Updates Archives

April 2001

• My first review of a TMB Productions game! Check out the Percussor review now!

• Games to review:
  
  • Bakuen Sakuru
  • Bakuen Sakuru: Wave Two
  • Eric Lope's Pacman
  • Mirkwood
  • 3D Jack's Game: Assassins Edition
  • Portal of Worlds
  • Riders of Rohan
  • Robot Robbery v0.6
  • Shadow Legend 1 and 2
  • Simple Chess v1.0

  Test-based games to be reviewed:
  

  • Rhubickai's Revenge
  • Arena
  • Tetsuyu
  • Tetsuyu 2
  • Journies
  • Killin'
  • Crystal

• I was in my university's library looking for programming books. I was mainly searching for C++ books, but I did manage to find some QB books as well. One was for QBasic 1.0, and the other was for QuickBasic 4.5! I was tempted to take them out, but I already had quite a few books to read. Hopefully I will be able to share any knowledge I might find in them when I do.
  I also found a book called "The C++ Programming Language" written by Bjarne Stroustrup! If you don't know, he is basically the guy that created the language, so it had a lot of information in there.

• Do you have any programming tutorials lying around? Commentary on QBasic that can fill a few pages worth? Help a great magazine out and submit them to QBasic Cult Magazine!

• Also, do you want to help search for ET? Do you already have SETI@Home? Join TEAM QBASIC today!

• Just writing to say that I intend to update more often soon.
  I was having troubles with my computer, and it was difficult just getting to play games in the first place.
  Here is my list of games to review:
  
  • Bakuen Sakuru
  • Bakuen Sakuru: Wave Two
  • Eric Lope's Pacman
  • Mirkwood
  • Percussor
  • Portal of Worlds
  • Riders of Rohan
  • Robot Robbery v0.6
  • Shadow Legend 1 and 2
  • Simple Chess v1.0

  Test-based games to be reviewed:
  

  • Rhubickai's Revenge
  • Arena
  • Tetsuyu
  • Tetsuyu 2
  • Journies
  • Killin'
  • Crystal

  If you submitted a game to me, and you do not see it listed here, please email me and I will fix it right away.

• As for Linux, I could not get it installed, which is too bad. Turns out, it is mainly with the fact that I was trying to boot past the 8th GB on my hard drive, which is impossible to do.
  Hopefully I will be able to install some version of Linux soon.

• I fixed the Affiliates section below. I accidentally updated the site last time with an outdated version of this page.
  Also, I removed a link and moved one link in the LINKS PAGE.

• SITE NEWS:
  
  • Future Software and QBasicNews both had to quickly find new servers. This greatly the QBasic community because both of these sites are considered very important, especially Future Software with its 1000+ files. No other QBasic site hosts nearly as many files, and it would have been a great loss if Future Software would have shut down.

  • QBasic Contest Central needs submissions for the platform game contest! Make sure you get them in! The contest has been extended!

  • Can't people keep their code?! Two big projects were recently lost this past month.
    Reign of Annihilation was an RPG in the works by Guerilla Software. They finally released the second demo of their game, but they lost the code to it and so now it cannot be finished.
    DeTaiza's project, Faderz, has also met the same demise. Fortunately, he has decided to turn this bad luck into good, and will basically update everything. The graphics, the engine, the entire game will be better than the original. Good luck on the project! A lot of people would have given up if that happened to them.

  • Speaking of projects, I have not been working on mine for the same reason that I have not updated the site in awhile.
    School started already, but it doesn't seem to be too overwhelming. I think I can probably produce an update every week or so, and probably do some coding as well.
    Also, right before I updated, I found out that Photopoint.com is not going to be a free service anymore, so I need to host my pics elsewhere. I should just go to addr.com and pay for 100MB of space. It will be more stable than Brinkster is now, and I will be able to host more files.

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