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Better IMHO is less LOC (Lines Of Code) but try to hold off on using so many colons on a line: none is perfect, one or 2 reasonable, 10 ridiculous! = too much)
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Ken was asking about this today.

Bulls and cows: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows

Kong2.bas by Bob Seguin.



Description: A wonderful graphics upgrade of the classic QBasic Gorillas game.

Download: Download the zip file below. Unzip to either your QB64 folder, or for better organization, to a folder you create like "TheBOB-Kong2".

Install: Compile Kong2.bas with QB64 v1.3 or above, and make sure the compiler output is set to create the .exe file in the same folder. See the option in the QB64 IDE RUN menu and check the RUN option: "Output EXE to Source Folder".

Attached Files

  TheBOB-Kong2.7z (Size: 657.37 KB / Downloads: 47)

LeapFrog.bas by Bob Seguin

Description: Eliminate all the frogs on the lily pads until only one frog remains. Mouse driven application.

Download: Download the zip file below. Unzip to either your QB64 folder, or for better organization, to a folder you create like "TheBOB-LeapFrog".

Install: Compile LeapFrog.bas with QB64 v1.3 or above, and make sure the compiler output is set to create the .exe file in the same folder. See the option in the QB64 IDE RUN menu and check the RUN option: "Output EXE to Source Folder".

Attached Files

  TheBob-LeapFrog.7z (Size: 30.84 KB / Downloads: 36)

MiniGolf.bas by Bob Seguin

This is a work in progress. All holes were converted to QB64 successfully except for hole #6.

I'll post more about this contribution next week. Stay tuned.

Pete

Speaking of animating avatars, perhaps you will recognize this one, hint 

Years ago there were ads in computer magazines, I think including BYTE, that had a neat little graphic BASIC program creating a "hat", one pixel at a time.  I don't know if it advertised hardware or software or Geico, but I entered it and ran it and was impressed. 

This code is my recreation of it, but it's not as good as the original.  I think the colors are right, but the texture is wrong and the backside shows through.  The original somehow PSET the near stuff over the far stuff.  When it ran on a BASIC interpreter on a 2MHz computer, is was a pleasure to watch it for the many seconds it took to run.  With the QB64 compiler on a xGHz computer it is TOO FAST.  I put in a _DELAY .03 to allow the thrill to last 12-seconds or so.

I would like to get the original code.  If somebody else was impressed with it like I was and has the magazine issue or has the code on a 8" floppy, I would appreciate it.  I've browsed a few issues from https://archive.org/download/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE but haven't come across it.

(Are images restricted to 1x1?  Is there a way to get the images side by side?)

BASFILE is a utility I use often when wanting to put small files INSIDE my EXE programs.  It does this by converting the file to BAS code that, when run, will recreate the file.  This tool is helpful when wanting to distribute/post just BAS code instead of extra files with your program.  The BASFILE program will ask you for a file to convert and then for an BAS output filename to create.  The source is below.   I've also posted a modified program that displays my avatar image as an example of what you can do with BASFILE output.  

- Dav

After a few long and busy days work, QB64lite is more or less complete.
This is a linux specific build, and might not work properly on windows or mac.

EDIT: Updated to 2.2.1 (added bare compiler for setup program)



Try it out, you know you want to...
Once you go QB64lite, you never go back.

Attached Files

  QB64lite.7z (Size: 5.48 MB / Downloads: 72)

Monopoly.bas by Bob Seguin



Description: Monopoly Game Board and display area for two players.

Here's a buttons ui scheme and demo I've been fiddling with on and off the past few weeks. It's rude crude and a little ugly. I'm likely going to wrap this up into another UI scheme I'm working on but there's enough functionality here to share for someone else to get some use out of.   The main gimmick is the use a color image buffer used to track button locations graphically. You can pretty much draw and forget their specific x and y coordinates elsewhere in a program with this setup.