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You could probably do something as simple as a PHP script on the server side and an HTTP client on the FB (game) side that requests a particular page with POST or GET data to submit a new high score. Of course, this would make it trivially easy to fake scores, so maybe some kind of encryption would ...

FreeBASIC on Mac OS X will need a bit more work, but it shouldn't be too hard now that the groundwork is laid. (FB still only has an emitter for x86, so only Intel-based Macs would work.) One stumbling block from the last time I was working on porting to Mac is that Apple's as (assembler) uses sligh...

Just a bit more fun with porting FreeBASIC; if you're an OpenBSD enthusiast, please give it a whirl: http://drv.nu/blog/2008/08/22#building-fbc-on-openbsd Note: Testing has been very minimal for this port, as I'm not a regular user of OpenBSD; I just got it to the point of building itself and runnin...

I'm not sure; I wish I knew. :) For reference, on DOS, fbgfx uses INT 33h AX=000Ch to set a handler that gets the current mouse position. Perhaps these other drivers only call this handler on 8-pixel changes or something along those lines; it is not documented that way anywhere I can find, though. D...

The FB rtlib does the following when a file is opened for INPUT: 1) first, the file is opened in binary mode to get the actual byte length, then reopened in text mode. 2) The byte length of the file is used to check if the current file position is past the end of the file. 3) fgets is used to read ...

If you want a centered graphics window, you can do this with ScreenControl (GET_DESKTOP_SIZE and SET_WINDOW_POS). Forcing centered windows breaks a number of window managers that want to position the graphics window themselves, including the venerable twm.

I'm willing to bet most of the compile time is due to the assembler and linker; try fbc -r and fbc -c to see the difference... using a disk cache wouldn't hurt either.

Tested, doesn't occur on DOS, so it is indeed Win32-only. Unless I did something wrong in my testing, it also doesn't work in 0.18.6 for Win32.

EDIT: Tested each release back to 0.17b, and it did not work on Win32 for any of those; did this ever work on Win32 before?

My vote sort of leans toward "yes" for a new release/patch/something... my logic being that apparently no one that uses Draw String custom fonts stored in BMP tested the SVN builds before the release, so they probably won't be using SVN builds after the release, and they will be stuck with...

I wouldn't recommend FreeBSD as a platform for your FB app (yet), as the port is not finished. I haven't touched it in a few months, as I had to use my FreeBSD box for something else, and nobody has asked about it in the intervening time, so I assumed there wasn't much interest. In any case, Linux c...

I fixed BLOAD to set the alpha channel of bitmaps without actual alpha information to 255 (fully opaque) in 0.20.0. Haven't 24bpp bitmaps always been processed like that? And did I misunderstand, or you said some 32bpp bitmaps don't have an alpha channel? I'm confused. :P I meant 32-bpp BMP files s...

You're right, I didn't think of Draw String. This really seems (to me at least) to be a design flaw in Draw String - it's impossible to save a correct Draw String font in a 24-bpp bitmap, which is the only kind that BSAVE creates other than 256-color, and converting a 32-bpp font bitmap into a 24-bp...

It looks like you're reading data from the alpha channel of the bitmap; I fixed BLOAD to set the alpha channel of bitmaps without actual alpha information to 255 (fully opaque) in 0.20.0. I am open to other interpretations here, but I think if we interpret just any 32-bit BMP file as having an alpha...

Just for fun, here's a Facebook page for FreeBASIC: http://www.facebook.com/pages/FreeBASIC/82609380424 Feel free to "become a fan". ;) EDIT: Just noticed there's also a previously-existing "Free BASIC" group, created by Kristopher Windsor... sorry I didn't see that earlier. :) h...