Pete's QBASIC Site

I tried out the egg plant tutorial. Man, this program rocks! I tried Wings3D before, but it crawled like a slug on my PC and it wasn't intuitive. anim8or is a dream come true!

Once more, thanks for this tip.

Thanks. I was always interested in 3D modeling, but only so I could create simple objects to paste on my static 2D images. Hope this will help.

Yeah, the site is back after some 5 months of not being updated. Nothing fancy, really. 12 new games, out of which I recommend Air Attack, IDKFA, Snow Palace (from 2007) and WaterQuest, a true lost QBasic gem. http://games.qbasic.com Sorry for not being able to upload more recent QBasic games, but I...

Sigh. You just have to have real life, don't you?

Once again Pete, what's the hold up?

Erm...

Erm...games are still made for PC Engine? Weren't the last one released in like...1994? Enlighten me!

Larry the Dinosaur 2 . A wonderful mixture of platform, action and adventure genre featuring wacky and unconventional story about sentient dinosaurs. A somewhat short game, but compared to other QB games of the same genre, one of the best. Definitely the most fun platform QB game by my book. Downlo...

I have this idea about game sponsoring for a while. I know it's not all that original, but I haven't seen freeware developers using it. It's basically about finding companies that would be willing to put ads in your game. The ads would appear in the intro, somewhere on the main menu, etc. Their size...

Erm...games are still made for PC Engine? Weren't the last one released in like...1994? Enlighten me!

BTW, I assume you were in contact with DarkDread about this. Did you ever probe him about returning to our community as a FB coder? I wonder what he was doing for the last 5-6 years.

Download: http://lachie.phatcode.net/Downloads/How_To_Program_A_Game_1.zip Actually, this is one of my older tutorials, but because of big changes with FreeBASIC version 0.17b it took me a while to find motivation to rewrite the tutorial so it would compile in the latest version of the FreeBASIC, as...

I hope you'll finish the worms-like engine tutorial. FreeBASIC? Well, I guess I'll be able to convert it to FB once I see how you will do it.

Erm...your code is incorrect. I'm not sure if your code would even work in QB. Do this... LET SWING = 1 SELECT CASE SWING CASE IS >=0 LOCATE 10,50 PRINT "RIGHT LEG FORWARD" CASE IS <0 LOCATE 10,50 PRINT "LEFT LEG FORWARD CASE ELSE LOCATE 10,50 PRINT "NOT WALKING" END SELECT

I think Pete wants you stuff by default so no need to ask.

Raspberrypicker, D.S. didn't mean that. He wanted for QB to compile him a Windows application. That is not possible. Regarding FB... D.S., you can try with my latest tutorial from QB #23: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/express/issue23/index.html#angles You can also try with this example game I ...

You know why 'DIM X, Y AS INTEGER' will give you an error? Because in FB when compiled with -lang fb you need to declare all variables and with their type. You can't do DIM X because like the error report says, FB does not support default types (which is INTEGER in QB) or suffixes as QB does (but li...

Just make this change:

OPEN "database.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1

Codemss, DIM variable AS INTEGER does not report an error. You are probably doing something else with your code that causes an error. Also, tried to compile your code with -lang qb command line? Perhaps you should actually choose to want to use FB, instead of finding false reasons not to use it. Not...

Of course, once a program is in .exe form, nobody cares what was used to make it,... Erm....what the heck are you talking about? QBasic produces DOS executables, while FreeBASIC produces DOS, Windows and Lunux executables. With FreeBASIC you have an access to all the nifty 32-bit libraries like FMO...

There was a whole series of file manipulation tutorials Mystikshadows wrote. And I also wrote a small segment on file manipulation in my second edition of How To Program A Game With FreeBASIC (issue #20).

I'm not saying don't write the tutorial. Just don't ignore the previous efforts.

I'll check the games out.