Larian Studios Forums General Chat What Games Are You Currently Playing Thread

Yes, Janggut is right, although I would've formulated it differently. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

A .BAS "program" is nothing else than a text file containing Basic commands. And "Basic" is the name of the programming language ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/exclamation.gif" alt="" /> So the commands MUST be in this particular programming language in order to be understood by the Interpreter QBASIC.EXE .

There are generally two sorts of programming languages : Interpreted oones and compiled ones. Pascal vor example is normally a compiled programming language, like C++ , for example. Ruby , Perl, Python and Basic are interpreted programming languages. (Although for QBASIC There once existed a compiler by Microsoft.

There are several flavours of Basic : QBasic ist just one of them, made by Microsoft. Dark Basic is one that is a current, different one (even with a compiler), not by Microsoft.
Since there are different flavours, they are a little bit incompatible to one another. You cannot mix, because they use different commands.

So, GORILLA.BAS is nothing than a text file containing the commands for a worms-like game. In order to be run, it needs the interpreter QBASIC.EXE.
The command for the console should look like this :



That's it - as long as you have both in one directory on your harddisk.

QBasic.exe looks a bit like the old DOS editor EDIT.EXE. In fact, edit.exe was once only a subset of qbasic.exe . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> At the time when both were still shipped with DOS, you could start the editor by writing in the console . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

And one last word : [i]These are no windows programs ![i] You can start the QBASIC interpreter by a double-click, but it wouldn't do much except displayx itself, so to say. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> It's like starting an editor.

I hope this is sufficient or now ...

Alrik

Ah... thank you, both! I never tried to "play" into/with programming; not because it doesn't interest me, though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> It's more the matter to chose what to try first in all I want to try. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> But you guys give me a good starting point.
I bookmarked this and will give it a try once I'm done with my current games.

Ive been playing Rome: Total War alot lately...its friggin addictive

Hello, everyone. On www.lucasarts.com there is a new poll.

It goes like this : "which one of these classics do you play when the mood strikes ?"

Given choices are :

Armed and Dangerous
Curse of Monkey Island
Full Throttle
Gladius
Grim Fandango
RTX Red Rock
Wrath Unleashed

The choice so far is more than clear : The Curse of Monkey Island has *far* got the most voices !

I do hope that this will be a lesson for LucasArts. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Saying that adventures are dead and this stuff. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />

I can only advice you also to vote !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Alrik

I'm playing World of Warcraft and I'm loving it!
Level 13 so far. If anyone plays Horde, Undead and are around that area of level, then here's who I am: Unelf .

I understand why its concidered the best MMORPG. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> Mutch fun!

Killerzzz

Al, for u i will place my vote. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> but i think i will vote for Grim Fandango as it's still the most memorable adventure game to me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> yeah, i too hope that LucasArts will learn from this; there is still hope for adventure games.

Still playing WoW, but now I spend most of my time in PVP, something new for me, and it is a Blast!

Cleglaw and Killerzzz:

Tell us what servers you are on, there might be a one in a million shot that we are on the same server, and we could actually meet in game.

nice to tell us your character's name, Killerzzz, but without a server name no one would be able to find you after all.

so i gather u're whooping others, Cleg? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

as for me, i'm playing Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War. surprisingly it's not that bad at all as most RTS nowadays are plain lousy. of course it has taken quite a lot of ideas from popular RTSes as well as previous work done by Relic, such as Battle Realms.

maybe i'll check out the expansion, Winter Assault.

I'm mostly playong NFS:MW, i'm #8 on the blacklist.

I am also playing Ski racing 2006 just for the fun of it; it doesn't require a lot of resources and I get decent framerates.

Also Warhammer 40K is on my PC, but sadly enough the FPS are shamefull

I have toons on multiple servers, but the only ones I really play are on Terenas. To get in touch with me there type in game:

/join lurkers

This puts you in the Lurkers chat channel, where I will see that you have joined and will contact you.

Terenas
Magead, undead mage, tailor
Agh, troll warrior
Grrh, undead rogue
Loca, Undead Warlock, Herbs, Alchemy
Hunrc, orc huntress
Rogoll, troll rogue, Herb, Alchemy
Priund, undead priestess, alchemist
Sharc, Orc Shaman, miner, engineer
Drutar, One of the dreaded Druid Brothers

Heh, so true. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I keep forgetting about all the realms.

My Realm : Shattered Hand

My Name (again): Unelf

My Time: Some weeknights, but mostly weekends.

There. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Hopefully I'll see someone. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

I love the way you named your chars; so great tips for when you lack of inspiration! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

so is this the EU or US Terenas, Cleglaw.

as for Killer, I presume it's the US one, since you're canadian, right?

@ Wazzz

If you can't play with Killerzzz (Canada) and Cleglaw (USA), maybe you could play with Kiya (Germany).
She is also playing World of Warcraft.


@ Killerzzz

[color:"orange"]Look'ee what I made! [/color]
It's a beautiful banner. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" />

[color:"orange"]<--- I made that penguin move!!! [/color]
Also a very good work. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bday_jump.gif" alt="" />

Barta

I play Wow too, Wazzz <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

server: Die Silberne Hand (in German, sorry, didn't know the English server name, its a rp-server)
chars: Xanlosch, Dwarf, Roque and Tarlona, Tauri (?), Druid

On the same server you can met Marian (with a lot of chars on both sides).

0ops Marian is playing World of Warcraft instead of working on Divinity 2 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Where are the wet noodles ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />

Barta

Ups, sorry Marian - but I think you play only after you have finished your work, didn't you ?

Yes, I am on a US server. I wonder if there is a way to start a toon on a Euro server. Does anybody know?

It is possible, Cleglaw !

Open the file "realmlist.wtf" in your favorite editor (you should found this file in c:\program files\world of warcraft) and change the one line to



your should be



or similar.