DOS ain't dead - RDS Game-Maker

Laaca

Czech republic,
07.07.2013, 15:12

RDS Game-Maker (Users)

Today I found a new world unknown to me so far.
It is a community around old DOS games creating tool RDS Game-Maker.

The main page is here

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DOS-u-akbar!

bocke 07.07.2013, 16:22 @ Laaca	RDS Game-Maker Post reply
	> Today I found a new world unknown to me so far. > It is a community around old DOS games creating tool RDS Game-Maker. > > The main page is here Are you sure about RDS Game-Maker? :) I think it's a QuickBasic community.

Laaca

Czech republic,
18.07.2013, 08:12

@ bocke

RDS Game-Maker

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Yes, I am sorry, you are of course right. i put wrong link. (However the QuickBasic community is interresting too)
The right link should be this: http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=Main_Page

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DOS-u-akbar!

Rugxulo

Usono,
21.07.2013, 01:10

@ Laaca

QBASIC / QuickBASIC

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> (However the QuickBasic community is interresting too)

QBASIC / QuickBASIC communities did a lot of cool stuff over the years, including tons of games. (I'd "almost" suggest sparky jump to that somehow instead of fighting with C++.) There are still some sites around for that. However, I don't know if there's much interest in that anymore. I think a big chunk of such people moved on to other places (FreeBASIC, QB64). But you never know who's still active, it's impossible to survey the entire world.

QBASIC (interpreter only) isn't widely distributed anymore. It's still on MS' FTP in OLDDOS.EXE, and paid MSDN allegedly still has QB45. But for QBASIC.EXE, I'm not sure if it's legal to download except to those with license for whatever MS-flavor OS (WinNT? OS/2? DOS?). PDS 7.1 and VBDOS, dunno (except for rare and ultra expensive copies on eBay).

I don't know if QB64 nor FreeBASIC intend to "fully" support QB syntax. They do a partial job so far (FB: at least with "-lang qb"), but it looks like the rest isn't a priority. So a lot of code will have to be fairly heavily adapted to "newer" dialects.

Rugxulo Usono, 21.07.2013, 05:55 @ Rugxulo	QBASIC / QuickBASIC Post reply
	> QBASIC (interpreter only) isn't widely distributed anymore. It's still on > MS' FTP in OLDDOS.EXE, and paid MSDN allegedly still has QB45. BTW, you may find this funny (or at least marcov will): A True Satire About Why Commercial Support Doesn't Cut It For Me (circa 1999) by Walt Stoneburner

RayeR

CZ,
30.07.2013, 19:05

@ Rugxulo

QBASIC / QuickBASIC

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> A True Satire About
> Why Commercial Support Doesn't Cut It For Me (circa 1999)
> by Walt Stoneburner

LOL, he should first search through his backups (not having a mess) and then search through warez sites and save that 3 weeks :)

Anyway this story fits my view to big companies and their 'tech'help. I have some experiences with HP, Asus, Gigabyte, WD, nVidia and it seems to me they hired the same groups of stupid monkeys doing the support. They can suggest to restart or ask if it's plugged properly and thats all, any complex problem is stopped by this company defense wall and I never had a luck to talk like engineer to engineer... Smaller companies react much better.

Our company have also a 'bright' experience with Micro$oft when we asked them to sign a customized INF file for USB serial driver (the driver itself is part of MS Windows, we needed just INF with own VID, PID that we got assigned by ST). Signing is needed for smooth install on Win8 and Win64. Luckily I'm not personally involved in this project but my coleague spent many hours trying to sign the file and mailing with MS techsup (it started I guess before 3-4 months or so...). Also we spent some hundred $ for certificates and have now certified PC with installed all needed SW (gigabytes of anoying useles crap :) but there's still no progress. Even we had a visit of some people from M$ (France, if I remember) but they was from different division and didn't know details about it but they said it shouldn't be problem. But after that buzz a silence goes on again...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

bocke 21.07.2013, 18:07 @ Laaca	RDS Game-Maker Post reply
	> Yes, I am sorry, you are of course right. i put wrong link. (However the > QuickBasic community is interresting too) > The right link should be this: > http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=Main_Page Oh, I see. :) Thanx, it looks as an interesting site.