SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

I downloaded DarkBasicPro, which is apparently now free and OpenSource (has been a while I believe)

Just to see what all that fuss used to be about

I find it's really not as bad as some Blitz-users seem to make out, I guess the rivalry was just due to the competition being so close. The IDE is very nice and featured, and being able to define icons and executable details is a handy time saver.
I doubt I have the time and energy to really dive into it and explore its potential, but initial impressions are that it's perhaps a little more "user friendly" than B3D at achieving pretty much of the same.

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Full disclosure - It was only because the DarkBasic disc never worked on my first laptop that I sought an alternative and found Blitz3D - never looked back!

My money would be on Blitz3D never tried DB pro.

DBpro is alright, from what I remember though a lot of DBpro's community was somewhat disjointed when it came to feedback or tip's
Blitz3d's community seemed more organised.

DB Pro is SLOW!  still have the original CD case and book

You'd be better sticking to Blitz3d or BlitzMaxNG

Kind Regards Baggey

i would bet b3d has more performance for less features. idk why darkbasic would not be comparable with this new updated blitz3d libsgd. i guess with contemporary modern hardware it could be made to have better or comparable performance.

i wanted to use darkbasic to dev. actually a rs friend convinced me to use blitz3d and i think that may had been a mistake although i like the tech aspects of b3d. may be my life would have been better or i'd made a cool multiplayer game for its time as an indie. it was circa 2001 2002 i posted on the darkbasic forums asking about it. i was learning math at the time to apply to game dev but bad life things happened to me in person, and drugs. however i were actually able to do a terrain tile system with that users help. if such things hadnt happened, i could very well had been an excellent programmer and released a game if i stuck to it because i was learning and able to comprehend what i consider advanced math concepts that i do not know about or have difficulty comprehending today including programming language. actually i had a hand in and did some reverse engineering may be even starting the reverse engineering project of runescape and the code that became winterlove, i'm that user who wanted love in winter in 2005 or what year and leaked it that is how i was able to obtain it. that may had been also a project i started some years earlier. i suffered severe brain damage so.. lost a lot of abilities like that.

Quotei was learning math at the time to apply to game dev but bad life things happened to me in person, and drugs. however i were actually able to do a terrain tile system with that users help.

Do you still have any of this?

Baggey

from what i remember, the discussions and code examples on the old blitzbasic forums, were waaayyy more technical and detailed than those on the old darkbasic forums...

it depends on your coder profile, if the features of a game engine limit you, complicate your work rather than simplify it, it is better to code features more suited to your game, by yourself...

Quote from: Baggey on October 26, 2024, 18:17:37

Quotei was learning math at the time to apply to game dev but bad life things happened to me in person, and drugs. however i were actually able to do a terrain tile system with that users help.

Do you still have any of this?

Baggey

What you mean? The servant engine man. I do not remember what the game project were actually called, my God complex I was enlisting a servant to code and it became leaked as that. ( the leaker did no contribution) 4Anyway what's to say. I could had been really good at programming really intuitively. (I know that's not the point though) Things happened though. Some of it not my fault. I gave up on it I wasn't feeling it I fell behind. My guy who was helping teach me left because of that. People dont even acknowledge I've been around a long time involved in blitz and things. I used to feel really sad about such things falling behind. I don't remember any of you if I've known you.

Oh you mean the skill. Yes and no. Not the math. But some idea to get started.