disc, never bothered to replace it) but that happens in FF8.

And if you're going to get one game, get FFTactics.
by Xerol
Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Map Makers?
Replies: 7
Views: 21274

I'm working on one in FB/OpenGL, it needs a lot of work but it does work for now. You'd probably need to mess with the file format to get it to work for whatever you want to do. http://www.lggaming.com/downloads/mapedit.png It's in no condition to upload right now (extremely easy to crash your syste...
by Xerol
Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: QB Express #19 Deadline: February 18th!
Replies: 15
Views: 30090

What's the status of this issue?
by Xerol
Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pete's Forum reaches 300 members.
Replies: 12
Views: 28439

Z!re wrote:
rdc wrote:I'm at least a half so that's 22!
20+0.5+0.5 = 22 !? What did I miss!? :P
You forgot the spambots.
by Xerol
Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pete's Forum reaches 300 members.
Replies: 12
Views: 28439

The Mac Guy wrote:
Z!re wrote:
Xerol wrote: 20 1/2.
No Xerol, only 20, you dont count :P
O RLY?
I so do count as a half.
by Xerol
Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:55 pm
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: UnTank: 0.16a Released!
Replies: 0
Views: 13822

UnTank: 0.16a Released!

Eh, don't feel like typing all of that again. See FBTK post. Or just Download it and don't read about the changes.
by Xerol
Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pete's Forum reaches 300 members.
Replies: 12
Views: 28439

Nathan1993 wrote:And only about 20 that post...
<_<
>_>

*Runs in a corner*
20 1/2.
by Xerol
Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: QB Express #19 Deadline: February 18th!
Replies: 15
Views: 30090

I might have another game done by then. The network code is giving me hell though, and I need to find someone to run a dedicated server.
by Xerol
Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 4D
Replies: 23
Views: 56399

The best way to wrap your head around it is to think of it just as the projection of dimensions. Start with a point (0d) - project this into a line(a bunch of points "stacked up"). A bunch of lines stacked up will make the square. Stack squares for the cube. Now the hypercube is just a sta...
by Xerol
Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:59 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: QB Express #18 Deadline: THIS SATURDAY!
Replies: 6
Views: 13305

Sent a preview of UnTank.
by Xerol
Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:24 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Trying to make a pong game. Please help!
Replies: 4
Views: 12122

The POINT command returns the color of a point on the screen. So basically if you've got a black background, you could see if the color of the point in front of the ball is black or not, and if not, then bounce the ball. (You need to check in front of the ball and not actually AT the ball because ch...
by Xerol
Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: QB Express #17 Needs Submissions!
Replies: 31
Views: 62795

Concentrate on the first few parts and release it across two or three issues, then. Multiissue tutorials are nothing new, and the format does work.
by Xerol
Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:58 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: odd or even
Replies: 20
Views: 30305

Well, the easy check for divisibility is:

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if number MOD divisor = 0 then 'number is divisible
But it only works on integers. (But there's not really a clear definition of divisibility for non-integers anyway.)
by Xerol
Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:13 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: 3D engine for QBasic??
Replies: 14
Views: 21215

OpenGL doesn't suck...programmers who don't want to spend the time learning it suck. :D I suck! :D That makes 2 of us! It's really not THAT hard - once you get a basic setup to do drawing, you can just copy & paste that code into any new project you want to do, and modify it if you want to do s...
by Xerol
Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:10 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Can QBASIC decect your OS
Replies: 13
Views: 18730

Couldn't you check to see if certain files are in certain places? A bit of a workaround, but it could work.