I'm not sure why everyone is so bothered about pixel-perfect collision, to be honest. Just use bounding boxes, it's much simpler and hardly anyone will notice.

You should be able to save a level map just by saving the random seed that was used to generate it (I'm assuming it does have random maps, I haven't actually played it yet).

If you want other information to persist (eg, which monsters are dead) then it might be a bit trickier.

Is it recognising i as a number? :-) (If so it's still wrong, because i would come before 037)

In the end, you have to make assumptions about what the text represents, which can easily be wrong. Everything is a compromise, a best-guess. How does it cope with dates, fractions, hexadecimal, etc? Is it really best to try to guess what the user means with insufficient evidence, or is it better th...

Heh, that smart sorting in Explorer (only since XP, I believe, my Win98 certainly doesn't sort like that) actually bugs me at work, where I have some files that I would prefer not to be sorted like that. That article/discussion also seems to be missing the point that an ascii sort is also case-sensi...

Should FB even have a community? I'm playing Devil's Advocate a bit here, but QB, essentially, was (is) a ghetto. It runs in its own obsolete little world - DOS - that everyone else hasn't seen for over a decade, with greatly restricted capabilities and a largely incestuous audience. It seems to me,...

Now PlayerOne, why the community wasn't informed about this lovely game of your? Love the graphics! Can I add it to my FreeBASIC Games Directory ( http://games.freebasic.net )? Sure. I meant to add it myself, but I'm pretty disorganised and lazy most of the time. It doesn't even have a proper home ...

Hmm, an RPG ought to be no different from any other "simpler" game, except in terms of scale. You can get away with bad practice easier on a simpler game, though, and it often takes people a few goes to figure out what good practice is, when it comes to making a game. For instance, I've wr...

There are techniques used in emulators which might be what you're after, such as 2xSaI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2xSaI

edit: and hq3x:

http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html

The types are not compatible. That is why counting_pine's code has functions to read and write them in a QB-compatible way.

Yes, I found screensync pretty useless at avoiding tearing, too. And if anonymous1337's code is accurate then it's not really surprising since it's not doing anything like what I expected. Flip seemed to be a much more reliable way of getting clean refreshes. Personally, I don't find the error margi...

I think there are actually 1024 "milliseconds" in a second when it comes to computer timing, but that ought to speed up the sleep not slow it down. Perhaps the extra time is, as you originally suggested, the time lost waking up to poll for keyboard input? The last thing to remember is that...

That never occurred to me, either. I've just been using one based on the default basic template which I add to every now and again.

Also, I think you're making the same mistake I did with mine (which should be archived in these forums somewhere*): it will go into an infinite loop if target and replacement are the same colour.



*Okay, I looked it up: http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2455

We have a pixel-doubled mode in OHRRPGCE for exactly that reason. I also added optional borders to bring it up to 640x480 fullscreen for monitors that don't cope well with old DOS resolutions. It's not necessarily an easy fix, though. I did it by doing all the graphics internally, drawing to a 320x2...