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OK. I've just got DarkBasic as a gift. Now, I managed to get it to run fine on my computer, even though I only have 32Mg of RAM and no 3D acceleration card on it. As I don't want to start writing 3D-esc games on it, that seems fine by me. My question is if I make 'old style games', by that I mean stuff from about the time of Amiga's and Atari ST's, or even go beyond that with Amstrad and Spectrum games, can I do that with DarkBasic? After all, it seems to me that if a computer with 1Mg can run Frontier:Elite 2, then surely it can be done on todays computers faster, better, with no bugs, and without the 3D specific commands. Please tell me that this is feasable.

Also, as I am a beginner with programming on the PC, after the little basic tutorials, what should I start going onto? Pong? Tetris? Pacman? (I sorta got a pacman game going in BASIC years ago, but that was very rough and ready).

I don't see any reason why you can't do what you want to achieve. Download some of the code from my site www.darkforge.co.uk and have a play - most of it was inspired from the ST era and includes many 2D effects that should get you started.

As for where to start, personally I'd go with an invaders style game. Get to learn control methods, bullet handling, collision, etc all in one game.

Cheers,

Rich

Cheers. I've copied one or two of them and will have to start looking at them.