Wish I had seen this sooner. I love these competitions. Sadly my father passed in December and I've been too busy to check the boards. Thanks Lachie for giving me the heads up but I don't think I can get a game together in 7 days.

-Vince

Ad-hoc networking on Windows 10 is a little more complicated because you need to ensure... 1. You have enabled network browsing 2. You have password protected sharing on or off 3. You have set up the proper resource sharing permissions 4. You have set up the proper security permissions (Different fr...

Previous Try/Catch for FB

-Vince

Bye DJ! Keep in touch.

-Vince

Another example, I don't like the syntax: If Len(string) Then ... Obviously this syntax compiles well and works but this code BASIC is not "clean" in my humble opinion, because the expression 'Len (string)' is neither true nor false, but conversely the expression 'Len (string) = 0' is tru...

I would like to poll the FB community of developers to create a Top 50 list of topics that you think a new developer should learn. This can include simple things like binary and hex numbers to more complex concepts like polymorphism and multi-threading. The goal is to create a curriculum that would ...

I would resample the 888 RGB 24bit to 323 RGB 8Bit. At work right now but I could give it a try this evening.

-Vince

Check out the ScreenControl function.

-Vince

Just remember that the FreeBASIC compiler recognizes symbols as they occur in your source code. If you reference a SUB or FUNCTION or variable before that symbol has been declared, the compiler will treat it as unknown.

-Vince

IIRC FB uses the high resolution timer internally when available so using a double to store a start time could be used for comparisons. Pseudo Code Dim loopStart as Double ' Start Game Loop Do if (Timer-loopStart > .33) Then 'This is 30 FPS 'Process Logic 'Render Screen loopStart = Timer End if Slee...

How are you timing your game loop? Do you allow so many game ticks per second? You can accomplish this most easily by using a timer variable to limit how many passes per second. More accurately you would process your game movement based on the elapsed time for each game tick but this is more involve...

MrSwiss wrote:@Vince,

it isn't exactly helpful, to compare a relatively new SOC (R-Pi), with "stone-age" PC-HW ...
(as comparing Apples and Bananas, while both are "fruit's")

I guess the real question is, why not just replace the stone-age PC-HW with a $35 Raspberry pi?

-V

I've run Linux with the Mono framework on a $35 Raspberry Pi computer with 1Gb RAM and my c# app ran fine (and it was graphic intensive). I would imagine a POS app would run just fine. Many assemblies or DLLs for .NET can be used on Mono. And there is always more than one way to approach a problem. ...

Why not move to Linux and use VB under Mono? Its just like VB.NET, and its free. Depending on how your VB code is written, it may work with little or no modification.

Nothing against FB. Just seems like the right tool for the job.

-Vince

Just so you are aware, your hexconvert function is not necessary. Just use Hex(value,2) to guarantee you get a 2-digit value.

-Vince