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QNews QBasic Newsletter issue 14
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QNews QBasic Newsletter
Issue Number 14
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Inside This Issue:
1. HELP ON MY GAME!!!
2. >>Re: QNews Issue 13!
3. >>Re: QNews Issue 13!(feel free to use this in the next issue)
4. Screen resolution
5. 3D Virtual World
6. >>Re: QNews Issue 13!
7. 3d problem.
8. QB: Crypt 4.0
9. The Final Say
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1. HELP ON MY GAME!!!
From: Ragul Chari <de626@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 6:08 PM
Hello! I am a QB programmer and I need help making a game! I need help!
Please help me if you can! I need help in graphics, sound, music, efects,
animations and sfx or special effects and more! Please help me! I already
have some help from famous programmers like Darkdread, The Wetspot
creater....I think his name is Angelo Motto, Simple SiSi, GoodGod and
more people! Yet I still need more help! Please be part of the team! I am
also hiring people for my company! To register with me please check out
our page:
Click <a href="HERE!!</A">http://www.angelfire.com/ak/ragul">HERE!!</A>
<a href="HERE!!</A">http://www.angelfire.com/id/ragul">HERE!!</A>
Please email me at Ragul_chari@hotmail.com !!!
Thank You!!!!
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2. Re: QNews Issue 13!
From: newton fisher <nfish@pe.net>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 6:18 PM
It is quite simple why I seed naught. From everything which I have
read: website etc. you simplly have no interest other then writing
game [graphics]. I do not.
n/n
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3. Re: QNews Issue 13!(feel free to use this in the next issue)
From: Michael Rye Sørensen <ms@cool.dk>
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 5:52 AM
Tips'n Tricks by: MRS
Subject: Music and Sound effects
The only way Q(uick)Basic is able of producing sound is
through the pc speaker.
The PLAY statement helps you make the sound using the
common note
system. When the PLAY statement is used, the string send is
placed into a
buffer from where it is played. The buffer can hold up to
32 notes at the same
time. That is useful if you want to play sound/music in the
background and do
something else in the foreground.
A simple sound effect like the sound of a laser gun, can
also be played in the
background, here is an example: playback.bas
PLAY "MB" makes QBasic go into background mode, in
background mode
both PLAY and SOUND is played in the background. SOUND can
also be
used to stop all sound/music that is currently being played
in the background,
simply by sending a sound duration of zero to the speaker
(SOUND 0,0)
To play music in the background you have to set up an event
trapping system.
When ever a certain amount of notes have been played the
event trapping
system will jump to a sub routine, and reload the play
buffer.
See the example on how to use an event trapping system to
play music in the
background: backmsc.zip
MRS.
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4. Screen resolution
From: Tommy Andersen <tommy.a@get2net.dk>
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 6:48 AM
HI!
I have a problem with the QB: screen resolutions, I would like to use screen resolution with ATLEAST 640*480 and 256 colors, but screen mode 12 there is only 16 colors.
I have downloaded a few programs, but using them I cannot use the mouse, which i would include to.
ANYBODY know how to enter higher resolutions, with 256 or more colors. I use QB 7.1
TUTORIALS, EXAMPLES, OR JUST A SINGLE NOTE, ANYTHING!
Thanks
Tommy Andersen
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5. 3D Virtual World
From: L032350Martin <L032350Martin@yale.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 3:39 PM
Hiya all,
I was doing nothing much at the weekend and decided to design a 3D world,
I thought of the obvious array mapping and coded the setup routine for my
program. The virtual world will let a number of different users sharing a
network to control custom made characters in the world, they will be able
to seek out other characters and talk via the keyboard.
Anyway the only help I need is with the character display. The main array
is 3D obviously and stores a number as to which character exists in that
space. The program then reads this array to plot the characters on screen,
the best display I have achieved is a line or two and even a box. Bearing
in mind that I want to keep this simple, for speed reasons and also the
fact that the characters have to be resized due to distance effects, I was
wondering If anybody had any code Ideas about some small characters.
If anybody really can help It would be much appreciated, either mail via
the list or two my address - L032350MARTIN@YALE.AC.UK
Thanx for you time
From Martin
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6. Re: QNews Issue 13!
From: Dan & linda Donnelly <dankc7vda@juno.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 12:40 PM
Yes received issue 13. have not replied before ,had nothing to add to the
mix! keep up the good work and keep sending it out.
Dankc7vda
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7. 3d problem.
From: Free X Chuck <freexchuck@juno.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 8:03 AM
I'm working on some 3D type stuff in QBasic, Really what I want to do is
have various points in a 3D world and rotate the points on a given plane,
for instance rotate the point(3,-2,0) on the plane XZ 30 degrees with
respect to the orgin (0,0,0). That's not the problem though, the problem
is that I need to use ArcSine or ArcCosine (Sine -1 or Cosine -1) but I
don't think that Qbasic has them. I know that it does have sin, cos,
tan, and atan (arctan) but I dont think it has the inverse fuctions for
sin or cos ( Correct me if I'm wrong). basically I need a way to find
either the arcsin or arccos of something, I won't bore you with the
reason.
Thanks, chuck.
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8. QB: Crypt 4.0
From: Deniz Oezmen <Deniz.Oezmen@t-online.de>
Date: Saturday, February 20, 1999 4:53 AM
Hi!
I've been programming a QB encryption/decryption utility. But as I have
to learn Pascal (school), I don't find the time to develop it. If there
is anybody interested in this (I tried a kind of "graphical interface"),
please mail me at Deniz.Oezmen@T-Online.de.
Deniz Oezmen
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9. The Final Say
From: Jeff Rapp <jrapp@geocities.com>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 1998 6:15 PM
Hello to all out there in QBasic Land! QNews 14 is hot off the presses
and on the newsstand. A grand total of 8 messages (besides TFS) this time.
GREAT! Anyway, more news.
The QBasic Place has been updated with a new game for the Best of QBasic
called Cookie Delivery. Check it out ( http://surf.to/qbplace ) for more
details. In other news, the QBasic LinkExchange has enlarged it's banner
size from 300x60 to the standard Internet Advertisement size of 468x60.
Visit the QBLe for the exciting news ( http://qble.hypermart.net ).
Until next time, this is Jeff Rapp, signing out. CYA!
Jeff Rapp
jrapp@geocities.com
