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Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« on: September 02, 2010, 03:45:02 pm »
I've had a craving today for a programming language on the pc which is quite similar to TI-Basic.
This craving was mostly fueled by the BasiC++ project here on omnimaga.  :P

/Insert rant about how most programming languages are hard, either in use or in syntax.

This is something I created today in TI-Basic. It's a primitive fighting engine with you being the X and the enemy being the Z. If either of you punches your respective character changes to the theta symbol.


This is a direct port in FreeBASIC, a language which I understood in less than one day with the help of one tutorial and the command list.  ;D
 
Moral of the story, you know more of programming than you think + FreeBASIC is awesome. :P

also, port to axe^^
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2010, 04:38:28 pm »
Sweet!  So it has many of the similar syntax and commands? Looks really nice :)
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2010, 05:22:45 pm »
That looks great! Really want to try it, but it's taking so long to install... :P
« Last Edit: September 02, 2010, 05:22:57 pm by Deep Thought »
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2010, 05:31:26 pm »
That looks really cool :) Where can you learn and such? I'll add it to my tutorial thread :D
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2010, 05:32:24 pm »
It seems to run faster than TI-BASIC ;)
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2010, 05:46:05 pm »
I'm going to guess that's because it's a computer language ;)
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2010, 06:12:37 pm »
I wonder if it'll possible to add a language like BASIC to KOS (not exactly like TI-BASIC; something simple and fast).
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2010, 06:17:17 pm »
Well I think one of the big reasons TI-BASIC is so slow is because it parses as it runs. So if there was a good way to parse it first then execute or something it would not be as big of an issue.
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2010, 06:19:21 pm »
Quote from: meishe91 on September 02, 2010, 06:17:17 pm
Well I think one of the big reasons TI-BASIC is so slow is because it parses as it runs. So if there was a good way to parse it first then execute or something it would not be as big of an issue.

Wow, the TI community has yet to come up with a working BASIC to ASM converter.
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2010, 06:20:51 pm »
People have tried but it's incredibly hard to do. I mean it's sorta like what Quigibo is doing with Axe except you have to take each command and match it up in assembly and ya. Well I think anyways. In short...its hard :P
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2010, 06:27:34 pm »
...and an hour and a half later, FreeBASIC is 75% done installing :P
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2010, 07:00:12 pm »
now I have an urge to work on BasiC++ :P
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2010, 07:00:16 pm »
@DThought: I started installing this compile a few seconds ago. It's done now. :P
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2010, 07:02:44 pm »
Quote from: miotatsu on September 02, 2010, 07:00:12 pm
now I have an urge to work on BasiC++ :P

What is the completion percentage of BasiC++ anyways?
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Re: Why FreeBASIC rocks your socks.
« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2010, 07:08:22 pm »
Quote from: Raylin on September 02, 2010, 07:00:16 pm
@DThought: I started installing this compile a few seconds ago. It's done now. :P

:( Two hours later, it's done. I hate Windows.

And meishe91, http://tinyurl.com/cxkn9u is the manual.
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