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Basically this was a speed test to see how many sprites could be plotted on-screen and the results are fantastic. My system managed over 520 sprites (16x16 pixels) at 75 frames per second. It also did 175 64x64 sprites at 75 fps - enjoy this power coding! :-)

A smooth screen fade routine (fade to black and fade from black to image) that works in 2D! With no 3D switching required. Coded in response to a plea in the DarkBasic forum and to show that it can be done ;-) Sorry for the ZIP size, damn BMPs for you!

I was fed-up seeing so many slow and jittery 2D starfields done in DarkBasic that I did my own. This is a proper parallax, depth shaded starfield and in my tests I was seeing 500 stars on-screen at a smooth 75 fps. Over 800 are possible, read the comments in the source for details.

*Very* basic pacman clone, poor frame rate.

Heightmap to matrix conversion

A program to show how to use a make_hill function i have made

Calculates the distance between two points in 3D space

Use negative alpha blending (dark ghosting) + reflection shading to produce semi-reflective objects.

Example of how to return multiple values from a function using a stack system. Stacks are useful for many other things as well.

This is a DB Pro version of the C function isalnum(). More explanation is given in the comments in the code.

This is a function to do the same as isalpha() in C. It returns a 1 if temp is a letter of the English alphabet, otherwise zero is returned. Generally a call to this function would be preceded by temp = scancode()

Example of the Heap system used in the A* pathfinding routine

Newbies can learn some quick fundamentals on using the basic input commands in DBPro.

This sample was created to test functionality in both 2D and 3D space and demonstrates simple use of the spline functions.

Paremeter file input routines

Code that slides the character when it hits a box shaped object or a static object

An include file with functions to read WAV header information, such as sample rate, length, etc...

An include file with functions to read MP3 ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. This is useful for things like media players, etc...

lets you have open values for media indexs

This just tests the speed, it's for Dark Basic Pro as well as for DarkBasic Classic. In Darkbasic Pro you get a lower number. So, how lower the number, how better your system is(I get 72 in DBClassic).

It's grinding, like I said in the title. So if you move to the front, it keeps moving to the same angle for a moment even if you turn. Like if you are on ice.

A small program which shows how to use the smooth_matrix function i made after readed DAVID89's description of how to do it.

Effective motion blur technique. Works with static and animated objects. Media attached.

Shows the basics of creating and modifying objects at a very low level.

Detect all IP addresses assigned to your machine.

Joystick control with deadzones, 4 axis analog movement with adjustable ranges and force-feedback detection

The code displays 3 amounts of memory on your system in a stylised a 2d bar.

This code shows a relatively simple way of finding out whither a point lies inside a triangle using some of the 3D math commands inside DBpro. It shows a simple case in 2D but can very easily be expanded to 3D.

this is going to eventually have powerups and different kinds of bricks (ei. regular, invisible, metal, ...). there is still a few bugs I'm working on like the ball doesn't bounce right when it hits the top of a brick.

The 'missing' 2D commands