1. Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by ken mortenson <kenneth_john at ya?oo.c?m> May 31, 2008
- 723 views
I've got a copy of Real Basic which is kind of a kitchen sink language. I find it's performance to be awful and it's development environment puts my teeth on edge. I bought Dark Basic because it sounded good on the box. IMHO, it's unpredictable garbage collection lags are a deal breaker. But I bet Euphoria could add wire model and texturing features that would blow dark basic away. That would be added functionality that would promote usage. Minimalist my ass, I say! Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead. (torpedos during that era being more a keg of black powder than what we think of as a torpedo today.) Dark basic wraps directX. I'd think Euphoria would use OpenG (what is the name? I forgot. Old age, creaping up on me.) Don't shoot the messenger. Just one of many thoughts bouncy around in my pretty little head (think, thunderous echos.)
2. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at c?wgar.c?m> May 31, 2008
- 680 views
ken mortenson wrote: > > But I bet Euphoria could add wire model and texturing features that would > blow dark basic away. That would be added functionality that would promote > usage. Minimalist my ass, I say! Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead. > (torpedos during that era being more a keg of black powder than what we > think of as a torpedo today.) > There are SDL, OpenGL and DirectX wrappers in the archive you may be interested in. -- Jeremy Cowgar http://jeremy.cowgar.com
3. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by ken mortenson <kenneth_john at ya?oo.co?> May 31, 2008
- 674 views
What's with the latest win32lib, it seems to be a password protected zip? My brain was telling me I was missing something between the OpenG & L.
4. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at ckle?ter?com> May 31, 2008
- 683 views
ken mortenson wrote: > > Dark basic wraps directX. I'd think Euphoria would use OpenG (what is the > name? I forgot. Old age, creaping up on me.) OMG! Have you checked the archive? Check out Akita's stuff. wooooo!
5. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at cklester.co?> May 31, 2008
- 681 views
Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > ken mortenson wrote: > > But I bet Euphoria could add wire model and texturing features that would > > blow dark basic away. That would be added functionality that would promote > > usage. Minimalist my ass, I say! Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead. > > (torpedos during that era being more a keg of black powder than what we > > think of as a torpedo today.) > There are SDL, OpenGL and DirectX wrappers in the archive you may be > interested > in. Okay, so I reply as I read them... so, yeah, what he said. :)
6. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at co?ga?.com> May 31, 2008
- 718 views
c.k.lester wrote: > > Okay, so I reply as I read them... so, yeah, what he said. :) > What I do is I read through the messages one by one using the "Next" link. When I find one that I want (or think I want) to reply to, I click the "Next" link with the Control key pressed. In Firefox, this opens it in a new tab. I then continue on reading this way until I get to the very end. If I see an answer has been given to a thread I wanted to comment on, then I simply go back to it's tab (which still has the message there waiting for me to reply to) and close that. When I'm all done, the only tabs left open are ones that I want to answer and have not been answered. Just one way of doing it. -- Jeremy Cowgar http://jeremy.cowgar.com
7. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by ChrisBurch3 <crylex at ?m?il.com> May 31, 2008
- 695 views
ken mortenson wrote: > > What's with the latest win32lib, it seems to be a password protected zip? Hi I think this has been covered befor. If you use Windows to open the file, then it can't read some levels of compression, and thinks its password protected. If you use (eg) 7-zip, then its read ok. Or it could be corrupted. re download. Or it could really be password protected, and yet again everyones getting at you! (notice now ) Chris > > My brain was telling me I was missing something between the OpenG & L.
8. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agriculture?g?uv.fr> May 31, 2008
- 700 views
ken mortenson wrote: > > What's with the latest win32lib, it seems to be a password protected zip? > > My brain was telling me I was missing something between the OpenG & L. This problem has been reported already. WinXP appears to think the zip is protected, while it is not. Couldn't figure why. Just view the contents in Explorer and drag them to your folder of choice. This has always worked. CChris
9. Re: Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
- Posted by ken mortenson <kenneth_john at ?ahoo.c?m> May 31, 2008
- 679 views
CChris wrote: > > ken mortenson wrote: > > > > What's with the latest win32lib, it seems to be a password protected zip? > > > > My brain was telling me I was missing something between the OpenG & L. > > This problem has been reported already. WinXP appears to think the zip is > protected, > while it is not. Couldn't figure why. > Just view the contents in Explorer and drag them to your folder of choice. > This > has always worked. Thanks Chris, that seems to have worked fine.