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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, 17.2 Megapixel SLR……$900usd
Canon EOS-1D Mark III, 10 Megapixel SLR …….$1200usd
Nikon D3X, 12.4 Megapixel………$900usd
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, 21.1 Megapixel SLR….$1300usd

Canon EOS-1D Mark II, 8.2 Megapixel;…….$800usd
Canon EOS-1D Mark II N, 8.2 Megapixel, SLR…..$600usd
Nikon D2X, 12.4 Megapixel……$700usd

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Apple MacBook (MB061LL/A) Mac Notebook…..$550usd
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Apple MacBook (MA700LL/A) Mac Notebook…..$500usd

Apple Powerbook G4 1.67ghz DriveBluetooth..$650usd
Apple PowerBook G4 - PPC G4 15….$600usd
Apple Powerbook G4 1.5ghz….$500usd
Apple iBook G4 - PPC G4…..$500usd
Apple iBook Notebook M8861LL/A ….$420usd

APPLE G4 Powerbook 1.5GHZ SUPERDRIVE…..$700usd
APPLE G5 Powermac 2.0GHZ Desktop computer…$700usd
APPLE G4 Powerbook 1.5GHZ Superdrive…..$600usd
APPLE G5Powermac2.5GHZ Desktop computer…..$750usd

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Sony VAIO GRT250 Laptop Computer—$500
Sony VAIO V505DC1 Laptop Computer$460
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Sony VAIO GRT100 Laptop Computer——$400

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We are not dead, actually we are planning to release next issue of PCopy! e-zine (issue #70) at the end of this month.
All contributions are welcomed, as usual :) We cant do this with out you folks.

MystikShadows is a editor in chief for this issue, but e-zine is the same as allways.

PCopy! website is at http://pcopy.wikidot.com/ and you can contribute articles, editorials, letters, comics, reviews, previews, news and everything to moc.liamg|ffats.ypocp#moc.liamg|ffats.ypocp

Alternative emails;
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E.K.Virtanen, da Mystiks little helper.

— hartnell

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'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.

download link

The object is to correctly answer the questions.

E.K.Virtanen

— hartnell

i had game maker 7 pro, but for some reason my computer isn't letting me use it anymore which means i can't finish this project anymore because i need pro to finish, but the funny thing is that it would load game maker 7 lite instead, and when i try getting pro it just does it all over again.

any help?

btw i'm new here, so nice to meet u all

A proper list of the new additions is-
- Editor can now load, save levels and make campaign files (explained in Documentation).
- Editor is divided into seperate modes (again, explained in Documentation).
- Editor can now place enemies.
- TrackDown can now load levels and play them, as well as switching between levels to play a certain amount in order.
- TrackDown now has a health system, and the enemies shoot at you. However, there is no game over function- if you get 0 health, nothing happens. It's just in there to look nice so far.
- An ammo system for TrackDown as well. Your pistol has infinite ammo, but you have 100 ammo for Machine Gun and Shotgun. When you run out, you can't fire anymore.
- Some new enemy sprites as well.

That's the general idea of the new additions. You can download the latest version here.

You can also find the updated version of the Tile Editor Documentation here.

Notes-

The main menu is very incomplete, it's currently just a text display that lets you select a campaign. Upon running the game, you will see a list of numbers (probably 1-5), and then be asked to select a campaign. The list of numbers shows how many campaigns have been found, and you can put in its corresponding number to select that level.

A quick explanation of each campaign-

1- A small room with a bunch of enemies that don't do anything. This is only really fun for standing right in front of the line of enemies and moving back and forth, and watching the little wave they do as they turn to face you.
2- Another room with a lot enemies that do shoot at you. But again, you can't die so it doesn't matter.
3- Two small levels in a row that I made to demonstrate what can be done with the game so far. This is what I recommend you play.
4- A room where you're surrounded by enemies that shoot at you. I left this in because the bullets that the enemies fire make a kinda cool pattern.
5- Two small rooms made to test the level switching, you probably shouldn't bother playing this one.

Controls-
WASD- Move
Left Click- Shoot
Right Click- Knife Attack
1,2,3- Change Weapon (1- Pistol, 2- Machine Gun, 3- Shotgun)
Shift- Walk slowly (currently useless, but will have a use later on)

Stephane Richards, Derek and me teamed up for a new website which is for Basic programming for all. Forgot the other languages, this is pure basic place.
Just got forum, blog and wiki up so were just warming up.

