Pete's QBASIC Site

What programming languages have a "bit" as variable type? I saw QB64 has. This is very useful. In a engine wher eI scroll an large monochrome map. For this, I have to make an array of integers, load them with PEEK and POKE(because they use bytes) and then use a byte-to-bit LUT, and again a...

I have to say that I really, really like it. It is easy to use and seems to cover a lot of qb syntax already. The compiled exe is fast. Give it like about a year, and it will be really cool, I think. Maybe it would be better for Galleon's reputation if he released a demo when the project was in a fu...

SETMOUSE , ,0 to hide the mouse. The big black box? The background? line(0,0)-(320,200),4,bf I guess that does what you want or just PAINT (0, 0), 1, 15 ?. Thanks. I meant the console though (didn't know that they called it so). I found out that you can hide it with adding -s gui in the command lin...

Use qb 4.5 when you can. It is faster and, like Nodtveidt said, it produces smaller .exe's (I didn't know this though :P). But, qb 7.1 has a few more options. I needed it once because it has a command to show you all files in a map or something like that. If you have to use qb 7.1, you can download ...

Thanks. BTW I already know that Freebasic is the future, QB is the past.

I had some problems with compiling, but I am gonna move on to FB soon, I think. Maybe I will release a Qbasic demo soon(with Optimus). After that I'm definately done with QB.

You are making that 256 bit color depth in screen res command :shock: screenres width,height,[depth],[num_pages],[flag],[refresh_rate] try giving 60 hz as refresh rate? Haha, 256 colours I thought :P. Well it works with: SCREENRES 320, 200, 8, 1, 1, 60 Nice! Now is there a way to hide that ugly emp...

Damn. Please, be reasonable. I already said sorry for forgetting. Too much weed probably. Anyway, try to tell why you lose your mind before you lose your mind. What code you mean? I never credit someone's other code, so if it happens, it's accidentally. But please, tell me about it. I don't play a g...

Use block IFs instead of trying to cram it all onto one line. You might also want to come up with a more intuitive method of representing your code too, as that looks rather inefficient. Decimal-to-binary converter, eh? :) Yes :). I've found that the problem is the binary-to-number converter, becau...

I want to compile a program that consists this piece of code: CLS DEFINT A-Z DIM SHARED btn(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1) DIM SHARED ntb(255, 7) FOR n = 0 TO 255 IF (n AND 1) THEN ntb(n, 0) = 1: b0 = 1 ELSE b0 = 0 IF (n AND 2) THEN ntb(n, 1) = 1: b1 = 1 ELSE b1 = 0 IF (n AND 4) THEN ntb(n, 2) = 1: b2 = 1 ...

burger2227 wrote:What ever happened to the graphics text stuff Ildurest and I showed you?

What graphics text stuff. Sorry but I really don't know where you are talking about. Can you tell me or send me a link to that?

The competition could either be about coding something specific the shortest way, or it could be about the "best" program. In that case, a poll or something should be in the QBE. I would like to organize the competition, but I don't know how to make a poll in QBE. It would be great if some...

nice (like your programs use to be)!

Well I only know about the contest to code a game in 4 lines, but I have seen no contests in the last QBE. But it soundslike fun indeed. I really hope on a new contest.

Please? Serious, I would like a new coding competition. It would be really nice. I am very interested in it. I searched and acidentally came across one in 2004 or something to code a game in four lines. That kind of stuff is really nice, and it could help to fill some space in QBE, for if you have l...

This is about a map scrolling engine that I've thought of while writing an article for QBE. I first doubted if it was fast enough, but I'm very enthousast now, because it runs at 100 fps(compiled of course) on a good computer. The engine doen't look good, but look beneath that and look at the possib...

The NR variable will never reach more then two becuase this line: IF IN1 = 1 THEN NR = 1 ELSE NR = 0 Sets NR to 0 or 1. So the maximal value of NR at the end of the loop is two (1 from the IF statement and one because you added one after that with NR = NR + 1) What always helps is looking at your pr...

Here is some code. Try to understand it. I tried to give the variables self-explaining names. I can add some comments if you want. BTW, you can change the variables, but the program will get an error if you make the values too large or small (for example if you tweak the list so that it becomes bigg...

You mean you want to compress the file? :S BTW, all the files can be opened with OPEN file$ FOR BINARY AS #1, it's actually not that they "are" binary files. They are just changed the binary way. I don't know about LOF(X) but I think it just returns the amount of bytes that that file uses....

Ow sorry. I thought you meant to built that code out to an engine or something. Thought you was a noob haha. I think you can just take a polyfiller from somewhere (or make your own if you can, else you can try to learn it, I believe it ain't that hard). Then you have to sort the polygons on z-center...

You can also just use a screen buffer in screen 13. This would be easier then using a library in my opinion. If you're familiar with PUT, it's fairly easy. But, with a library it probably faster and you probably will have to code less, but you won't learn much from it.