Not sure where this thread will go but I love the little challenges we throw out now and then at the old forum so...
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I threw a challenge out at Halloween 2021 and Pete was IMHO clear winner and I promised to get in Library Samples but Qwerkey (sp? he's not here as member?) never got around to it and Pete kinda disappeared for awhile...

Anyway this was an amazing answer to my challenge that mixes TheBOB and even Galleon's Invader's (I think) and QB64 IDE Screen? along with Pete's own razz-ma-tazz. BTW you were allowed to use only one key through out the game/graphic.

Pete used the alt key as his one key through which you do everything. 
Use alt to alter direction of rail canon, use it to input your 3 initials for High Score (works on timer setting letter if not changed after so many seconds.) There might be a bug or 3 initials might be required. When I was testing this game today, post date, I had a really good game, got through first screen but only used B for initials? So that score is gone, glitch or my error ? Anyway it's really cool what Pete put together here!

In zip I left in the Windows exe and ascii-invaders-high-score txt file, along with the needed 9 ogg files and One Key Halloween by Pete.bas source file.

Pete's High Score screen was a really nice addition to mix of Galleon and TheBob work.

Just out of curiosity how was the IDE screen designed? I imagine it evolved from a clone of old QB screen.

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  Pete One Key Halloween.zip (Size: 2.79 MB / Downloads: 56)

Dice-Demo.bas by Bob Seguin.

Description: Two version of a dice rolling demo. The first roll effect is square, the second is diagonal.

Eggtimer.bas by Bob Seguin.

Description: Short spoof on what happened on the way to trying to code an egg timer program.

hello. glad to have been able to register in your new forum. i could never do it in the old one. it's fast and the visibility is better. for a few days, i thought qb64 was going to disappear. it's good that there is a new community. i see that there is a lot of activity even though the forum is very recent. it's good sign...

Made use of the excellent program posted here in the forum by DAV for containing an image file within QB64 code to share this.  This is just a tiny example program, I'm certainly going to be doing more with it.

Hi to everyone!

First of all, sorry for my terrible english, I'm from Spain
I will try to explain myself.

I am making a Star Trek space game, some kind of mix between EGATrek and ST: Armada. I don't know if I am going to finish it, but I am enjoying the creation as a hobby

Currently the game displays background space, stars, planets and several ships (allies and enemies). You have 3 allied ships, and you can move them with mouse (clicking on the screen rotates and moves the ship automatically).

My problem is that the game is a little slow when I paint nebulae or several things on the screen. I am using all software graphics, but I read several days ago that you can load graphics into hardware, with the "33" switch, and in theory the game would speed up.

I tried to recode all the game with this option, but I failed. The game paints some things, but others don't. Also, I tried to use display order, but I don't know how to use it, and sometimes the game displays only the hardware graphics previously loaded, or it only displays some points and lines (I drew them with PSET and LINE in some parts of the code).

Please can you help me? If anybody wants the source code, I will be pleased to send it to you.

Thank you !!!

IKZ

Fighter-Planes.bas by Bob Seguin.

Description: Simple graphics depiction of two WWII fighter planes.

Objective is to land softly on level ground.  Cancel the horizontal velocity
with left and right arrow, land by controlling the main thrust with up and
down arrow.

Has 10 surface features, including a McDonalds.  Several flying features,
like a Death Star, Borg spacecraft, and black holes.

Most of the files, in the directories stars1-3, are optional, only called upon 
if one turns on the stars with 1-4.

Originally written in QB4.5.  Translated to QB64 it's much faster, which
allows all features to be active at once - stuff like fancy ground, stars,
a rotating Death Star, etc.

Take a trip down memory lane with /, which changes the display to green
screen, amber, or black & white.

Attached Files

  L64.7z (Size: 2.72 MB / Downloads: 108)

GFX256.bas by Bob Seguin.

Description: Graphics-256 is a graphics/animation utility designed to create graphics specifically for programs written in QB64's 8-bit (256 color) screen. Files can be of any size.

Download: Download the zip file below. Unzip to either your QB64 folder, or for better organization, to a folder you create like "TheBOB-GFX256".

Install: Compile GFX256.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-GFX256.7z (Size: 116.08 KB / Downloads: 83)

Gothic.bas by Bob Seguin.

Description: A simple demonstration of mask usage to create typed text with transparent background in QBasic for SCREEN 12.

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

Install: Compile Gothic.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-Gothic.7z (Size: 2.99 KB / Downloads: 66)