Here is a waving U.S. flag with changing hills in the background and moving clouds in the sky. This is from 2 years ago originally and last February for the clouds. 
Thank you to B+, Vince and someone named rattrapmax6 for the clouds!

Ovals, well... lazy ovals.   

I've never made something like this before so I figured I would try it out using the fillcircle sub as pitch black and a colored circle around each of the 2 circles. It might be useful on something someday. I should point out that the 3D rotation orbit isn't a circle, it's more like a 3D square. I couldn't figure out the equation for a 3D orbit on the Z axis, so I just winged it. 

Edit: There's a full-circle 3D one on a post below on this thread that I figured out. But I am keeping this one in case anyone wants to use this type.

Hi all,  I am starting a thread for MasterGy who has just PM'd me today asking about a spot of his own in Prolific Programmers. Until Steve can get him setup, I offer a place here like with vince to show off his talents in QB64.

To kick off this thread I found an interesting start of a game possibly, anyway it's interesting and fun to play:

I just came across this story, any fans of old games
or aspiring programmers might find it inspiring!

https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/04/crisi...om-number/

This was a book by someone called John Clark Craig, with a Companion Disk that contained the code for the various routines.

Does anyone know if the disk (or code) is still available?  I've tried eBay, but no joy.  

Good to see many of the old familiar faces here.

Malcolm

Hi all,

I was looking at creating C/C++ Dll's to add functionality to QB64PE, and I was doing timings to see what would be best done in a dll vs native to QB64PE and I got some results that confused me.

I have a simple c function I created which adds 2 numbers:

int Add(int a, int b)
{
  return (a + b);
}

I have a QB64PE function that does the same as the c function:

Function addit% (a%, b%)
    addit% = a% + b%
End Function


and as a baseline/control I do inline addition, each is done in a loop (500000000 times).

The results gave me pause:

Dll - 7.25 seconds
inline - 5.38 seconds
internal function - 41.16 seconds

I expected that the internal function would be between the dll and inline in timing.  Why would calling external to a dll to a function to add 2 numbers be quicker than calling internal to a function to add 2 numbers?


My code:

' dll test
Declare Dynamic Library "c:\users\bob\qb64\mydll"
    Function Add% (ByVal a As Integer, Byval b As Integer) 'SDL procedure name
End Declare

f% = 6
e% = 23

Locate 2, 1
Print "external dll call";

Locate 4, 1
Print "QB64PE inline addition";

Locate 6, 1
Print "QB64PE internal function";

a = Timer
For x& = 1 To 500000000
    k% = Add%(f%, e%)
Next
b = Timer

Locate 1, 1
Print Using "##.##########"; (b - a);

c = Timer
For x& = 1 To 500000000
    k% = f% + e%
Next
d = Timer

Locate 3, 1
Print Using "##.##########"; (d - c);

g = Timer
For x& = 1 To 500000000
    k% = addit%(f%, e%)
Next
h = Timer

Locate 5, 1
Print Using "##.##########"; (h - g);

End

Function addit% (a%, b%)
    addit% = a% + b%
End Function

If you want the c code for the dll let me know.

Here's something I noticed the other day, which I thought might interest you, since you've written a ton of programs regarding prime numbers -- most primes tend to be multiples of 6, +/- 1!

5 is 6 -1
7 is 6 + 1
11 is 6 * 2 -1
13 is 6 * 2 +1
17 is 6 * 3 -1
19 is 6 x 3 +1
... and so on.

I don't know how far the pattern continues (past 100, I think), but you might want to play with it some and see how it holds up in general.  It may be a quicker way to generate a list of primes than using the Sieve which I've seen you implement often in the past.  My ass is still kicked from my last doctor's visit and all, and I'm not up to coding on it at the moment, but I figured I'd share the observation in case it interested you.

Hi all,

Below are the additions to this version of Tech Invaders. I'm really happy with this version. Here's a photo too. Tell me what you think, thanks. As with version 3, this is also controlled with the mouse.

-SierraKen

Additions: A Warp Starfield Backdrop, 5 different Boss Robots total, small change to the enemy explosion sounds, a fix to the enemy shot which will now be deleted as soon as the enemy is destroyed.

And various other small fixes.
There is no ending to this game, after the 5th Boss Robot, it will go back to the first but your points and levels will remain increasing.





Code Deleted, a better version is below that doesn't have high pitched explosions. A YouTube video of the newer one is also below.

A VB5 program, almost like QBasic. - The decimal places are not calculated, but why not? I just can't find the error. Everything is the same as the 2nd screenshot, everything is correct there.

Does anyone know where the error is? Thanks.