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DBAlex
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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 02:49
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found it while searching for "Basic" on amazon and then googled it.

http://www.pyxia.com/

Dont think I would ever use it over DarkBASIC though.


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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 03:06 Edited at: 21st Mar 2005 03:07
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Looks pretty good.



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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 12:08
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IBasic Pro is a very nice programming language. You can also create dll's with it, and there's no license, so do whatever you want with them.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=49061&b=18

The creator of the language(Paul Turley) is also very active on the forums which is helpful.

I probably wouldn't use it over DBP, although it could defintly be a helpful tool to use with DBP.



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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 12:22
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I read about it a year or so ago. At the time, I think it was only good for applications.

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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 13:22
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Hmm... I'm liking that MIDI example that comes with the demo. Could we do a MIDI output app with DBP as well?


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Matt Rock
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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 16:48
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MIDI MIDI MIDI, my biggest problem. We have a really suite Midi keyboard and no free ports on my Vaio to hook it up, hehe. Then again, do I need a second joystick?

Looks okay, but I'm sticking to DB Pro (especially since my entire team had to learn it, hehe). PiratSS' screenshot looked pretty good, but the water and light source detail is the only stuff that doesn't look fairly simplistic. Still, I'd kill to have water that looked that good in my game. Perhaps that's a thread I should start... Making Water Seems as though it's a fairly common problem. Maybe there already is one... I don't think I've ever read anything outside of General Talk, lol.

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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 19:53
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Looks like it's just a bumpmapped plain


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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 02:12
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I downloaded it and tried to compile and run the first two demo programs, (asteroids was one), the first two demo programs crashed and resulted in a "report this error to micro$oft" message, I solved this issue by going to add/remove programs and removing the demo...waste of space imo, if they can`t get the examples in the demo to run on my (fully updated and otherwise rock solid) setup then they obviously have some work to do in the debuggery dept

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Benjamin
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 02:18
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Quote: "Could we do a MIDI output app with DBP as well? "

I think its possible, but it doesn't look easy from what I've seen about using MIDI on the msdn site.


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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 04:02
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But it looks so easy from the iBasic source--- they're not native iBasic commands, either. They're pulling something from a common Windows DLL.


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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 04:18
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Yup, mmsystem.dll is your library for that.


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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 07:22
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IBasic pro does not do 3D yet, but an add on is on the way which you must PAY for, or you can BUY 3impact, like what I did do, Ibasic std does do 3D, And paule has released a Gold ver which has the lot, good for the price when you consider that IB pro was $99 when it was 1st released.

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Mentor, did you make sure you were compiling to an .exe? I think there's three different modes for compiling.

Just a thought.



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Posted: 23rd Mar 2005 04:02 Edited at: 23rd Mar 2005 04:04
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Sorry, but who needs IBasic?
Get Purebasic, it's cheaper, at least when I compared the two programming languages.
And Purebasic is more powerfull.
The creator of IBasic even wants to charge for making your own third party commands.
You can do all that IBasic can do and even more with Purebasic.
Ibasic Pro removed the 3D library, Ibasic Pro is not for free if you bought Ibasic.
All updates to Purebasic were and will be free.
Purebasic supports Window, Linux, MAC and even Amiga OS.
I don't get anything for saying that.
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2005 04:36
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Im only informing the forum about it Xception...Im not saying "Go buy iBasic now or else".


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Benjamin
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2005 04:41
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Or else WHAT? Oh..right, I see your point.


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Posted: 23rd Mar 2005 04:48
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Which is good, seeing as how this is a DB site

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