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W0LF
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Posted: 5th May 2003 19:22 Edited at: 5th May 2003 19:32
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W0LF
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The source is not available. I'm pretty sure that it used to be but someone basicly took the code, made a few modifications to it and called it his own engine. Since then, Truevision has re-written the dll's in C++ instead of VB.

The examples that I have tried with it are exceptionally fast.

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I'm not trying to start a "USE THIS INSTEAD OF DB" debate.

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Yeah, but all DB is is a wrapper. Just more invisible.

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no Visual Basic Engine is even remotely fast, for the EXACT same reason that DarkBasic Standard & Enhanced aren't.
even using the DirectX 9.0 APi specifically developed and interacting at a machine level rather than system level - DarkBasic Professional still runs rings around it.

Simple fact of the matter is that COM programming IS NOT FOR games development, as you need every ounze of speed you can squeeze out of the processor - Visual Basic is designed for Multitasking and as such makes it a very stupid choice for games development...
add to this the language isn't setup for the interaction you really require for anything worth while without taking twice as long to achieve it.
It is an Application Developer, simple as that - those who don't want to believe that don't really want to make games.

as far as i'm conserned there is nothing better for games development than C/C++ as the language is setup extremely well for multiple data maniupulations within a single command line and adding of Assembly for specific speed operations.
However failing that you need a language which will compile to the lowest common denominator, Machine Code - else whatever you're making will always been slow and unweldy.

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Raven,
I can't disagree with your reasons, but the examples that I have tried in TV are impressively fast.

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Perhaps... but depends what impressively fast is
i mean with my GeForce4 or FX i can get around 300fps in VB.Net with Dx9 on an 1.4Ghz system, which yeah i guess is impressive for VB - but considering if i use C++ i can push 900fps doing the same.
impressive is more relative really... once you have full laden games thats where the languages shine too, because VB will slow and quite largely the more and more you use it for actual game development - whereas C++ won't so much.

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Has anyone else noticed that the unholy "Wraithglade" hasn't made a post since....well the start of the topic?

LOL

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"It is a poor musician who blames his instrument"


As for VB, It has bought me a house and car and paid my bills for a decade.

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Well, well. This topic has grown into some interesting discussion considering it was started by a hit-and-run artist.

I agree that C++ is the best language of choice for building the basics of a 3D game. But it can be very annoying when it comes to setting up of projects across different machines. In many cases I believe the setup of the evnironment can be more difficult than the actual coding. That's where the simplicity of a DB or even VB engine becomes attractive.

As a matter of fact, in my opinion, a good C++ engine should condense the core of the actual high-level game programming fucntionality into it's own simplified script, much like, well, Dark Basic!

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Thing is though, TV3D alyways displays a watermark/Logo unless you register. This didn't do that before v5 so I was rather annoyed but hell, bound to happen at some point.

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Jeez, I always do that, miss the next page. Sorry guys, bit slow off the mark there <slap>

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*slap
*bitchslaps
*shoryuken!

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<ouch>, Whats with the handbag man!!!

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:: sits down and eats some popcorn ::
well doesnt look like it matter there's nothing on the box tonite

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Aww, ain't StarTrek on or anything LOL

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What!!!!

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Spaced, 11:30pm

Unfortunate for those who don't get Paramount Comedy though .


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Yeah, thats more likeit!! Love the standup shows to, always loved watching standup

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Regarding the GBA (first page - aint read the rest), i ordered mine from play.com (never pre-ordered), and got it in 2 days

I have always found WHSmith to be a good place to go for consoles, etc.. seems a lot of people dont think of going there for them - everyone sticks to 'GAME', Dixons, etc.

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WHSmith used to be good in my area. But now they are always £5 more expensive for GBA. www.gbax.com is a good place for all things GBA in UK.

As to TGP, basically they are on about episode 18 at the min. And there was around 24-26 episodes in the first series. So only another week and a bit until the second series, and that extremely gorgeous - but crap acting - bird that replaces the frumpy Ozzie - yet actually British (and half south-african methinks) - bird behind the bar. Connie isn't it? Ahhhhhh....... damn Sky for stopping it after the second series.. back off London!! and all that.. erm...

