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I'm glad it's working now, but, did they give any techinical explanation on why the overlay interfered with your game code making it slower?

Thanks for sharing, it's cool.

One important thing though: please process all the events at the beginning of the loop when using screens. (it will be instantly realtime, the pending events causes the delay for the mouse.)

Repeat :Until Not WindowEvent()


Thanks for the tip miso! I changed ...

Nice game!
From what I read, your game doesn't use Direct X or Opengl, right? It's just a normal windows executable, which uses the Canvas widget to draw stuff to the window, correct?

And which compiler version and options are you using to generate the exe?

You could try some other Ubuntu flavors:
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavors

Some of them like, Ubuntu MATE and Xubuntu are dedicated to run on older hardware.

I use duckduckgo and can't find any forum posts and links on It either. The Domain is fone from the results.

Nice work! Congratulations.

Fred wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 4:59 pmAI Bots again

At least vibe coding PureBasic will be more feasible.

I'm on Windows 11 Pro - Version 10.0.22631 compilation 22631

PureBasic 6.02 LTS (Windows - x64) - assembly backend compiler

I was trying to change the stack size of the program using the linker options file, but always getting "Unable to read command file 'linker_options.txt'", on a whim I changed ...

Nice work kenmo! Thanks for sharing.

For pointers I always return #Null when something went wrong or it wasn't possible to return a valid pointer. If I need to know what what happenened I add an output parameter like this:

Procedure GetFunc(Name.s, *ReturnError.Long)

If Name = "name1"
ProcedureReturn *p1
ElseIf Name = "name2 ...

The definition of structure TBattleTarget will compile just fine, even if TMach (or TMatch) isn't defined because the field is a pointer, so purebasic doesn't really care at that point what TMach is. But when you start to work with it and its fields like in the Debug code, then purebasic needs to ...

Maybe the typo is only in the shown code?
Structure TBattleTarget
;bunch of stuff
*Match.TMach ; <=== TMach or TMatch <=> That is the question
EndStructure

BTW: I always use this syntax for my user defined structures, and never got any problems.


Indeed there is a typo on the example code ...

Yes. The structures are declared on top of each file in this order:
Main.pb -> GameState.pbi -> Match.pbi -> Player.pbi -> BattleTarget.pbi -> Match.pbi
Eacho file is included with XIncludeFile.

I got this error message from the compiler: "Use of an undefined structure: TMatch."
The code is something like this:

Structure TBattleTarget
;bunch of stuff
*Match.TMach
EndStructure

The structure definition compiles fine. But then I added this line inside a procedure:

Debug *BattleTarget ...

And the thing is BlitzMax compiler generates c or c++ code which is then fed to the compiler and you would expect it make the smart optmizations. One thing I think made a big difference was that he improved the cache usage for the code.