Collector wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:51 pm
I hate basic. It gives me a headache just trying to read it. I started on Visual Basic, but have successfully purged it out of my head a long time ago, thank God. C# is fun.
Why.... Wait....
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:21 am
Why do you hate basic, Collector?
Maybe it's just me - but the first programming language I used was BASIC on ye olde Commodore 64, back in the days when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
This.
Basic is insanely easy to read ...
PRINT = showing it on the screen
INPUT = asking for variable
IF THEN is literally IF THEN statements...
Other commands like LOCATE are exactly that, locate this line/space - and do whatever you want. (LOCATE 10,10,0: PRINT "HELLO!") prints it on the 10th line down, 10th line over.
Reading BASIC is like... reading English.
It is clunky, at times, if you're trying to do something complicated... but making a TEXT ADVENTURE game in BASIC is easy...
Oh!
I made my map in FINAL SOUL using ASCII (and the character representation was the SMILEY face ASCII)
tassieboy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:24 am
Tawmis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:40 pm
I looked into AGT - downloaded it - and... All I see is a RUN.EXE and a COMPILE.EXE and a 200 page document to read. And you said this was easier?
LOL.
I seem to remember some pretty significant examples games all with full source code.
But, yeah, it was a loooong time ago. You know, back in the days before kids and mortgages and a thousand things to take your attention and energy. Back in the days when we could afford to read a 200 page manual for fun.
I just have entirely too many hobbies is my problem...
tassieboy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:25 am
Collector wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:51 pm
I hate basic. It gives me a headache just trying to read it. I started on Visual Basic, but have successfully purged it out of my head a long time ago, thank God. C# is fun.
Having worked with both Visual Basic and c# for the better part of my adult life at the day job, I can concur. C# is much nicer to use. Never tried to make a game in it, though.
I wish I had continued to pursue my interest in programming in College... might have eventually gotten to C#...
Had done BASIC -> COBOL -> PASCAL and had just gotten into C when I dropped out...