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ah ic.

thanx for the insight

Hi disk. I think I got what you need...but I'm not sure. But this is a little sample program I made. You can run it on qb, i checked it to make sure it works. CLS 'clears screen n=2 'set your variable DIM chart(5) 'alerts qbasic that you have an array in your program chart(1)=(n+1) 'this is your arr...

draw a little arrow on the screen in the direction that the person gets hit.
It doesn't need to be an arrow, just some sort of indicator. Like in Gears of War, the red circle starts to appear when you are being hit, and it gets darker as you lose more and more health.

Ok well this is what the original program was. I did not write this, I only made the version without the GOTOs. But the original programmer does admit to GOTO being a bad way to write algorithms. You can decide which is easier to read. Personally, I like loops better...it's a bit more thinking invol...

Well if you can do an excellent job of documenting the thing, then maybe GOTO and GOSUB would be ok. But in general it just makes it really hard to read or debug since you have to jump all over the place. Bigger program=Harder to read/debug Plus I heard that over using the command will result in wac...

Hey, you know what I find really annoying? When people use GOTO and GOSUB. I always try to stray from this, because of the speghetti code. But what's really annoying is when a beginner turtorial uses GOTO. If the turtorial uses it, then the person learning it will use it too. So I was bored, tired, ...

seems pretty simple.

only reason i ask is because I want to implement scrolling into my games, so compiling will make it run smoother.

Thanks

What exactly does it mean to compile a program?
And how would I go about doing this?

Mentat wrote:
Here's to Zork. Cheers

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/zork1.html

Wow, i never realized how exciting text games are. I had no idea how to play, and to my surprise it actually recognized my random inputs, lol.

ummmmmmm....sorry

do you like the new title?

should be, (notice the (x,y) very important)

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FOR y = 1 TO 7
FOR x = 1 TO 72
READ title1(x,y)
NEXT
NEXT

You're a genius! thanx a million

still not working

wow, is that the only problem.

the only reason i did that is cuz it didn't all fit, so i was just testing it to see that it actually showed up

thanx alot m8

ok, well my program is much too long to post on the board, so i just posted my where my problem is

DECLARE SUB elements (elementa$(), element$(), answer$(), wrong$()) DECLARE SUB flashcards (elementa$(), element$(), answer$(), wrong$(), percentage%, taken%) DECLARE SUB flashloop (elementa$(), element$(), answer$(), wrong$(), percentage%, taken%) DECLARE SUB elements2 (elementa2$(), element2$(), a...

Honestly I've been trying to get this bitmap to work for like four days, and it's the only problem I'm running into...and I can't let myself work on something else until I get this under control. I've tried everything, and I even went back to the turtorial, but still no luck. :cry: I need to write t...

now im just a noob, so he could've been talking about something else... But awhile ago I was in the qbasic.com chatroom and I was talking to someone, and I asked him what his latest project was and he said he was making a compiler. I said, whats that? And he told me that it is so other people can us...

nah it's not that. I'm trying to use a bitmap for my title. The only problem is that I forgot how to use bitmaps cuz I only briefly learned it. So I gotta refresh myself with a turtorial. I tried to do it on my own from memory, but I ended up with something screwy. Besides, there has to be something...

HOORAY!!! It works!!

Thanx guys, all my arrays are finally in their seperate sub. =)

Now all I gotta work on is my graphics.
Man, there are so many bugs in my graphics, its not even funny...guess im gonna be debugging for a while, lol.

pretty interesting game. nice job