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I'd rather Fred work on improving PB for the 3 platforms it already supports...

Unless he dropped the Amiga version and traded it for Mac OS

Windows 95/98/ME doesn't allow that kind of access to the drives. Thats why in my dll users with those platforms need to copy the .vxd file to the system folder. Its a virtual device driver that allows the dll to talk to the ide drives. Windows NT/2000/XP doesn't need to do this. Also, I believe ...

Inner wrote:Does it work on Cdrom drivers too ?

nope

ricardo: hmm, you could somehow find out which ide controller the virtual drive is using that your software is on, then cycle through the drives given by the dll until you find one that's ControllerID matches. I don't know how to get the ide controller id for a virtual drive though..

talk about ugly code

That's because it's specific to BlitzBasic. I believe it stands for "Blitz User Identification"

Also, don't be fooled. This is not the same thing as you can get with the API command GetVolumeInformation. That command only works for logical drive partitions. This will return the actual serial number for the hard disk itself, as issued by the company that manufactured it. Volume serial numbers ...

I just finished version 1.0 of my DiskInfo library. This dll will give you details about hard disk drives attached to the IDE controllers of your pc. You can get it here:

http://diskinfo.nakatome.org/diskinfo.rar
or http://diskinfo.nakatome.org/diskinfo.zip
Don't forget to read readme.txt!

Here ...

Hopefully it won't be drenched in mistakes, typos, and bad source code examples like the Blitz book I bought :\

Oh, and the guy who wrote the Blitz book was named "Krylar"

Also, I was the one who made the mistake about the BB 4X faster than PB, but that wasn't due to my lack of knowledge of how to ...

I am a registered owner of Blitz2D, and praised it religiously for about a year, until I really got comfortable with what PB could do. It took me a while to get used to the quirks (the object pre-numbering was new to me, but I hear its going to be optional soon), and when I first got my copy I was ...

I would but I'm not willing to shell out another $60 for BlitzPlus when all it adds is that questionable DX1 'speed', and some gadget commands that will take years to catch up to PB's excellent command set

I took Codemonger's advise and tried a test that would probably be a bit more accurate:

PureBasic
InitSprite()
OpenScreen(640, 480, 32, "Sprite Test")
LoadSprite(0, "Data\nebula3.bmp", 0)

ChangeGamma(0,0,0,1)

starttime = GetTickCount_()

For I = 1 To 100000
FlipBuffers()
DisplaySprite(0, 0 ...

About V-Sync, I completely disabled it in my video card's hardware setup dialog, so even if PB uses it by default, since the setting is disabled in hardware it will be ignored and run as fast as possible. If it was on, I would max out at 85 FPS in PB, which as you can see, is not the case. Yes ...

By the way I used BlitzBasic 2D version 1.68, which is quite old. It relies on DirectX 7 like PureBasic. The new BlitzPlus uses only DirectX 1 (!), and supposedly has increased drawing speed because of this backwards step. I don't know how this Mark Sibly character does it, but he must be doing ...

I'm debating whether or not to do my 2D game in BlitzBasic or PureBasic. Blitz attracts me because of its ease of use and speed, Pure attracts me because of its small exe size, built-in alpha effects, and more advanced language constructs like pointers, structures, and linked lists(all bb has are ...