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Xlithan posted 26-06-2002 22:08 BST
i dont think cypet was ever a great success....... :S , just thought id tell ya
Alex posted 26-06-2002 23:14 BST
It was the first thing I wrote using VB, and the latest version is now four years old... it's only still on the site as a nice little free thing. Some people like it!
Alex posted 30-06-2002 01:06 BST
[This is not a forum for discussing warez. If you want to discuss warez, please discuss it somewhere else.]
carlii posted 30-06-2002 12:38 BST
Um, how does that relate to the thread? :S
Alex posted 30-06-2002 12:40 BST
The message in square brackets replaces some messages which have been deleted.
Xlithan posted 30-06-2002 18:12 BST
well u wanted a dam car so i dam told you you dam idiot. lol
Alex posted 30-06-2002 18:28 BST
It was an analogy - you can't get a free car without stealing.
Computer Whizz posted 04-07-2002 02:29 BST
Ummmm.... a little fact I found out at college today.
If you go to your local library, and look for a visual basic book some have disc holders in the back. Now when you get them out you can ASK for the discs.
Many have visual basic on them so you can learn while you use the book!
It's better if you buy the book, because you will ALWAYS have the book then - but the book's are no more than �20.
Computer Whizz
Alex posted 04-07-2002 18:19 BST
Yeah, they might have VB5 CCE on them (the Control Creation Edition). That's free, and you might be able to find it on the Microsoft website if you're lucky. You can't compile EXE's with it though.
carlii posted 05-07-2002 12:25 BST
I think they need to create a whole new programming language designed for teenagers so we can make our own stuff easily, without learning all that really difficult mathematical and analytical stuff.
OK sorry this is SO off-topic LMAO.
Computer Whizz posted 05-07-2002 19:06 BST
Visual Basic is designed to be easy.....
You don't need to learn mathematical or analytical stuff, you only need to know difficult things to do amazing programming.
Computer Whizz
Alex posted 05-07-2002 23:57 BST
I don't see what "mathematical and analytical stuff" there is in VB that you need to know.
I don't think VB is a good idea for your first programming language though. As far as a "language for teenagers" goes, QBasic served me perfectly well throughout my early teenage years, and I thinks it's a great way to get started as you don't need to worry about all that Windows stuff.
Actually, I started programming using BBC BASIC - that was before I was a teenager though. I wasn't even in to double digits!
Computer Whizz posted 06-07-2002 10:11 BST
I used a BBC from when I was 7 or 6.... Of course it wasn't ACTUALLY a BBC - it was an "Acorn Electron" but none the less...
It started after my dad made a simple maths program for me to practice my maths.... After that I looked at the program and began learning stuff.
I say VB is a good place to start for writing programs in the sense you can achieve a lot with doing so little. No code saying where a window has to be placed, it's x,y co-ordinates, it's width, it's height. All this is done automatically just by resizing it! In SuperBASIC (Sinclair QL) you can draw windows to the screen - but they are just area's on the screen - I'm not sure they work in QBasic, I'll have to check that out soon.
Made anything good in QBasic then? I think the only real achievement I've done in it is make a keyboard/piano keyboard program which gives you 4 octet's and the sound comes from the system speaker... And that's too easy LOL
Computer Whizz
Alex posted 06-07-2002 23:41 BST
Mine was an Acorn Electron too, as it happens. That broke; I bought two others from eBay a couple of years ago though which means I have three of the things now. Hmm, three of them... somewhere... I don't actually know where. Trust me to lose three computers! :)
I made a huge amount of stuff in Q(uick)Basic. I made some of it available on the Axe Software website quite a while ago (around 1998-1999ish). Several platform games, but more imporantly, several text adventures, which is why I wrote Quest - after a few years of not making any text adventures in QB, I thought it might be fun to make another one, but I wanted to make it in VB and so I thought I'd better make a system for it. That was in 1998. The text adventure never materialised...
Evelsvia posted 21-08-2002 23:04 BST
Q basic is fun! lol i know a guy called Simon 'Pandilex' Crowder who is the game developer for the Text-Based RPG MuD Opal Spheres. he made a worm game called Tron3 lol it was pretty cool and i split my sides laughing it was so funny. 4 players on the same keyboard lol. anyway. i think ill just stick with my Javascript and HTML and Flash designs and GFX design etc etc etc, and leave VB to the experts ;)

Author	Topic: CyPet
Xlithan	posted 26-06-2002 22:08 BST i dont think cypet was ever a great success....... :S , just thought id tell ya
Alex	posted 26-06-2002 23:14 BST It was the first thing I wrote using VB, and the latest version is now four years old... it's only still on the site as a nice little free thing. Some people like it!
