Small Basic

Today's post is a combination of a guest blog and a featured program! It comes from Behnam Azizi . In Behnam's words... ============================ Here is the new version of my old game I used to call "Breaker". Since It had the same name as my...

Today we're featuring Tankinator, from Zock77 . Cobra355 helped with some graphics. Here's a screenshot: Download Version 0.02: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Tankinator-Small-Basic-Game-55a77a3f Features added: 1) Added pause Feature...

Today's featured program is the LED Display from Amir CPS . Thanks to LitDev for nominating the program here . The Forum thread that explains this program (and gives you the code): http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbasic/thread...

Check here to see the discussion about LitDev's Alien Barrage! As you can see in the forum thread, LitDev picked "Alien Barrage" from my random flow of alternate names. It was originally named Space Invaders, and this is too original to be thought...

Today's featured game was nominated by CodingLikeCrazy . In CLC's words... ======== Soda Pop Showdown is the name of the game I would like to nominate. it is made by JKrueg . Click here to play Soda Pop Showdown! The code is SND683. ...

The single most important concept in programming is loop, I think. And yet, it's (usually) not an easy concept for kids to grasp. I remember when I was young, I had to struggle with the idea of loop and N=N+1. Back then, a loop in BASIC might look...

From Gungan37 in this Forums thread ... ====================== I have spent the last few months writing the IO Extension in C#. It provides hundreds of methods to do all kinds of different things. It includes support for: Network server /...

Make sure you check out LitDev's January challenges . Here's more info about his Physics Challenge: Light Beam! Physics Challenge Write a program to reflect a light beam off a rotated surface. Further challenge - make a game where the user...

Ever want to convert a decimal number to binary? A binary number to decimal? No? Well now you can anyway!!! =^) http://smallbasic.com/smallbasic.com/program/?THJ835 Amir CPS created this sweet converter for us. Amir created it in VB first...

From Wikipedia: "The Vigenère cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text by using a series of different Caesar ciphers based on the letters of a keyword... The first well documented description of a polyalphabetic cipher was formulated by...

Today we're featuring Music Player ( info ) - by Amir CPS , NaochanON , and Absolu What started as this... Quickly evolved (thanks to Amir and Absolu)... Above Version - Update : FXJ606 Above Version - Import Code : BGV706 Import...

Make sure you check out LitDev's January challenges . Here's more info about Amir CPS 's Challenge: 8-Queens! The 8-Queens problem in chess is to place 8 queens on a chess board such that none of the queens is threatening any of the others. The...