Friday, 31 October 2008

Updated Basic4GL Help Files

I've updated all the Basic4GL HTML Help files on my website, I've also updated the PDF versions too. If you want to see them & download them, please go here.


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Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Steampunk Star Wars

Some very nice 'Steampunk Star Wars' images can be found here.

Street Fighter Sprites

Here are a few sites where you can download sprites from the various 'Street Fighter' games. If you spend a short time cropping & resizing them, they make excellent avatars.

Turrican III Source Code

The source code for the Amiga game 'Turrican III' was released a short time ago, you can read more & download it in this thread at EAB.

Monday, 27 October 2008

One True Media

Need to edit some videos online? Why not check out One True Media.

LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine

LÖVE is a 2D game engine which is programmed in Lua. It can be downloaded from here & there is a forum here.

Google Web Accelerator

Apparently according to this news post, Google Web Accelerator is no longer available for download. However it can still be downloaded from Filehippo.

Saturday, 25 October 2008

C++ Tutorials

Here are some links to some excellent C++ tutorials.
  • C++ Language, here.
  • Programming Tutorials, here.

Monday, 20 October 2008

First Basic4GL DLL

I've just written my first DLL for Basic4GL, it can be downloaded from here. The original thread on the Basic4GL forum can be seen here & the Code::Blocks project can be downloaded from here.

The DLL that I've written contains Four commands that will return the amount the memory your computer has at it's disposal.

Sunday, 19 October 2008

Raycasting Links

Interesting set of links that I found in this thread on the thinBasic forum regarding raytracing.
  • Raycasting Tutorial, here.
  • GPU raycasting tutorial, here.
  • Assembly source for raycasting, here.
  • Example showing lighting, here.

Off Topic Post

Lighter Shade of Brown: Hey DJ, watch the video here.

Lighter Shade of Brown "Hey DJ"

New FTP Server

Previously I'd been using zFTP but had run into problems with the administration. So I downloaded GuildFTPd from here & so-far I haven't had any difficulty using it.