08-08-2023, 12:37 PM
(08-08-2023, 12:11 AM)grymmjack Wrote: My goodness another basic! This one uses SDL nice! Does it work on Linux?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdlbasic/
Sadly the Italian author hasn't been extensively developing it for years, and a short time ago the forum was lost.
I checked it out on Debian GNU/Linux "Bullseye" which is now the "old stable". The IDE it comes with is very fussy to display. I remember I tried it in at least one other distro and it refused to start, and in another distro, the IDE launched but with really erratic behavior and some functions not available. Definitely the "runtime module" couldn't be used.
This is entirely 32-bit. The author made an attempt to port it to 64-bit and SDL v2 but failed. There is a separate project page for it on Sourceforge abandoned since 2011, there is nothing there.
The programmable mouse routines were primitive. It does not employ the cursor from the operating system, has to draw its own cursor. At least that's how it was on my side.
This is replete with incomplete programs but which were interesting. My favorite was "Biomorfi" by the author of SDLBASIC. I ported it to QB64. It uses the arrow keys to "animate" a few trees on the screen. It's sort of a fractal study.
