What Billy The Kid means is that you can buy a really good graphics card for like $50 US. (Heck, I can buy that entire computer you have for $50)
Also when you say "No Graphics Card" you are slightly incorrect. You mean "No Hardware Accelerator". Huge difference. If you didn't have a graphics card, there would be nothing for your monitor to plug into and therefore you would not see anything.
Note also that there is a difference in "DBPRO" which is "DarkBASIC Professional" and "DGSDK" which is "Dark Game SDK".
DBPro comes with it's own little environment to write code in and instantly see the results be compiling the code (using the provided DBP IDE). The language that is used to make programs in this package is called basic. Code will look something like this:
TEXT 1,1,"Hello World"
DO
SYNC
LOOP
That prints "Hello World" to the screen.
DGSDK you will need to purchase a IDE, such as Microsoft Visual C++ or get the free one of Dev C++ but it is currently not supported until the next update comes out. The language that is used to make programs in this package is called C/C++. Code will look something like this:
Same thing as DBPro but in DGSDK:
#include "DarkSDK.h"
void DarkSDK ( void )
{
dbSyncOn ( );
dbSyncRate ( 0 );
while ( LoopSDK ( ) )
{
if ( dbEscapeKey ( ) )
return;
dbText (1,1,"Hello World");
dbSync ( );
}
}
You do not need "DBPro" in order to use "DGSDK" nor do you need "DGSDK" to use "DBPro" There are seperate packages.
Question is, which do you want to use?
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