-------------------------------------------------- QNews QBasic Newsletter Issue Number 14 0 Members! -------------------------------------------------- Inside This Issue: 1. HELP ON MY GAME!!! 2. >>Re: QNews Issue 13! 3. >>Re: QNews Issue 13!(feel free to use this in the next issue) 4. Screen resolution 5. 3D Virtual World 6. >>Re: QNews Issue 13! 7. 3d problem. 8. QB: Crypt 4.0 9. The Final Say -------------------------------------------------- 1. HELP ON MY GAME!!! From: Anonymous Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 6:08 PM Hello! I am a QB programmer and I need help making a game! I need help! Please help me if you can! I need help in graphics, sound, music, efects, animations and sfx or special effects and more! Please help me! I already have some help from famous programmers like Darkdread, The Wetspot creater....I think his name is Angelo Motto, Simple SiSi, GoodGod and more people! Yet I still need more help! Please be part of the team! I am also hiring people for my company! To register with me please check out our page: Click HERE!! HERE!! Please email me at xxxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com !!! Thank You!!!! -------------------------------------------------- 2. Re: QNews Issue 13! From: newton fisher Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 6:18 PM It is quite simple why I seed naught. From everything which I have read: website etc. you simplly have no interest other then writing game [graphics]. I do not. n/n -------------------------------------------------- 3. Re: QNews Issue 13!(feel free to use this in the next issue) From: Michael Rye Sørensen Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 5:52 AM Tips'n Tricks by: MRS Subject: Music and Sound effects The only way Q(uick)Basic is able of producing sound is through the pc speaker. The PLAY statement helps you make the sound using the common note system. When the PLAY statement is used, the string send is placed into a buffer from where it is played. The buffer can hold up to 32 notes at the same time. That is useful if you want to play sound/music in the background and do something else in the foreground. A simple sound effect like the sound of a laser gun, can also be played in the background, here is an example: playback.bas PLAY "MB" makes QBasic go into background mode, in background mode both PLAY and SOUND is played in the background. SOUND can also be used to stop all sound/music that is currently being played in the background, simply by sending a sound duration of zero to the speaker (SOUND 0,0) To play music in the background you have to set up an event trapping system. When ever a certain amount of notes have been played the event trapping system will jump to a sub routine, and reload the play buffer. See the example on how to use an event trapping system to play music in the background: backmsc.zip MRS. -------------------------------------------------- 4. Screen resolution From: Tommy Andersen Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 6:48 AM HI! I have a problem with the QB: screen resolutions, I would like to use screen resolution with ATLEAST 640*480 and 256 colors, but screen mode 12 there is only 16 colors. I have downloaded a few programs, but using them I cannot use the mouse, which i would include to. ANYBODY know how to enter higher resolutions, with 256 or more colors. I use QB 7.1 TUTORIALS, EXAMPLES, OR JUST A SINGLE NOTE, ANYTHING! Thanks Tommy Andersen -------------------------------------------------- 5. 3D Virtual World From: L032350Martin Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 3:39 PM Hiya all, I was doing nothing much at the weekend and decided to design a 3D world, I thought of the obvious array mapping and coded the setup routine for my program. The virtual world will let a number of different users sharing a network to control custom made characters in the world, they will be able to seek out other characters and talk via the keyboard. Anyway the only help I need is with the character display. The main array is 3D obviously and stores a number as to which character exists in that space. The program then reads this array to plot the characters on screen, the best display I have achieved is a line or two and even a box. Bearing in mind that I want to keep this simple, for speed reasons and also the fact that the characters have to be resized due to distance effects, I was wondering If anybody had any code Ideas about some small characters. If anybody really can help It would be much appreciated, either mail via the list or two my address - L032350MARTIN@YALE.AC.UK Thanx for you time From Martin -------------------------------------------------- 6. Re: QNews Issue 13! From: Dan & linda Donnelly Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 12:40 PM Yes received issue 13. have not replied before ,had nothing to add to the mix! keep up the good work and keep sending it out. Dankc7vda ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] -------------------------------------------------- 7. 3d problem. From: Free X Chuck Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 8:03 AM I'm working on some 3D type stuff in QBasic, Really what I want to do is have various points in a 3D world and rotate the points on a given plane, for instance rotate the point(3,-2,0) on the plane XZ 30 degrees with respect to the orgin (0,0,0). That's not the problem though, the problem is that I need to use ArcSine or ArcCosine (Sine -1 or Cosine -1) but I don't think that Qbasic has them. I know that it does have sin, cos, tan, and atan (arctan) but I dont think it has the inverse fuctions for sin or cos ( Correct me if I'm wrong). basically I need a way to find either the arcsin or arccos of something, I won't bore you with the reason. Thanks, chuck. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] -------------------------------------------------- 8. QB: Crypt 4.0 From: Deniz Oezmen Date: Saturday, February 20, 1999 4:53 AM Hi! I've been programming a QB encryption/decryption utility. But as I have to learn Pascal (school), I don't find the time to develop it. If there is anybody interested in this (I tried a kind of "graphical interface"), please mail me at Deniz.Oezmen@T-Online.de. Deniz Oezmen -------------------------------------------------- 9. The Final Say From: Jeff Rapp Date: Sunday, February 21, 1998 6:15 PM Hello to all out there in QBasic Land! QNews 14 is hot off the presses and on the newsstand. A grand total of 8 messages (besides TFS) this time. GREAT! Anyway, more news. The QBasic Place has been updated with a new game for the Best of QBasic called Cookie Delivery. Check it out ( http://surf.to/qbplace ) for more details. In other news, the QBasic LinkExchange has enlarged it's banner size from 300x60 to the standard Internet Advertisement size of 468x60. Visit the QBLe for the exciting news ( http://qble.hypermart.net ). Until next time, this is Jeff Rapp, signing out. CYA! Jeff Rapp jrapp@geocities.com