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Small Basic Programs in 25 lines

Note: All the programs listed below can be downloaded directly into Small Basic.  Just import the programs using their published Id. What started as a fun challenge in our Small Basic Forums , quickly turned into a repository of very interesting Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:52 AM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Collision Physics With Small Basic

LitDev is an expert in real-world physics programming, and he frequents the Small Basic forums providing answers to people's queries. One of his sample programs, the collision box, best demonstrates the expertise of LitDev and capabilities of Small Basic. Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 7:53 AM by vijayeg | 2 Comments
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Star Gates: Sample of the Week

This week's sample is an adventure in Space - a game called Star Gates, developed by BigDaddyo . This exciting and fun game takes game programming in Small Basic to the next level - with amazing sound and graphics effects. You can find the program listing Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:48 AM by vijayeg | 0 Comments
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Sample of the week: Gorillas

About 20 years ago, Microsoft released MS-DOS 5, and with it shipped a programming language called QBASIC . One of the samples that came with QBASIC is GORILLAS.BAS . The game used real-world Physics to make players hit each other with... wait for it... Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:50 PM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Color Picker

Color Picker by Suduadib is an example that shows the usage of arrays in Small Basic. You can import this program using the id: SGS247 . Program listing is available at: http://program.smallbasic.com/?SGS247 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:43 PM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Asteroids v2

Following the success of Asteroids v1 , the community members have made interesting tweaks and improvements to the game, resulting in Asteroids v2. This version is available for import from your Small Basic IDE with id, ASTEROIDS . You can see the source Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:11 PM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Asteroids

This week's sample is Asteroids, written by Jason Jacques . It's a really fun game with tons of parameters to tweak. You can download the program directly into Small Basic using the id QFL408 . The source code listing is also available at: http://smallbasic.com/program/?QFL408 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:07 PM by vijayeg | 2 Comments
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Sample of the week: Turn 'em Off

This week's sample is a "Lights Out" style game, developed by DanAwesome . The game can be imported using the Program id: VDK353. The source code listing is also available at: http://smallbasic.com/program/?VDK353 Here's a screenshot of the game: Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 28, 2009 12:57 AM by vijayeg | 2 Comments
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Sample of the week: Super Pong

This week's sample is a two-dimensional version of Pong, with 4 paddles which makes it super fun! You can import this program in Small Basic by using the id: MDJ923 . You can also view the source code here: http://smallbasic.com/program/?MDJ923 Here are Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:57 AM by vijayeg | 1 Comments
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Sample of the Week: Bricks

This week's sample comes from Stendec , who has ported the classic Bricks game over to Small Basic. The program works on v0.3.1 and can be imported by using the code QRQ360. You can also see the listing of the source at: http://smallbasic.com/program/?QRQ36 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 6:42 PM by vijayeg | 4 Comments
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The Turtle says Happy New Year

Check out http://bluewatersoft.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/01/post-ffce.html Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 04, 2009 10:12 AM by vijayeg | 5 Comments
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Snake in Small Basic

This week's featured sample is the arcade classic Snake! And it comes from PlayDeez , who has also written other interesting Small Basic games (check out the Small Basic forums for more such hotness.) Here's the screenshot, followed by the source listing. Read More...
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 2:30 AM by vijayeg | 4 Comments
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Sample of the Week, II

This week's featured sample comes from Jeff Sidlosky . It is a star field simulation - you know the one where it appears like you're moving fast through space, with stars whizzing past you. ' Star-field simulation Initialize() Main() Sub Initialize GraphicsWindow.Title Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 6:43 PM by vijayeg | 3 Comments
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Using Command Line Arguments

The Arguments object in the standard library allows you to work with Command Line Arguments from inside a Small Basic program. The Arguments object includes a Count property that gives the total number of arguments passed to the program, and a GetArgument(index) Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:37 PM by vijayeg | 1 Comments

Sample of the Week

This week's featured sample of the week comes from mcleod_ideafix . This is a fun little point and shoot game, involving the Turtle in a clever way. 'Point-and-shoot '(C)1989 McLeod/IdeaFix. http://www.zxprojects.com 'Target size TargetSize=30 winner=0 Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 8:16 PM by vijayeg | 3 Comments
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