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I've sworn full allegiance to BBC BASIC, so I probably won't be trying this out. But I think it's good to know about it, and perhaps the naalaa example programs will help inspire some people here. As it happens I've been working on a simple game in BBC BASIC that will use the SDL graphics functions,...

I like it! It reminds me a bit of Jet Set Willy.

Hello,

Thanks very much for the reply and for the information, I appreciate it.

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Hello, Is it possible to take an address in memory and treat it as a structure? In my case, I'm calling the SDL function "SDL_LoadBMP_RW" which returns a pointer to an SDL_Surface structure. Would it be possible to define a data structure in BBC BASIC which matches the SDL_Surface data structure def...

Are you planning on doing it this time, David?

The "xrandr" command should tell you the current display resolution. I don't remember if it's installed by default.

Congratulations on winning!

There's probably going to be another code-a-game contest coming up soon at SyntaxBomb

Do you know when it will happen? I'd be interested in trying to submit something if it's scheduled for a time when I won't be busy.

Hello David & DDRM, Thanks. I think the torus2d program is a good example of what I want to do. I'm going to study it over the weekend. While I'm at it, there's something I noticed and wanted to mention. As a demonstration, it's a fine example of the power of BBCSDL. Really nice graphics demo. But a...

Heheh, I like your nickname "BasicBoy".
The graphics and graphical effects in this game are really cool and impressive.

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Hello, I feel like it's time for me to start learning how to use the SDL graphics functions for stuff like drawing sprites (or bitmaps) to the screen, scaling & rotating them, and so on. I'm going to examine the source code of the example Snake game to see if I can learn from that, but at the same t...