I'm bored and have been bored for too long
- {Nathan}
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I'm bored and have been bored for too long
I need a challenge. I am fresh out of ideas. I want to do the current map challenge, but I do not have any ideas. Also, if anyone can write a tutor on how to use useless sock lib, than I would have something to do. I never got very good at using libraries, so I don't know how to use Direct QB, Dash, or CosmoX either, so I would like a tutor about those too, but not too, well, meh, you know,
Vic did a very good tutorial on how to use DirectQB, plus the DirectQB tutorial document is very thorough. Future Library also has great documentation.
Here's the DirectQB tuts I mentioned:
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tut ... tor19.txtp
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tut ... torial.txt
The Future Lib tut comes packaged with the library, or you can find it printed in one of the old QB Times issues.
Here's the DirectQB tuts I mentioned:
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tut ... tor19.txtp
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tut ... torial.txt
The Future Lib tut comes packaged with the library, or you can find it printed in one of the old QB Times issues.
- {Nathan}
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Well, I am sure some people use useless sock. It would be very useful for this current challenge, too. Also, I want to do something constructive, but I have done all my puzzles, lost my lego and am sick of my k'nex, and what the heck am I supposed to do with 500 popsicle sticks? (I really have 500 of them...)
I need more. Mabye if I have something else to do, you wouldn't get another bill for 2 cents, lol
I need more. Mabye if I have something else to do, you wouldn't get another bill for 2 cents, lol
The BMP routine is a strange beast...I already know that it does not work properly when windowed in XP, it needs to be run fullscreen from the very start (before you even run the EXE, it needs to be configured to run fullscreen). It's also possible that the techniques used for the BMPs aren't effective on all video cards, especially certain newer NVidia cards. It looks like this is the start of yet another compatability battle.
Using "standard" palette methods don't work as they should. It seems the VGA registers ignore requests to modify the palette at certain values...so what I found I could do is use the second set of values (16 thru 31) and set it there, then remap the original 16 to the second set of 16. This doesn't seem to work on MX-based cards though, as we've now both seen...
Yeah But I just tried this program:
And colors 0-7 excluding 6 and colors 16-23 excluding 22 got black black, as expected. So altering colors 16-23 excluding 22 does work this way...
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DEFINT A-Z
FOR I = 0 TO 31
OUT &H3C8, I
OUT &H3C9, 0
OUT &H3C9, 0
OUT &H3C9, 0
COLOR I
PRINT "TEST COLOR" + STR$(I)
NEXT I
Oh yeah,
Mabey some other weapons too like a Paintball gun or a toothpick...
Come on thats a game worth creating, taking a toothpick, a flamethrower
or a shotgun to rampaging rabid squrrils!
Of course there might be some moral issues in that...but what games now
a days focuses on morality?
-Mit
P.S. Mabey you could make them supersquirrils with jetpacks for an extra
interest keeper, or mabey boss squirrils too...oooh.
Your imagineation is the limit.
Mabey some other weapons too like a Paintball gun or a toothpick...
Come on thats a game worth creating, taking a toothpick, a flamethrower
or a shotgun to rampaging rabid squrrils!
Of course there might be some moral issues in that...but what games now
a days focuses on morality?
-Mit
P.S. Mabey you could make them supersquirrils with jetpacks for an extra
interest keeper, or mabey boss squirrils too...oooh.
Your imagineation is the limit.