jwierer

If you ever find yourself in Asia you can get these all over the place (Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan). All pirated of course. Last time I was in China I got a handful of these for 10 yuan (about $1.30 at the time). Gameboy Advance is also readily available. Heck so is XBOX and PS3. Usually about 10 yuan a DVD. -Jeff

That would be because I never knew it existed, but you can extend the commands area through right click->Add. I can put into future builds though! -Jeff

Creating a sprite or playfield in the sprite/playfield editor is faster, in my opinion, and makes reuse in other programs a bit easier, but to each his own. -Jeff

RAND will generate a number from 0 to 255 (decimal) or 00000000 to 11111111 (binary). If you do a logical AND with 11111000 (31 decimal) you'll get a number from 0 to 31 which should reduce the chances of getting a number outside of your desired range. -Jeff

A project is a logical grouping of all the sprites, playfields, and code used in a game. VbB creates a folder on the file system and stores all the files for that program in a single place. This way you don't have to manually sort code between projects because you have a single folder with everything relevant to that "project". -Jeff

No error message for me unless you mean a message reminding you that you forgot to save your program. I wonder if that happens if you have no default projects set? I'll have to check and see if I don't do a check for that. It's a pretty innocuous error, though I could see that being annoying. Given what it says it happens when it's closing and trying to save settings back to the registry. -Jeff

That actually wouldn't be that hard. I might look into that next! Thanks, Jeff

Thanks for the compliment. I had thought about a sound editor, but then again it's easier to just add Tone Toy as a project and launch it from emulation. -Jeff

You code also compiles fine for me. Definitely something with your environment. What emulator are you using? -Jeff

Also the effect looks a bit better if you use this setting set kernel_options no_blank_lines -Jeff

Looking at your code, your playfield is actually 20 pixels tall, instead try: const pfres=21 -Jeff

Try setting const pfres=32 -Jeff

Kaboom Trainer Big Bucket Kaboom -Jeff

Same here. Almost 6 weeks since sending payment! [update] Arrived on 7/23/2008

Hack'Em worked fine. -Jeff

Not sure. When I order some 16K boards I will try it out on a regular 2600. I tried it yesterday. Didn't work on my 2600 nor my 7800. -Jeff

Doesn't yet work on the real thing. -Jeff Really? Why? See Post #15 (above)

Doesn't yet work on the real thing. -Jeff

Yeah I could have used a previous version of the .NET Framework, but honestly I just pick out a random project to test out the newest edition of Visual Studio so I generally am always using the latest. When the next version of Windows comes out I am sure .NET 3.0 will be part of it. -Jeff

There will be a bin folder in the same folder that holds the .BAS file. All you compiled binaries will be in that sub folder. -Jeff

Here you go. settingsscreenshot.bmp Assuming you doctored the screen shot to remove your name from the path? Otherwise the path does look a bit off. If you've never used bB before or you've moved it, then you might want to check "add bB Environment Variable" and "Add bB Compiler to system Path". Most people forget to set those when they first install bB. -Jeff Yes. Problem solved.New problem. I've clicked compile, that was fine, i pressed run, and it said it could not locate vbbwizcode.bin or something. Anybody got an idea now? Probably because your code didn't compile successfully. Post the BAS file. I would have to check if spaces in the path to the bB compiler is a problem. I think vbB will automatically put quotes around, but to be safe you might want to use a path name without spaces to be safe. -Jeff

Here you go. settingsscreenshot.bmp Assuming you doctored the screen shot to remove your name from the path? Otherwise the path does look a bit off. If you've never used bB before or you've moved it, then you might want to check "add bB Environment Variable" and "Add bB Compiler to system Path". Most people forget to set those when they first install bB. -Jeff

Sounds like you don't have batariBasic installed or at least you are missing the setting pointing to the compiler. It is sending you to the settings page because it's not pointing to a valid compiler. Post a screen shot of your settings tab. -Jeff

Here's one http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=123849 -Jeff

You could always buy the Pacman Collection from the store http://www.atariage.com/store/index.php?ma...products_id=849 -Jeff