E.K.Virtanen

I am glad now after looking around programming websites around the web. Resources of computers does get better all the time and learning to make 2D and 3D graphics gets easier in same speed.
Still, new ASCII applications does pop-up nearly every week.

How come this is possible? Why newbies does still start with ASCII when simple 2D is easy to do after few weeks of learning?

I have allways thought that ASCII game is like a book. Book cant beat the movie? Maybe because it does leave visual part of the fun for reader? In same way, i think ASCII games does work.
Game is the story and the action, but visual side comes from your own imagination. There is no way 3D can beat that?

E.K.Virtanen

E.K.Virtanen

In that case, just change "2" to "4" in url and you should be ok to go.
Ill try to check everything in this day.

E.K.Virtanen

Guess it

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/express/issue25/index.html

This is game number 55 :)

MystikShadows is working with a Learning C the easy way tutorial wich is awesome add in our site. Way to go Myst and Canada rock's. ;)

Python-Forum.Org did deserve a preview, that cool website it is.

On our Menu, you can see new link; Miscalleneous. Two contents allready added in there.
HOWTO: FreeBASIC to ubuntu and HOWTO: FreeBASIC syntax colors to GEdit text editor.

Catloaf: 2600!	Joe King. Open Source.
	Windows/Linux - Screenshot Remake of old Atari classic by Joe King. This was (and still is?) nice puzzle adventure wich is responsible of several sleeples nights back at 1980's.
Crane	ChangeV. Open Source.
	Windows/Linux - Screenshot This is yet another remake from classic MSX game, back at 1980's. Idea is simple, move crane, collect letters in alphabethical order and drop them to truck. For younger ones of family, this is good learning too.

These and lot's of more in our Games section.

The September issue of QB Express is now available!

This issue features NINE tutorials, FIVE articles and the results of this year's Qlympics.

Read Lachie Dazdarian's review of Lodestar, RubyNL's tutorial on "Time Based Motion & Collision Detection", learn about Wireframes from Mentat, or discover what makes a game great, thanks to Joe King. We've also got comics, the Gallery and all the other QB Express mainstays you look forward to every month.

There's all this, and a whole lot more in QB Express #24!

At ASCII Font Examples, you can see two free ASCII font's and if you like them, feel free to use them in any way you want. Public Domain is name of the page.

More to come, stay tuned ;)

E.K.Virtanen

Question is how we move on. We certainly dont want it to die but also, submissions by 4 or maybe 5 contributors is way too less to keep on goin in reasonable time table.

We have figured out four solutions here.

1. We keep on doing as we do now. We trust and hope that number of contributors increases some nice day.
2. Pcopy changes its type. We create open website wich is kind of news center where anyone can post news, when they find some. Some admin approval etc. is naturally possible.
3. We give up. There is so much things goin on that freeing resources somewhere would make life easier.
4. We give it to someone who continues with it.

Now you dear readers, contributor etc. We need your ideas and resources. Help us here. :)

Thanks, E.K.Virtanen

E.K.Virtanen

Also, I created a brand new 7th part to this series as you can see when you go to the asciiratzi section.

Enjoy the reading, comments, ideas are of course always welcomed.