An interesting story related to Purebasic...

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:28 pm

Because communities have changed now and most don't care. I was running one 30 years ago when dial-up was all we had and it was fun, I had a good userbase. Then a partner stabbed me int he back and stole my business so I gave up. I recognise quite a few packages I owned and used from that page (/me wipes a tear of nostalgia from his eyes).

Flaming Amoeba · Post by **Flaming Amoeba** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:52 pm

Damn, I miss running a friendly bbs.

Me too

I ran a multi-node BBS. It was pro-wrestling themed. I had a partnership with a local wrestling news hotline. We ran a wrestling e-federation. We had press coverage and reviews in a couple of different internationally distributed wrestling magazines. Due to the exposure, I had regular callers from as far away as Canada and the UK.

*sighs* The good old days

Steve Elliott · Post by **Steve Elliott** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:34 pm

One of PureBASIC's best features is the size of exe's - amazing!

Sometimes I'm tempted to use it for more than application software - but that's another story.

Amundo · Post by **Amundo** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:27 pm

DoubleDutch wrote:I'm amazed that on mobile phones, with the 200mhz Arm processors, 16MB ram and hi-colour hirez screens that the games are so bad!

If I mention "Java", you can understand why.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:36 pm

Amundo wrote:
DoubleDutch wrote:I'm amazed that on mobile phones, with the 200mhz Arm processors, 16MB ram and hi-colour hirez screens that the games are so bad!
If I mention "Java", you can understand why.

So it's because the developers drink coffee instead of programming???

(j/k)

Irene · Post by **Irene** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:39 pm

Trond wrote:
Amundo wrote:
DoubleDutch wrote:I'm amazed that on mobile phones, with the 200mhz Arm processors, 16MB ram and hi-colour hirez screens that the games are so bad!
If I mention "Java", you can understand why.
So it's because the developers drink coffee instead of programming???

(j/k)

For mobile phones there are some good games too. Java can be powerful if used in the right way and I think that SEGA Mobile has done a great job providing entertainment for mobile phones: http://www.segamobile.com/
In Japan things are different though, just look at Sonic Cafe and you know what I mean:
http://www.sonicteam.com/cafe/top.html

^o^

Pantcho!! · Post by **Pantcho!!** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:54 pm

Well good to know they are people who know what is a BBS!
still now many "expert" ppl i know in my age 20+ (i wont say exact

)
don't even know what is a BBS and what it stands for... heck i don't know if even they had a modem.

The very first project i actually did with programming is doing a BBS chat door that can work with PCBOARD and RemoteAccess and all common dorinfoX.def and door.sys

And best of it i did it with QuickBasic! yep full ANSI support with fading and even cool "hackers" t3Xt (remember the DOS ascii chart? )

anyway since then which seems not long ago (13 years ago? )
things have evolved in HUGE way.

P.S
if you want games to your mobile check out my website link.

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:37 pm

Irene wrote: Java can be powerful if used in the right way

I agree.
The main clue is to know how your ressources and your I/O are organized and how you can access them the most effective way.

not that Java is bad it just helps programmers to be lazy...
seems that most develop on PCs or MACs aswell, and don't like much to optimize for the smaller platforms.

Amundo · Post by **Amundo** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:01 am

Kaeru Gaman wrote:not that Java is bad it just helps programmers to be lazy...
seems that most develop on PCs or MACs aswell, and don't like much to optimize for the smaller platforms.

You've really got to ask the question: Is Java the best platform for these kinds of devices? Even the mere fact that the code runs interpreted (sorry, more correctly, inside a virtual machine) makes me wonder...

pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:16 am

Java is Evil!

electrochrisso · Post by **electrochrisso** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:53 am

Pure Basic creates the tightest exe with the utmost minimum amount of source code, which is perfect for real programmers.