Subforum for Free Basic

[jj2007]

basic was designed more for simplicity than for power.

Back in 1986, GfaBasic could beat C compilers and still was very simple to use. I program in "pure" assembly every day, and quite a lot, but I would definitely not waste time on doing standard tasks like pulling a text file into a string array in "pure" assembly if the Recall() macro can do that in one line. The Masm32 SDK is so easy to use because it was written by somebody who came from PowerBASIC. If Hutch was a C++ guy, it would be an entirely different story.

[Vortex]

Today's Basic dialects are much more powerful compared to their ancestors. PowerBASIC is a nice one. It supports assembly and the community support looks good. Free Basic is another interesting choice as it supports 64-bit programming and the GNU tool chain. One can mix Free Basic object modules with assembly and even C\C++ modules.

[avcaballero]

Talking about freebasic and if I may do it, I attach a raytracing program in freebasic that I just made for drawing a Sphereflake. I promise not to attach more freebasic programs, or even I could remove it. It is a sphere flake generator with raytracing source code and compiled attached. The program takes a while to raise up but it is working and it is making a ppm graphic file in the same folder where you can see its progress. It is 45 kb in size once compiled.

[daydreamer]

basic was designed more for simplicity than for power.

Back in 1986, GfaBasic could beat C compilers and still was very simple to use. I program in "pure" assembly every day, and quite a lot, but I would definitely not waste time on doing standard tasks like pulling a text file into a string array in "pure" assembly if the Recall() macro can do that in one line. The Masm32 SDK is so easy to use because it was written by somebody who came from PowerBASIC. If Hutch was a C++ guy, it would be an entirely different story.

but no wonder,C came 1979,BASIC already existed pn many slow builtin basic on cpus,but super fast basic could be loaded from disk,basic games listings with or without Machine Language part in data statements was in computer magazines,and you could get assemblers to your computer
the stars of that time was game programmers that made Pacman,space invaders... in assembler
so you was wannabe game programmer and necesary to learn asm for that purpose,but also thrill of 1000x speed
so first asm game was make game in basic first and make parts of it in data statements until everything was translated

@caballero
great basic program,looks great
@AW
sometimes works on 128bit+ version of this:
http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=7324.0
but sometimes busy with doing other things,enjoy sketch manga and scan and import to 2d paint program and use various 3d programs too
maybe lowpoly near 500 polys could be fit into tiny asm program,but you can also enjoy reduction and make tiny same as in assembly
http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=6937.0

[avcaballero]

Hello, I have improved this fractal, taking advantage that it is reflexive, so in fact I only have to paint one octanct and generate only the spheres in this region. With this, it takes 0.1476 seconds to be executed in my computer, while the original one took more than 20 seconds.

[TimoVJL]

but no wonder,C came 1979,BASIC already existed ...

BASIC was born 1964.
PASCAL was born 1970.
C was born 1972.
C++ was born 1985.

[HSE]

I have improved this fractal

Instantaneus!

Perhaps you have to change BitBlt by StretchBlt in your framework, to maintain aspect when resizing window.

[avcaballero]

But... It is

[HSE]

But... It is

  BitBlt is comented!  Anyway, aspect it's not preserved.

[avcaballero]

What do you mean?, the image is streatched

[HSE]

Aspect is h/w ratio.  Perhaps not a  definition. 

[avcaballero]

Proportion goes with H/W resizing size, that is what I really want, surely there is any switch in stretchblt to get proportion invariable, this way some parts of the window will be black.

[HSE]

this way some parts of the window will be black.

A little obvious... you must paint that 

later: ... remembering, I think I maked that in MathArt