Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 15:44

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Okay, while I didn't really find an answer to my question I am going to close this project for now. The final version (for now) can be found at https://github.com/PeterSwinkels/GWBlocks .

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 15:25

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@ripsaw8080: I tried converting all the string based stuff to numeric arrays, but it doesn't appear to help much. 10 DEFINT A-Z 20 DIM MOVEDMAP(15) 30 DIM PIT(9, 15) 40 DIM ROTATEDMAP(15) 50 DIM SHAPEMAP(15) 60 DIM SHAPES(6, 15) 70 GOSUB 850 80 END 90 FULLROW = 0 100 FOR PITY = 0 TO 15 110 FULLROW = …

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-22, 09:45

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Yes, the way GWBasic executes code is slow. You’re mistaken, while variables are single precision floating points by default you can declare a variable as an integer. You can use the percentage or ampersant type declaration character to declare a variable as an integer. You can also declare …

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-22, 08:31

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1. Yes, that is true. More cycles does fix the problem. But again the point of this exercise was getting the job done with what would have been available while GWBasic would still have been in general use. I think 66 MHz is already too fast in that regard. An actual machine running GWBasic probably …

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 16:22

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Yes, I could use a more modern version of BASIC but that's not the point. The idea was to make a working game with the limited resources that would have been available when GWBasic 3.23 was just released.

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-19, 21:13

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Tokenized or ASCII doesn't appear to matter.

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-18, 21:14

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Okay, I changed the code so the most frequently occurring jumps are now forward jumps and got rid of a few repititive calculations. https://github.com/PeterSwinkels/GWBlocks/blo … in/GWBLOCKS.BAS There appears to be a slight increase in speed.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 11:47

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Here is part of a post I made while back on this forum: When I started this thread I was trying to get the game to work in a Virtual Machine because for some reason that is beyond me a 16-bit installer was supplied for a 32-bit game. Any way, I found a way to install Nightmare Ned on 64-bit Windows. …

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 11:42

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Thank you, I will look at your suggestions when I have the time.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 10:22

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Nightmare Ned works fine on Windows 10 with dgVoodoo2. You must have 32 bit Windows 10, right? I forgot to mention I use 64 bit. The game has 16 bit installers for its components while it is a 32 bit game. I found a replacement installer for the game, but then got stuck unable to get DirectX to be …

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 10:19

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Someone else pointed this out to at VBForums where I asked the same question. I tried compiling the code with BasCom 2.20 but that compiler is too old. 🙁

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 09:18

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I can't believe people recommend Audigys for Win 98 builds. Having just fought with one over the last 2 days, the experience has been awful. Firstly the driver installation process is slow, and the bundled software is bloated with crapware, not all of which you can de-select (I'm looking at you …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-02-15, 15:12

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Okay, there appear to be several people here who own actual 90's hardware. Could someone do me a favor and see how the code at https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79477 performs on a real system from the 80's or 90's in GWBasic 3.23? As it stands it only needs a graphics card supporting low …

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-15, 13:23

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Okay, I made a few changes which should make the code faster, but it doesn't appear to help much: 10 DEFINT A-Z: GOSUB 950: END 20 FULLROW = 0 30 FOR PITY = 0 TO 15 40 FULLROW = -1 50 FOR PITX = 0 TO 9 60 IF MID$(PIT$, ((10 * PITY) + PITX) + 1, 1) = "0" THEN FULLROW = 0: GOTO 80 70 NEXT PITX 80 IF …

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Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-15, 10:54

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I checked the link, while it is an interesting read it doesn't appear to be all that useful to my specific problem. Is it possible to disable the FPU in DOSBox or Quick Basic to check this? I am going to try restructuring the program flow to make it more efficient, while it is probably going to hurt …

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RESOLVED - Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-14, 14:17

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Hi, I converted a Quick Basic program to work in GWBasic. At an emulated speed of 66 Mhz my program runs at an acceptable speed in Quick Basic, in GWBasic however it runs very slugglishly. It having been long a while ago I ever played with GWBasic can't figure out where exactly the problem might be. …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-10, 18:55

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"Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology) is a neologism introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. The concept refers to the return or persistence of elements from the past, as in the manner of a ghost."

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-10, 07:40

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"hauntological "? My that is one big word I need to look up on...

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-08, 23:11

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I confess I use new tech to persist in decades old habits.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-08, 16:16

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There's always been a 'now' all through time and most people simply move along without much reflection or engagement with any aspect of their own nor their cultural past. I don't want to drag this thread too off-topic; but for most of recorded history 'now' and 'the past' were largely …

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