PureBasic is a programming language based on established BASIC rules. The key features of PureBasic are portability (Windows, AmigaOS and Linux are currently fully supported), the production of very fast and highly optimized executables and, of course, the very simple BASIC syntax. PureBasic has been created for the beginner and expert alike. We have put a lot of effort into its realization to produce a fast, reliable and system friendly language.
In spite of its beginner-friendly syntax, the possibilities are endless with PureBasic's advanced features such as pointers, structures, procedures, dynamically linked lists and much more. Experienced coders will have no problem gaining access to any of the legal OS structures or API objects and PureBasic even allows inline ASM.
The main features of PureBasic
- Huge set of internal commands (600+) to quickly and easily build any application or game - All BASIC keywords are supported - Very fast compiler which creates highly optimized executables - No external DLLs, runtime interpreter or anything else required when creating executables - Procedure support for structured programming with local and global variables - Access to full OS API for advanced programmers - Easy but very fast 2D game support trough dedicated libraries (DirectX, SDL,...) - Easy and high quality 3D support based on OGRE - Optimal use of the available hardware by using highly optimized (assembly) commands - Source code is fully portable between AmigaOS, Windows and Linux, for both games and applications - Dedicated editor and development environment - Integrated debugger to easily trace programming bugs.
Having bought one, i can honestly say: Do yourself a favor and skip the dinova. the keyboard is just a laptop keyboard in a wireless case. If you LIKE laptop keyboards go for it, but realize, that it is a VERY short stroke, and has almost NO feel, and is a lot smaller then usual. It is a cool IDEA, but it really is bad in practise.
No, yellow air DOES happen. As recently as 5 years ago i saw it myself. A yellow/brown haze all over Las Vegas. It was disgusting. Once you got into it you could even feel your eyes sting from it. This is REALITY.
Ok, so what the HELL is wrong with NAT? It seems an elegant solution to me. In addition to allowing you to route ports to ONLY the machines you want, it allows you to add machines as you wish, with out the worry that it is just sitting open and bare to the world.
Interesting. What exactly do you mean by Lithosphere?
For some reason I had thought that a body in space had to have a certain amount of mass (and therefore gravity) to "hold" an atmosphere.
Are there any ideas about how large a body has to be to do this? I agree that an atmosphere does not guarantee life. And as the previous poster pointed out, "Life" itself is quite tricky to define.
How about "Life sustaining?"
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Wouldn't it make sense to take into account whether the planet could feasibly sustain life too? I mean could a 700km round body in space support an atmosphere?
That this package manager does not FORCE anything on you. If you dont want to know about versions and such, simply ignore them. If you dont want to search for which packages contain a certain library, then DONT!
The reviewer seems to believe that since HE is confused by the screenshots, that everyone will be. Personally, I find the shots encouraging! This manager seems to have a LOT of power, and honestly, it seems to be fairly straightforard in its design. (as much as you can tell without using it.)
I really wish people would refrain from reviewing things based solely on opinions of screenshots. I realise that opinion has a LOT to do with shaping a review, but to pan a product, simply because the screenshots confuse you seems both stupid and short-sighted.
Ok, this is a first! A slashdot story that actually mentions the place i live! WOW, imagine that! I must be the first person in the WORLD this has happened to! This is AMAZING...
You are talking about MASTERED cd's tho. cd-R and dvd(-+)R/RW have MUCH shorter retention ratings than mastered cd's. Mainly this is because they DONT use aluminium to store the "pits" formed my the laser. They actually us a DYE. This is also part of the problem with reading certain DVD-(whathaveyou) disks in other players. The QUALITIES of some disks are better suited to playback in regular drives than others.
For anyone that likes the GenToo way of doing things, i would recomend you check out
Lunar Linux
Lunar linux is the old sourcerer linux that has been talked about and praised a LOT in the past on/.
It DOES have the ability to do recursive builds, and seems to be QUITE stable and fast.
I disagree with one point here.
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I think that the toolbar method of item selection is MUCH superior to menus when you are doing repetitious (sp?) things. Consider an Adobe Photoshop example:
You want to do progressive sharpen and de-specle operations on an image. Normally (ignoring any keyboard commands) you would have to move to the menubar and click the mouse to pull down menus, then move to a the filters menu (could be done by this time) move to the sharpen sub menu, then actually move to and select the sharpen item. Now repeat this for the de-specle.
With a toolbar approach, you can simply move the mouse (once) to the button and click the damn thing. then move a bit left or right (depending on the layout of the bar.) and click once more.
The author seems to imply that menus (mac or otherwise) are simply MUCH faster than toolbars and clutter up the screen less. While i agree that menus are less cluttering, i completely disagree that they are faster. move the mouse around in menus while examining the travel time then check the toolbar approach, and you will see what i mean.
Christmas is about giving. But giving WHAT?
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There are others in our lives that would like to get something special for some geek they love. Being that we can be hard to buy for (unless you are into the same kind of technology), I personally appreciate this kind of effort.
Think about it: If you REALLY wanted to get something special for someone who's life revolved around say Electronic Engineering, but you had no idea what a transistor was even, wouldn't you find a guide helpfull?
I bought one of these units as well. Some of my observations:
1) The rocker/control button sucks! It is hard to control with the front panel rocker.
