More interesting, I think, is a ant colony food finding simulation. Where ants search for food locations, find the way back to the nest with the food, mark a path to the food for others, optimize the path, switch to different location when the food runs out. Like here: https://onestepcode.com/ant-co...

And the normal ant on a looped around map with some extra colors: 'define colors const as ulong C_BLACK = &hff000000 const as ulong C_YELLOW = &hffffff00 const as ulong C_RED = &hffff0000 const as ulong C_GREEN = &hff00ff00 const as ulong C_BLUE = &hff0000ff dim as ulong drawColo...

I made an ant that takes 45 degree turns. Keeps doing seemingly random walks. 'define colors const as ulong C_BLACK = &hff000000 const as ulong C_YELLOW = &hffffff00 const as ulong C_RED = &hffff0000 const as ulong C_GREEN = &hff00ff00 const as ulong C_BLUE = &hff0000ff dim as ul...

neil wrote: ↑Jan 14, 2024 10:27 @David Watson
I know BasicCoder2 wrote some code a while ago about the way an ant moves.
I am not sure if it's the same as Langton's ant.

This one? ants tripod gait
That ant does not make turns.
bluatigro tried Langtons Loop
I don't see any tries at Langton's ant in freebasic yet.

neil wrote: ↑Nov 30, 2023 6:06 Nice your puzzle games are addicting.

Yes, I noticed this myself as well. I think the the human mind is more sensitive to quick small rewards/accomplishments then to larger less frequent large awards.

A new variant in development, I call it: Tetrisame (from Tetris + SameGame) As you will see, the goal is not to make lines, but same color shapes >= 4 blocks. Floating 'leftovers' will drop afterwards. Github link: https://github.com/verybadidea/tetrisame Single file version: '* Initial date = 2023-...

Now I would like to know which CRT functions 'Format' and 'Print Using' are based on. I looked up 'format', which is 'fb_StrFormat' which you can find in src/rtlib/str_format.c 'fb_StrFormat' calls 'fb_hStrFormat' which calls 'fb_hProcessMask' which is a near 1000 lines of code function. Good luck.

Just a wild guess: Virus-scanner sees a new executable with code that includes write to disc and analyses it first.

Something like https://freebasic.net/wiki/CodeLibrary and https://freebasic.net/wiki/ExtLibTOC but up-to-date, with pictures, with complete projects, without dead links and available for a long time? That would be nice indeed.

Hi, how did last years 2022 Game Jam go? I cannot find the results on the website.

Although I made a copy on github with some some fixes, I don't knot much about the library. But I was wondering if BACKCOLOUR should be BACKCOLOR (without the U).

A slightly modified version: DIM As Ulong w,h,colors,x W = 1280 H = 800 DIM As Ulong inc = +1 Screenres W,H,32 For x = 1 to w / 2 sleep 10,1 Circle ((w / 2 - x - 1),(H / 2 - 1)), x, rgb(Colors,Colors,0) Circle ((w / 2 + x - 1),(H / 2 - 1)), x, rgb(0,0,Colors) Circle ((w / 2 - 1),(H / 2 - x - 1)), x,...

The make it a bit faster, you can remove the "select case inkey$ ... end select" from the inner loop. E.g. (wth some other minor changes): 'a cellular automaton (from Scientific American 1998) ' create rectangle on screen of pixels with random colors ' from 1 to numberOfColors using "...

I assume that you tried with superuser rights (sudo)?
Here (on Ubuntu) I have to disconnect/disable the network link to make it work, else it keeps syncing the time with an internet time server.

The website (https://nr100.home.xs4all.nl/badidea) that I have been using for the last 15 years or so is unfortunately gone (since December 2022). I used to put images there, embedded into my forum posts here. They are gone. If someone is looking for a certain image, I can probably still find it (or...