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ThinkDigital
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 19:07
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How did you find Dark Basic?

I got the Lite version as a gift and later upgraded to classic.

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David T
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 19:26
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Saw an advert for it in a FastTrak newsletter - I subscribed after buying DiV Games studio.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 19:28
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I mugged it off a newb.


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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 19:28
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A friend had it, so I bought it.

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David R
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I persuaded my friend to buy it, after he wanted to make a game. I 'borrowed' it off him, and never gave it back

He still can't program in DB at all, but I took it to the next stage and purchased DBP myself


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Robin
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 19:58
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Read a review in 'PC Home' (At least i think that was what it was called) for dark basic classic, tried downloading the demo but it didn't work because my graphics card wasn't good enough (This was years ago) Then when I got a new computer about a year later, I remembered about db, redownloaded the demo and had a play. I actually brought DBC second hand off ebay and then later bought dbp off amazon.

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 20:11
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I wanted Blitz3d for my birthday, I had seen a little of DB when the site was Real Game Tools, but didn't really like the giant full screen purple IDE. However, my mommy got me DB for my birthday because somebody on Active Worlds told her to and so I found myself learning it and enjoying it a lot more than Blitz3d, the syntax seemed more friendly for a first time user.


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Kohaku
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 20:39
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Got a demo of DBC in an issue of PC Gamer. Eventually got DBC and taught myself to code from the examples that came with it, like Room and Ice thingie. Recently got DBP and here I am today baby!


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Lukas W
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 21:22
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wanted to make a pokemon game in 3d, found 3drad and tried it. it didn't fulfill my request so i searched some more. found dbc on google.

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blanky
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 22:01
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Found it on the internet amongst all the other stuff, then I saw it in PC World one day. Bought it, lern it I then have to done.

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Deadwords
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 22:08
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I was searching for game creation tools on google, i got the french version of DB.

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Peter H
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 22:45
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i stumbled upon it with amazon...

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Jeku
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 22:47
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Read an article on Slashdot a few years ago. Downloaded the DBP demo and thought it was pretty fancy. Purchased it from TGC UK branch as I didn't know I could have got it in North America (via RGT), so I ended up paying over $100 and waiting what seemed like over a month for it. Well worth it, though.


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 23:11 Edited at: 4th Dec 2005 23:12
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Google "game creators" i found it first page

Experienced DB http://www.greatgames3d.com (work in progress site)
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Killswitch
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 23:20
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I asked for a programming language for my 12th birthday, and my parents picked up DB.

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Megaton Cat
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So I'm the only one here who mugged someone for my copy of DB?

Pfft, shows your lack of loyalty I think.


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= Ali M =
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 23:23
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Well......

I was on T3DGM after messing around with it and such, and then an advert appeared up saying 'Want to create your very own software?' I then got interested and clicked it, read all the info and features about it...bought it! ...

......Then came the day it blew up......

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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 12:22 Edited at: 5th Dec 2005 12:22
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T3DGM was the starting point for me. I went to the page and found DBC. Oh the joy!

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Wiggett
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 13:06
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I used to make a few things on that click n play, but I wanted something more detailed and I found dark basic, then I stuffed around with that for a while making shoddy 3d games. Then I stopped and did school stuff. Then came back after I finished school to make undead nazi pirates of the kungfoorabean

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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 13:22
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i bought the lite version of t3dgm at asda, installed it, liked it a bit but i hated the ai, so i looked at the website, saw dbc, downloaded it, liked it then i saw dbpro, downloaded it, loved it and bought it, well my parents did(from amazon - hey it was cheaper)

ever since that day i got dbpro i've wanted to go into the game industry - my parents currently think it was the worst thing they've bought me(besides my computer) as they don't consider game programming as a proper job


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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 13:27
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I stumbled across the site in google whilst looking for some sort of game creator, I bought T3DGM, and downloaded the trial of classic a while later, fiddled with both for a while and eventually bought Pro.

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2:00AM, I was making a space-invaders game in Euphoria when my dad came over, said, "Go to bed, and try this thing out in the morning" and handed me DBC. At first I didn't like it... ok, I totally hated it, but after 5 or 6 months of struggling I gave in to the dark side.

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re faze
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 15:44
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i woke out of a coma , only to see the dbp logo tatooed on my right arm...
no, seriously , i found db because i wanted to make a zelda type tile based game, and then later i bought dbp for the speed and type variables. Dbp is better than db but these two are one of the few times i dont feel like i wasted my money on (geoscape 3d) i love dbp but i still think dbc was money well spent. the dbc docs are better though.

hey, even I need someone to talk to about my troubles...
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 18:46
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DIV was annoying me with it's DOSness (and it STILL is - this was 2000 BTW - the forum join dates were reset in August 2002) that I looked elsewhere. I found DB first, and Blitz was totally 2D at the time. Did actually end up buying Blitz 3D on the day of release though, so everybody is happy Still got the original "Welcome to the wonderful world of programming" letter around her somewhere I'm sure.... Goes well with my Computer Science degree I got half a decade earlier or so

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Jimmy
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 19:07
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I never owned DBC because I came around a few months after DBP was announced, so I bookmarked darkbasicpro.com and checked it everyday until it FINALLY came out. After its release, I immediately called my mom and asked her to warez it off teh P2P.


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Damokles
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 19:51 Edited at: 6th Dec 2005 09:38
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I was using Qbasic, I even did some nice graphics and sprite animations. One day I bought the game "Cossacks". That's where I found a paper with Darkbasic, so I wondered if there was a relationship with the basic language.
after reading the description, I asked it to Santa Claus ... and as nice Christmas gift I got DBC.

