Sprites do have an advantage in that they look nice, animation is simpler and overlap is easier to implement. Here is my take on using the graphic commands to draw the fish. I have drawn the collision rectangle around each fish however this can be commented out. 'some useful defines Const Pi = 4 * A...

neil wrote: How could the code be changed so the fish can't swim backwards? You need two drawings, one for a fish moving left and one for a fish moving right. FreeBasic allows you to make use of bitmaps so you could use images. Here is a program that creates two images, one with a fish looking right...

badidea, Your ants finding food reminded me of the agent based programs I played with some years ago now. In this example the agents find mushrooms and return them to their home. They "wander" about until they find a mushroom and then use astar16 routine to find their home. This also inclu...

Turning off real time protection fixed the issue!!
However that apparently means leaving it vulnerable to malware.
Also it says after a short time it will turn it back on automatically.

shadow008 It doesn't make any difference. If the lines with getImage or saveImage are commented out it compiles and runs immediately otherwise it compiles and there is a 4 to 5 second delay before it runs. The bload and bsave doesn't delay the running of the program. Most strange... screenres 860,48...

When I Compile/Run the source code below it compiles quickly but takes some time before it starts to execute the code? I am using the FBIDE. I tracked it down to two lines. One which calls a routine to load a bitmap and convert it into a ulong array and another line that calls a routine to convert a...

srvaldez Floating points numbers gives you a wide range of numbers but I am working with a small range of numbers so probably I could just use integers. It was just that the neural net examples used floating points but when I printed them out I was suprised how some of the numbers came out. I am run...

srvaldez wrote: "I don't get why you don't understand that this is a limitation of binary floating point, you can't expect binary FP to behave as if it were decimal FP" Probably because I am a self taught hobby programmer with limited math skills? I do remember going through an explanation...

Now what !! I am using single values.
output:

0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8000001
0.9000001

deltarho[1859] I changed the subject title to better reflect the issue. At least now I am aware of the issue (bug?). Yes I guess I could just use single variables. I thought single still used the same number of bytes as double in a 64 bit processor? I think the TIMER value has to be stored as a doub...

Thank you for everyone giving suggestions. I had been using print using but still wanted to know what was going on. They are weight values in a neural network. deltarho[1859] That also works for printing the result but doesn't explain why it has to add that extra stuff when I convert back to a doubl...

I have a list of variables. dim shared as double w1(0 to 7) I assign a value like this, w1(i) = int(rnd(1)*200)-100 if w1(i)<>0 then w1(i)=int(w1(i))/100 end if And often get more than two digits after the floating point. -0.9300000000000001 How do I make sure I only get two digits after the floatin...

Dr_D What was the actual wording of the text question (request?) you gave to chatGPT for it to generate the code? I modified this section to make it clear what the code was doing. ' ... line temp1,(280,180)-(380,340),rgb(255,255,0),bf 'draw a rectangle dim as double ang do ang+=.1 Rotozoom( temp1, t...

@dafhi wrote: "be sure to try out the quality / stereo settings near the top" I had to move away from the screen to do the cross eyed technique. Usually I look beyond the screen. Have you used those auto stereograms? https://www.vision-and-eye-health.com/autostereograms.html The cross eyed...

Looks good. All it needs now is sound and smell of smoke
https://youtu.be/XHi7UpUctWA