Missing In Action...

[Z!re]

:lol:


I still don't get the mouth edges thingy...



I do know what wicca is though.. and druid..

[TheBigBasicQ]

Qbasic shall not die!!!111 :???:

[matt2jones]

What I DO see though, is a steady decline of people who are writing programs using QB......

Is that really such a bad thing? Rember all the knobs (lets see if they censor that) that used to float around QB boards?

I'm gonna make the best game ever and push QB to its limits etc, etc, etc...

I think I prefere this focused core of insanly talented coders who surround me now

I'd add Elysian Feilds to the list of QB games, even though everyone hated it, I thought it was F U C K I N G amazing...

matt

[Z!re]

Qbasic shall not die!!!111 :???:

Brothers! We must stand united against the mighty FB army of SDL bombers and Allegro Tanks!

Arm your PRINT-rifles and fight!

We will prevail!


The great BLUE-SCREEN is on our side!

BSoD forever!

[TheBigBasicQ]

Qbasic shall not die!!!111 :???:

Brothers! We must stand united against the mighty FB army of SDL bombers and Allegro Tanks!

Arm your PRINT-rifles and fight!

We will prevail!

Damn you! Damn you!! aaarrghhh!!!

*runs under the carpet for cover*

[Spotted Cheetah]

I gone a bit crazy already as i am nearly falling asleep inside my monitor far after midnigth, but let me tell my view (again...) on this:

I am not against technology: FreeBasic WILL BE a very good thing as soon as it becomes something like QB that everyone can "easily" learn programming with it. Until that it is just a nice language like some others from wich most dead within a few months or years (i do not say that FB will die too, but if it will not offer an easier way than C then there is no way... I can not check what are around IDEs since i am so outdated with my W95 that none of them start except the compiler itself. Mostly because of that personally i do not really like it and keep programming using Dev C++).

QBasic and DOS became some sort of art: because of the limits of DOS a programmer has to program in a different way on it. It is not dead, it just changes: becomes something like C64, but more powerful. On a C64 nobody would start programming now, but writing retro for DOS is not a too complicated thing. 16 bit DOS can become a heaven for real "programming art" from now: it does not matter how long will it take to make a game: nobody have to hurry as it not develops anymore. It will have 640Kb of memory with FM & VGA next year too like in this one, and will surely have the same after 20 years too.

[adosorken]

I can not check what are around IDEs since i am so outdated with my W95 that none of them start except the compiler itself

Perhaps you may be interested in the MSDOS port of FIDO.

[na_th_an]

You can use a general IDE and configure it for fB. There are TADS!

Context, MED...

Also, you are a MSDOS lover, so you can always open a MSDOS window and type in

Code:

fbc MyProg.bas

[Blackfog]

Spotted Cheetah,

Its great to see your interest in the game Qoop that I made so long ago. I uploaded it again to a personal webspace if you want to download it:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~beeraholic/qoop.zip

When you run it under a windows platform you will probably need to make a pif file that enables EMS.

The game used to be uploaded on CNET but that was before they started charging $200 per listing, even if it was freeware. Anyway, I will let leave that file on the webspace indefinetly now so there will always be a place to get it.

Blackfog

I am not so tragic because of only DOS' death. My problem is that it looks like EVERYTHING is constantly tried to be shot by Micro$oft. No matter what are they, what not gives them money is something what can not live anymore. An DOS is currently a very weak thing in the case of emulation especially for Windows: there is just DosBox and VDMS. This last will surely die when the new version of Windows comes as it not emulates DOS completely.

So i think future is very very dark not just for DOS, for any programmer. There is no time to create real computer art in this subject anymore as technology goes so fast that everyone must hurry to the death...


But this topic was not created for this. Lets keep our subject:

I found Groov Buggies (made by Pasco) at:

www.petesqbsite.com/reviews/action/groove.html

From it's original home page it is not downloadable: the link is broken. For Qoop i find only one source, but that was broke: this game might have really "missed in action". That broken source is:

www.worldzone.net/computers/paladin/qbasic/files/rpgs/rpgs.htm

(It works, but the download does not)


Off again:

Strange: "Newest registered user: nathan". Without underlines. What??

[Adigun A. Polack]

To Blackfog:

My *most* splendid greetings to you, and welcome to the QBasicNews.com forums!! :king: !

Now then, as for your game called Qoop that you just presented here, I believe that it was a really wise move of yours for such an appropriate thread as this because it was no doubt such an *UTTERLY* hard-to-find QB classic these days. Now that you successfully brought the original program back, and now that I have just played it as well, I must dare venture to say right now that it is such an excellent missing link to QB gaming that many of us used to enjoy so much, understand? =b



Also, the *very* first time I played your brilliant find of a game from 2000, man, I scored a final total of 72,400 points!



Talk to you again, Blackfog, and I thank you so much for sharing that gem with us all!!!



MY CHEERS TO YOU ON UNEARTHING THAT RARE FIND IN QB,


Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of “Aura Flow”
Continuing Developer of “Frantic Journey”
Current Developer of “Star Angelic Slugger”
Webmaster of the “AAP Official Projects Squad”



P.S. Now that FreeBASIC is in the house with a lot of us, if you choose, Blackfog, could you please port/reprogram your game Qoop for use in FB so that it would work flawlessly in Windows (including XP)? Thanks!!!