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DarkBASIC Discussion / DarkBASIC Secret Commands

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Brick Break
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Posted: 27th Jun 2009 21:20 Edited at: 28th Jun 2009 00:40
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After playing around with Resource Hacker, I managed to retrieve the new command set database from DarkBASIC 1.2. There are many undocumented commands including 3DS2X. See if you can figure out these "secret" commands.

EDIT: Known commands weeded out.
EDIT2: Cleaned up names and new sig.

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TDK
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Posted: 27th Jun 2009 22:14
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Not all that secret really...

They've been posted about many, many times over the years though you'd probably have to dig back through a lot of old threads to find anything so it's not surprising many will not have heard about them.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=54767&b=10

Very similar to the 'Make Game' command in DB Pro which is often thought of as a joke, but actually exists!

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Posted: 27th Jun 2009 22:16
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OMG TDK IS BACK!

listen to me, I sound like an obsessed celebrity fan, lol

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Posted: 27th Jun 2009 23:06 Edited at: 27th Jun 2009 23:11
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@TDK- Actually, the one you linked to is incomplete or outdated. This one includes all undocumented commands from library v111, not v110, so some of them are new to DarkBASIC 1.2.

EDIT: I hope I didn't come off as rude, now that I see all of the awesome stuff that you did lol.

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Posted: 27th Jun 2009 23:21 Edited at: 28th Jun 2009 00:48
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That1Smart Guy:

Not really been away - I've still been lurking in the background - just not had the time to post. With a new job taking up most of my time, all I want to do when I get home is sleep!

Quote: "EDIT: I hope I didn't come off as rude"


No - not at all.

My link was just to one of many and the date of the thread was more important than the content. Just to show that we've been talking about those 'secret' commands for many years...

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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 00:14
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Quote: "OMG TDK IS BACK!"


You sound like someone if a movie who just saw some superhero decades after they supposedly died .

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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 15:27
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TDK!TDK!TDK!TDK!TDK!TDK!

How do i get a Speech engine for the "say Command?"

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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 17:25
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Yay, TDK's back!!

(Sorry, I've calmed down now. )

@DD
You will already have a number of speech engines already installed with XP (or Vista, or whatever you're using). If you go into Control Panel, there should be a tab for "Speech". I think the defaults are voices called "Michael" and "Michelle", both of which sound dangerously like HAL9000.

Now how this Say command properly works I'm not sure (it's a secret that's been kept for a very long time!) but I imagine it sends a string of text to be spoken by whichever speech engine you've got set in the Control Panel. I'll have to check it out!

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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 19:59
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That's funny, I was going to ask about the "say" command myself. Whenever I try to use it, it says something like "speech engine not found". Maybe some speech library needs to be dropped into the DarkBASIC folder...

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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 21:31
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Can't we look at the string table in the DLL and see what type of parameters the command takes?

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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 21:54
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@Phaelax- Actually, the string table is just another included resource file in DarkBASIC, and I know the parameters. Check the code snippet in the first post.

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I actually did a double take when I saw TDK there haha
Welcome back, what have you been doing that is more important than the forum?
So you have been lurking in the shadows? and with every "where's TDK?" post you grow stronger, is that how it works?

I've never seen the speech commands before! Are they new to 1.2?

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Posted: 29th Jun 2009 05:18
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@OBese- Keep in mind that these are "secret" commands, so there is guarantee they will work. We have SAY, SAY TO SOUND, SAY TO FILE, and SPEECH EXIST(). Any one of them returns an error.

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Posted: 29th Jun 2009 13:21
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Quote: "I've never seen the speech commands before! Are they new to 1.2?"

No, I checked in 1.13 EP, and the commands are there. I think they've always been around, but I rather suspect DirectX has changed a little since DBC was made.

I may be mistaken, but wasn't there something about "DirectSound" being removed from DirectX? Can't track down which version of DX this change was made in, but if the sound technology has been modified, maybe modern computers are unable to access the speech engine any more. In any case, the speech just isn't going to work - I've checked on mine, and I have got speech engines, I just can't call them from DBC.

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Posted: 29th Jun 2009 19:50
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TDK!

I've been hoping you would show up again! The last time I saw anything from you was when you were working on that level editor for DBC (which by the way is incredibly awesome!). Welcome back!


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@Brick Break
Something to consider:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=148795&b=10

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Spooky!

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Posted: 29th Jun 2009 19:54
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Background? You mean the... Dark Side?


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Posted: 29th Jun 2009 20:11
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@Latch- The TGC guys aren't going to care. I could post the whole DarkBASIC source code if I wanted to. Plus, I'm making my own game engine right now that could turn many people away from DarkBASIC entirely. Trust me, if TGC has a problem with it, they'll just tell me.

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