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QB64 Discussion / Particle System
« on: April 10, 2022, 03:46:13 am »
I have been searching for a document(s), video, tutorials etc., on how to create a particle system. The problem is, I found heaps... My biggest problem is that the lack of information when it comes to Basic. I know that particle systems have been used in games etc. on this site. Which in itself is great. But, I seem to learn more from a tutorial as opposed to 'Monkey see. Monkey do.'  Copy and paste is fine, if only a result is needed, but that does not teach me how and why the code works... I am not sure I am making much sense. If I knew how to use all the other language examples that I have looked at, I probably would not be asking... Basic is what I know best... Basic examples/tutorials are what I am looking for... I would appreciate any assistance that you are willing to offer. Thank you.

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QB64 Discussion / Scaling
« on: April 09, 2022, 10:23:33 pm »
I happened to be resurrecting some 'old' QB programs, mainly dealing with particles, and noticed an annoying recurrence. Most of them use a screen size of around 320x200+...  On my screen, 1920x1080, it seems to be no bigger than a business card in comparison...

My question is; Does QB64 have an inbuilt function to scale the size of the image so that the 320x240 display can 'stretched' to fit a larger screen? It is not an issue or a big deal. I am just curious to know.

J

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QB64 Discussion / Possible legal advice
« on: March 30, 2022, 03:28:16 pm »
There are some of the IDE colour themes that I like. My question is: Are there any legal reasons as to why I cannot use those themes in other IDE's? I do not want to be "stepping on toes".... Please advise...

J

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QB64 Discussion / Sort Routines
« on: February 07, 2022, 03:32:43 am »
I find the youtube videos of sorting visualisation fascinating... Then I remembered the old quickbasic sort demo. Ran it 'as is'. Two annoying points. All sort routines completed in zero seconds and the associated sound was a mega earache... lol

For those who are curious: http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/SORTS.BAS

I added a '_limit 5' to each sort routine... so as to slow it down... and commented out the sound commands...

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I would like to know if QB64 is capable of reproducing the youtube sort demo visualisations?
Example:

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QB64 Discussion / Help with animated sprites
« on: January 29, 2022, 03:40:46 pm »
I am looking for a method of translating a strip (not a grid) of sprites so as to display an animated sprite. Sure, I can separate each cell, 'load' them, then display them as needed... But, I was wondering if QB64 had a method of loading the 'strip', 'read' each 'frame', then display each frame in sequence... I'm not sure if I have explained it very well... I hope someone may be able to 'point me in the right direction'...

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QB64 Discussion / Multiple Panels
« on: January 18, 2022, 04:40:45 am »
Quick question.

I am thinking of modifying an old text game. I am toying with the idea of having multiple 'windows/panels' to view the main game display; games stats and user/computer feedback.

Are there any tutorials/examples that I can help?

J

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QB64 Discussion / Spring Cleaning
« on: January 11, 2022, 02:25:39 pm »
I know. I know. Here in Oz it's Summer but when my wife wants to "Spring Clean"... We Spring Clean... lol

Anyway. Long story short... Buried in our spare room, that we use for storage, I cam across and old Acer AspireOne netbook... The machine must be at least 10 years old. The old, badly worn Windows Product sticker, is dated 2005. It is grossly under-powered (1.6ghz) with 1G ram with a 160gb drive (ssd?). The last time I used it was to run Lubuntu 14.04!!

Before I proceed... would anyone care to guess as to my chances of getting QB64 to run on this old clunker?


This could be fun!

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QB64 Discussion / Cut and Paste
« on: December 29, 2021, 04:44:09 pm »
Twice now, I have tried to reply to the "text speech" topic by cutting and pasting a code snippet into the "reply" box, and my system froze (except for the mouse). Rebooted each time. Tested by using the same browser, on different non-qb64 forums, and it worked just fine. It seems that I can type directly into the 'reply' box (obviously) but not cut and paste...

J

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QB64 Discussion / Merry Xmas
« on: December 23, 2021, 02:40:10 pm »
Well, it is 'that' time of year again. It is also Xmas eve in Oz. So, I want to wish all of the QB64 crew and community, a very merry xmas and I hope that each one of you will have an better and more prosperous new year!!

J

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Programs / 1945
« on: December 06, 2021, 02:25:21 pm »
Bplus,

Here is the QB64 conversion of Naalaa's 1945. It is not optimised. Just concentrated on getting to work. I have also included the '1945.txt' Naalaa listing as well. No. Your 'Accuracy' text formatting has not been applied... lol

Let me know what you think? Suggestions for improvement are always appreciated... and in my case, expected... lol

J
 



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QB64 Discussion / Underwear
« on: November 29, 2021, 04:47:19 pm »
Is it me or is this site up and down more often than a mud-wrestler's underwear? Can someone suggest or explain the reason? Just curious.

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QB64 Discussion / Minimum system requirements
« on: November 24, 2021, 01:58:16 pm »
Just a quick question. After following discussions on which Linux distribution can run QB64, I think it may be best to start with, "What are the minimum system requirements to both compile and run QB64 on Linux"?

With this information, the Linux distribution specs, can be compared to the QB64 specs and should remove a lot of guesswork.

J

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QB64 Discussion / [fixed] QB64 failed to start
« on: October 20, 2021, 03:39:38 pm »
I am using "Discussion" because I cannot seem to create a "new topic" in "bug report".

Yesterday (Wed 20 Oct), QB64 was running just fine. Today, I double-clicked my QB64 icon, nothing happened. Tried several times. Same result. No problem. Execute directly from a terminal...

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I am running with v 1.5 on a 64bit Linux Mint system. Any advice would be appreciated.

J

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QB64 Discussion / IDE Themes
« on: October 12, 2021, 09:04:45 pm »
I am aware of the 'in-built' themes for QB64 and the ability to create a theme... Is there a larger collection of themes? When a new theme is created where is that also stored? (Linux)  A change is as good as a holiday... So they say... and it's never said who 'they' actually are...

J

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QB64 Discussion / Competition
« on: October 02, 2021, 08:25:34 am »
Quick question... Is anyone from this site participating in the Syntaxbomb competition... or is that a bite of a taboo topic? Just curious...

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