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2005-04-17T08:30:30-05:00

Yeah, lol,. I said.. Ratt, Rattrap, ect... But it doesn't matter,. I like the dub..

Statistics: Posted by Rattrapmax6 — Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:30 am

Its HERE! Yet ANOTHER SpaceMerc demo! ^_^

2005-04-17T08:27:48-05:00

hey you said I could do that before I started doing it Rattra.
I didn't want to call you Rat, and Rattrap was too long. So you are dubbed Rattra.

Statistics: Posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo — Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:27 am

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2005-04-17T08:20:50-05:00

@ Frog: ^_^ Glad you liked it! You know, you can just call me Rattra,. for some odd reason other ppl like caling me that..

Another way is: If I'm correct...

Code:

DIM picarray(300 * 200 / 2 + 1)

Which is better, I think,. and FB has other opptions on BLOADing too, so check the "gfxlib.txt" in the doc folder in Von's IDE for the one you want,

Statistics: Posted by Rattrapmax6 — Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:20 am

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2005-04-16T17:49:59-05:00

5:29 PM 4/16/2005
hi pete (exellent site you have here) and all the rest who haunt here, i'm new to this board...
just to introduce myself:
if you want you can call me frog...
my goal is to get involved in the emerging FreeBASIC scene and write some games and electronic simulation software....

rattrapmax: i learned how to bload bmp's by reading the source code from the DemoGamePack you released and i wanted to point out something i really liked in your code..

if the bmp was 320 x 200 (which is basically screen 13 size) following your format i would

Code:

 dim WhatEverTheArrayName(320 * 200)

so it was real easy to keep up with the bmp dimensions while coding.

later,
frog

Statistics: Posted by PhrogPhace — Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:49 pm

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2005-04-16T10:12:57-05:00

Um, like:

BLOAD "filename.bmp"
DIM filename(###)
GET (x, y)-(x1, y1), filename

'Replace ### with numbers acording to size of pic..

There other ways also, check the Gfxlib.txt in the FB docs folder..

Statistics: Posted by Rattrapmax6 — Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:12 am

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2005-04-16T07:23:50-05:00

That's what I'm doing.

Anyone now how to bload bmps in fb?

Statistics: Posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo — Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:23 am

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2005-04-15T09:54:27-05:00

If you change TIME% then the delay will change. A big enough delay will make the program run at the same speed on all computers. If you want it to go faster/slower, adjust TIME%.

Edit: sorry, didn't read your post properly xerol. But Mitth, if you need a millisecond timer, port it to fB And its not 19fps, its 1/19 of a second.

Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:54 am

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2005-04-15T09:51:44-05:00

The problem with that is that it forces the program to run at 19 fps, except in the case that it's running slower, in which case it'll run at some lesser multiple of 19 fps(9.5 or 6.333 or something like that). What needs to be done is time-based motion, where you use a millisecond timer, and then each frame move everything based on how much time has elapsed since the last frame. So you have to make up movement rates for everything - 200 px/sec, for example. Then for every 5ms you'd move it 1 pixel, so if it took 15ms between frames(on a fast machine) you'd move it 3 pixels, but on a slow machine that might take 35ms per frame you'd move it 35 pixels.

Statistics: Posted by Xerol — Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:51 am

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2005-04-15T09:34:32-05:00

(I am qcumber) Uh, no, its an ATi Radeon 9000AP. 9000 isn't the speed of the GPU, and the GPU doesn't process your program so it wouldn't make it go faster. It's not hard to make it run the same speed on all computers:

Code:

    DEF SEG = 0    POKE (1132), 0    CountDown:    IF PEEK(1132) < time% THEN GOTO CountDown    DEF SEG

Where 1 time% is 1/19 of a second. (From the AcidWorks website)

PS: Pete, install GeSHi on these forums!

Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:34 am

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2005-04-14T20:59:29-05:00

Ya thats huge!@
very, very nice Pete

Statistics: Posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo — Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:59 pm

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2005-04-14T16:38:04-05:00

I have a 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 All-In-Wonder card.

It's friggin sweet.

Statistics: Posted by Pete — Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:38 pm

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2005-04-14T12:41:08-05:00

Radeon 9000?!!! Thats like not even exsistant!! Do you mean 900? Cause 9000 is VERY VERY VERY fast if it was out there. Ya its your gfx card, even if its a 900 thats making it go fast.

You see I tryied to slow it down with the timer statment so it only runs on set frames but it goes too slow.

Xerol:
Its then definitly your side, prob. somthing different with your mouse cause DOS shouldn't be affecting the desktop.

Statistics: Posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo — Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:41 pm

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2005-04-14T09:48:34-05:00

I've got a 3.2GHz P4 with 512mb RAM, running Windows XP Pro. Gfx card is a ati Radeon 9000 with 128mb VRAM. Don't know if it's just flicker or what, but it seems to run faster than i expected (maybe its just me).

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:48 am

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2005-04-13T20:11:18-05:00

Well, it's not really working here. Also, it seems like all of the mouse movements/clicks go through to the desktop behind it as well, when I came out of the game half of my icons were moved around and I had opened up several IM windows from Trillian. Not sure if this is a problem on this side or not, I'm using XP Home(unfortunately that's what the laptop came with) and I've got a mouse plugged into the USB port.

Statistics: Posted by Xerol — Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:11 pm

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2005-04-13T17:38:30-05:00

No it works. I made sure on my shitty computer AND my laptop....note: never play that on a laptop pad

Statistics: Posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo — Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:38 pm