CodeBase Entries

You have to sit and watch this one for a few moments to see the pattern changing and evolving. Extremely simple but quite hypnotic effect!

A subtle but effective plain trick with a bitmap. Turn on/off ghosting or rotation for other styles.

This sine-waves a 640x480 BMP but vertically, not horizontally!

Developed on a Pentium3-850 with GeForce 256 DDR but worked okay on less! Needs low resolution for speed though. Press the left and right mouse buttons during the program to "paint" on-screen. Directions are inversed.

Waveforms and bits of code taken from the Blitz Basic public beta just to see if it could be done. Speed is irrelevant, style is everything :)

A quite nice fireworks effect I think! Blurs the smoke trails away, multiple colours, different amounts of particles.

Flying into a 2D starfield. Change stars value for more/less and the slide value for more/less distortion.

Shows how a simple bit of camera/object movement could make for a rather nice little intro sequence.

Use your mouse and LMB to generate water waves...

This function calculates the mouse vector from the camera into open space and then travels along it until it hits the matrix.

Watch the polygons on the cup flake away into nothing...

Move an object, e.g. a plain with a bitmap on it to look like a pointer, in specific area boundaries, with the mouse

This bit of code lets to grab the time and make into a sprite which you can then balance on a line.

Simple Screenshot for DBPro

An organized password box. Correct password equals continue and wrong password equals fail.

Want to find out if your lines cross each other? Where they do or will cross? If they overlap? Then go no further :)

Determine whether the points of a 2D triangle are anti-clockwise. This is a very fast routine as it doesn't use any trig functions.

Determine whether a point is inside a 2D triangle. This is a very fast routine as it doesn't use any trig functions - just subtractions and multiplies

This is a simple solar system model. Originally written by Arbitrage but amended and edited by Indi and Philip

Find input on your keyboard. For ascii, inkey$(), scancode, mouseinput and entry$()

Demo using memblocks and sound. Produces a WMP-like visualisation from any sound. Commented.

Very simple - darkbasic functions that mimic built-in function like cirle, ellipse, box and a new function that will create an N sided polygon.

A little demo showing you how to handle multiple bullets in a 2D arcade style shooter. No media.

A simple snippet demonstrating 3D mouse control, how to select objects and simple distance calculation. Ideal for somebody starting out with RTS development.

Converts a long single line to and image of the Text wrapped in a box.

A very basic chat program. Allows up to 8 users to join

A very small function that will return a +1 or a -1 randomly.

Make long one-line text message to break down in smaller lines. Use this version of the code as an example of text parsing.

Pixel perfect sprite collision using the alpha value

This will be a short guide that introduces some of the basic commands of dark basic and darkbasic professional. By the end of this lesson, you'll have completed many small programs along with one small text game.