What programming language are you using? Visual Studio 2008 with the gaming sdk installed? Or dark basic which is the other one that I can think of right now.



Visuail studio 2008 express with the gaming sdk is free from micosoft.

I know the feeling. I used to probem in Pascal and in C++ in Dos preffered that over the visual studio applications. Since that is what I had learned on minicomputers and microcomputers/PC's. I also have a wide variety of windows based including Jdeveloper and borland C++ forwindows version 6. for both laptop and desktop. Well if it is vista I can certainly understand. That is why I stuck with XP pro with service pack three on my workstations and 2003 and 2008 servers for my active directory IIS6 and II7. Two of them are testing machines with AMD CPU's in them and about 00 gig hard drives for data.

digit Wrote: Compucore Wrote:What programming language are you using? Visual Studio 2008 with the gaming sdk installed? Or dark basic which is the other one that I can think of right now. Visuail studio 2008 express with the gaming sdk is free from micosoft. Well, my Torrent application spits out vb code. This prevents you from having to use bitamps. However, it could probably be easily made to spit out delphi or even C code. I've got vb5, delphi 2, vc++ 6, various borland C compilers, rapid-q, etc. There's no shortage of languages. I would actually prefer this to be a dos program, just for the sake of simplicity and speed. Unfortunately, my current machine hates dos. My video card isn't supported, so everything is in black and white. No sound either.

I made fast progress on this. That's usually a good sign. Mind you, this is only a prototype.

The goal here is to shoot lightcycles as they travel across the screen. One of the cool effects is you can blow holes in the walls.

This was specifically programmed to run at 640 x 480. It won't display correctly if you don't run it at a higher resolution. The glowing blue disc on the title screen looks unbelievable on my tv. God bless graphics cards with A/V output.

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digit Wrote:I made fast progress on this. That's usually a good sign. Mind you, this is only a prototype. The goal here is to shoot lightcycles as they travel across the screen. One of the cool effects is you can blow holes in the walls. This was specifically programmed to run at 640 x 480. It won't display correctly if you don't run it at a higher resolution. The glowing blue disc on the title screen looks unbelievable on my tv. God bless graphics cards with A/V output. Here's the link. http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=UmNMeW55Tk1YSHl4dnc9PQ

I'm still working on this. It's going really well!

+ I've got the lightcycles entering onto the screen from left to right and also from right to left.

+There's a much wider ramp for them now. That means there's various locations where they come onto the screen.

+They are moving quite fast, and they will often turn around and head back the way they came.

+I may be able to add recognizers. It's just a matter of trying to use Torrent to draw something that's pretty small. Well at least they'll be bigger than the lightcycle's are. I need to find some way to give Torrent a magnification feature.

+I'm getting rid of the mouse. I've added a scope. It's a green grid that covers a wide area. It can only be moved horizontally. Doesn't slow down perfornance very much at all (due to technical reasons.) It can be moved left and right with 1 and 2.

Well, that's the update. I need to create a new missile and new collision testing. Should be a lot more accurate this tiem. Also need to try to set up a timer to keep the game running at the same speed on all computers. Figuring this will be a "real" game in less than a week.