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Title: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 03, 2011
Hi guys!

As promised (or rather threatened) the other day, here it is my first Amiga BBStro whatever thing promoting DBF done in Purebasic 2.90.  ;)

Known issues:
Runs only on an Amiga or WinUAE.
Mousecursor is not completely hidden, i.e. it flashes when the mouse is moved.  That's a PB internal prob, no idea how to solve that.

It should run with a couple of configs on WinUAE. (I used ROM 3.1 and 2MB ChipRAM and 8MB FastRAM during creation.  ;D)
Just copy it to your harddisk and run it from the Workbench. Might add an ADF file for easier usage later...

Anyway, enjoy! :)

Pad



Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: Shockwave on May 03, 2011
Damn I can't run it.
Does it definitely need Kickstart 3.1 ?
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 03, 2011
Ugh. Crap. Just had a look at the Purebasic helpfile and it says:  AmigaOS 3.0 and better. So I'm afaid so, yes.  :-\   
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: benny! on May 03, 2011
Uhh ... the screeny looks outstanding. I really like the wording (SysOp vs Admin, BBS no vs IP Address). Being a SysOp
myself decades ago this brings back a lot of good memory.

Any chance of providing a short vid?

Best,
benny!
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 03, 2011
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Any chance of providing a short vid?

I'll see what I can do, my computer isn't very good at recording videos, especially with audio. If I had I known that this only works on 3.0+, I wouldn't have started I think.  >:( But hey, I even managed to create code on Amiga that doesn't run on every machine... I'm good at this it seems... Wohoo!  :||
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: Shockwave on May 03, 2011
*looks for kickstart 3.0... *

I do have the rom somewhere.
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: hellfire on May 03, 2011
Runs fine with Kick 3.1 here.
Doing a capture right now...
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 03, 2011
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Doing a capture right now...
Cool, thx mate!  :)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: hellfire on May 03, 2011
Click (http://hellfire.untergrund.net/dbf/dbftro.avi)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: LittleWhite on May 03, 2011
Thanks for the video.
Nice little demo :)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: Rbz on May 03, 2011
Works fine on winuae need to test on real amiga :)

Isn't this song by Martin Galway?
Or it is just a remix by 4-mat?

Nice work, I just miss a rotating cube on center of screen :)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: benny! on May 04, 2011
@Hellfire:
Wow ... thanks a lot for the vid !!!

@Padman:
Yeah, nice little intro. It has been quite a long time since I saw my name in a greeting list of an Amiga Prod ;-)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 04, 2011
Thanks guys!  :)

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Or it is just a remix by 4-mat?
Yup, it's a Comic Bakery remix.

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I just miss a rotating cube
You are right, a little more action wouldn't have hurt. But this is my first try on Amiga plus Purebasic doesn't offer Sin and Cos commands. I know you can do that with included table files, well maybe next time if I figure out how to do that. ;) I tried to do a text writer, but it wouldn't work as supposed so I left it all static. The whole thing uses some cheap tricks anyway. PB has an IncludeBinary command but you can only easily load stuff from disk. So I copy all included files to Ram: and load them from there. Real Amiga coders are entitled to laugh at this point.  ;) But I go with the Anthrox slogan. I do it for fun, not status! hehe

Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: janer on May 05, 2011
 :clap: very nice padman !!!!! and thx ofcoz for the greetings ... keep up the good work
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: TinDragon on May 05, 2011
Wow the Amiga version of PB has no sin and cos, that seems abit of an odd think to not have, Amos had those back when i had it, says so in the manual :P
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 05, 2011
Thx janer!  :)

@TinDragon: Yeah the Amiga PB is obviously pretty crap and basically useless for demo or advanced game stuff (it only knows basic maths commands, no Random no nothing...) It's still fun to tinker with, since the syntax isn't too different from the Windows version...  ;)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: Shockwave on May 05, 2011
Wow the Amiga version of PB has no sin and cos, that seems abit of an odd think to not have, Amos had those back when i had it, says so in the manual :P

You could  just import a sine table like we used to back in the good old days :)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: benny! on May 05, 2011
Wow the Amiga version of PB has no sin and cos, that seems abit of an odd think to not have, Amos had those back when i had it, says so in the manual :P

You could  just import a sine table like we used to back in the good old days :)

lol ... I still do this sometimes when it comes to actionscript/javascript coding. So, oldschool never really dies ;-)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: WidowMaker [retired] on May 06, 2011
Nice one :)

Is it going to be going on the youtube channel?
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 06, 2011
Thank you! :)

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Is it going to be going on the youtube channel?

I think the channel's for challenge winners only, I wouldn't mind though.  ;)
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: Dr.Death on May 08, 2011
Great job m8..

Propper oldskooool  :updance:
Title: Re: [Amiga OS] DBF BBStro
Post by: padman on May 08, 2011
Thx!  :)