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by Technopeasant
Saturday 7th October 2023 8:47pm
Forum: General
Topic: [Solved] Get Linux version and name
Replies: 9
Views: 3681

Re: [Solved] Get Linux version and name

A bit of a shame that this is not implemented here.

https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/system

Seems it can tell you it is Linux, but not what exact distro and version of Linux.
by Technopeasant
Saturday 7th October 2023 8:13pm
Forum: General
Topic: [Solved] Sound advise
Replies: 20
Views: 8695

Re: Sound advise

Yea I did that and and it worked but it was the quietest beep ever lol Fortunately not if you run this through a VT131 data terminal. :lol: I implemented this code when I was trying to port a quick test program I wrote in Commodore Basic on my VIC-20 to modern Linux using Gambas (and Lazarus). Exec...
by Technopeasant
Saturday 7th October 2023 7:45pm
Forum: General
Topic: Windows 11
Replies: 8
Views: 8406

Re: Windows 11

Upgraded my partner's machine the other weekend, including jumping from Windows 7 to 11, so I was finally able to give WSL2 a go. https://static.miraheze.org/pigalorewiki/6/66/Mosquito-WSL2.png It took only three commands to install WSL, containerized Ubuntu, and then Gambas. Hardest part was that I...
by Technopeasant
Wednesday 4th October 2023 2:06am
Forum: General
Topic: Post a screenshot
Replies: 18
Views: 19657

Re: Post a screenshot

Experimenting with making the ground more naturally uneven.

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All the tiles right now are the same, but I will make it so each tile is given a different set of heights on the various points.
by Technopeasant
Wednesday 4th October 2023 1:57am
Forum: General
Topic: Post a screenshot
Replies: 18
Views: 19657

Re: Post a screenshot

All very nice and interesting, but I would be awarding you " magna cum laude ", if you would write a tutorial to create those 3D graphic environments. :roll: That would depend what exactly you are asking for. A guide for OpenGL rendering itself or how my level structure works? The latter ...
by Technopeasant
Wednesday 4th October 2023 1:53am
Forum: General
Topic: Post a screenshot
Replies: 18
Views: 19657

Re: Post a screenshot

AndyGable wrote: Monday 2nd October 2023 3:40pmThis is my Market leading Retail software for Independent shops
Ah, the classic use case for Visual Basic. 8-)
by Technopeasant
Sunday 1st October 2023 11:09pm
Forum: General
Topic: Post a screenshot
Replies: 18
Views: 19657

Re: Post a screenshot

So it turns out this whole time the lighting was messed up because I did not have gl.Enable(gl.COLOR_MATERIAL) turned on anywhere:

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Thanks to https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4982
by Technopeasant
Wednesday 27th September 2023 4:06am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
Replies: 2
Views: 4801

Re: Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

Interesting article from The Register, and Gambas is name dropped.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/28/ ... for_basic/
by Technopeasant
Wednesday 27th September 2023 12:54am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: VisualFBEditor and InForm
Replies: 9
Views: 11043

Re: VisualFBEditor

Install script for InForm and QB64.

https://github.com/Fifi-fr/QB64-Inform- ... es/tag/v33