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Curry Member Posts: 134 From: USA Registered: 11-21-2002 |
I am making a little helper app (to shell from another program) that does a small task. I am writing it in Basic with a couple of Windows API calls. So far, I've been doing it in the demo of iBasic. But before purchasing iBasic so that I can make the executable, I just wanted to see if anyone knows of other free or inexpensive Basic IDE's that can do the API calls and produce a reasonably-sized app that's not slugglish to load. Thanks, Curry |
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Curry Member Posts: 134 From: USA Registered: 11-21-2002 |
(The main thing I'm looking at is that iBasic is $35 and doesn't let you try executables of your programs in the demo. It works all right in the IDE, and I will purchase it if I don't find anything else, but just want to check first if there's anything else recommended out there.) |
CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
For Basic, most people use Visual Basic . . . ------------------ |
Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
with visual studio.net out, you should be able to pick up a second hand copy of visual studio 6 which not only contains vb 6, but as msvc++ for less than $35 try ebay. as much as i hate VB, if you are programming basic on windows, for normal windows stuff, use it. but if you want to be cool and if you want to be even cooler (but have too much time on your hands and are a bit eccentric, program it in Assembler - NASM is a good assembler and if you want to be insane COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE Karl ------------------ |
Imsold4christ Member Posts: 305 From: Gresham, OR, US Registered: 01-20-2001 |
LOL! †Caleb† ------------------ |
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CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
Free C# compiler? Where?! That would be cool  !------------------ |
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Imsold4christ Member Posts: 305 From: Gresham, OR, US Registered: 01-20-2001 |
quote: That sounds awesome. I didn't know that was even possible. Do you just do that from the command prompt or something? Do you have like a really short "Hello World" program I could try that with? †Caleb† ------------------ |
D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
C# *hiss* --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
corba, the microsoft C# compiler is FREE, its just visual studio.net - the ide that costs money but at www.icsharpcode.net you can get sharpdevelop, a very good IDE for C# caleb and all, here is the first example. 176 12 bytes, not too hard to remember for a party trick, this one if done rifght should flash the screen different colors more to come ------------------ |
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Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
here is a little scrolling one 11 bytes 176 ------------------ |
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Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
some funky red plasma 176 ------------------ |
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Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
now this is a nice one for 16 bytes, a plasma,watery looking one 176 if people are interested i'll post more more 32-64 byte ones that are more interesting to look at , like a matrix sort of effect, fire, and some 3d stuff ------------------ |
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CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
Tried one of them, but couldn't break out - had to forcefully end it. . . . but it did look cool ------------------ [This message has been edited by CobraA1 (edited November 13, 2003).] |
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Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001 |
some i've made, others other people in the demo scene have made, some quite recent some from a long time ago.. at some demo compo's there are 128byte competitions with sometimes 64byte ,32 byte and even 16 byte. fancy some more? Karl ------------------ |
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CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
Yeah, but maybe in a format a hex editor or assembler can read . . . My fingers get tired ------------------ |
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Imsold4christ Member Posts: 305 From: Gresham, OR, US Registered: 01-20-2001 |
Okay, that is just insanely cool. More, yes. More is good. †Caleb† ------------------ |
AmazingJas Member Posts: 437 From: Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA Registered: 04-03-2003 |
That's pretty neat. I remember we used to create folders in dos with hidden characters using the ALT 255 key combo, stopped anyone being able to change into the directory, unless they were using xtree gold or pctools or something. |
HanClinto Administrator Posts: 1828 From: Indiana Registered: 10-11-2004 |
Wow, I was searching through the forums and dug this stuff up. That party trick about the different COM graphics are so cool! I tried a couple of them out -- I'm interested in knowing more about this. It would be so sweet to be able to walk up to a computer and just type one in from memory -- like was said above -- a very neat party trick. Great stuff! --clint |
crazyishone Member Posts: 1685 From: Registered: 08-25-2004 |
this stuff is cool. very good party trick....for the kinda parties WE go to. lol.
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