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by bumblebee
Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:25 am
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Unicode Chr()
Replies: 1
Views: 472

Unicode Chr()

Don't know if this has been mentioned before or not - I did have a quick look.
But anyway, I've suddenly (after all these years!) decided I need Unicode in my life!

In the process of creating a little code, I came across this problem, and work-around.
So I extracted it to the smallest amount of ...
by bumblebee
Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:58 pm
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: can this sprite engine be used with purebasic ?
Replies: 4
Views: 2037

why?

Call me dumb - but before you do - consider this:-

PureBasic gives you sprites, 3dSprites, and images - so, you can do your scrolling backgrounds using images, have moving sprites, and easy stuff as sprites - and do the complicated things with translucent sprites or even use 3dSprites, and you can ...
by bumblebee
Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:44 pm
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: Sprite Mirroring
Replies: 12
Views: 4500

flipping great!

well, with the huge amount of memory a PC has nowadays, its not likely memory you're looking to save, is it? But hard-disk space, and basically trying to keep the project as small as possible?

You sound like me, if thats the case!

So, I'd pre-mirror all your images, saving them in a new image ...
by bumblebee
Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:20 pm
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: Sound's difficult?
Replies: 8
Views: 3028

In reply to all your help.

Wow! Thanks for the pointers to QBPlay, I could learn something from that, I think.

I'm just amazed you went as far as you did with QBPlay, without a noise generator. Thats what my efforts have focussed around - for things like drum sounds, or explosions in a game, a decent noise generator is ...
by bumblebee
Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:18 pm
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: Sound's difficult?
Replies: 8
Views: 3028

Sound's difficult?

Hiya guys.

I've been playing around with Purebasic for close to two years now, tinkering here and there. So, as a 2D-game advocate, remembering with fond memories such awesome games as those that appeared on my trusty old Commodore 64... I have come to this...

I've been looking for, and with no ...