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Thanks inc.! I am more familiar with PB code them C++, understanding your code will be a lot easier than the other examples I found. :)

Anyway, I am still wondering if using DirectShow is indeed the best aproach. What I am developing is a game, and DirectX Documentation makes a real confusion when ...

Hi Everybody,

Maybe this is an off-topic issue, I am not really sure.

First of all, I really can't use InitMovie since I'm translating my application to C++. (hence the "off-topic")

I've already found a topic describing how to load and play mp3 files using the Media Control Interface (MCI). I ...

Hi everybody!

I just finished version 2.1, here are the changes:

*Added a new level set called "Tutorial", with 10 easy levels for the beginners;
*Moved the in-game tutorial text to the "Tutorial" level set;
*Added a new rule called "Kharma Overflow" [see notes below];
*Added config.txt to the ...

Would I have changed anything in my life if I had the chance? Sure a few tweaks here and there, but I'm generally happy with myself,
what I've experienced have made me what I am, and I would hate to not be "myself", right? *laughs*
Well, correcting yourself doesn't mean your are "not being ...

I'm pretty damn sure that if I'd started getting really serious with computing earlier than I had (around 16 or so I think),
then I probably wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble as I had.

Well, after reading all your post I guess that if you started your bad habits before you'd be dead by ...

Thanks for trying it out guys :)

And I was really worried about the 64bit issue, now I'm just wondering how functions like ReadLong() and PokeL() behave on a 64bit system :\

@Kuron: Isn't he cute? :P And you're welcome! Now you made me really curious XD

@luis: It's funny, that's also happenend to ...

@swan: Indeed, I coundn't test it on a 64bit OS. But now that you mentioned that, I think that somewhere in the code I use a "Sizeof()" in a place I was sure of the number of bytes I was getting. Could I ask you your e-mail, so that I can send you just a corrected .exe? (which is less than 1Mb :P ...

Hi everybody :D

I've being working on a game for some years now. Little by little I finally finished it, I really hope you enjoy it. It's an arkanoid-like game, heavily inspired in DX-Ball, but with lots of new features.

You'll find the download link in my blog: http://nebulaflare.blogspot.com
As ...

@Mistrel: Thanks! I'm gonna read more about that then!

@Fred: I didn't know about that, seems pretty useful! I just went to read the PB 3DEngine documentation and found out PureBasic can also handle the collisions does it use any of these phisics engines or the OGRE engine handles that too?

Hi everybody :)

I am not really interested in any code here, I was just wondering which techniques the games use do detect collision in 3D games nowadays, since even when there seems to be a million things spinning and moving across the screen they still manage do get 60fps.

I was specially ...

I used to get one of these per week.

I don't understand why they keep on sending emails like these. Why would someone give a prize to random person without selling tickets or making any advertisement? I wonder who would be stupid enough to believe.

But what if you give your account number? They ...

Hi Everybody. The code below is an atempt to make a Pointer Jumping* algorithm to find the roots of a randomly generated tree. The tree is generated correctly, but the result doesn't come as I expected (like, node 1 root is -16502...).

I really hope someone here knows a bit of MPI to help me.:wink ...

If you make some search in how to get pointers to the DirectX objects that PureBasic uses, you will find some pieces of code like this. This one I posted puts the pointer to the primary video buffer in *DD. It won't work if you haven't initialized the screen yet (InitSprite(), OpenScreen() and so on ...

Hi everybody! :wink:

I recently had problems with sound (explained in this topic )
Well, after some researches I found out I could solve it, but I need the pointer to the primary sound buffer. The code probably looks like this:

*DD.IDirectDrawSurface7
!EXTRN _PB_DirectX_PrimaryBuffer
!MOV eax ...

Hm, "almost" is not enough, but thanks a lot for testing it. :wink: I've never seen this happen before in any game, so I'm sure there must be a solution.

Another very weird issue is that any sound I load, no matter what it's initial frequency is, it always gets converted to 22050hz :? (the sound ...