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Post by tsh73 on May 26, 2024 13:37:29 GMT
So, therewhere's everybody?
I pretty sure JB did not changed
(not to worse, just not changed at all)
So why folks got fun programming JB before, but nobody does a thing now?
(am I just growing old & grumpy?)
** just clicked that "I wish but have no time"
It is not actually time. It is un-spent ability to do stuff. Kind of "Mana" in those games.
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Post by plus on May 26, 2024 19:13:42 GMT
i think allot of people want to do games, probably in 3d and jb doesn't cut it.
others not into games so much start with python because more universal and employable potentially?
me i like qb64 better but even that is getting old and my shift key is broken, time to move on...
b = b + ...
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Post by honky on May 27, 2024 8:13:37 GMT
I mainly do utilities dedicated to specific problems.
You have to have the problem for being interested.
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Post by Rod on May 27, 2024 14:41:40 GMT
My fear is that fewer and fewer people have access to a PC. No PC no interest. Most everyone has a phone or pad. Some will have lap tops but for specific reasons and that won't include leisure.
So are we dead in the water, old, ancient, dying off slowly? (PC users)
Now if my pad could run Liberty/Just BASIC, wow, GPS, accelerometers, sound and haptics, video, biometrics........... Yes, I would need a keyboard, but wow!
But then nostalgia kicks in and a few fractals and blits restores my faith and love of Liberty/Just BASIC.
Not sure LB5 is going to fix anything, but enough, I thoroughly enjoy all my time with 4.5.1 and I will enjoy 5.0 we just need a way to get more folks onboard.
Carls BASIC page gets lots of attention, just none headed our way.
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Post by honky on May 28, 2024 7:37:59 GMT
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Post by jarychk on May 29, 2024 17:57:21 GMT
Much the same feel here. honky is my main reason for not participating much and not currently making any more programs. edit: I said that incorrectly. honky has a reason much like mine for not participating much, since I currently am not making programs; I have no more ideas for which I want to make a program. |
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Post by jarychk on Jun 23, 2024 19:40:38 GMT
A few more weeks thought about this. Two problems:
(*)Most of us, no more ideas to put into as programs to write in Just BASIC
(*)Very likely too few students studying BASIC Programming in school, based on no occurrences recently seen in the section of this forum for Novices asking for help.
The Novices asking for help were sometimes the stimulus for me to review and give help with Just BASIC.
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Post by atomose on Jun 24, 2024 12:47:46 GMT
hey 2D game are good to and i maked a lot with LB  i maked tuto for new users. I hope that can help people. I will make 3D game later and show that its totaly possible to have a good perf/game with JB/LB. =) |
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Post by tenochtitlanuk on Jul 5, 2024 11:12:31 GMT
Whenever I am looking for a new task to try, because my muse has left me, I check out Rosetta code. Here's one I found there yesterday- Find words with alternating vowels and consonants- ( a draft programming task)
Using the dictionary unixdict.txt, find words which odd letters are consonants and even letters are vowels or vice versa.
Display the words.
The length of any word shown should have a length > 9. Kept me busy for a couple of hours, including formatting nicely into columns. NB the dictionary file contains US spellings and a significant number of what I was taught are proper names that begin with a capital. And beware the data line-separator- Unix and DOS disagree on whether to use CR or CRLF.  |
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Post by jarychk on Jul 5, 2024 17:22:21 GMT
Presently data of poll shows 1 each of Changed To Diff. Language, Interesting Problems Already Solved, "Not During Summer".
The polling is anonymous but I am curious and have other remark.
Which other language if it is not Liberty BASIC?
If one is observant and thoughtful, the impulse for something may occur and one may then have an interesting problem to play with in JB code.
Summer! He kidding? I have spent a bit of time in some summers developing an idea into Just BASIC code, which I am doing two of, right now. Notice too, my recent efforts to relearn some of JB expressed as posts in this forum. Right now is summer.
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Post by plus on Jul 5, 2024 19:13:04 GMT
i think allot of people want to do games, probably in 3d and jb doesn't cut it. others not into games so much start with python because more universal and employable potentially? me i like qb64 better but even that is getting old and my shift key is broken, time to move on... b = b + ... maybe if jarychk reads the above quote carefully an answer will come to es question. ah! someone suggested I get a keyboard, I did and typing from it now a little awkward but at least I can use the Shift key again. b = b + ... |
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Post by jarychk on Jul 5, 2024 19:33:09 GMT
i think allot of people want to do games, probably in 3d and jb doesn't cut it. others not into games so much start with python because more universal and employable potentially? me i like qb64 better but even that is getting old and my shift key is broken, time to move on... b = b + ... maybe if jarychk reads the above quote carefully an answer will come to es question. ah! someone suggested I get a keyboard, I did and typing from it now a little awkward but at least I can use the Shift key again. b = b + ... Yes I too quickly overlooked that posting so made mine. As myself, I had attempted a few other languages but could never make progress with them. Only been able to find good progress with LB/JB. Python? Which version to start? Choices! Too much for me. QB64? I still could not figure what to do. Also, I had been able use a couple of (now very) old textbooks to help in relearning BASIC. LB and JB have smart forum community members, obviously on the two Proboards forums. |
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Post by plus on Jul 5, 2024 20:44:03 GMT
jarychk yeah maybe you and LB/JB were meant to be at least for awhile. I started with GW Basic and DOS back in 1989 then QB4.5 with DOS and Windows on a 486 then VB for DOS and VB for windows before not doing anything for 13 years after giving away my 486. 2014 came back with SmallBASIC (not MS version) and at Basic Forum, BP.org RIP, learned about JB/LB and Richard Russels BBC. He had an free LB Booster that is not supposed to be talked about here. Water under the bridge now I hope  This JB is good solid tried and tested Basic great for beiginners and some advanced stuff in LB. b = b + ...
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Post by jarychk on Jul 5, 2024 22:43:47 GMT
We can notice, too, that not many recent video presentations on YouTube about Just BASIC. Maybe if one or two members here have created a recent program in JB, they could make a screencast recording to show it and publish on their YouTube account, and this way, help generate some interest to Just BASIC.
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This JB is good solid tried and tested Basic great for beiginners and some advanced stuff in LB.