SpiderBasic 1.00 is out !

[Kuron]

Question: it is a tad slow here... is that perhaps just my Firefox,
or just the way it's coded, or indicative of SpiderBasic's speed?

Really slow for me, all the examples are. Monkey and other products work fine and are blazing fast, so I am pretty sure it is not my system. Think Spider just has some growing to do.

[electrochrisso]

Question: it is a tad slow here... is that perhaps just my Firefox,
or just the way it's coded, or indicative of SpiderBasic's speed?

Really slow for me, all the examples are. Monkey and other products work fine and are blazing fast, so I am pretty sure it is not my system. Think Spider just has some growing to do.

Seems to run fine on my old underpowered netbook, I am using Opera, give that a try and see.

[Kuron]

Seems to run fine on my old underpowered netbook, I am using Opera, give that a try and see.

I am using the latest version of Chrome. Chrome and Opera share the same rendering engine.

[c4s]

Question: it is a tad slow here... is that perhaps just my Firefox,
or just the way it's coded, or indicative of SpiderBasic's speed?

Really slow for me, all the examples are.

I'm using Firefox too (on Windows 8.1) and it's working just fine.

[PB]

When I say "slow", I don't mean "unplayable"... but it's just not
as fast as the real Asteroids, or what you'd expect with MAME.
On my PC, it feels about 75% of the real speed of Asteroids.

[Kuron]

To be clear, when I say slow, I do mean unplayable.

[PB]

Wow, that sucks then.

[Kuron]

Wow, that sucks then.

Yes, it does.

[Fred]

Here's another just for fun...
http://reelmedia.org/spiderbasic/spiderpong.html

Enjoy
(press spacebar to start)

Nice ! Next is Lady garden

[Paul]

Here's another just for fun...
http://reelmedia.org/spiderbasic/spiderpong.html

Enjoy
(press spacebar to start)

Nice ! Next is Lady garden

Would be much easier to convert if DataSections worked... there is a lot of data to put into arrays

[falsam]

Without Dojo

Code: Select all

Procedure DesktopWidth()
  !return(window.innerWidth);
EndProcedure

Procedure DesktopHeight()
  !return(window.innerHeight);
EndProcedure

Debug DesktopWidth()
Debug DesktopHeight()

[electrochrisso]

Seems to run fine on my old underpowered netbook, I am using Opera, give that a try and see.

I am using the latest version of Chrome. Chrome and Opera share the same rendering engine.

I am using an older version of Opera 12.15 win32, not sure if that will make a difference for you, you could try an older version of Opera portable and see if that makes a difference.
I just tried it out on the latest version of Chrome and it is much slower, the latest versions of browsers have got very bloated lately and do not process javascript no where near as fast, and it wont even run at all on IE10.

[useful]

asm.js(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js) in my opinion corresponds to the spirit of pure(spaider)basic

[Foz]

This was something I originally wrote to see what I code achieve (code wise) in a single evening a few years ago.

This is now the SpiderBasic port:

http://shadowtavern.com/wizzard/

Keys -
Movement : a - left, d - right.
Jump through grates : w - up , s - down
restart - esc

[Foz]

yeah, there are some bugs with SpiderBasic, because the same code in PB works without flaw.

This project was an excellent test of SpiderBasic, it's capabilities and current limitations.

I'm now just trying to narrow down what the actual bugs are for the team to pick out.