1. Dark Basic, Real Basic and Bears, Oh my!
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!
ken mortenson wrote:
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> 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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
ken mortenson wrote:
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> 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!
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!
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.
