but are there any groups out there working on a QB to Win32 converter?
Thanks in advance.
i thought QB was in win32.
Yes. It's already done and it's called VB. Yes, it does suck for making games (in spite of the DirectX port). No, don't bother, learn yourself some C++ or Java. QB is great for DOS (our team won the Toronto East ECOO computer science competition using QB), but a port to 32-bits would be pointless.
Bottom line: Any programmer qualified enough to make this sort of conversion couldn't be bothered since they already have the know-how to just make their game/program directly in Win32.
Wiz: congrats!!!! What was the comp all about?
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Thanks
Quote:What was the comp all about?
It's teams of four... the way we did it was that I was the coder, and the three were math contest vets. (all with at least limited coding experience as well, and I've done contests as well)
The way it works is that your program has to read a data file that they provide and output results to the screen. You never actually see the judging data until they stick it in your floppy drive, tho, so the program has to work the first (or second) time. And you only get 3 hours for all 4 questions. The problems from this year aren't yet posted, but some past questions are here:
http://www.ecoo.org/sigcs/past/index.html
Particularly interesting questions are:
Base Three Code (String crunching)
Balloonist (Minimizing time)
Counting Shapes (Recursive Flood Fill)
Daedalus' Garden Path (Mapping)
Was doing the Daedalus garden path, and noticed a slight problem which would make the problem impossible, I think:
There are numbers at the beginning AND at the end of the string!
Strixslayer is working on a QB32 compiler. He's an excellent ASM coder, and I'm sure he can do it. The only thing is that he's a student, ad doesn't have much time for this.
Of course, VB exists, but let's admit having the qualities of QB and the power of 32 bits would be really great 8)
DirectX + VB is a neat combination
write a good wrapper and you have a 32 bits QB for Windows.
I am learning (finally found a
good tutorial
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