Pete's QBASIC Site

I can't find ANY tilesets for platform games. Anything that you can find to use in a platformer is fine. Sprites are less important. I have already some lame XOR generated tiles, but now I want to load them into the engine to see what problems I face(and to see if the collision detection works etc.)...

I don't know if you know about my FB game design oriented dummy level tutorial: http://lachie.phatcode.net/Downloads/How_To_Program_A_Game_1.zip Thanks. I actually saw them already one time, but I din't thought about it. I glanced at it and it was indeed exactly what I'm searching for! FreeBASIC ha...

I always do screen flipping with a buffer, and then you PUT it to the screen. This way you can write to the buffer with POKE, which is faster then PSET. It is also possible in SCREEN 13, where page flipping isn't built-in. And I think that page flipping is the best way to animate and eliminate flick...

Does somebody have good tutorials for FB? I already have FB, but I don't know all of it's new things. I searched for FB tutorials, but I found mostly the tutorials that are meant to learn FB from scratch. I, however, have alreay a background in programming in QB, but don't know the possibilities and...

Great! The first 3d animator I understand . Easy to use and good results. Thanks! I am going to use it!

Yes, but 2d and 3d projectile motion is based on 1d kinematics. After all, movement and rate of movement are based of vectors. And vector components are 1d math.

Ok, it just sounded kinda weird .

Ow, I thought the the downloaders had to pay to play the game. That wouldn't work . It is actually a good tip you're giving, I just misunderstood you. It would be very nic eif I could earn money by people that download your program.

Getting paid is not the purpose of most programmers that are writing in qb. Also people don't download games that: 1. Are written in the ancient programming language QBASIC. 2. You have to PAY (!??!) for. Nonetheless, thanks for your tip. Maybe that some guys that write really good-quality games are...

I submitted a tutorial on 1-d projectile motion. I'm thinking about doing one on 2d next. 1d, huh? Ok... Jusy never saw a 1d game or something. Well, I've finished the worms-engine tutorial. It has become a reasonable tutorial, but too much theory in my opinion. It doesn't give you much code, only ...

I think this is a great idea. I often have no idea what to take as a topic to write a tutorial about. Also I often have questions about how things are done. So that would be a perfect solution, I think. This is also great because the requested tutorials would be updated every issue, so you can see w...

I believe you can do this with:
OPEN file$ FOR BINARY AS #1

CLOSE #1

But I don't know how to write to the file. Thought it was with POKE:

POKE p&, c
p& is the place where to poke c.
c is in the range of 0-255.

I have to say that this tutorial is a hard subject to write about, and it isn't going to be one of my best tutorials, believe me... :oops: . It covers too much theory, this is because I can't actually write such an engine myself. I also covered how to save big maps with a binary storage method, but ...

I have few requests. A tutorial about using PEEK/POKE statements with some examples where it can be used. Dummy level. I wrote this tutorial, it will be featered in the next (octobre) issue :) . A tutoria about a Worms-like engine. You know, how to create an engine which features destructible and c...

You can use Alt-enter to switch fullscreen/windowed mode. If that doesn't work, (I can only run qb windowed in text mode on my XP computer), maybe ehm, I don't know, because I never used one, but would a DOS emulator work? You use QB to acces a network or something, if I understand you well. Is the ...

You can change the RGB values of a colour with out. This may look difficult, but it is actually very easy. Just use: OUT &H3C8, colour (use 0 for background colour) OUT &H3C9, Red(0-63) OUT &H3C9, Green(0-63) OUT &H3C9, Blue(0-63) Use 63 for red, green and bluw to make it bright whit...

It's always handy to have a plan when you're making big or complex games. Write the complex parts of what you want to do up (in notepad or on a paper) then look what equations or operations need to be done and then you write the things up that may come in handy (such as equations that you need much)...

Ok, I send it to you, Pete. I would send it anyway, but I was planning it for the next issue. Now I have to write something else. But don't worry, I have enough ideas . Think I'm going to write something about effects in games. Not sure, just an idea.

Does anyone have requests for demo effects? I can write a tutorial on it. I know how to do the most effects, except for the very special ones. BTW I love to search out how to do effects that I don't know, so just ask me. I only include pure qbasic, so no things are included such as libs or asm. I do...

I've made a tutorial on floormapping, you want that also? I intended to post it on the next issue, but if there are too less tutorials now, I can send it right now. It is already finished since a few days.

Sorry, Mac but your code didn't solved the problem for me. I made the mul320 LUT integer, and now it works, weird enough. It is really weird, because now it gives overflow in IDE, but compiles correctly. Thanks for spending your time on my problems, though. Just change: DIM mul320(199) AS LONG to: D...