Central site does not exist yet (www.basicprogramming.org) but there is allready forum, blog and wiki in urls below.

http://forum.basicprogramming.org/index.php
http://basicprogramming.org/wiki/
http://blog.basicprogramming.org/

Thanks, E.K.Virtanen

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What got me thinking about this was a post about a guy who wanted to make a Pacman clone. Someone said the easiest way would be to make it grid based. I didn't know what that was. I've read three programming books and they never talk about breaking down your screen into "cells" and putting those cells into arrays and mapping where you can and can't go on the screen via the values in these arrays.

That makes me wonder, "What are the most common ways of getting a level in a 2D game on the screen?" (it actually seems easier in 3D)

Then the posts went on to collision detection and why the grid method alleviated certain collision detection problems. So, then I ask myself, "What are some of the most common ways of handling collision detection in a 2D game?"

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Every trade has a base set of skills you need to know to work effectively. What skills do I need to know to create games effectively? I can't learn what I need to know if I don't know I need to learn it.

I propose a list of common game programming tasks, list three different ways of accomplishing that single task, with the pros and cons of each method. I haven't listed any of the most common tasks here because I honestly don't know what they are, nor what to learn first and then build upon in sequence to make it effective.

Using the aforementioned Pacman example, I now know to research the "grid" method. A patiently explained detailed example of it would be great, but if nothing else, I know what to start looking into.

If all goes well, this could be the start of a great way to educate others on what to do after you've finished that beginning programming book :-)

I need to know how to do the game loop, but you haven't done a tutorial on that yet.

Suggestions? Errors?

-Josh

 dim gameover ''wether or not you can play '''''''''''''''''' dim answer ''holding players input dim response ''holding response info dim player_name '' players character name dim player_currency ''players money count dim health ''players health value dim mana ''players mana value dim warrior ''playable class dim mage ''playable class dim paladin ''playable class dim rogue ''playable class dim player_class ''players class that he has chosen dim node ''''''''''''''''''''''' gameover = false ''game isn't over untile I say it is health = 100 ''default mana = 100 ''default player_name = default ''default for debugging player_currency = 0 ''starting with 0 money player_class = default ''starting with no class node = 1 '''''''''''''''''''''''' console.initialize ''players information console.writeline console.writeline "Name: "&player_name&"" if player_class = warrior or paladin or mage or rogue then console.writeline "Health: "&health&"" if player_class = mage or paladin then console.writeline "Mana: "&mana&"" if player_class = mage then console.writeline "Class: Mage" elseif player_class = warrior then console.writeline "Class: Warrior" elseif player_class = rogue then console.writeline "Class: Rogue" elseif player_class = paladin then console.writeline "Class: Paladin" end if console.writeline "Money: "&player_currency&"" console.writeline ''''' ''''Starting of game case 1 console.writeline "Blah blah.." console.terminate 

This is a little off topic but i figured i might aswell ask anyways. My father is starting up a small company and i have been handling all there "IT" stuff. Basically just email setups and such. He now wants me to set him up so that all his employees work on their laptops is backed up on some sort of server. I was wondering how to set it up so that they can just log in online from whereever they are and have there files backed up.Is that a good solution?

Thanks alot guys

-webfaction.

I was just wondering if anybody here was familiar with the hydra game developement system. I came across it online and was wondering if it's a practical learning tool or maybe some sort of scam.

http://parallax.com/Store/Microcontrollers/BASICStampModules/tabid/134/ProductID/467/List/1/Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName,ProductName

Thanks alot

-webfaction

Now, as far as I know, programming a 3D app is a bit more complicated than a 2d app…. So I think I'd like to start with a simple 2d platformer-a-la-megaman. Also, this will be a joint project with another novice, who should introduce himself shortly….

-Hybrid

— hartnell

Ok, it's Low Battery. You play Tim the TV Tuner, who was out servicing a TV one day when he got sucked into it. :) As such, your aim is to get out of the TV. This is done by playing through the 3 zones of about 4 levels each, through differing enemies and Channel Boxes that get in your way and by using your Time Controls and, should you get them, the Videos that each give you a special ability.

This was made for a competition over here in Australia, that's basically nation-wide. Normally, of course, I'd have made this in Basic4GL- but, the competition required I work in either Flash or Game Maker, so I chose Flash. I still like B4GL, but learning ActionScript has at least been interesting, and hopefully I can make use of it later on.

