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Hah, reminds me of back in my grade 8th grade (equivalent - ~13 years old?) 'typing' class (circa 1995) - a friend made a 3d engine in QBasic that let you fly a wireframe spaceship around. It was pretty amazing, all things considered.
I learned programming by turning Gorrila's in to a game with buildings that moved every turn, and changing the graphics.
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Yes, thank you. He is NOT using QBasic, it's QB64. He gets instant access to some pretty sweet functionality that was never in QBasic. Transparent PNG support, resolutions with more than 16 colors above 320x200, double buffering, TCP/IP, and the list goes on. Regardless, this guy is getting some awesome press with the QBasic thing. If you want to make money with games, it's all about the marketing. I'll give him a li…
QB64 also has multidimensional arrays, functions, while loops, "user defined types" (structs) ... apart from the lack of pointers, it's not all that far from C or Pascal once you ignore the syntactic sugar. (Or as pg calls it, "Algol with a funny hat".) Not to downplay his achievement - I'm sure making the game was a lot of work either way ... but implementing it in Basic doesn't seem especially praiseworthy.
That said, qbasic was maybe not a best first language - I became a much better programmer when I learned C++ years later. Still, I really really appreciate that as a young child I had access to a fun game with the source code revealed. It changed my life.
This is very, very cool. Speaking as someone who also wrote QBASIC games as a child, this evokes sharp pangs of nostalgia. I happen to have an old QBASIC book (pub 1993) next to me, and was skimming through it shortly before coming across this article. Random file I/O : OPEN filename$ FOR RANDOM AS [#]filenumber LEN=recordlength The book then goes on to provide helpful ways to guesstimate at the record length of a fi…
Just realised, same indentation and no-end-character rules as python :) Although I've been writing qbasic back in the days and now writing python for fun, I've never realized this before...
You can see a video from there with some actual code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2nBge7wq6c
It actually doesn't seem that bad of an environment, which is a reminder that we haven't gotten that far with programming since the QBasic days...
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It wouldn't according to this: >Black Annex requires at least a 2.6GHz processor due to the scope of the project and the unoptimized multi-dimensional arrays.
And its RAM requirement exceeds what I had in my PC in 1991, by a factor of 1024.
He has a blog: http://www.manfightdragon.com You can see a video from there with some actual code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2nBge7wq6c It actually doesn't seem that bad of an environment, which is a reminder that we haven't gotten that far with programming since the QBasic days...
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Yes, thank you. He is NOT using QBasic, it's QB64. He gets instant access to some pretty sweet functionality that was never in QBasic. Transparent PNG support, resolutions with more than 16 colors above 320x200, double buffering, TCP/IP, and the list goes on. Regardless, this guy is getting some awesome press with the QBasic thing. If you want to make money with games, it's all about the marketing. I'll give him a li…
QB64 also has multidimensional arrays, functions, while loops, "user defined types" (structs) ... apart from the lack of pointers, it's not all that far from C or Pascal once you ignore the syntactic sugar. (Or as pg calls it, "Algol with a funny hat".) Not to downplay his achievement - I'm sure making the game was a lot of work either way ... but implementing it in Basic doesn't seem especially praiseworthy.
Apparently QB64 can directly access C header files as well as Windows DLLs [1], although I don't think the author used any external modules. The source is described as being a solid monolithic block of 12k lines worth of BASIC, which in and of itself is fairly throwback-worthy.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64
edit : checked an old QBASIC manual to confirm whether or not multidimensional arrays (2+) were supported
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