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DarkBASIC Discussion / how hard is darkbasic to visual basic

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koolman v2
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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 01:54
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hey
I thinking about give darkbasic try
i've done a bit of visual basic and I was wondering how hard dark basic would be compared to visual basic

game in devolement want to help email me
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That1Smart Guy
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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 03:23
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I havent used VB but DBC is SUPER easy to learn, regardless of of past programming experience

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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 04:15
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Linear, simplified syntax. No brackets, no semicolons. Almost too easy.

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TDK
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Posted: 30th Jun 2009 01:49
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BASIC is BASIC is BASIC. They all have a similar core set of commands.

But, Dark Basic Classic is a dialect of Basic developed primarily for games - in particular to provide easy access to the 3D capabilities of Microsoft's DirectX 7. No Windows gadgets, menus, drop-downs or most of the things you have in VB - just an empty screen.

VB on the other hand is primarily for writing Windows applications and although you can use it for games, it's as natural as using DB for writing Windows applications.

As has already been said, if you have some experience programming in BASIC already you should find it fairly easy compared to VB.

If you are stuck, there are lots of tutorials for beginners on here - check out the stickies at the top of the board.

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Daniel TGC
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Posted: 30th Jun 2009 04:43 Edited at: 30th Jun 2009 04:44
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I'd go for DarkBASIC Professional if I were you. The language is graphically more up to date, but it's coding is very simular DarkBASIC Classic. The interface is more modern, and it's still being upgraded and developed for, while DarkBASIC Classic stopped it's development in 2002. With the exception of the one off 1.21 patch.

In relation to how hard it is compaired to Visual Basic, as has been said, it's designed specifically for games development, were the interface could be absolutely anything the user wants to create. While VisualBasic offer standard windows gadgets and forms so it's better for application work.

However, there is no reason you can't use both. Wtih DarkGDK.Net you can transfer your DarkBASIC Professional knowledge directly into Visual Basic at a later date. Plus DarkBASIC Professional, being aimed at game design, offers a range of expantion plugins allowing users to deploy more specialised features such as the Physics Processing Unit technology developed my Ageia and now being intergrated into nVidia's latest set of GPU's.

If you intention is to make a game, then I'd recommend you go for the langauge that's specifically designed to meet that task.

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Van B
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Visual Basic is good at what it does, but it's by no means a game orientated language. DBPro and DBClassic work in quite different ways from VB, it's more direct, sequential and predictable.

It's a no brainer, as it was a no brainer for me after months of getting annoyed trying to write games in VB, download the demo of DBPro and give it a whirl, mess around with the demos. There is something to be said for the further simplicity in DBClassic though, as it runs pretty well, even on the very cheapest of cheap hardware, even the cheapest Dell laptops. Makes DBClassic a real option for casual games.


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Easy or not but you must know what are you doing and how to do it.
DB maybe easy but it doesn't write code for you and don't expect a new Half Life or CS from it.

You must learn writing games anyway.

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