Title: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: Cyclops on November 30, 2009, 05:48:03 PM I had a bokk that had lots of fractal quilt programs written in basic and I remember having fun playing with those(after fixing bugs due to typos in the book!).
I cant get my head round C++ or owt like that, but is Basic still supported on modern OSs? Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: stijnw on November 30, 2009, 07:05:46 PM I had a bokk that had lots of fractal quilt programs written in basic and I remember having fun playing with those(after fixing bugs due to typos in the book!). I cant get my head round C++ or owt like that, but is Basic still supported on modern OSs? Basic is still available as language on a number of modern OS's: XBasic and FreeBasic (www.xbasic.org and www.freebasic.net). If you don't want to port the existing code this could be an option. I hope this helps... Regards, Stijn Wolters. Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: Buddhi on November 30, 2009, 09:35:12 PM I can propose Microsoft Visual Basic. I made lots of programs in this language (also some for engineering purpose) before I learned C++. Of course it is not as efficient as C++ but very easy to build some graphics interface and has all necessary functions to create some fractal renderer.
Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: David Makin on November 30, 2009, 09:39:58 PM The ordinary programming language native to Ultra Fractal is not that different from BASIC (it's *very* similar to structured basic), if you don't bother with the new OOP classes etc. then you shouldn't have too much trouble picking it up. It has the benefit that most of the user interface stuff is done for you in a very configurable manner.
Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: Cyclops on December 01, 2009, 12:34:06 AM Thanks guys! Now will any of these new Basics be compatible with the old style basic language from around 1990?(QBasic) I'd like to find that book and re~ type the programs,see them run on a decent speed computer
Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: stijnw on December 01, 2009, 11:22:10 AM Thanks guys! Now will any of these new Basics be compatible with the old style basic language from around 1990?(QBasic) I'd like to find that book and re~ type the programs,see them run on a decent speed computer I'm not sure about the QBasic compatibility of XBasic and FreeBasic, but on the FreeBasic site I found: "syntax similar to MS-QuickBASIC". Anyway, it may not be as fast, but if you still have QBasic you can try to run it in an emulator like dosbox (or on real dos in a VM). Regards, Stijn Wolters. Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: Nahee_Enterprises on January 03, 2010, 12:40:24 AM I had a book that had lots of fractal quilt programs written in basic and I remember having fun playing with those (after fixing bugs due to typos in the book!). I cant get my head round C++ or owt like that, but is Basic still supported on modern OSs? Now will any of these new Basics be compatible with the old style basic language from around 1990? (QBasic) I'd like to find that book and re~ type the programs, see them run on a decent speed computer. Not sure what OS and version you are currently using, but if it is a Windows environment, most likely getting the FREE Visual Basic.Net 2008 Express Edition from Microsoft will give you a place to start: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/Default.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/Default.aspx) Of course you can still get the old QBASIC from Microsoft's website if you really feel nostalgic. See the link at the bottom of this Wikipedia webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic) I have both of the above, and working quite well, on three of my machines. Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: filax on September 16, 2010, 11:23:25 AM Hi all
Sorry to bump up the message... :) Personnaly, i'm using an excellent basic language called Blitz3D and Blitzmax. http://www.blitzbasic.com Here is a coding example of the mandelbrot set with blitzmax : Executable : http://www.blitz3dfr.com/freewares/fractales/mandelbrot.zip (http://www.blitz3dfr.com/freewares/fractales/mandelbrot.zip) (http://www.blitz3dfr.com/freewares/fractales/mandelbrot.jpg) Source code : Code: SuperStrict Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: axoneman on September 16, 2010, 02:58:37 PM Hi everybody
You can find a full listing of Basic languages on this site: http://basic.mindteq.com/ (http://basic.mindteq.com/) Hope it helps François Axone Man axoneman.com Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: ker2x on September 19, 2010, 11:26:51 PM Sometimes i use PureBasic or BlitzMax.
Blitzmax is more complete (including an openCL module), but purebasic generate very nice, ready to patch, ready to recompile TASM file. So i can optimize my code directly in x86_64 Assembler :) Title: Re: Anyone still use Basic? Post by: Nahee_Enterprises on September 27, 2010, 01:29:42 PM Hi all Sorry to bump up the message... :) Personnaly, i'm using an excellent basic language called Blitz3D and Blitzmax. http://www.blitzbasic.com Greetings, and Welcome to this particular Forum !!! :) Thank you for the additional compiler and source code. Always interested in the many variations that are available. |