As such, you need Flash Player on your computer to play it. It's a Flash Player 7 file.

Instructions are in the game itself.

Download the .swf here.

There would seem to be a slight bug in the game- on a very rare occasion, the level might not load properly and as a result it may be impossible to finish the first level. Normally, of course, I'd fix this- but out of the many tests I've done, it's only ever happened once, and that was only after I checked it after on of my friends had the problem. So you probably won't get it, but if you do, it should fix itself by closing the .swf file and running it again.

And by the way, the enemies that don't move in the 2nd Zone aren't a bug- they're meant to be that way, they're fake.

Anyway, I think that's all there is to say. :P Any problems, just ask me.

— hartnell

Download (not for vista)

http://www.themysticalforestzone.com/forum/forum_rules_sprites_teaching.htm

Here is an ad for it:

http://macjsus.wikidot.com/local--files/welcome/Game%20Pix.PNG

www.yabasic.de

 // Dice game for yaBasic // Just having a fun here. Nothing special diceMax = 6 // max value of dice diceMin = 1 // min value of dice CanExit = false // MAIN GAME LOOP while(CanExit = false) clear screen print "" print " Dice Game for yaBasic!" print " ************************" print "" print " Just having fun, nothing special here." print " E.K.Virtanen www.ascii-world.com" print " Public Domain" print "" print " Select:" print " 1.) Play" print " 2.) Help" print " 3.) Quit" temp$ = inkey$ if(temp$ = "1") gosub play if(temp$ = "2") gosub help if(temp$ = "3") CanExit = true wend clear screen print "" print " Thank you for playing." end label play gosub plrPlay if plrTotal < 22 gosub cpuPlay return label plrPlay plrTotal = 0 throwNum = 0 done = false while(done = false) throwNum = (throwNum + 1) clear screen print "" print " This is throw #", throwNum print " Press a key to throw a dice" print "" inkey$ diceVal = int(ran(diceMax) + diceMin) plrTotal = (plrTotal + diceVal) sleep 1 print " You did throw ", diceVal // Now we check few things. if(plrTotal > 21) then print " You go over 21. You lost." done = true end if if(plrTotal = 21) then print " You got it. 21 excatly." done = true end if if(done = false) then print " Your total is ", plrTotal print " Press 's' to stay or any other key for more." end if if(inkey$ = "s") done = true wend return label cpuPlay cpuTotal = 0 throwNum = 0 done = false while(done = false) throwNum = (throwNum + 1) clear screen print "" print " This is my throw #", throwNum print "" sleep 1 diceVal = int(ran(diceMax) + diceMin) cpuTotal = (cpuTotal + diceVal) print " I did throw ", diceVal // Now we check few things. if(cpuTotal > 21) then print " I did go over 21. I lost." break end if if(cpuTotal = 21) then if(plrTotal < 21) print " You lost, i got 21." if(plrTotal = 21) print" Amazing, we both got 21. You lost since it's tie." break end if if(cpuTotal = plrTotal) then print " I have same result now, in tie so i win." break end if print " My total is ", cpuTotal print " Your total was ", plrTotal print "" if(plrTotal > cpuTotal) print " I just got to throw more to beat you." if(plrTotal < cpuTotal) then print " No need to throw more, i did beat you" done = true end if sleep 3 wend inkey$ return label help clear screen print "" print " Dice Game for yaBasic!" print " ************************" print "" print " In this game, you throw a single six sided dice." print " Result of your throw is counted after every round." print " Idea is to get as close of total 21 as possible." print " Basic idea is same than in BlackJack card game." print "" print " If you go over 21, you loose automaticly." print " After youre done, computer throws too and tries to beat you." print " In tie, computer wins." print "" print " Press any key to return for menu." inkey$ return 

E.K.Virtanen
www.ascii-world.com

It's my first program in Basic4GL in a while, it's kind of nice to be programming in it again, although I had to refresh my memory a bit after spending so much time with ActionScript (which isn't over JUST yet though).

Anyway, both the source and .exe are included. Controls are same as the normal game, Left Click to reveal a tile and Right Click to mark it.

Download here.

EDIT: Uploaded new file, there was a slight bug with the mine placement.

