Hello All,
Here is my take on the abstract strategy board game 'Octogo'. 
Hope you enjoy playing.

Donald

Attached Files

  Octogo-Board-Game-Description.pdf (Size: 220.32 KB / Downloads: 87)

This is my take on the abstract strategy board game, Goblin's Gold. I have included a description of the game and how it's played.

Hope you enjoy playing.

Donald

Goblin's Gold is a 2 to 4 player abstract strategy board game with some luck and memory.
The object of the game is to get the Wizard back to your corner of the board first.
The Wizard is placed in the center of a maze that has invisible walls. Each player, in turn, maneuvers the Wizard through the maze one step at a time. Once a player encounters a wall, that wall will appear and play goes to the next player trying to maneuver the Wizard back to their corner from that position on the maze.
Paying attention to and remembering the moves of the other players can help you guide the Wizard back through a good known path. Or you can adventure out and try a shortcut to your corner of the board.
For each move on the board, a circle will appear on the board indicating a space where the Wizard can be attempted to moved to.
Game Controls:
Keyboard to choose the number of players and pressing <ENTER>.
Keyboard to choose Y or N to play game again when has ended and press <ENTER>.
Left Mouse Button to choose space on the board to move Wizard to.


  Goblin's Gold.bas (Size: 12.76 KB / Downloads: 68)

Hi QB64 coders

I was attempting to accomplish this task
detecting a joystick and its settings of  buttons/axis

using the original code I thought that I made an error in typing code. So with the goal to solve this issue of detecting a Joystick before to change its settings of _BUTTONS, I fall in this issue that you can live running this code and following these instructions:
1.  copy and paste this code into QB64 IDE
2.  take near you an USB joystick
3.  press F5 after QB64 IDE with this demo code has got the focus
4. you should get message "NO Joystick! 2   0   0    0"
5. pressing ENTER key you should get the same message on the screen
6. Plug in the USB joystick to the PC/Notebook and wait for the sound of controller connected by Windows 11
7. press 3 times ENTER Key, you should get a message "Joystick detected  3 .........." three times
8. disconnect the USB joystick and wait for the sound of controller disconnected by Windows 11
9. press ENTER key and WHAT message do you get back?

Here the code that I used

Nothing all that fancy just playing doodling with code.

Twirly uses WASD and a couple other keys to alter the generated image

I could have swore I saw a post a while back stating that a reverse INSTR command was either introduced or someone created one but I am having no luck searching for it.

InStrRev (from VB) was quite handy and I find myself needing a QB64 equivalent.

Am I hallucinating? Is my age starting to show? Does anyone else remember this post?

-------- THERE IT IS ----------

UPDATE: I was just about to post this but decided one last time to search the Wiki using the VB name INSTRREV and there it was! The INSTR page in the Wiki makes no mention of INSTRREV. searching for INSTR in the Wiki takes you to the INSTR page with no way of seeing that INSTRREV exists.

Hi,

I have been using the following keyboard scancodes for awhile, but I can't get it to detect Ctrl-Alt-Delete at all:

I had a wee bug in my first prototype, and since I'm planning on doing all kinds of prototyping as I plan out an include library for the thing, I figured best to aggregate developments in one thread.


The fundamental PUTSTRING feature to graphically position a string on the screen:

• Run the program
  
• View the source code
  

• Run the program
  
• View the source code
  

• _LETCHR$ statement
  
• _GETCHR$ function
  

I wonder if it's possible to get the C file functions working in QB64, specifically fopen, fprintf and fclose
I tried the following but it won't compile

Quote:internal\c\c_compiler\bin\c++.exe -O2 -w -std=gnu++11 -DGLEW_STATIC -DFREEGLUT_STATIC -Iinternal\c\libqb/include -Iinternal\c/parts/core/src/ -Iinternal\c/parts/core/glew/include/ -DDEPENDENCY_NO_SOCKETS -DDEPENDENCY_NO_PRINTER -DDEPENDENCY_NO_ICON -DDEPENDENCY_NO_SCREENIMAGE internal\c/qbx.cpp -c -o internal\c/qbx.o
In file included from internal\c/qbx.cpp:2333:
internal\c/../temp/main.txt: In function 'void QBMAIN(void*)':
internal\c/../temp/main.txt:29:35: error: cannot convert 'intptr_t*' {aka 'long long int*'} to 'FILE*' {aka '_iobuf*'}
  29 | *__LONG_STATUS=(  int32  )fprintf(__OFFSET_FP,(char*)(__STRING_FRMT)->chr,(char*)(__STRING_TEXT)->chr);
      |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                  |
      |                                  intptr_t* {aka long long int*}
In file included from internal\c\libqb/include/audio.h:21,
                from internal\c/qbx.cpp:1:
D:/QB64pe-3.6.0+/internal/c/c_compiler/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/stdio.h:357:20: note:  initializing argument 1 of 'int fprintf(FILE*, const char*, ...)'
  357 | int fprintf (FILE *__stream, const char *__format, ...)
      |              ~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
internal\c/../temp/main.txt:48:34: error: cannot convert 'intptr_t*' {aka 'long long int*'} to 'FILE*' {aka '_iobuf*'}
  48 | *__LONG_STATUS=(  int32  )fclose(__OFFSET_FP);
      |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                  |
      |                                  intptr_t* {aka long long int*}
D:/QB64pe-3.6.0+/internal/c/c_compiler/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/stdio.h:615:28: note:  initializing argument 1 of 'int fclose(FILE*)'
  615 |  int __cdecl fclose(FILE *_File);
      |                      ~~~~~~^~~~~
mingw32-make: *** [Makefile:410: internal\c/qbx.o] Error 1

Hello all,
Sorry but I've been away for a while and I'm locked with an old problem with QBPE64 3.6.0 that I just installed on a baremetal Acer Notebook.
After the installation, QB64PE starts normally and I can change the size of the IDE.
However, if I quit QB64PE then restart it later, I always get the following error message box:
 
Internal IDE Error
(module: ide_methods, on line: 18218)
< OK>

However, I can't even click on the OK button and I've only to quit QB64PE and I can't use it anymore.

I know this is an old problem and that it was solved when removing a configuration file but I can't remember what file it is and where it's located.

TIA for your help.
Cheers
Fifi