If this place is gonna "re-ignite" it's gonna be very much in your hands. Ask a lot of questions and maybe someone will take the time to help you :)

Cheers
Uni

Ironically it would have run on my old XP machine.

I wrote a similar program to yours which you might want to take a look at here on the Basic4GL forum. :)

I don't use FreeBasic but I'm fairly sure I could answer questions on general programming with it as opposed to questions on specific functions and so on.

Anyway, good luck with your programming. :)

Thanks, Karl

my simple freeware Basic4GL drawing program "Mandala"

is available here:
http://karl.kiwi.gen.nz/swindex1.html

Often everything is black at the start, despite a programmed grey background and black square outlining the drawing area.
What did I do wrong?

Thanks for any help,
Karl

I spent some time wondering around the site and downloaded FreeBASIC and FBIde. It took me quite a while to find those and figure out what to do with them! As for lessons the FreeBASIC tutorials are doing great for a beginner like me!! As long as I learn the hows and whats and some of the more generic functions common to most programming languages, I think I'll do fine on any of them.

Now that I've got my feet planted where I need them to be, I know I can just trundle along at my own pace. I'll be sure to ask you peeps any questions I have!

Cheers!!!

FoM.

I say check out Matthew's links, either of those languages/Game Maker would work. If you were to choose GM, you could probably head over to the Game Maker Wiki, which is run by the same guy as this site. As for Basic4GL and Brutus2D, you could probably get some help from us here.

You should also take a look at Game Maker the free version is a bit feature limited but you can develop games without too much effort. :)

I've just signed on and I'm looking to learn about design and programming. I'm mostly an RPG/strategy gamer, and I've been really fascinated by the ASCII game Dwarf Fortress by Bay 12 Games. I just read "A theory of fun for game design", by Raph Koster, and I really appreciated the view that learning and challenges are what makes a game fun. One of the earliest games I played that had a huge impact on my life was Ultima IV (Sega console, I think). It stuck out to me so much because the game requires you to behave, in-game, according to a set of virtues that you must eventually become an avatar of. This was different to the usual win-by-killing games I had played and have played since. This game had real world implications for me by teaching me about virtues, values, and beliefs, and I would someday like to program a similar ASCII or tile-based game.

I have near-to-no programming experience whatsoever. I did a little html back in the 90s, I played around with RPG Maker 2000 at about the same time, and while I'm comfortable with maths, I am no genius. I find I learn best by a) having a relevant context, and b) having concrete illustrations to depict abstract concepts.

I'm currently studying post-grad (non-IT) so I'm looking at doing this as a pasttime. Can anyone with expertise or experience in ASCII or tile-based games help put my virgin foot on the first rung of my ladder?

Cheers!!

FoM.

include "SDL/SDL.h"

int main()
{
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING);
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}

In my case in Fedora Core 6 I had 4 errors and memory leaks. So I've upgraded to Fedora 8 and I have no errors, but memory leaks only…
I want to have no leaks and no errors at all… :(
Thanks.