Alex	posted 30-06-2002 01:06 BST [This is not a forum for discussing warez. If you want to discuss warez, please discuss it somewhere else.]
carlii	posted 30-06-2002 12:38 BST Um, how does that relate to the thread? :S
Alex	posted 30-06-2002 12:40 BST The message in square brackets replaces some messages which have been deleted.
Xlithan	posted 30-06-2002 18:12 BST well u wanted a dam car so i dam told you you dam idiot. lol
Alex	posted 30-06-2002 18:28 BST It was an analogy - you can't get a free car without stealing.
Computer Whizz	posted 04-07-2002 02:29 BST Ummmm.... a little fact I found out at college today. If you go to your local library, and look for a visual basic book some have disc holders in the back. Now when you get them out you can ASK for the discs. Many have visual basic on them so you can learn while you use the book! It's better if you buy the book, because you will ALWAYS have the book then - but the book's are no more than �20. Computer Whizz
Alex	posted 04-07-2002 18:19 BST Yeah, they might have VB5 CCE on them (the Control Creation Edition). That's free, and you might be able to find it on the Microsoft website if you're lucky. You can't compile EXE's with it though.
carlii	posted 05-07-2002 12:25 BST I think they need to create a whole new programming language designed for teenagers so we can make our own stuff easily, without learning all that really difficult mathematical and analytical stuff. OK sorry this is SO off-topic LMAO.
Computer Whizz	posted 05-07-2002 19:06 BST Visual Basic is designed to be easy..... You don't need to learn mathematical or analytical stuff, you only need to know difficult things to do amazing programming. Computer Whizz
Alex	posted 05-07-2002 23:57 BST I don't see what "mathematical and analytical stuff" there is in VB that you need to know. I don't think VB is a good idea for your first programming language though. As far as a "language for teenagers" goes, QBasic served me perfectly well throughout my early teenage years, and I thinks it's a great way to get started as you don't need to worry about all that Windows stuff. Actually, I started programming using BBC BASIC - that was before I was a teenager though. I wasn't even in to double digits!
Computer Whizz	posted 06-07-2002 10:11 BST I used a BBC from when I was 7 or 6.... Of course it wasn't ACTUALLY a BBC - it was an "Acorn Electron" but none the less... It started after my dad made a simple maths program for me to practice my maths.... After that I looked at the program and began learning stuff. I say VB is a good place to start for writing programs in the sense you can achieve a lot with doing so little. No code saying where a window has to be placed, it's x,y co-ordinates, it's width, it's height. All this is done automatically just by resizing it! In SuperBASIC (Sinclair QL) you can draw windows to the screen - but they are just area's on the screen - I'm not sure they work in QBasic, I'll have to check that out soon. Made anything good in QBasic then? I think the only real achievement I've done in it is make a keyboard/piano keyboard program which gives you 4 octet's and the sound comes from the system speaker... And that's too easy LOL Computer Whizz
Alex	posted 06-07-2002 23:41 BST Mine was an Acorn Electron too, as it happens. That broke; I bought two others from eBay a couple of years ago though which means I have three of the things now. Hmm, three of them... somewhere... I don't actually know where. Trust me to lose three computers! :) I made a huge amount of stuff in Q(uick)Basic. I made some of it available on the Axe Software website quite a while ago (around 1998-1999ish). Several platform games, but more imporantly, several text adventures, which is why I wrote Quest - after a few years of not making any text adventures in QB, I thought it might be fun to make another one, but I wanted to make it in VB and so I thought I'd better make a system for it. That was in 1998. The text adventure never materialised...
Evelsvia	posted 21-08-2002 23:04 BST Q basic is fun! lol i know a guy called Simon 'Pandilex' Crowder who is the game developer for the Text-Based RPG MuD Opal Spheres. he made a worm game called Tron3 lol it was pretty cool and i split my sides laughing it was so funny. 4 players on the same keyboard lol. anyway. i think ill just stick with my Javascript and HTML and Flash designs and GFX design etc etc etc, and leave VB to the experts ;)