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CHIMERIAN:
Your 5 questions can be summed up into 2 answers:
1) You can't sell a program if the package includes a compiler or an interpreter that were not written by you.
2) You can sell any standalone, executable program regardless of what language you wrote it in: QB, assembler, or patched into Debug. The important part is that you wrote it; that is, you didn't modify or reverse-engineer someone else's program.
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I don't know what help I need, because the project died like 1½ years ago. I was thinking that it might be cool to make like a Final Fantasy Tactics kind of game, but using QBasic graphics (THAT would be the challenge, CIRCLE, LINE, DRAW)... but I had no idea about how to make the AI, or a number of other things, for that matter. So, I asked other people if they wanted to help, and they said "SOUNDS GOOD, LET US KNOW WHEN YOU FINISH IT!" and so, I never really started on it in the first place. If you want to start (although, we could do without the pure QB graphics), be my guest... I'm not a good enough programmer to be able to make anything like that anyway...
ovaProgramming.
One night I had a dream where I was breaking balls. The next morning,
BALLSBREAKER was born.
Quote: Excellent. Now you can have things without paying for them.
BALLSBREAKER 2
~-_-Status Report-_-~
Engine: 94%
Graphics: 95%
Sound: 100%
A Severe Error has crippled BB2 for the time being... I have to figure it out, but until then you won't see much of it
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*shames*I never played FF...What's it like? :oops:
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Quote:Quote:and Oi! Whatever happened to your RTS? I was looking forward to that!
I think you are thinking of pr0gger :wink:
:oops: oops... I think i was. Sorry Nova.
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No, realistically, you can't sell your qbasic games, compiled or not. You can try, sell them online or something, but you seriously need some kind of publisher, and games created with a slow compiler on an archaic platform won't grow support.
If you make games or something in QBasic, do it because it's fun. Release games because people will like them. That's why its still around. But yeah, maybe in 1995 you could've released a dos game with pretty enough artwork, but nowadays DOS just isn't supported.
As for paying for QBasic, don't. Microsoft has stopped selling it, dropped support for it, and it is the true definition of abandonware. You can find it at multiple sites online, it's only like a megabyte.
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That's ok.... Final Fantasy Tactics is awesome! It's by far the best turn based strategy game that I've ever played-- and I've played a lot... You should check it out, if you're at all interested. Of course, if you don't like medieval themes, you may not like FFT
ovaProgramming.
One night I had a dream where I was breaking balls. The next morning,
BALLSBREAKER was born.
Quote: Excellent. Now you can have things without paying for them.
BALLSBREAKER 2
~-_-Status Report-_-~
Engine: 94%
Graphics: 95%
Sound: 100%
A Severe Error has crippled BB2 for the time being... I have to figure it out, but until then you won't see much of it
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