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At work we de-magnetise our screwdrivers by banging them several times onto hard surface. Might not be good for your monitor though!

A TV repair technician should be able to fix the problem with a de-magnetiser (which sends out random magnetic waves).

Here's a small Broken TV example (which works well as a screen saver):
; broken TV

; Converted from Jeppe Nielsons Blitz 'Broken TV' code

sw.l=GetSystemMetrics_(#SM_CXSCREEN)
sh.l=GetSystemMetrics_(#SM_CYSCREEN)

#cell=72

dSW=sw/4 : dSH=sh/4
bw.f=dSW/#cell : bh.f=dSH/#cell


; setup display ...

Great thread!

Turbo Navigator: A file manager for Windows 95, 98,98SE, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/turbonavigator.html

like it!

Here's LINUX for Women ...

The Author of BlitzMax (Mark Sibly) as requested that we do not distribute *.exe files compiled using beta versions of BlitzMax.

As soon as the Win32 version is done I'll post a link to the exe.

Both versions with debugger off.
Ran several times to get an average result.

For those interested in benchmark results ..

SIEVE OF ERATOSTHENES test - PureBasic Vs BlitzMax (win32 Beta):


Interations PureBasic BMax Beta
5000 1131 m/sec 477 m/sec
10000 2344 m/sec 942 m/sec
15000 3385 m/sec 2869 m/sec
20000 4476 m/sec 3793 m/sec
25000 5678 m/sec 4833 m/sec
30000 6799 ...

Does this work?

Procedure DrawGrid()
; Draw grid on transparent layer image
CreateImage(5,300,300)
UseImage(5)
StartDrawing(ImageOutput())
X2D_DrawTransparentImage(UseImage(5),1,1,0)
For g=0 To 300 Step 5
Line(g,0,g,300,RGB(0,0,155))
Line(0,g,300,g,RGB(0,0,155))
Next
StopDrawing ...

I tried the StretchBlt_ method before but using an ImageGadget()
However, nothing shows up.
Here, I'm trying to get the #ball image to appear in the #canvas ..

Enumeration
#win
#canvasgadget
#ball
#canvas
EndEnumeration

CreateImage(#ball,16,16)
CreateImage(#canvas,256,256)

UseImage(#ball ...

I want to draw a stretched image into a window or image gadget.
I'm using DrawImages extra NeWidth/NeHeight parameters but I'm getting an anti-alias type of effect appearing in the image:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/config/img/stretched.png

The circle needs to show without the anti-alias ...

Metric here as well. As PB says, easier to work with.

Compare

What is (25cm + 72cm) / 16cm?

with

What is (2' 3" + 5' 9") / 2' 1" ?

Have you guys tried http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html ?
Strip out all sorts of unwanted features from XP.

Thankyou Num,

After looking around and reading up on some other advice I'll get a copy of Nero Burning Rom. This seems to be the easier solution for putting track lists together and burning to CDR.

*.wav format it is then.

Hi folks,

Can any of you recommend a good (free/cheap) application which allows the recording of live audio direct to CD?
I have a work collegue who wishes to do some live mixing and save the results onto 79 minute CD-R discs.

At the moment he uses CoolEdit to record the mix, save as MP3, then ...

This is how Blitz does it: Here, the color parameter is set to 0 by default unless the programmer decides to pass an alternative value: