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I tried it. I didn’t know what I was doing. Maybe because I don’t know much about that type of programs. I did managed to crash it. I used the mouse to press 3 & 4 at the bottom of the program and the program just closed/crashed.
2013 Macbook air and latest OS X.
Sort of of “completely free”, The work provided is based on donations. Payment is not required but the creator has to eat and pay bills. Any donation helps to keep this project going.
to initialize an empty array you can do it like this:
Field controls := new Control[20] ' creates an array of 20 controls.
they will still be null and will need to be added to the array.
[/crayon]123[crayon-5cba9cd577a0c016629586 inline="true" ]For Local I:int = 0 Until 20controls[I] = New Control()Nextyou can also add them in line like this:
Field controls := new Control[](New Control(),New Control(), New Control() ]
`Pretty much complete with the exception of the GUI.
Same feature in debug as before: Really slow to start.
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Server error, says ib file is empty. failed to upload first time. Uploaded second time, created ib-1.zip. Same File as ib.zip.[edit]
updated to ib-2.zipWell, Three post down doesn’t slow it for me any more. I guess they stop running after they are not in view anymore.
I suspect the one slowing things down for me is the ducks demo. I don’t think my 2013 MacBook Air 1.7Ghz is up to par with those modern graphics in the browser and all those 3D objects.why pre-rotate/scale everything? To make conversion eaiser?
it turned out that way. just decided to make it is close to the original as possible. I started converting it to Monkey 2 just like Therevills OO kind of way. either way its easy for me. I started before he started his but I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it, too busy with many other projects and life problems. When he mentioned he was doing it also, I kind of new he was going to go the OO way so I decided to keep it as close to the original as possible with procedural being the main goal. I did the pre-rotation and scaling just for fun.
enemy bombs are strangely large and explosions have no alpha but apart from that it’s insectoids!
Yea, I did mention above that there were some logic bugs.
I tried to play it from your post above but when I press the space bar to play it just advances the page.
Also because both applications are running in the Browser at the same time my browser has become really slow. maybe figure out a way to keep the applications from running until somebody clicks on one an an option to close them down.Os X Safari
Well, I don’t know what happened. Since I couldn’t get it to work with two sub directories, I decided to put all of the media in a single directory and modify it accordingly. so I removed all of the referenced etc.. and it’s working fine. After reading your post I made a duplicate of the game and modified everything to work with two subdirectories and guess what. The darn thing works fine now!
I haven’t got much time programming now, maybe 8 hours in 2 weeks. I have been converting this code for these two weeks and about one forth of that time I have spend on this problem. 3 days! Probably was just a typo or something. Now I am just upset at myself.
sorry about that Mark and Thanks.
below is what I have so far. It’s not finished but it runs. it’ still needs a few tweaks and logic bug fixes.
if anybody want’s to give it a try: it takes a while to start in debug mode because I am emulating just about everything from BlitzBasic( the creation of rotated images, the scaling of images, and couple of other things. it’s pretty slow at starting in debug mode but release mode is normal fast.
to play the game press 1 to start, left/right to move and space bar to shoot.If anybody is interested in a version more in par with monkey2 download the version made by @therevills. His is “object Oriented. while mine is more like the original “Procedural” and intentional.
his Github page:
https://github.com/therevills/InsectoidsHope you use some better variable names than the original!
Nope! going to leave it as is.
was it the Hz or the slashes please.
apparently Is the slashes. I replaced the back slashes with the slashes and it fails with the same error as before(“unable to load xxxxxx” )
Thinking about it, might also be the Hz. I haven’t really done any tests though. Will get back.
It works now.
I had that problem with my game but I could nat figure out why it didn’t work. it gave me the error with loading sound so I just guessed it was because it didn’t load ogg files. I converted all of my files to mp3 and it worked.I guess I just learned something new.
Anyway good job on converting it to M2. I am in the process of converting it myself but I am going to leave the code as close to the original as possible. I mean, Use external functions for everything to show that it can be very close to procedural with minor changes.
I am converting the one for BlitzBasic which uses a GUI. Off course, I am not going to try to convert the GUI and use the built in font. but everything else should be doable.
@therevills – I think you are going to have to convert the ogg files to mp3. It doesn’t play on my MacBook.
@ethernaut
I think you are right. It does need to be changed/fixed though.Command H crashes the IDE on 2013 My MacBook Air.
For example, Qt Creator: if you have selection and type quote – it surround selection with quotes. Is it useful for anyone?
I don’t know if I like that.
BUT… what I would like to see is if I select a group of code lines and I use find and “replace all” only the selected code gets searched and replaced. I would find that really useful.
If i put
cnvs=canvas
befor
cnvs.Clear(New Color(0,0,0,0))
(basically drawing again everything into main canvas instead of image)
Doesn’t that take you back to the original problem? Might as well not use cnvs.
it doesn’t make sense to me.
