[Verious]

Looking good, I can't wait to see other areas of the game.

The text should probably read "You attack..." instead of "You attacks..."

[Nephilim]

Nice.
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[tcaudilllg]

I liked the original. I think I'll like this one, too.

[Gooseman]

I haven't played the original, maybe i should.. I see no one has reviewed it. Anyway, your shots look good!

[BadMrBox]

Reply's! Actual reply's! :).
Verious:

[Ren]

[BadMrBox]

Well, I 'won' in the meaning of that I was the only one finished.

[BadMrBox]

Hm, converting The tales of Sophy II to freebasic, then do a little bit of thinking for awhile then go back to Quickbasic version of SophyII. That is what I have done.
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[tcaudilllg]

I'm hearing a lot of people liking QB more than FB. Most of the diehard QB coders, actually. Personally, I've not yet done anything with FB, simply because I'm wary that any commitment to it won't bear fruit. Looking at what has happened to QB, and seeing the uncertainty surrounding most of the computer industries nowadays (what with the transistor "singularity" problem, and MS' troubles) I feel quite frankly more compelled than ever to devote most of my efforts to the browser: PHP and JS. These two technologies seem to have enough consensus and support that I can at least count on them lasting well into this century. Through my lifetime, at least.

BASIC seems to have... an uncertain future at the moment. Seeing so many people abandon C for C++ isn't encouraging, either. Languages that evolve... seem to me weak and temporary.

[DrunkenCoder]

[white_door]

In an age of emulation, QB's compatablity is only going to grow with each passing year. Using a dos or x86 emulator, I can run a lot of old dos games that just won't go under XP. Ironically you might have more compatablity with a dos app than a windows one, as many dos apps are easier to emulate under linux and other OSes.

So reguardless of how stuff changes or what becomes popular, you can be sure that games designed for old systems will never die.

[BadMrBox]

The one reason I ditched FB (might reconsinder) this time is that it's well, to fast. I'm using a somewhat modified daRKlib tileengine as a core. With QB I used Rellibs function relwait to slow it down. With Freebasic I have tried to use basically everything at hand. Yes have slowed it down but the screen is drawn rather wavy. a slight under the ocean feeling. If there is any freebasic junkies out there that might want to help out some, your welcome to. I rather want to use freebasic as it is more compeling to me.

What emulators do you use white_door? I have tried dosbox to run my old tales of sophy 1 and the tales of torsin 1 and 2. I was only able to run torsin 2, i think, and it was runned slooow.
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[Oberon_Command]

[BadMrBox]

Hm...
I doublebuffer and I know about that sleep are milliseconds.

Well, the code beneath is the tileengine.

SUB TileEngine (x1%, x2%, y1%, y2%) static


IF x1% = tilesize% - 1 THEN StepX% = -1 ELSE StepX% = 1
IF y1% = tilesize% - 1 THEN StepY% = -1 ELSE StepY% = 1
FOR scrollx% = x1% TO x2% STEP StepX%
FOR scrolly% = y1% TO y2% STEP StepY%
a% = -1: B% = -1
FOR y% = screeny% - 1 TO screeny% + MaxYTiles%
FOR x% = screenx% + 1 TO screenx% + MaxXTiles%
screenmap%(a%, B%) = tilemap%(x%, y%)

put ((a%*tilesize%+scrollx%), (b%*tilesize%+scrolly%)),TileSet%(screenmap%(a%, B%) * tileoffset%),pset

a% = a% + 1
IF a% = XTiles% + 1 THEN a% = -1
NEXT x%
B% = B% + 1
IF B% = YTiles% + 1 THEN B% = -1

NEXT y%

call showplayer
WAIT &H3DA, 8
ScreenCopy 1,0

NEXT scrolly%
NEXT scrollx%

END SUB
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[Ninkazu]

That certainly is quite a crappy tile engine.