OT: I have started making a few games...

[ZeroAdunn]

You know, I really miss the days when I could plop a few hundred down on cool software packages. I really wish I could order this stuff, and it isn't too expensive, but unfortunately life manages to get ahold of ya, and before long a few bad decisions find you trying to just keep up with the bills.. sigh, I need a new job.

[deccan]

Anyone know of any similar packages?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I've heard of blitzbasic, even tested it a little bit, but decided to stick with the one I already knew.

[Suicide Junkie]

I've got an ancient qbasic compiler from the early 80's.
Back then you only had a fistfull of Mhz and 640k RAM if you were lucky, so its quite efficient and blazing fast, especially with ASCII graphics .

[Hugh Manatee]

Suicide Junkie said:
I've got an ancient qbasic compiler from the early 80's.
Back then you only had a fistfull of Mhz and 640k RAM if you were lucky, so its quite efficient and blazing fast, especially with ASCII graphics .

Yeah, those used to come with Dos and Windows I got lots of DOS discs with them lying around, and I think they used to give them away free, they still might on their website somewhere. I know they have comand line compiler only Versions of Visual Basic.net(or VB6.0 I forget)

[Hugh Manatee]

deccan said:
Anyone know of any similar packages?

Programming IDE/compilers or stuff specificly geared for games?

I know there is a great 3D game cretion suite called A6, it's expensive, and I know of several 2D "Game Makers", most free which have their own built in IDEs and scripting Languages. I know of MANY free straight programming IDEs, Compilers, libraries for graphics and more, utilities, most free and some open sorce.

... now if I could just figure out how to use them..... [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img]

Alsothis Robo Code thing looks awesome:
Robocode

[deccan]

Hugh Manatee said:

Programming IDE/compilers or stuff specificly geared for games?

I mean stuff specifically geared for games.

Robocode looks cool. I used to mess around with Core Wars.

I just tried to buy DarkBasic but they won't take an Amex card.

[Hugh Manatee]

You can get it off of amazon.com , I got it for $8 on sale(non pro Version), the pro Version is comparable to buying off their site too.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Don't buy DBC. Although it has a few things that didn't make it over, by and large DBP is much better.

Unless, you know, it's $8 bucks.

[deccan]

Hugh Manatee said:
You can get it off of amazon.com , I got it for $8 on sale(non pro Version), the pro Version is comparable to buying off their site too.

Amazon will only ship software to within US.