Visual Basic Help

[Akkarin]

Can anybody provide me with some useful info or links for starting of with VB6?

I've read a bit about strings, integers, booleans (is that right spelling), and a bit about variables.

But I'm not sure where to go from there. Anyone know some good tut sites or resource sites?

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Also a question kind of off topic, I was wondering how are the really old DOS games made? Becuase I want to make a really simple DOS game where you like read descriptions and then answer by YES/NO, stuff like that. No graphics or anything like that. I can't find out how they are made.

Can anyone help?

 

[Mentalist]

This is a pretty good website -- http://www.programmingtutorials.com/vb6.aspx

Links to all kinds of tutorials.

You mentioned that you want to make a text-based DOS game. Can you give some more details? It may help me understand what you are going for.

But judging from your description, you'll need to make a parser that understands the input that the user enters. If you recall the adventure games of old, where for instance the user could type "go north", the parser would check each word to determine what actions to take. So in my example the parser would understand that "go" means that the user wants to move somewhere. Then the parser would check the next word entered for the direction.
If the direction is valid, then the player would move to that room.

There is a programming language that is really good for these sorts of things. It is called Euphoria. If you are interested, check it out at www.rapideuphoria.com

 

[Akkarin]

Thanks, Euphoria looks really complicated!

 

[Mentalist]

No problem.

Honestly, Euphoria is a lot less complicated than most programming languages. It may appear otherwise depending on what you read, but the core concepts are quite simple. The documentation is good too.

Any questions you may have about game development or Euphoria or programming in general, feel free to post a thread or send me a PM, and I'll do my best to clarify. Unfortunately I don't know much about Visual Basic since I've pretty much always been a C/C++ guy.

But I've been making games for a few years now, and had to start at the very basic level, so I'm sure I'll be able to help you out in that department.

 

[chaganlal1]

YES!! i finally found a person also starting in VB (I started learning it about a month ago) I got the basics down. but i have found a site with ALL the source code and examples you will ever need www.pscode.com by the way you have aim if so pm me your screenname

 

[dumbedout]

vb is useless. if ur about to take vb at school, then take c++ instead. just my suggestion from experience. :blink: