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Mandrake · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

Don't listen to LGB. Javascript exists for one purpose- extention of websites. Not for making nice, fast fun video games. Sphere is- cute, but it's still at it's heart and RPGMaker. Same with Verge and Ika. I would recommend C# over QB just because of most modern WinOS have poor DOS emulation.
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tcaudilllg · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject:

Mandrake · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject:

That was an interesting perception 5 years ago when Road Ahead and all that crap was written. The bubble is bursting. No one still realistically can believe that the internet and the web browser will become an OS, the main reason is that no one wants to *rent* software, no one wants to pay for services on a website, and no one wants to have their data stored someplace else (because if a net app can save to the users hard-drive, they can also save malicous data....way too unsafe.). The internet is a grand marketplace, and the only apps people will want are those for buying, selling and trading things.
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tcaudilllg · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:

That's untrue. The reason the bubble burst was because it relied on traditional business methods. Just as people pay $10-$13 dollars a month to play an online game, there are people out there who will "rent" software so long as 1) the base of renters is huge and (2 the huge base of the renters is leveraged to keep the rental price exceptionally low. Supply and demand and the philosophy of the Internet to do not mix.

DeveloperX and I plan to sell DreamEngine for $20. Although we will provide a superior product, we will keep the price well within the discretionary spending range of anyone. This will maximize our potential customer base and undercut the trend by GCS makers to overcharge for their product. We will be providing accessible software while keeping the bills paid. If the established GCS makers fail to lower their prices then we will corner the full potential of the GCS market by default. Although by cornering the market there would exist the potential for monopoly and price gouging, we will not do this. Instead we will only adjust the price for inflation and ignore the law of supply and demand. We will destabilize the supply-demand law itself as it transpires in our society by leveraging the internet against it.

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tsb · I wanna be a ballerina! Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 23

uh.

First: the dotcom bubble existed to begin with because people weren't quite sure how to measure the success of these funny new internet companies. When investors finally wisened up, they cleaned house. pop.

Second: You have little hope of cornering the market. If you did, someone else would have done so by now. (consider that the Verge engine has about seven years head start on you, and has always been available for precisely $0)
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LeoDraco · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:43 pm Post subject:

Mandrake · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 am Post subject:

first off- Fury2 is probably the best GCS out there (heh, I mean that Janus- it is a superb design), but LGB- I don't think people will pay 20$ for a game system written by fools who can't even get it to compile correctly.
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Mandrake · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:53 am Post subject:

I take that back. That was a very mean thing for me to say, and very uncalled for, nonetheless. But still, 20$ is either too high priced (ie: people can get better free ones), or too low priced (a quality non-free GCS usually cost over 100$. Like Blitz Basic, for example)
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BadMrBox · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

Hey NinthTech. Contact me so can we talk some about QB RPG development.
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Barok · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:13 am Post subject:

Just a note that although windows dos emulation IS poor, qb still works well as long as you don't touch ems or music/sound. Even if they ARE used, these conflicts can be resolved with vdmsound. EMS and XMS can give qb plenty of room to work with, libraries such as DS4QB++ can give qb music and sound effects via direct sound, and libraries such as rellib or UGL give qb plenty of power to run games: even 3d games can run smoothly using UGL. EMS can be resolved by editing the memory in properties, or even going into the bios and turning off the legacy usb ports. The bug with floating point has been resolved as well. A hack has made qbasic's put routine faster, allows it to clip, allows transparency and translucency and rotating and allows it to be used with a buffer. There we go... all the major flaws in qb resolved, to make it a decent language to program stuff in. And if that isn't enough, V1ct0r is currently creating a 100% qb syntax compatible 32 bit compiler, meaning that dos emulation is something that won't be needed, programs will be faster, and (i think) memory restrictions will be no more.
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