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DarkBASIC Discussion / Help with converting from DarkBASIC to OpenGL

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MartinB
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 12:31
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Hi,

I've been a long time user of Dark BASIC and I have written several games that still need quite a lot of work before release (demos can be downloaded from my website). About half a year ago, I decided to remove Windows from my computer in favour of Linux and I have just got back into games programming in the form of OpenGL programming in C, so I can continue writing 3D games.

I wanted to continue with some of my DarkBASIC creations and was wondering if anyone here knew of anything that would help me in converting my existing DarkBASIC code into something that would be usable to me on my Linux system? Or will I just have to re-write the DarkBASIC code I have written in C / OpenGL by hand?

Or maybe there is a DarkBASIC compiler for Linux? (I doubt it but I guess it's worth asking)

Cheers,
Martin
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 12:37
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there isn't one right now ... but if you developed an OpenGL engine and then converter code that took a DarkBasic DBA and converted it into OpenGL which inturn was then put through a compiler - as you'd already have the engine and just be converting to code into a form that OpenGL would use (kinda like a function wrapper) then it'd act like a converter.

As there arn't a great deal of DarkBasic functions it would be quite a simple, yet a little lengthy task

Anata aru kowagaru no watashi!
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IanM
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 21:25
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You could try running DB under Wine...
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MartinB
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Posted: 16th Jan 2003 02:02
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Thanks, no luck with WINE and while I'm sure writing a converter would be possible, it is as you mentioned quite a lengthy and somewhat difficult task, especially considering how different OpenGL and Dark BASIC are.

Anyway, I've ended up re-writing my code in OpenGL by hand. I was quite surprised how easy it was to learn OpenGL after having learned DarkBASIC. The only real problem being that it's purely a graphics API, so I'm going to have to learn something else to add sound and music into my games. Maybe I'll learn OpenAL too.

Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
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Delta
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Posted: 17th Jan 2003 16:34
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I recently switched to Linux also and since then my DB use has hit the floor, I'm still wondering if I should buy DarkMATTER,

I wish DB would make a Linux version, It woud mean I could still use it, Make Linux games and windows games with the same code, Linux NEEDS more games :p

Even if I had a linux program to check my code was correct I woul use it more,
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