Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Open source, so did anything happen?

Author
Message
Fatmandragon
3
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Jan 2021
Location:
Posted: 2nd Feb 2021 02:02
Hello,

Many years ago I briefly looked at darkbasic pro. I learned qbasic, but never really did anything with darkbasic. My question is now that darkbasic is open source has anything been substantial with that?
TheComet
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Oct 2007
Location: I`m under ur bridge eating ur goatz.
Posted: 5th Feb 2021 13:37 Edited at: 5th Feb 2021 13:37
As far as I can tell, no. And I think the reason is because their codebase is very tightly coupled with WinAPI and DX9, is littered with outdated practices and overall is a pretty huge mess.

With that said, I started a project that compiles DBP using LLVM:
https://github.com/opendarkbasic/opendarkbasic
https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/225198

The DBPro SDK was also moved to CMake, which will most likely be merged into the OpenDarkBASIC project:
https://github.com/dgavedissian/DBPro-CMake
"Jeb Bush is a big fat mistake" -- Donald Trump
https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_o2rvwdLLSF1rmjly4.mp4
Hannibal
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2007
Location:
Posted: 12th Feb 2021 19:03
That's a pity if true, because, despite its shortfalls, DBP is for the price it was, very good value for money and has given many hours of fun to many many people !

Yes, I am actually standing up for it
Ortu
DBPro Master
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 21st Nov 2007
Location: Austin, TX
Posted: 13th Feb 2021 06:08 Edited at: 13th Feb 2021 06:12
Nothing really came of it. By the time they actually open sourced it, anyone with the ability and interest to contribute in significant ways had already moved on.

The 9ex build is cool, but I've never really gotten it to work 100% with my project and i mostly stick to vanilla U77

That said, i still love dbpro, i primarily work on c# professionally which i also love, but there is something special about good old dbpro that agk and other graphics libraries have never really managed to capture
http://games.joshkirklin.com/sulium

A single player RPG featuring a branching, player driven storyline of meaningful choices and multiple endings alongside challenging active combat and intelligent AI.
DrFloyd
3
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 12th Feb 2021
Location:
Posted: 14th Feb 2021 14:04
Hope Dark Basic Pro will still works with Windows 11, 12....

WE NEED this kind of REAL basic... It should survive to AppGameKit, as it is a real classic basic near from perfection
Unseen Ghost
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Sep 2002
Location: Ohio
Posted: 14th Feb 2021 18:01
I'm using the 9Ex version. I have only had it installed and working for maybe 3 weeks to a month. It has corrected the issues I was having with large programs with a lot of #include files mainly among other issues too. The only thing now is that it gives the correct error if any when compiling, but with large programs and a lot of #include files it highlights the wrong line of code in wrong code file sometimes. Even though it does that I can still figure out the line of code in the correct code file the error is actually at because of the description of the error.

I also have the latest corrected Help files installed and it is a blessing to have.

I will never stop using DarkBasic Pro as long as I can get it to work correctly in any version of windows. I have windows 10 64 bit currently and it works great.

I second the motion that WE NEED this kind of REAL basic. It should definitly survive for ever
Gigabyte Board/2.93Ghtz Intel Core Duo Proc./4GB Ram/Nvidia Geforce 730 2GB/1TB Western Dig. SSD/Windows 10 Home/Dark Basic Pro 9Ex

No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-03-29 12:42:45
Your offset time is: 2024-03-29 12:42:45