Instead of "mid-january", PCopy! #60 is planned to get published before christmas. This places deadline at 15'th December 2007.
All contributions and letters are welcomed :)

PCopy! website; http://pcopy.wikidot.com/
About PCopy! article in issue #50.
Email; pcopy.staff(AT)gmail.com

E.K.Virtanen

PCopy! Issue #50 Nov 16'th 2007: Read - .zip archive.

Regular Columns:

• From Our Editing Desk (E.K.Virtanen)
• Submitting to PCOPY! (Stephane Richard & E.K.Virtanen)
• Letters To The Editors (Mixed Contributors)
• Letters To The Hartnell (Mixed Contributors)
• In The News (Mixed Contributors)
• Exit Issue (E.K.Virtanen)

ARTICLES:

• About PCopy! (E.K.Virtanen)
• The mindset problem (Bill Williams)
• Interview with Eros Olmi (E.K.Virtanen)

Reviews & Presentations:

• VIXEN: An XBLITE GUI Generator (Guy (gl) Lonné)
• Introducing Fatal Method Games (FMG)
• More about smallBasic (Chris Warren-Smith)
• 3D graphics in thinBASIC: (Petr Schreiber)

Tutorials & HowTo's:

• Coding Functions: (Guy (gl) Lonné)

O.K., I used to program in the basic genre, but find it way too basic for me? (It fell short of accomplishing Video Game Status…)

I want to program video games! Like X-Box, PlayStation, Nintendo Stuff? I just don't know where to begin? What's the best Programming Language(s) to Program Video Games like those? (First Person Shooters and stuff?) I have a couple 128-Bit "Video Game," - Ideas I would love to create into reality! (Programming, Video Games - And their Graphics?) And I am unsure where to begin, what language(s) do you use? And how do you program graphics? Can you scan into the computer an image and pixelate them into graphics? What program do you use to generate movable graphics?

Organizing the Video Game Project on paper is no problem, but it's the programming that gets me?

Please Help, Thank-you.

- ActionEntertainment

— hartnell

-Macauley

My idea is to make a game with very inteligent AI, not with stupid AI like in Commandos 3… My plan is to create a complicated model of behavior in difficult situations, if for example the AI hears some shooting behind the corner, it won't run there like an idiot, but will call friends and carefully will investigate or if it hears shooting, it won't stay at the positions and after a while it will return to whatever it did before and so on. But I realize there is a long way between me and this kind of game.

So, I'd like to ask, if I should stick to C and C++ or choose the different tool to programme games, what kind of game should I make first and if anyone has some experience with making games in C or C++ to help me with basics of using algorithms and graphic libraries for games or give me at least some usefull references… And I almost forgot… Because I programme C mainly in Linux, but I hate Linux:), so I'm asking, what is the best tool for C and C++ in Windows? I've tried an DevCpp, but I didn't like it. Is it a Microsoft Visual Studio? I suggest.

Thanks for help, EaSy

Guns are decease and thats it.

E.K.Virtanen
www.ascii-world.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/07/school.shooting/index.html

A fresh blood pool (not splatter) is bright red. The edges are beveled as it does have round edges off the floor, but not much. Blood shines along the edge of the pool facing the light.

Several days later, blood turns black and cakes. It breaks like mud and leaves watery stain in between the larger "mud" cakes.

—hartnell

I decided that i would like to try and make a clone of tanks. My one problem is i'm not sure about the best way to make the bullet rise and then fall. i have tried a few different ways that are useable but they just seem alittle "stiff". Any ideas?

Thanks
-Webfaction

Here's what to look for as you look at the sample above :

• Guts are always globular.
• Forground guts are always wet and shiny.
• Background guts lose their shine and, like rock and wood, be composed of only the darker colors of the foreground guts.
• Transparent guts (middle) show what their owner has been eating.

—hartnell

—hartnell

-hartnell

—hartnell

Engineer pixel perfect collision without the use of any special game programming functions or libraries.

