Yes, i believe Tramiel was a businessman, wanted to earn money.

What we can see in the timeline in this video (28:58) after C64 in 1982, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiZbUypMlQ which was sold over 15.000.000 times, the world awaited a "Super C64" to appear. But this never happened. Commodore has done few attempts, like Plus 4, C128, Amiga and then ...

Later i bought a C64 because there was much more software. Now gaming hell was opened. One of me favourites was "Rocket Ball" where i learned each dirty trick, so that no one could beat me at this game...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWFupPvEug

Naturally we know, the plan is to keep FB as short as possible, so that executables become small. Further extensions can be added by everybody as needed.

leopardpm wrote: like it!

Agree. I think this fits perfectly into the original BASIC style.

it is a continual annoyance to me that FB does not directly handle sprites(and animation)/PNGs/sound, though I think I understand the reasoning.... sorry, this is just complaining and I don't need to do that... Yes, FB is OK like it is at the moment. But if we think of the things which could be add...

leopardpm wrote:I think the graphics also had a sprite system built-in..

Right, for that there were the GSHAPE - SSHAPE commands, afaik.

But Commodore made the mistake not to continue their their success line with a C1024 and so forth. Instead they bought Amiga and this was the beginning of the end.

Edit: typo

youtube: The basics of BASIC , the programming language of the 1980s Nice to think for the beginning. In this Video you see at 25;06 the commodore +4 with the black case and the cursor keys like arrows which was my first machine in 1986. It has the CBM Basic V 3.5 built in on ROM so that was immedi...

Nice dog! Most of the time i am using libs ,ike cairo, fltk-c or fbimage where .png is included, so no need to care for this. And they all are platform independent. Maybe you decide one day to switch to linux or mac like i did. When only surfing or programming with geany i simply not notice a real d...

Hello everybody I am the Forgotten Coder and after searching this forum i couldn't find a simple sub that loads a png file into an image . Maybe i didn't search enough ... Welcome, here you will be remembered. We are fiddling around a lot with libs from the C world. There we find everything which i...

This seems the best GUI for FB at the moment. All works out of the box here on Linux Mint 18.3 64bit.

Juergen Kuehlwein wrote: The command "printf" was misspelled or could not be found
What is wrong?

Can it be you don't have gcc on the path?

Great to have eu symbol as FB routine. Fascinating to see how short code it is in your program. You both are better programmers than me. :-)

' cairo_snowflake.bas ' http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~sb/wissrech/cairo3_recursion.c #include once "cairo/cairo.bi" sub snowflake_arm(byval cr as cairo_t ptr, byval l as integer) cairo_move_to(cr, 0.0, 0.0) cairo_line_to(cr, 0.0, 0.5) cairo_stroke(cr) if l > 0 then cairo_save(cr) cai...