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Geek Culture / Riftspace and Star Wraith source code

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Code Dragon
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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 13:52
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I found a web page (can't remember where) that says that the games that come free with DBP have the source code included. I can't find the code and knowing that DB executables are DB interpeters with the source code attached, I assumed they wanted us to find the code in the executable, but it's 14.9 MB and Notepad freezes when I try to open it.

Serious bug: The exit button didn't work in Riftspace so I had to close it in Task Manager, then my computer restarted.

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dark coder
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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 14:01
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These games are still being developed to my knowledge, and I very much doubt he released the source code or ever will any time soon.

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Van B
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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 14:26
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Maybe they mean the games actually written in DBPro, Starwraith and Riftspace were written in DBClassic, only the creator could release the source code for them, which I doubt he would.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 15:17
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Quote: " I can't find the code and knowing that DB executables are DB interpeters with the source code attached, I assumed they wanted us to find the code in the executable, but it's 14.9 MB and Notepad freezes when I try to open it. "


That's a bit of myth, neither DB or DBpro include your code in 'source form'. While pro is compiled down (operationally) to machine code, DB however executes your code from byte code format.


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Kenjar
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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 17:01
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They are just games that demonstrate darkbasic pro's potential, no source code is included.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 19th Nov 2006 22:43
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They certainly don't include the source code, and there's no page on our site that says they do.

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Code Dragon
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Posted: 20th Nov 2006 00:30
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That's strange, I wonder who wrote that page if it's not true. From what I remember, this is what it said.

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In the early days of BASIC gamers would look at the source code and modify it to give themselves unfair advantages. Many of these hackers grew up to be game programmers. That's why Dark Basic Professional comes with two free games: Riftspace and Star Wraith; with source code included for you to examine and modfidy the game.
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Cool, I do love a good work of fiction, do aliens invade at any point?

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 20th Nov 2006 01:34
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I challenge you to find a page *on our site* that says anything even remotely similar to that. I wouldn't have written it in the first place because (a) neither of those games are written in DBPro and (b) Shaun has never released the source code to them.

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Posted: 20th Nov 2006 08:36
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Quote: "From what I remember, this is what it said."


Ohh, well if you remembers it then it must be true ehh!

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Posted: 20th Nov 2006 13:19 Edited at: 20th Nov 2006 13:19
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I must have gotten the games confused with something else; maybe they were talking about the Help file examples.

Sorry for this useless thread everyone.

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Posted: 20th Nov 2006 15:58 Edited at: 20th Nov 2006 15:59
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Why where both games released with DBPro if not an attempt to say "hey look what you can make in DBP!" That makes no sense at all. I'm sure no one will complain that they got them, I'm really just curious as to why, if A) neither was written by TGC and B) the game was not written in DarkBASIC Pro in the first place. This isn't an attack, just something I'm curious about.

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Posted: 20th Nov 2006 16:06
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Just a publishers deal, nothing to do with us. We just sell the Fast Trak version of DBPro (they are the publisher, we're the developer), and I guess they thought it'd help to give it away with some freebies.

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Posted: 20th Nov 2006 16:10 Edited at: 20th Nov 2006 16:10
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tut tut, publishers are the ruin of good products. Just ask David Braben!

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