Wondering if it is possible to have a new section (QB64 related material) where QB64 community members only have access?

This might discourage attempts to download our material into questionable sites.

I, bplus, am newbie to Linux the Mint Cinnamon Distro which is a subset of Ubuntu but with more Windows like appearance if I read my book right.

Anyway I am testing the Battleship app Johnno and I put together, everything is fine until I am halfway through a game with all effects going (mostly just sound files playing) and the thing just ups and quits, no messages, nothing?! When I play without effects it's fine and I can run a whole game to win or lose. I think there were some wav files and possibly those are Windows preferred? But why would they work for awhile and then not? 

Another goofy thing: I am testing a graphics program, a mod of Kens's spiral flower and it just automatically says compiler error see log... I check and it's blank, over and over? I'm thinking there is some invisible character that doesn't show in IDE because I commented out the whole program and still get compiler error message. Weird!

And another thing:
I am testing old Spinners program, that takes a screenshot of desktop and then displays that with spiders crawling all over... oh wait the Wiki did say taking screen shots does not work in Linux, never mind.

Windows has no problem with this, IDE in Linux is happy but the compiler gives me error even when I comment more and more until all of the code:

Need to add a Snippets sub forum. I got snippets!!! 

I will be adding to this little corner of forum my QB64 code as I check them in through Linux QB64 v 1.5 (I don't need debug), they already work fine in Windows v2.0 

Sudoku is by far my most used and favorite app I've created with QB64 and version 2020-08-08 has been tested allot! 

The Sudoku app has 2 screens, the first is just an Info/Help screen from which you enter a level of play.
 
Levels are mostly determined by the number of clues you are given, the more the easier.
The lower levels are for practice or flash card like automatic skills builder. 6 gives intermediate puzzle 7 a little harder intermediate 8 would be hardest but takes longer to build for unique solution and may end up a level 7 puzzle.
9 gives you a blank puzzle and puts you in Make Mode and you can click in a puzzle from newspaper or book.
Remember to click back to Puzzle Mode when done making the puzzle.

The Puzzle screen has some menu buttons:
The first on left toggles the solution, ON OFF
The 2nd from left toggles the check cell mode. ON will not allow you to make a simple error of putting a 2nd number in row, column or 3x3 cell block and beep you if you try. Just because you are not beeped, doesn't mean it is correct.
The Load and Save buttons work with one Temp file. Just rename that file or copy and rename if you want to store a special puzzle, perhaps one that was particularly hard. Otherwise every time you save a puzzle the last one in Temp will be overwritten.

Play: Is basically clicking a number from number palette and left click a cell to answer or right click to toggle a note of that number on and off again. To remove a number clicked in, set the number palette to 0, click that in and then reset to number you want to do next.





  Sudoku 2020-08-08.zip (Size: 539.28 KB / Downloads: 93)

You guys may have seen something like this somewhere before, but this is the original, prettier version than the one that exists inside the QB64 IDE. 

If you're signed in as a member of the forums here, you'll see that we have two new subforums there: NSFW (18+) and Freedom to Speak.

Both of these are completely off-topic and password protected forums.  In fact, they're hidden forums to boot, that only registered members can decide if they want to participate in them, or not.  One thing people always objected about with "off topic" discussions in the past was that "they don't look professional for a site" and blah, blah, blah...

To address those concerns, the forums are hidden from the general public by nature.  Folks have to go through the trouble to sign up and become a member of our boards to even know they exist.

Safeguard #2, these forums are each password protected.  If you're going out of your way to join a forum, read up and ask folks about a password to a subforum, and then decide to be offended at the contents of those forums after having to jump through such hoops...   /sigh   I guess I'll just be happy to offend you, as it's obvious you went out of your way in an attempt to get in that state.  

So what are these two forums??  And what features do they offer that others don't?  Why would any sane person bother with jumping through the hoops to get into them?

Both forums are dedicated to the idea of us being built around a community, and for folks to have a freedom to speak with each other.  One thing I always hated about the old forums, before they disappeared, was the Off-Topic forum being taken away.  There should be some place where people who share the same hobby -- in this case QB64 -- can come together and get to know and talk to each other as people and not just as programmers.  Why shouldn't the users be able to talk about politics, or sports, or religion, or their favorite TV shows?  As members of the same community, they already have at least one trait in common -- they like the BASIC language -- so why shouldn't they be allowed to talk and chat and explore if they share other interests as well??

I dunno!!  In my opinion, they should!

And thus, we have the two dreaded sub-forums that people either tend to love, or else they tend to hate.

left click to zoom in
right click to zoom out
mouse wheel to change zoom window
'+' or '-' key to increase or decrease iterations

Waving and shaded 3D US flag.  Drawn according to official specification