11-15-2022, 12:38 AM
Thus the chain of obscure or almost-worthless commands established by Steve is broken...
This "_PUTIMAGE" is a keyword where Galleon displayed his stripes. I think M$ would have priced QuickBASIC higher if they had to do something like this, or if they thought it would have given them better sales for Visual Basic LOL. BASIC PDS v7.1 had "far" strings which were less useful than an image and/or sound statement... I was never able to take advantage of those "far" strings. In fact disliked "QBX" program, it just didn't match but only if Programmer's Workbench weren't so slow on my Tandy1000 RLX. :crying:
Sometimes, however, using "_PUTIMAGE" could be clunkier than the old "GET" and "PUT" which haven't really gotten with the times. Good for sprites but Freebasic is a bit better here. But I wouldn't give up "_PUTIMAGE" for anything in the world if I were even deeper than Terry Ritchie doing arcade games and without pay.
This "_PUTIMAGE" is a keyword where Galleon displayed his stripes. I think M$ would have priced QuickBASIC higher if they had to do something like this, or if they thought it would have given them better sales for Visual Basic LOL. BASIC PDS v7.1 had "far" strings which were less useful than an image and/or sound statement... I was never able to take advantage of those "far" strings. In fact disliked "QBX" program, it just didn't match but only if Programmer's Workbench weren't so slow on my Tandy1000 RLX. :crying:
Sometimes, however, using "_PUTIMAGE" could be clunkier than the old "GET" and "PUT" which haven't really gotten with the times. Good for sprites but Freebasic is a bit better here. But I wouldn't give up "_PUTIMAGE" for anything in the world if I were even deeper than Terry Ritchie doing arcade games and without pay.