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Thanks for the comments and votes peeps -- great fun, this one was!

Intel version works here -- music's driving me mad as it's soooo familiar but I can't place it! Visually very interesting, I thought, and the scroller made me laugh (I wish I'd asked for points in mine now).

Love this 'un -- especially the transitional stuff at the start.

Very therapeutic. Makes me want to play Wave Race!

Crashes here too (although the sample keeps playing, which makes me want to see it even more!) -- Intel GMA fingy, so that'll be why.

Another last minute entry! Need to work my way through all the other submissions now...   

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Oh maaan, I just switched to Ubuntu, meaning I can't code with B3D and take advantage of some of the cheap ways to get water fx that it offers. Good excuse to have a play around with BMax, though...

Oh, hello everyone!

PixmapPixelPtr() seemingly has its uses here.

Happy birthday dewd!

Sure! I meant to mention it for the Halloween comp but it totally slipped my mind. I'm not necessarily looking to do a GBA demo (although I might if it were allowed) but there are a fair few people who tinker with it so it might be nice to consider in future. I really want to use BlitzMax for the XMas compo as I've invested a bit of time in picking up its OOP-ishness. Still racking my brain as to what to do...

I meant Visual Boy Advance and as other Win32 emulators are specifically listed I guess it's not allowed.

No VBA as an allowed environment?

which one is better? Rick dangerious 1 or 2?

Which is the least worst, you mean?    Could always compare...

Ampli told me to use this;

GOAT TRACKER

Coooo! Grabbing that NOW!!

Out of interest, what's the most user-friendly way to write new SID tunes these days?

That was a great compo -- I can see that I am going to have to skulduggerously start work on my Xmas compo entry now to have any chance at all 

Just came across FIGlet and have been messing around with it. The Graffiti font squishes together so pleasingly that I thought I'd add va!n's flyer tagline and post the results. This is about as arty as you're going to get from me, I'm afraid

_______     _____ __________ ____  __. __________.______________ ________________  ___________________________ _______________.___.
\______ \   /  _  \\______   \    |/ _| \______   \   \__    ___/ \_   _____/  _  \ \_   ___ \__    ___|_____  \\______   \__  |   |
|    |  \ /  /_\  \|       _/      <    |    |  _/   | |    |     |    __)/  /_\  \/    \  \/ |    |   /   |   \|       _//   |   |
|    `   Y    |    \    |   \    |  \   |    |   \   | |    | ____|     \/    |    \     \____|    |  /    |    \    |   \\____   |
/_______  |____|__  /____|_  /____|__ \  |______  /___| |____|/  _ \___  /\____|__  /\______  /|____|  \_______  /____|_  // ______|
        \/        \/       \/        \/         \/            >  _ </\ \/         \/        \/                 \/       \/ \/
                                                             /  <_\ \/
                                      _________________   ___\_____\ \______________________.___.
                                     /  _____|______   \ /  _  \   \\/   /   \__    ___|__  |   |
                                    /   \  ___|       _//  /_\  \   Y   /|   | |    |   /   |   |
                                    \    \_\  \    |   Y    |    \     / |   | |    |   \____   |
                                     \______  /____|_  |____|__  /\___/  |___| |____|   / ______|
                                            \/       \/        \/                       \/YOUR COMMUNITY FOR DEMO CODING


EDIT: Oops -- had to really reduce the font size to stop it looking garbled (thought teletype might've taken care of that). Hope it fits on your screen!

You always have the option of diving straight into Xbox360 development by using the XNA framework under C# with Visual Studio Express. Free downloads from Microsoft, all (although there's a yearly subscription fee for accessing the XNA user stuff on 360, but you could always develop for Windows with XNA first to see if you even like it). C# is object oriented also and more 'managed' (it's less prone to letting you *really* screw up) than C++ although less of an industry standard for anything other than tools I understand.

Nice find -- lovin' that Black Reign scroller!

I thought to try something similar in B3D some time ago. I got some speed by rendering a texture from the lens' point of view, but the effect is less pronounced as-is. Still, if we're covering all the bases...

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Graphics3D 800,600,0,0
SetBuffer BackBuffer()

cam=CreateCamera()
PositionEntity cam,0,0,-8

light=CreateLight(2)
PositionEntity light,15,40,-28
LightRange light,240

room=CreateCube()
ScaleEntity room,10,10,10
PositionEntity room,0,5,0
FlipMesh room
EntityFX room,1

fixture=CreateCube(room)
ScaleEntity fixture,.1,.1,.1
PositionEntity fixture,.5,-.5,-.2
EntityColor fixture,100,100,200

fixture2=CreateCube(room)
ScaleEntity fixture2,.1,.1,.1
PositionEntity fixture2,0,-.5,.5
EntityColor fixture2,100,200,100

fixture3=CreateCube(room)
ScaleEntity fixture3,.1,.1,.1
PositionEntity fixture3,-.5,-.5,-.2
EntityColor fixture3,200,100,100

roomTex=CreateTexture(32,32,256)
SetBuffer TextureBuffer(roomTex)
Color 200,100,100 : Rect 0,0,32,32,True
Color 100,200,100 : Rect 0,0,16,16,True : Rect 16,16,16,16,True
SetBuffer BackBuffer()
ScaleTexture roomTex,.1,.1
EntityTexture room,roomTex

sphere=CreateSphere(32)
sphereTex=CreateTexture(256,256,256+64)
EntityTexture sphere,sphereTex
EntityShininess sphere,.1

sineBase#=0.0

While Not KeyDown(1)
;movement
PositionEntity sphere,0+Sin(sineBase),0,0
sineBase=sineBase+1.0
If sineBase>360 Then sineBase=sineBase-360

TurnEntity room,0,.1,0

;render sphere texture
PositionEntity cam,EntityX(sphere),EntityY(sphere),EntityZ(sphere)
CameraViewport cam,0,0,256,256
CameraZoom cam,4
RenderWorld
CopyRect 0,0,256,256,0,0,BackBuffer(),TextureBuffer(sphereTex)

;render scene
PositionEntity cam,0,0,-8
CameraViewport cam,0,0,800,600
CameraZoom cam,1.4
RenderWorld

Flip
Wend