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2D All the way! / Guess What I Got?? The Learn to Program BASIC Examples!

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Posted: 16th Feb 2006 22:22
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Anybody used Learn to Program BASIC Before? Well I have all the examples here as a zip file. 17 files in all!

Need Tutorials? New to DarkBASIC? - http://jonsdbpage.tripod.com
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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 01:24
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Never heard of it. Is it to learn standard basics? I suppose you have to start somewhere, but the DB commands are the main commands to learn.

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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 16:28
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Yes it is standard it's very much like QBASIC. It's not as great as DarkBASIC but it's easy to convert to DarkBASIC. Some of the 2d commands are similar!

Need Tutorials? New to DarkBASIC? - http://jonsdbpage.tripod.com
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 20:18
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I haven't heard of it either... but it's easier for newbies to just learn Darkbasic commands rather than learn how to convert LTP to Darkbasic.


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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 21:33
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Oh of course it wasn't meant for beginners I posted it just for fun when we need something to go on. It was published by Interplay I think.

Need Tutorials? New to DarkBASIC? - http://jonsdbpage.tripod.com
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Posted: 18th Feb 2006 00:17 Edited at: 18th Feb 2006 00:20
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yup - i've used it, made some awesome games in it, mastered it, and moved on. Thats how i learned how to program. It was basically a programming language with built in lessons - a really great idea released by Interplay around 1996ish. In fact there still is a live LTPB community forum up and running.

here are some games i've made with it in the past...





the language is actually a pretty good one - except for one major flaw... they had a absolutely crummy color palette which caused alot of potensially good looking games to look bad.


there is currently a project going on to rebuild the LTPB language fixing problems such as these and release it once more. And since LTPB is pretty much deadware - and interplay is no longer in business - this is not against any copy right laws. Sineful.com is the company in charge of it.

the current LTPB cummunity resides here:
http://www.secantengineering.com/forums/

we just recently got a new forum so it seems pretty empty right now, but there are people there that can help you out.

occasionally we'll host 2-hour programming competitions and things of the sort, and currently there is a longer competition being hosted there. check it out if your interested

www.calypson.batcave.net (Under Construction)

Calypson - aka Indigo @ art forums
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Posted: 19th Feb 2006 15:22
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Should have spent more time with Learn to Program BASIC while I had a Windows 98 Computer. But I moved on to make games in The Games Factory, since I loved something easy and quick to do.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2006 15:23
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I'd like to see it ported to a newer generation of computers for free though.

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Visit us, computer nerd! We'd love to see another LTPB user.

Calypson told you right, we're all at http://www.secantengineering.com/forums

As for your free port of LTPB; there is one port, named CodeWiz, that you can get from [/href]http://www.sineful.com[/href]. Click here to get it now: http://collins29p.home.comcast.net/binary/codewiz02062005.exe.

It's not the holy grail of ports (it's still just as limited as LTPB used to be), but it gets the job done. The guys working on it told us that they're going make a new one, but they didn't say anything after that. Cross your fingers... maybe they're just being quiet .
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Posted: 20th Feb 2006 19:33
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I will!

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Posted: 23rd Feb 2006 17:29 Edited at: 23rd Feb 2006 17:41
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I bought that piece of turd programming language from interplay. If you can call it a programming language. It was the most limited programming language I've ever used. There was virtually no support for it either.

No matter what way you turned it, shined it up, it was a turd. Where is interplay now? That's right, last time I checked their assets were being auctioned off.

The person who ran that company should have been exicuted for running it into the ground.

I'm glad Calypson was able to get some good use out of it. The language actually discouraged me, and I went back to programming in AMOS PRO on my Amiga.

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Holy crap, someone bought up the assets of interplay. He probably paid a buck, it says it changed ownership. Interplay had it's doors shut down by government agents for not paying it's employee's for a month. Bwahahahahahaha!

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Posted: 23rd Feb 2006 18:16
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Yeah LTP BASIC isn't the greatest programming language and Interplay wasn't the greatest game publisher. Is there a port of AMOS on Windows? Like to see it.

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Posted: 23rd Feb 2006 19:30 Edited at: 23rd Feb 2006 19:31
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Interplays company history is pretty interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay

There will never be a sequel to Planescape Torment.


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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 15:46
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Never played that one? Interplay had some nice titles, but others just plain sucked(Boogerman was as gross as it was horrible) and Clay Fighter was as weird as it was ugly looking as well as a pun-filled, generic game.


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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 19:50
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It's a really innovative RPG. You're character is undead and you can gain information by plucking out your eye and sticking an old eye you used to use back into your head.


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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 20:18
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Sounds cool and confusing ! It's not copyrighted now if interplay's banrupted there may be a company to remake it?? Probably not sounds like a buried treasure.


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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 07:03
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Another company bought the rights. Sometimes it takes many, many years to see another game from the owners of the former companies assets.

Like the last Might and Magic game (MM 9) was made in 2002. Ubisoft bought the rights to Might and Magic and are about to continue with a new Might and Magic game 5 years later. Thank God!


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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 13:17
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Yeah, I always played Heroes of Might & Magic III, played myself sick. The RPGs I didn't really enjoy though they were too confusing with a first person view never caught on with me, more into final fantasy I guess .


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I love the Might and Magic series. I just recently bought MM 7 (it was the first one I didn't get). In a few weeks i'm going to order MM 8.


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With the discussion of Interplay being gone and their stuff abandoned. Remember that they did not own the copyrights to many of the things they put out, they were developers. EA is actually sitting on a bunch of the old interplay stuff.
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