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pretty much straight forward - appreciate it !

Awesome video :)

I think the funniest thing about RIPSCRIP is they could've just done a color version of Hypercard and make it possible to network and it would've not only easier for everyone (Sysops and users), but it was already street tested to work as intended. I'm a firm believer of steal stuff that works.

Great guide, thanks 😀 The only thing missing was information about TPairSpliter.

Very impressive they can achieve such complexity under dos

Always hard to watch technical shorts of people that cant use a proper screen recording Software.

Dark Seed (Dos) used this, but I didn't have any idea back in the day, I had come from Amiga AGA graphics chipset and so had no idea the game was using VGA colour settings through EGA higher res! Fantastic example, not even half way through but on work break so will watch the rest later, thank you!

Hello! I like classic view of Lazarus IDE, like classic GIMP UI.

Hi my friend from ericksystem

Thanks for the video, Nick! But the sound still too low.

Nice work! Did it take a frustratingly long time or did it go pretty smooth?

But where to download it and can it be use today.

This is very useful if using sprite assets for games where that pink color should be ignored. Thanks Nick!

Hmm. I didn't even recognize it. The haircut has been beneficial for + 20 years

Amazing!!! I will attach a link to this video in the readme for a examples from other developers in ray4laz

Awesome! Just the sound was too low in this video.

Is there way to export game to web?

Are the Lazarus executables still slow and big as hell? Tried Lazarus years ago and the exes were very slow, I went back to Delphi. Besides Delphi is free now and you can make commercial apps with it

Cool, Nick! And you are looking a lot healthy since the first videos!

You can also open the Project Inspector and add the form's unit to the project. The form will then be available in Lazarus designer automatically.

Very good, Nick! Do you plan to have a full set of gamedev tools?

Welcome back!

How about to make a web version of Raster Master using pas2js?

And... You are back!!! Awesome! Wish all the best to you!

This is a very late comment, but I think the difference between the class and the record issue you run into with the cc variable is that the Dictionary actually carries a record variable in it, whereas the class is a pointer in both the code outside the dictionary entry, and inside the dictionary entry. All the cc references refer to the same memory location when it is a class. The record creates a new memory location to store the Dictionary value so each cc value is transferred into the dictionary entry.

Bro I'm so frustrated with Lazarus. Its impossible for me to do a list of string array, which is super easy in python...

Thanks for this video! I've been trying to import images into basic using BLOAD from PCpaint and other contemporary software. I could always display these files in fullscreen, but never manipulate them with PUT. I think it must be due to pc-paints file structure not agreeing with the PUT indexing from arrays? Anyway I had no idea something like Raster Master existed! : )

RetroNick, you are a sage. You deserve respect.

What version of QBasic is it?

Add a "0" to the number of bullets that are allowed - way more fun!

unfortunatelly can,t game runing game Outrunner error syntax

Hi, RetroNick. Do you know any reliable way of compiling Pascal units into 16-bit DOS relocatable object files? FPC only able to create 32-bit OBJ and vanilla TP/BP uses TPU/TPL format (undocumented and non-compatible between versions) which is not familiar to any DOS linkers I know...

I think there's something wrong with your monitor, it is way to saturated, way too much into the blues... it should look gray! :P

I got hooked on MMBasic. Some library crap didn't suit me at all. Been working on 8 Pico's really doing something of what I wanted and I have a pile of code of my own now. Making a GPS Pico at the moment which can update several times per second. I'm looking into ESP32 stuff on the side, but it's not helping me yet.

Great video!!! Good message as well.

This is kind of nuts for fitting inside 50K and having virtual memory management built-in. I wonder whatever happened to the author. Happened upon the TEGL version of Mille Bornes and wanted to know more about it. How unfortunate that it seemingly went mostly unnoticed.

HI RetroNick's Programming Channel :) I SEE THAT IT IS NOT ADVANCED LASERCHESS . IT IS PLAIN OLDER LASER CHESS (THE PREDECESSOR). LINK IS NOT WORK, WHEN CHOOSE THE LINK IT SAYS ""404 - page not foundThe master branch of Channel-Code does not contain the path amiga."" PLEASE GIVE THE FIXED ROM IN AN ADF OR LHA TO THE AMIGA COMMUNITY (ANYWHERE- AMINET EAB ABIME ETC) BECAUSE IT HAD NOT BEEN EXISTED BEEN ""WIDE PUBLISHED"" IN REAL DATA UNTIL NOW. THANKS IN ADVANCE

Just checked, and this works in PB 640x480x256 and mode 13: www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tutorials/tutor1.htm OUT &H3C8, 0 (0 is color number) OUT &H3C9, red OUT &H3C9, green OUT &H3C9, blue If you set color number to 0 with 1st command, you can loop trough the entire color table with OUT &H3C9. Mode 13: ! mov ax, &h13 ! INT &h10 Vesa mode 101 (this mode requires paging of video mem): !mov ax, &H4F02 !mov bx, &H101 !int &H10

Can you show how to do sound like .mp3's

Hey Nick! So I think paintBox is much better for 2D ganes too as it seems.

