old QB Defender game - anyone want to try to bring this up to speed?

[madscijr]

Hi MadSciJr

you were joking, but this joke lead us to a fundamental issue: poor time to dedicate to the project. So two half coders do not make one whole coder! That is a truth!

Sure masterpiece made by Terry or RokCoder and the other clever coders of this forum are impressive and admirable.
I think that to get that level of  program it need a good detailed project and not a simple "let's make a clone of QB Defender" or "let's port to QB64 the old QBdefender".

Code Complete has as its third chapter "Misure twice, cut one time" just to say more time to the project and the timeline of development, less time to write code.
I think that the quality of the project and of the results comes from here.
I remember my project of child windows.  It was okay but it need more quality about output. Someone notice that my project has about the half of lines of code of another project made by Terry Ritchie.
Yes and I can affirm that my project has the half of quality of image on the screen, and the half of possibiities to grow without write again the code underling.

It is true that a project needs time, resources, and a clear goal, to be successful. 

To be clear, what I was joking about was my own talent! Not yours or anybody else's. I was just saying -humorously- that it would take coders with more skill than me, to do this the way I would like.

Some projects we find compelling enough that we are willing to make time to work on and see through to completion. Then there are projects that we are happy to put some time into as long as we make some progress, but maybe not so mission critical. If we're stuck and can't find help, we can put it down for a while and return to later. Then there are projects like this one, where I would like to see someone finish it, but I don't NEED it, so it isn't a top priority for me. For something like that, I might put the idea and some code out there, in case someone more interested wants to run with it. I do some work to help get it started, but then get too busy to finish. I think next time I will be more careful to say that at the beginning! I appreciate your input Tempodi, you are a nice guy and fun to work with :-)