I guess it was a case of a non standard file. For the library, I'll give building it on freedos a try. Also, in case I haven't said it, thanks for all your hard work on this.

Thanks for the help. I'm just going to add both an extra row and column, that should give me the same result as the CEIL function would. I'll have a lot of extra space when I get a lower number from the Sqr function, but I'm not going to stress over it anymore. I will be holding on to the CEIL macro...

I made a program to generate a sprite sheet from a list of sprites, but my way of calculating the size for the sheet is broken. If lcount < 4 Then ''lcount = number of sprites sh_col = 2 ''columns sh_row = 2 ''rows Else sh_col = Int(Sqr(lcount)) sh_row = sh_col If sh_col * sh_row < lcount Then sh_ro...

Should be fixed in the last version Awesome, thanks. Everything seems to be working right now. Just one question, is there a limit on midi files? I tried loading a 20KB file and it still core dumped on me. Other, shorter midis, worked great. Here is the midi I tried to download and play: https://fr...

Neat. How do you like Raylib? I don't really want to learn a new library, but I like how simple things look.

I like Linux Mint. When I made the jump myself I was using Win 8 and was just looking for something that worked like Windows XP. Linux Mint has a bootable USB you can play around with before you install it. You might take a look at Zorin OS and Linux Lite also.

Damn hobo got me.

Hello, I always liked your Griffon Legend game you did years ago.

RetardedAndProud wrote: ↑May 22, 2025 19:06 Dereference SDL_GetError()...

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Print #EF, "SDL_LoadBMP() failed "; *SDL_GetError()

That works, thanks.

I guess what I would really like to know is if this is working right. ''Create a texture Var bitmap = SDL_LoadBMP("square.bmp") If bitmap = 0 Then Print #EF, "SDL_LoadBMP() failed "; SDL_GetError() End End If I'm asking because with freebasic I get this written to my error file: ...

Thanks, I thought it had a vsync routine, but I forgot what it was called and was looking in the wrong places.

I'm trying to make a vsync funtion in dos. ''vsync with freebasic Declare Sub vsync() Screen 13 SetMouse ,,0 Dim count as Integer Dim seconds as Integer Do Do count = count + 1 vsync Loop Until count = 70 ''only counts to 33 because vsync tested twice seconds = seconds + 1 Locate 1, 1 Print Space(20...

I propose to count the files with an initial Dir() loop, then Redim a string array, FNam, with N elements, where N is the number of files. Then I Redim a UShort array with N elements, FNum, to store the hex values of the corresponding filenames, plus an additional Index array where Index(N) = N. I ...

fxm wrote: ↑Apr 05, 2025 18:21 I just corrected the one line (#12) in error:
str_cont = Mid(mr_str, start_pos, char_pos - start_pos)

I'm a doofus. I thought Mid() needed an end position. Thanks to both of you.

I'm getting weird results from something really simple. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Simple logic sometimes confounds me. Anyway, I'm trying to extract small strings from a larger string using "_" as a separating character. Dim as String mr_str = "Hello_world_this_is_a_string"...