The "Are you sure you want to quit?" message may be annoying but it is a safeguard to keep you from accidentally actually quitting when you press esc. Yes, that is a good thing for me :-) The command interface is designed after the classic game "Battlezone 1 1998". For those who...

Oh, and another one. With 32 for 'bitsperpixel', I would expect that it saves the alpha-channel, but it does not. I'll makes some test code... This input image: https://nr100.home.xs4all.nl/badidea/Berlin_sans32.bmp This code: const as integer SCREEN_W = 800 const as integer SCREEN_H = ...

My chm help file (for version 1.0.5) says on BSAVE: Syntax Declare Function BSave ( ByRef filename As Const String, ByVal source As Any Ptr, ByVal size As Ulong = 0, ByVal pal As Any Ptr = 0, ByVal bitsperpixel As Long = 0 ) As Long Usage result = BSave( filename, source [,[ size ][,[ pal ][, bitspe...

tip: the unit you control does not (seem to) fire I discovered that with a "Patrol" unit you can fire with the "Left shift" button. The whole interface via keyboard is complicated, a mouse base interface would be better I think. The number of key you have to press to create a &q...

I managed to start a game, fly around, place 2 watch towers, but then I did not understand how to continue / what to do. Anything specific that was confusing? Here is the gameplay guide https://www.indiedb.com/games/basic-warfare/news/basic-warfare-gameplay-guide It doesn't document everything but ...

mambazo wrote:Did this fizzle out?

It was fizzling out and then Lachie diverted all attention to his game competition thread :-)

Without "^", "mod", "\" : 'similarly rr and test carry cls dim as ubyte i dim as ushort o = 0, c = 0 input "Number 0-255: ", i print "in: " & i & " - " & bin(i, 8) do o += ((i and 1) * (1 shl c)) c += 1 o += ((i and 1) * (1 shl ...

The .chm file contains the same information as the wiki, but more convenient searching + off-line.

BTW, anyone playing ChangeV's entry? It's starting to grow on me, more and more. I have played ChangeV's game. The sprite animation is really good. I only once managed to beat the 3rd boss, and I lost immediately after with a score of 1960! 3rd boss? I only managed to survive a minute or so, until ...

I managed to start a game, fly around, place 2 watch towers, but then I did not understand how to continue / what to do.

I assume you did find the online documentation: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=DocToc
and the off-line versions: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/fi ... mentation/ ?

... regardless who organizes them ... The prize money is insane and awesome, but organizing (a competition) is not something many people like to do. Also the sponsors need to trust the organizer. Can I vote on round 1 when joining round 2? I tried to register on your forum, but the registration awa...

i want to create a set of wireles network games ?1 : do i use BT or wifi ? ?2 : is there anyone out there whoo know's how to do 1 or both ? a module whit functions to do this wood be nice as first project i sugest batleship [ both player's have a pc whit a square whit ships ] [ and try to gues the ...

Dodicat's program modified for non-Windows use as well: #ifdef __FB_WIN32__ #INCLUDE once "win/winsock2.bi" #Else #INCLUDE once "crt/netdb.bi" #INCLUDE once "crt/sys/socket.bi" #INCLUDE once "crt/netinet/in.bi" #INCLUDE once "crt/arpa/inet.bi" #INCLU...

Landeel wrote:Weird... Are you sure this isn't inverted? It sets multithreading=1 when you run for the first time.

Sorry, you are correct, values inverted.