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Big Man
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 21:11
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was wandering through PC world when I saw it and bought it about a week later(classic I mean)

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Quote: "One day I bought the game "Cossacks"."


Maaaaaaaaan awsome game!!!


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Antdizzle
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Searching for a game creator and found this site. But it would be another year until I found out there was a message board.
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The Real 87
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I was searching for a way to make an RPG I had always planned on. I found the 3D Game Maker. Ordered that, then saw DBPro at CompUSA I believe and bought it there.

I still havn't made that RPG.

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I'm sure there was a thread about this several months ago... Oh well

I was working in EB and saw it in an industry only trade magazine. Got all excited, ready to order it through the system, when it actually arrived in the shop that day in the order - complete coincidence.

Had to watch it sitting on the shelf until the end of the month before I was paid and could buy it.

My bf bought me DBPro fairly recently (I wanted to run the DBPro Challenge Thread code) - and I got him DarkSDK.
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Freddy 007
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The Nerd(yeah, the strange one from this forum) showed me DBC, and later on I got into programming myself, and tried out the DBP demo, that was around December 1st last year. Bought it around New Year. And I STILL haven't coded anything cool


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David R
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Quote: "And I STILL haven't coded anything cool "


Yeah, same here. Well, I'm coding something cool. But its gonna be a while until its finished


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My friend bought it. But he was interested in stealing projects and rename it like Iced or caverrun. so Ive bought DBC too and said to him: After one Year we will see what you and what Ive done
=> me: Scorp He: Renamed Iced ....

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=57631&b=8


ok Ive taken the scorpion on room demon but only cause iam not an animat0r

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I bought this sexy little book called <<Game Design: Secrets of the Sages>> and I had a demo in it for DB, tried it, liked it, so I bought it. Funny thing was, when I bought the book, I thought the demo was for C++.

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Google, was looking for an easy game dev language


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Quote: "I bought this sexy little book called <<Game Design: Secrets of the Sages>> and I had a demo in it for DB, tried it, liked it, so I bought it."

Ditto, but it took me 6 months before I stopped thinking of designing cool games and actually tried to make sense of all the coding gibberish. I then found the lack of some things a bit restraining (mostly shaders and the 255 line cap, as well as the speed issues), and got dbpro about five months ago. I'm still using dbc, but that's all going to change after I finish my next game (finish the game after the one I'm making now, that is).


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Peter_ polluted me... but I'm glad he did.

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it involved limes, a really long wire, and a certain keyword...

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i was doing a school project on game making, so i searched for a nice piece of software and wha-la

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Peter H
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Quote: "Peter_ polluted me... but I'm glad he did."

can i get some sort of "recruiter's" patch for that?

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I was offered a programming class in the summer. They would pay me $6.75 an hour to learn how to use Dark Basic. The ISL company let the class beta test their software. That's what got me started. It was boring at first, but soon got interesting.

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I googled "make games easily" a couple of years ago.

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Quote: " it involved limes, a really long wire, and a certain keyword...
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I found an article in a magazine called "Bug".

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found dbc v106 in 1999 september-ish from memory.
first real question was how to traverse multiple matrices and a guy called dr av really inspired me with his cheeky way of expressing maths equations and code with remarks that only made sense later until i caught up.

went nuts for a while in the forums and racked up multiple thousands of help posts, tooks hours of work and taught myself heaps while teaching others,

java 1.1.8 was out and blitting sprites sucked ,so i looked for alt game dev stuff and writing my own 3d or 2d engine at that point was like trying to code in assembly on a kanji language set keyboard and a casssette tape backup with one eye shut half a brain missing and three fingers taped together while being held at gunpoint underwater.

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Quote: "dr av"
Yep. He answered my first ever topic post (took a couple of months). Was basically how to roll a ball correctly. If you remember he wrote a cool Marble Madness type demo that was probably one of the biggest things in DBC at the time. He gave me all this complicated code, and it *almost* worked. I think he sneakly had typod one command (was accessing the wrong variable I believe, so glitched when running every now again) so I had to work for it a bit. Fixed it and everything ran fine

Quote: " racked up multiple thousands of help posts"
Yeah, I remember. Think I signed up on the forum one month either side of you. I believe after 6 months or so you had about 4 times as many posts (If I remember rightly I had a pretty impressive 1.5k at the time). Those were the days. Decent flame wars, practically n00bville, Smartarse bloke, and tops free logos (hah, I didn't forget you practically kept the community in logos for a period of time). Ace.

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Discovered an ad in a Boy's Life magazine. But apparently thegamecreators hasn't been advertising in that magazine for awhile.

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I helped the gamemaker community out in changing a 2d engine into a 3d one.
www.gamemaker.nl

not the GMC forum, but wolf dreamers forum. He was actually the one who told me about it. I was bored as hell with game maker, cuz the most i could use was a couple of MD2's WITH a DLL only... I ran across blitz3d from another friend from there, tried it but oh well i didnt support 32 bit . I found another game maker called DarkBASIC... oooo that sounded creepy. Anywho i d/led he DBC demo and was like "holy shiot dad look at this scorpion hes liek runninnging arouwnd tha rooooom" and my dad was all "Whoahaa duduuuude...." So i got the pack for christmas with DBPro Texture maker, geoscape, 3d canvas, cartography shop AND dark MATTER... Yea it was hella tight... That birthday was great, now look at me...

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..are you high? I found it looking for basics. C++ and C 3d game development is long and boring, and the result isnt as good, because I spent 5x more time making a simple 3d pacman clone in comparision to db.

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I was getting tired of using the restricting "game maker". So I went onine at about 11:00 pm to look for game makers, which turned to 3d game makers. Then I stumbled about DB on a website and I asked for it for my birthday.


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