Okay people... what are you working on in PB right NOW?

THCM · Post by **THCM** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:13 am

I'm currently working on a remake of an old C64/Amiga game I wrote ages ago: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=15502. The game is fully playable, but there so much else to do (new Levels, Online-Hiscore etc.) and too less time...

Froggerprogger · Post by **Froggerprogger** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:24 am

My current project is a mediaplayer that is controlable via TCP (incl. transferring files, etc.) for usage on distributed multimedia-installations and integration with Flash and Java.

A therefore related project is a Flash-extension that gives total system-access to your Flash-projector-file.

@THCM Tried to run it but... I have no C64

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:31 pm

KarLKoX wrote:
thamarok wrote: I am also working on a project called LANCE (Linux All Nintendo Console's Emulator) which should (for now) emulate NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBA. I am still in the NES part and I got the GB part done, now trying to study the SNES part.

Linux forever!
Sounds interesting, do you have a website where i can download your project ?

Not yet, I think I'll make a GUI for it first and then I'll see if I can release a beta. But for the first beta, I want atleast NES, SNES and GB to work perfectly.

dracflamloc wrote:LANCE sounds awesome. Nix really needs a good n64 emulator

Thank you!
Yes I know that Linux doesn't have a good N64 emulator, but that makes developing LANCE a bit harder.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:12 pm

@thamarok: I wish you goodluck, sounds like a really cool project!

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:46 pm

thamarok>i m more interested with the emulator part of your code not the gui though if you are searching for a betatester :roll:
Btw, *nix have a good n64 emulator : Mupen64.

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:34 pm

KarLKoX wrote:thamarok>i m more interested with the emulator part of your code not the gui though if you are searching for a betatester :roll:
Btw, *nix have a good n64 emulator : Mupen64.

Thank you for the link!
I will study the source of mupen64 to see how N64 works, and hopefully I can make a N64 emulator stable as mupen64.

I think I don't need a betatester yet, thank you anyway. I still have many bugs when trying to emulate several Super Mario or platform games. And PD/Hack ROMs won't work in the NES part (And I won't make further research to have them correctly emulated).

I am not sure about the GBA part, maybe I will drop it if there is little interest on it, but you can bet that I stll work on it.

Is someone interested in lupacker or AromaBasic? Everyone seems to be more ineterested in LANCE (I think it's because we don't have many products like this).

If you would be so nice, could you help me finding a .lha file specification? Thanks!

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:35 am

If i m interested more in LANCE it is because i m a emulator user since 1989 and now, the programming part interest me a lot

For lha, you have this.
For the N64, you could have a look in the sourcecode of Project64 and 1964, they are both windows only but are really good to learn how the n64 works.
For the snes, the best educational emulator is bsnes, it's code is really easy to understand due to a very clean code.
One day, i ll surely find enough spare time to code my own emulator

PS : here, you will find my unfinished technical article about how emulators (in general) works (in French)

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:23 am

Thank you for the links!
I have already studied Project64 (through Win4Lin) and for the snes, bsnes doesn't sound so bad but I have been studying zsnes.

I hope you will find more spare time than what I have now. I have been a emulator user since 2001

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:57 pm

I'm working on an implementation of the FIT testing framework for PureBasic.

I only have about 3 or 4 hours a week, so progress is slow.

White Eagle · Post by **White Eagle** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:23 am

I am working on a Fishing game, a Golf game and a game called "Storybook Land - The Magic Forest of Make-Believe" which is based on a theme park that I went to as a child.

I am also working on some other stuff, but the above will likely be finished first. I plan to port a lot of the old games (Pre PC games & DOS games) I wrote over to PB and rerelease them.

Lets just say, that I love PureBasic, and I am continually coming up with new ideas for games to make in it and I plan to for a long time

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:44 pm

Hi everyone, I've just read this list and it looks like there are some great things being worked on, I'm most interested in the Nintendo emulator system - nice!

I'm working on updating ReportBuilder (based upon user comments). I'm also making a plug-in system for it - so that people (programmers) can add extra functionality (like in photoshop). The link to it is www.applepanic.com ...

Also working on adding a free add-on called ReportServer - this will allow schools using ReportBuilder to have an unlocking "key-farm" for easier activation and allow teachers to save and load reports over the internet or internal network.

Non-PureBasic stuff i'm working on is a Ruby on Rails website called "Cut the Costa" ( www.cutthecosta.com ) - this will be the worlds largest online database of budget flight routes (when completed). btw ROR is great for Internet database apps, not the fastest language in the world, but very easy to get something up and running in MINUTES.

Progi1984 · Post by **Progi1984** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:09 pm

My WIP:

Code: Select all

 - Progitodo : a todo list manager
 - LibPlus : a userlib with 200 functions for Purebasic gadgets
 - MagicMap : a 2D map creator (with plugin export)
 - Melchior Game Engine :
   - some modules like 
     - B3D Loader
     - Console (nearly done)
     - World XML Loader (done)
     - GUI
 - and so on

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:06 pm

DoubleDutch,

CutTheCosta looks promising.

Are you going to distinguish the list with typography, like 43 things?

http://www.43things.com/

That would work so well. If the size of the font represented the number of offers available while the colour reflected the prices available. It would make navigating to the best deals so easy.

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:09 pm

GedB: Thx for the link to 43things, I hadn't seen it - it looks likea good idea - but I may not go to the extreme they have with the fonts.

Progi1984: I'm very much interested in the MagicMap (I'm implementing plugins in ReportBuilder) - How do your work? Have you a spec to how your plugins work yet?

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:05 pm

I'm time frozen, back in January 2006...

LOL...

I've been playing too much Anarchy-Online, but i'm designing B.I.S (Bulk Installation System), which is a program that does bulk installs of applications and keeps network computers all updated (latest drivers, patches, etc)...

Kinda of Microsoft Tools for Dummies