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Lots of responces on the GW-....But I just finished learning Q (see post in GW-...) so I've switched to the obviously better BASIC langauge.


[move]Scrap GW-BASIC, make way for [glow=red,2,300]QBASIC!!![/glow][shadow=red,left,300]Roll out the red carpet....[/shadow][/move]

Me JordanC_is_MBlake

With the modern computers, I can make games in vga(640x480) with 16 color or (320x200) with 256 color.

Robin Gravel

How hard are GFX in Q, anyway? ???

You mean graphics? I wonder if you looking for a paint program written in basic/qbasic.

Did you know. You can load a gif from a qbasic program?

To see my qbasic games, go to:
http://www.chez.com/robingravel/

And click on "jeux dos". You may look qbasic screenshots games.

Robin Gravel

QBasic is the basic I use more often. I have version 4.5 which is capable of making a .exe file from it. I would use QBasic over GW-Basic if I were you.

I know AGISCI. All qbasic you may found on my site are compiled except 4 games.

Robin Gravel

QBasic is good and all but it is hard to make graphics in it. Most of the graphics in my QBasic works were really horrible. The only one that actually looks good is my PW system.

::)O yeah, I forgot about loading .GIFs....but then you still have to make them or download someone else's. >:( Robin_Gravel....your pages and pros aren't in some language [besides english], are they?

AGISCI; I have 1.1. Where can I get a program [compiler...?] to make my programs exes or coms? ???

:-[Nevermind, AGISCI, I found a compiler.....I did a google search and it came up right away.

Go to:

http://www.qbasic.com

if you want some info on graphics in QB.

K.J.

Ok, TXS. Have you done GW[basic] graphics before? Are they similar to them?  >:('Cause GW[basic] graphics [using the DRAW command] are hard as heck.

Hey this is going years back for me.

You can definately use the draw statement in qbasic, it's how I did all of my stuff.  Hardly effective, but I found it to be the fastest (still damned slow.)

I wrote a simple program which you use the arrow keys to move a cursor around, and it dumped the movements to a file
(In qbasic draw statement format.)  The program would then load this file, and read the string, and do a DRAW A$ or whatever to draw the sprite.  I erased them in the same manner, just removing all 'c*'s from the string.  This is bad, because yout get the flickering effect.  I don't know how a real basic programmer would do this.

I would strongly recommend learning C.

Yeah, C or C++ is my next project [about programming languages] I'm planning on doing. Plenty of things have been said in the OSDEV forum about writing OSs in C++. I still can't see why people are condemming [spell?] a QB shell. All I want to do is a text-based, so I don't see why it's a "bad word" if you will, asking about shells in QB. ::)

Hey:
I wrote a password-protection program in QB, and I can't figure out how to make the input chars *'s. It's just a simple statement:

INPUT "Please enter your passcode here...", pass$


How do I make the input crypted? Or is that even the word??

Hmm, the last time I touched QB was about a year and a half ago. Then I found a code snippit for the password thing at the All Basic Code website. Since then, the All Basic Code(ABC) has been taken over by someone else who has almost made it useless compared to what it used to be . Still if you go to:

http://www.allbasiccode.com/

and download the packet reader and then download all the packets you can probably still find the code snippit. If I remember right, it was quite long because it wasn't very easy to do.

K.J.

(BTW, you really ought to learn C/C++, the best book I know of for learning C is C by Example from QUE )