Вы настоящий энтузиаст! Используете систему программирования, которая вообще непопулярная. Никто на ней сейчас не программирует.

Hi Nick. Thank you for taking us through QBjs. You did well in showing how it works. > I was looking at this after your previous QB64 post. I was wondering if it showed (Gave access to) the actual JavaScript for "Running" this in the web context and there it is at 3:48 :) From a retro perspective there is DoJs for DOS which is a pure JavaScript interpreter for DOS (32-bit protected mode). I have only tried a few of the examples with it (DoJs) so far and it seams to work well. A little heavy for DOS being 32-bit so you need at least a 486 compatible DOS for it. DoJs renders to the screen in it's own graphics context and doesn't use any HTML. I am going to be curious now as to what JS libraries they are using for the browser rendering (running) :) aka is there any remote chance that the JS output here is compatible with with a little correction with DoJs. No doubt the Graphics libraries will be too incompatible, but I am curious just the same :)

Thanks for the breakdown of my Galaga project - I thoroughly enjoyed watching that! I spent a few months last year playing around with QB64pe to see what could be done with a BASIC variant these days (compared to when I learned to program in BASIC so many years ago). I have to say that it was a lot of fun and, despite some limitations, is capable of very complex projects. It'd be nice to be able to split source files up in a better way but most hurdles I came across weren't insurmountable. Hopefully you found the section of code for creating the window in the centre of the screen. Also, I hope you made it to the challenge stages eventually - that's much easier to do once you double up your own ship after letting it be captured. I did try to stay as faithful to the original as possible but have no idea whether the bullets and missiles are upside down or not! The paths are created with splines which I'm sure wasn't the way they were originally done but it seems effective enough. If you enjoyed this you might want to have a dabble with my Scramble conversion which can be found in the GitHub alongside the Galaga source code. Enough rambling for now - thanks again for digging into the source code. I'm always happy to answer any related questions. It was by pure chance that I stumbled on this video - quite made my day :)

Hi Nick. Just seen this video and got all excited. Classic game :) (Used to be one of my favourites in the arcades as a youngster) > 1:09 Centering on screen I believe is just a matter of getting the screen xy dimension from the OS, divide by 2 to get the center and then divide the applications xy window size by 2, and subtract that from the monitor (xy/2) to get the x,y 0,0 for the top left corner of the window. Appwindowx = sreenW\2 - appWindowW/2 NOTE: The function commands to get the current screen dimensions/resolution may be different from traditional BASIC. > 3:00 Not sure if I could see the traditional "rapid fire" in that screen? Seem to get multiple fire at 3:20. > 3:23 lol, I had this same bug come up when I did the Batleship Gatica demo. The bullet sprite gets deleted (or not rendered), but the bullet x,y coordinates remain alive and are tested if in the bounds of the hero ship. (It was just a matter of making sure that the bullet xy gets deleted (zero/inactive) when the enemy ship becomes inactive. Good luck finding the missed line. > Don't feel bad. I used to ACE this game. At 57 I likely wouldn't do as well as you did lol > 7:06 I have never "formally" done any game programming. When doing Gatica I was looking for the best way to create the sprite structures. I had some ad-hock ideas for my next attempt at it, but this offers some sound ideas to work from. Most modern examples that I have seen tend to be wrapped up in abstract classes. Nice to see an example laid out using an imperative orientation. > 9:24 the variable should be in the line that creates the Window from what ever graphics library is being used. If you look for the start x, y in CreateWin(x, y, W, H) and trace the x, y variable back you should find the line or call to a Sub with it. > Thank you very much for posting this. I have spent a lot of time looking around to find an example like this :) This will relate well to the concept of the Battleship Gatica I did and I will likely learn quite a bit from this source code. I can't wait to translate it to C or FreeBASIC; Most likely C though. > Been a long day, so I need to lay down and take a break for a bit (Chronic Heart failure). After that I am going to have a look at that code and pull it apart. I haven't got QB64 installed at the moment but I will compile it in FreeBASIC and see how it comes out before witting in C. P.S. If I spot that hidden bomb/bullet code I will give you a heads up. P.S.S. Like I need to take on more tasks, but this one is worth throwing a few hours of my time at :)

Thanks for sharing, Nick!

Pascal is addictive, you can't quit :) Nice video, thank you Nick!

Thank you for this! Currently trying to write a small preprocessor in Free Pascal. This has helped me get started with maps/dictionaries in the language. You're right about the documentation. It's definitely lacking in places.

Hey! Thanks for the video. I added to the reddit video collection. Will do the same for all your videos you post to r/QB64pe - thanks sir.

this is great stuff, was looking into hershey fonts and bgi fonts and once again you have the best deep dives! thanks for the videos