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WOO VB RULES! I miss it I'm gonna get it back tommorow download this truevision see what its like dragon basic is cool I recommend it

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I can't beleive that this has been strung out this long, have you nothing better to do?

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No [b])
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Or me. But then there is no-one in tonight, and my internet connection is working again.... hmmm... sounds kinda dodgey that sentence...

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No I have nothing better to do, theres no problem is there or maybe we should start a I love VB thread

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Oh yeah, DBS'll really love that, chew up the Server with VB threads!

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you think hehehe Oh well I miss VB but I have dbpro to comfort me

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Of course we have nothing better to do! Do you mock us, sir?

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I have plenty of other forums to waste time on!!!

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not me... i've only got 3 i visit right now, here - gfxartists & my own

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DB.......VB...Hey yeah a simularity! They both end with the word BASIC too!!! I think that Dark Basic is a rip off.
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Oh No! They're probably gonna have problems with the copyright people now

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Quote: "I think that Dark Basic is a rip off. "


this statement almost sounds like Microsoft is a ripoff from Squaresoft ..

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Here's a funny link to send to "serious" programmers.

http://www.oceanwave.com/technical-resources/humor/c++-hoax.html

It's about how C++ was a hoax.

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OMG LMAFAO!!
that is the best damn'd read i've seen in donkey's years
christ... be funny if lee came out the same way in like 5years time.

"proud of DBP? ... you betcha, it was a major joke on the small following we'd got really - where we added the illusion that we were improving the language, but in actual fact our original language DarkBasic had everything in place for this and we we just flicking boolean switching and raking it in."

hehee
must say that would explain a whole hell of alot about the language, i just wonder about certain C++ compilers how they've changed from the original Joke Languages C++ to what is around now - certainly would be interesting to know

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Thank you for your appreciation of my post.

The truth is, I never got the big deal with C++. It is a stupid and overly complicated language that does everything so tightly that nothing truly new will ever spring from it.

Honestly, as godless as it is to learn, you might as well skip the foreplay and code straight machine code.

Look at the sorry bastards who have tried to code AI in C++. Like anything as unique and beautiful as intelligence will ever spring the rigid, Vulcan mind of C++!

C++ is the Third Reich of programming. There is a sense that it's rigidity will overwhelm everything else. But in the end dumb Americans and suicidal Russian put the Nazis in their place -- history's dustbin.

BASIC is a lot like the Allies were during WWII . . . Sloppy and weak, but they were good people committed to defeating evil even if the devil is better trained and equipped.

BASIC IS THE WESTERN WAY!

Lazy, dumb, and capable of beating better systems only with mass production and delusional TV-induced faith.

A lot of people started learning German in the 30s. They were wrong, and so are C++ programmers.

Hopefully, C++ will soon join it's kin.

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Quit dissing VB's speed. I've made 3D things in VB that run at speeds I could never dream of in DB Classic and on par with DBP (using only the the DX8.1 SDK, no other C++ compiled DLLs). Now of course I would never dream of considering VB as an alternative to C++ for serious game development but saying that anything made with VB automatically becomes slow just isn't true.

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VB is nothing like DB. The only simerlarities between them is they are in BASIC programming language. [b])

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A_M the underlining nature of VB makes it bloody slow for 3D or anything that is not really system based...
why? because it carries so much overhead which means that its system access if far greater and quicker than C++

whilst i'll agree that i can match DB quite admirably and probably pass it using Dx8.1 (remember that DB is only 7.0a)

it has nothing on DBpro ... it just can't handle the speed, and that isn't just because i'm dissing it as you put it - it is a given fact of what the language was designed for, and games programming was NOT on the books when it was designed.

facts are facts, although my GeForceFX can push like 300fps in VB - compared to 780fps in DBPro and 900fps in C++ there is just no comparison speed wise... and thats on a blank instance
you have anything as complex as a game running and it'll just slow exponencially. Because it just IS NOT designed for it.

if you want the VB system access yet the power of C++ to create powerful games, then use C#
but still VB should only really be used for applications
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