The programs on this page were written in Microsoft's QuickBASIC. QB (QuickBASIC) stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. If you are a wannabe programmer, then I suggest that you give this program a try. It is the simplest language for computer programming, and can lead to much greater feats. The program itself has a great help file system, and with a little help or a lot of patience, you can Quick-ly master its concepts.
The reason QB is not used in the making of games like WarCraft II, Quake, or Myst, is that it has many limitations. Memory allocation in QB is limited to 64K, and execution speed is much slower than "real" languages like C or C++.
My approach to programming is fairly simple: code for speed first, add functionality, then make a user/program dynamic. Once you learn the keys to APlasma and Fractst, you'll see what I mean.
Here is some stuff I created. You can use my code/concepts in your programs, but all that I ask is that you mention my name (Alan King), e-mail (a_king@geocities.com) and URL.
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| APlasma V 7.1 | A great plasma program, in fact, the best I've ever seen, QB or not! The background of this page was created with this tool. Make tileable backgrounds, 3D spheres, 3D text and more! This new version (as of May 24), fixes a couple of annoying bugs. | 21.4 Kbytes |
| Fractst3.1 | A mandelbrot fractal program. It generates INCREDIBLE images using the same palette handling routines of APlasma. Check out some sample images at my graphics page.This is a work currently in progress. A word of warning however, you NEED a Pentium for this one, it is slow. This is just the nature of fractals, not programming speed. New version (as of May 24) has slight code alteration. | 24.7 Kbytes |
| Mandel | The earlier version of my Fractst3 program. It is about 2X slower and not so colorful. However, the basic formula is somewhat clearer. | 903 bytes |
| Orbits | A 3D rotating sphere, magnetic field simulation, strange vortices and more! Best viewed on a pentium with the number of points set to 1000 or more. | 9.2 Kbytes |
| Rings2 | A nice screen saver that illustrates the PALETTE command and PAINT capability of QB. | 9.3 Kbytes |
| FLogo | Its my flaming logo! Works best on a Pentium. | 2.1 Kbytes |
TIP: If you want to capture a screen of your favorite QBasic program (like I did to create the background), press PrintScreen on your keyboard while you are in windows, and then paste into your image editing program. Results vary depending on program and/or color depth.
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