At QBN it seems to be less and less programming... At about a week before i tried to help in some QB problems, and there was still no answer... It was the most striking when i signed on my new web host's board, and there i helped fixing a web site's flaw in REAL TIME!!! On a "stupid" web host board there is way more programming than in here!! If it continues this way i will get so bored here that i will simply leave because of it... Somebody please at least a good QB game, or pay attention to others, not fear of posting about it or whatever, but BRING SOME PROGRAMMING IN HERE!!!!
There is plenty of programing going on. Most of it happens to be FreeBASIC stuff now though.
NOOOO!!! STOP IT!!! SHUT UP WITH FREEBASIC!!!! :lol:
Seriously: FreeBasic moved away from here, and it seems to be nothing left here... I can see that some entries are running in the Challenges section, but everything else is abandonned including "general programming".
FB programming and projects is still going, alls uite in the news and general section though...
I can't remember the last time i programmed in Qbasic, i have even dleted it from my ipod (needed to make room for dev-c++, i've so many libary packs for that its eating away at over 500 mb...good thing i moved it onto my computer (i hid it in my morrowind folder...hehehe, dad'll never look there)
500Mb!!! I program with Dev-C++ too, but never ate up that much! I still use the standard 4.0 installation (Version 5.0 is unaple to put ; for me on HU keyboard, so it is completely useless) using up approx 50Mb...
Yes, FB might not be so abandonned here... But still annoying. That abundance of boards are sitting there without almost any usage... So for me this place seem to became useless at programming side as i work in C (I switched back from C++, i got enough of that class mess), and only in Basic when because of somewhat i want to switch back to 640x350, 16 colors and tamper with some FM music. Nobody is interested in real DOS based retro anymore?? I just do not want to leave and join to some C community... I do not think that there are too many an i am sure that they (mostly) all think themselves as gurus of IT what i not like. Around C there was always something too pathetic that it looked disgusting for me.
well I have an ASCII website that definitaly boasts the retro programming endeavours :-).
http://www.ascii-world.com
If it's not Windows, if it's not GUI related in any way, it belongs there ;-).
Of course there is plenty going on. The problem lies in the transition between QB and FB. Those projects started in QB just prior to FB's announcement hve either been abandoned, or had to be modified in some way to work with FB. Since FB is still under development, the going is of course slow.
As for those who are designing games, and starting the preliminary coding (such as myself) progress is slow.
Don't leave because the place is boring. We are all in a major transitional period between the confines of DOS and the expansive plains of 32bits.
Why don't you make something quick and challenging? Make the place "un-boring" again.
>anarky
Quote:500Mb!!! I program with Dev-C++ too, but never ate up that much! I still use the standard 4.0 installation (Version 5.0 is unaple to put ; for me on HU keyboard, so it is completely useless) using up approx 50Mb...
I have WAY too many libaries, and i don't think i was meant to unzip some of the files (i left the zip there just incase)...
At me things can be challenging, but "quick" is not really true... I typically think in long terms and develop that way.
Of course for many Basic programmers Windows and Linux is a good thing. But for me it is only a source of enormous screw - ups and halted projects as it would need to develop in two languages: i am not abandonning C because of Basic. So far this two had no problem with each other as i never needed to port for example FM stuff in Win32 C
, but now with FreeBasic this all messed up. Not to mention that i love those limitations, especially the 16 color screen - how can i make good graphic there. It is really challenging and the resulting artworks really have some atmosphere (go to my homepage, there Artworks, then drawings. The last one is a 16 color one made for Island of Cheetahs). But this all gets together best in it's proper place: on a good old 2.86 or such machine running 16bit DOS. So for me retro is an art what i might suspend, but never leave - with all of it's aspects.
So for me FreeBasic not exists. For modern stuff i use C, for retro, 16bit Basic. There is no place (time) for a 32bit Basic language.
On the other hand if anybody keeps on writing real retro in FreeBasic (for 3.86 or 4.86 machines running DOS) of course i welcome that, but i will remain in 16bit with Basic. Without those limitations i can not feel what i want when i would like to do such things.
Well, seeya! You'll be left behind because in a few years there will be NO emulated DOS on Windows.
But then, you'd use a boot disk.
>anarky