—hartnell

A. Guzman

I am am having trouble with a small game that i am working on. The problem lies with the collision of the bullet and the enemy. For some reason i can only get the enemy to delete when the collision is detected, if i place in the command to delete the curBullet when the collision is detected i recieve a memory access error and the program ends. I don't understand why the error occurs, i am assuming that i need to place the delete command in a different place but so far i have not been successful,

Thanks to all

-Webfaction

ps: Im am using blitz3d by the way

 ;Creates variables to represent screenwidth and screenheight Global sh=480 Global sw=640 ;Sets Graphics Mode Graphics sw,sh,0,0 ;Include Files Include "Spark.bb" ;Sets the buffer that we are currently writing on to be the "BackBuffer" SetBuffer BackBuffer() Global star=LoadImage("star.bmp") Global shipl=LoadImage("ship4.bmp") Global shipr=LoadImage("ship3.bmp") Global r1=LoadImage("r1.bmp") Global r2=LoadImage("r2.bmp") Global r3=LoadImage("r3.bmp") Global name$ Global enum=1 Global h=0 ;Create Types Type obj Field x,y,i,h,f,w,hi End Type Type bullet Field x,y,i$,h,f End Type Type enemy Field x,y,i$,h,w,hi End Type Global x=0 Global y=0 ;Create Player Global player.obj = New obj player\x=100 player\y=100 player\i=LoadImage("ship3.bmp") player\hi=15 ;Spark inverse position(s) Global sparkx= player\x+8 Global sparky=player\y+11 ; Function to draw everything Function draw() TileBlock star,x,y ; Draw player DrawImage player\i,player\x,player\y ; Draw bullets For curBullet.bullet = Each bullet DrawImage curBullet\i, curBullet\x, curBullet\y Next ; Draw enemies For curenemy.enemy = Each enemy MaskImage curenemy\i,0,0,0 DrawImage curenemy\i,curenemy\x,curenemy\y Next x=x-2 End Function ;------------------------------------------------------------ ; Borders for plane Function border() If player\x>= sw-player\w Then player\x=sw-player\w If player\x=<0 Then player\x=0 If player\y>=sh-player\hi Then player\y=sh-player\hi If player\y=<0 Then player\y=0 End Function ;------------------------------------------------------------ ;Creates HUD Function HUD() Text 0,0,"X Position:"+player\x Text 0,10,"Y Position:"+player\y Text 125,0,"Player Name:"+ name$ End Function ;------------------------------------------------------------ Function CreateBullet() newBullet.bullet = New bullet newBullet\x = player\x+15 newBullet\y = player\y +10 newBullet\i = LoadImage("bullet.bmp") newBullet\h = 0 newBullet\f = 1 End Function ;------------------------------------------------------------ Function CreateEnemy() If enum < 5 Then enemy.enemy= New enemy enemy\x=Rand(1,4) enemy\y=Rand(1,5) enemy\i=Rand(1,3) If enemy\i=1 Then enemy\i= r1 If enemy\i=2 Then enemy\i=r2 If enemy\i=3 Then enemy\i=r3 ;Sets A Rand Y If enemy\y= 1 Then enemy\y=10 If enemy\y =2 Then enemy\y=134 If enemy\y =3 Then enemy\y=271 If enemy\y= 4 Then enemy\y=304 If enemy\y =5 Then enemy\y=567 ;Sets A Rand X If enemy\x=1 Then enemy\x=745 If enemy\x=2 Then enemy\x=700 If enemy\x=3 Then enemy\x=680 If enemy\x=4 Then enemy\x=800 enum=enum+1 End If End Function ;------------------------------------------------------------ Function MoveBullets() For curBullet.bullet = Each bullet curBullet\x = curBullet\x + 5 Next End Function Function MoveEnemy() For curenemy.enemy = Each enemy curenemy\x=curenemy\x-3 Next End Function ;------------------------------------------------------------ Function CheckCollisions() For curBullet.bullet = Each bullet ; Delete bullet If it has passed screen If curBullet\x > sw Then Delete curBullet Else For curEnemy.enemy = Each enemy If ImagesCollide(curenemy\i,curenemy\x,curenemy\y,0,curBullet\i,curBullet\x,curBullet\y,0) Then Delete curEnemy End If enum=-enum - Rand(1,2) Next End If Next End Function ;------------------------------------------------------------ ;name$=Input("Enter Your Name ") ;Main Game Loop While KeyDown(1)=0 Cls ;Scan for input If KeyDown(200) Then player\y = player\y - 2 If KeyDown(208) Then player\y = player\y + 2 If KeyDown(203) Then player\x = player\x - 2 ;sparkx=(playerx+18) If KeyDown(205) Then player\x = player\x + 2 player\i=shipr ;If Spacebar is pressed then fire a bullet If KeyHit(57) Then CreateBullet() CreateEnemy MoveBullets MoveEnemy CheckCollisions border draw HUD createspark renderspark ;Flips everything from the backbuffer to the front buffer Flip Wend