2) The remote interface button is no better. (it is a steel nub instead of the fat plastic rocker on the main unit, but it is still mounted to a VERY skinny plastic piece that WILL break.
3) The remote control is decent and is really the ONLY way to control the unit with any type of sanity.
4) There seems to be a bit of whine when the unit is first powered on (from the hard drive spinning up) and you will most likely want an engine noise power line filter. (got mine from crutchfield)
5) The documentation DOES suck, but for most/. readers it should not be THAT hard to decipher.
6) Power is a bit of a problem. it requires 12volts at 3amps to spin up a standard desktop hard drive so keep that in mind.
7) The firmware updates have proven buggy. Some of the updates give REALLY cool features, but most introduce bugs. Example: If you are playing a playlist in random mode and turn the unit off, it will not remember the random mode once power is applied.
8) Hardware can be a bit touchy. I had to send my unit back to compgeeks once because it simply would not power up. this was apparently a defect in the early units that has since been addressed.
9) Although they say Maxtor hard drives are flaky, mine has a 40 gig Maxtor and seems to be just fine. YMMV.
10) The start up time has been GREATLY reduced with the later firmware upgrades. about 7 seconds from on to playing!
11) The remote display (tethered) plugs into the top of the slide out part of the unit, so you have to pull the cable each time you want to bring the unit in the house. and the plug is a small IDE like cable with a pretty tight receptor.
All in all i am VERY happy with the sound quality of the unit and the overall value is wonderful! Would i recommend it for the novice? probably not. But for anyone with a bit of tolerance and creativity? absolutely!
If I decided to spend a little discretionary time whipping up, say, a color gameboy port of Commander Keen (an idea I have sort of been toying with), then I might ask Tom and John if they wanted to make some levels for it.
WOW, is it just me or did anyone else catch this slap in the face! Whew, definately still some bad blood there huh?
Slashdot Mirror
here is a little blurb from their page!
purebasic
Having bought one, i can honestly say: Do yourself a favor and skip the dinova. the keyboard is just a laptop keyboard in a wireless case. If you LIKE laptop keyboards go for it, but realize, that it is a VERY short stroke, and has almost NO feel, and is a lot smaller then usual. It is a cool IDEA, but it really is bad in practise.
No, yellow air DOES happen. As recently as 5 years ago i saw it myself. A yellow/brown haze all over Las Vegas. It was disgusting. Once you got into it you could even feel your eyes sting from it. This is REALITY.
Ok, so what the HELL is wrong with NAT? It seems an elegant solution to me. In addition to allowing you to route ports to ONLY the machines you want, it allows you to add machines as you wish, with out the worry that it is just sitting open and bare to the world.
Interesting. What exactly do you mean by Lithosphere?
For some reason I had thought that a body in space had to have a certain amount of mass (and therefore gravity) to "hold" an atmosphere.
Are there any ideas about how large a body has to be to do this? I agree that an atmosphere does not guarantee life. And as the previous poster pointed out, "Life" itself is quite tricky to define.
Wouldn't it make sense to take into account whether the planet could feasibly sustain life too? I mean could a 700km round body in space support an atmosphere?
That this package manager does not FORCE anything on you. If you dont want to know about versions and such, simply ignore them. If you dont want to search for which packages contain a certain library, then DONT!
The reviewer seems to believe that since HE is confused by the screenshots, that everyone will be. Personally, I find the shots encouraging! This manager seems to have a LOT of power, and honestly, it seems to be fairly straightforard in its design. (as much as you can tell without using it.)
I really wish people would refrain from reviewing things based solely on opinions of screenshots. I realise that opinion has a LOT to do with shaping a review, but to pan a product, simply because the screenshots confuse you seems both stupid and short-sighted.
Ok, this is a first! A slashdot story that actually mentions the place i live! WOW, imagine that! I must be the first person in the WORLD this has happened to! This is AMAZING...
oh... wait. DOH!
Yeah, except now their hardware DOES run windows! The BMW 7i.
You are talking about MASTERED cd's tho. cd-R and dvd(-+)R/RW have MUCH shorter retention ratings than mastered cd's. Mainly this is because they DONT use aluminium to store the "pits" formed my the laser. They actually us a DYE. This is also part of the problem with reading certain DVD-(whathaveyou) disks in other players. The QUALITIES of some disks are better suited to playback in regular drives than others.
Is the world coming to an end? Is it a sign of the apocolypse?
What is the world coming to when we have GOOD laws that are basically ignored?
I stand corrected. Thank you for the link!
For anyone that likes the GenToo way of doing things, i would recomend you check out /.
It DOES have the ability to do recursive builds, and seems to be QUITE stable and fast.
Lunar Linux
Lunar linux is the old sourcerer linux that has been talked about and praised a LOT in the past on
The quote line at the bottom of this article happens (at this moment) to be:
"The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively. -- Peter Beard "
heh, quite the coincidence eh?
http://bbs.ufies.org/
close tho! heh
I think that the toolbar method of item selection is MUCH superior to menus when you are doing repetitious (sp?) things. Consider an Adobe Photoshop example:
You want to do progressive sharpen and de-specle operations on an image. Normally (ignoring any keyboard commands) you would have to move to the menubar and click the mouse to pull down menus, then move to a the filters menu (could be done by this time) move to the sharpen sub menu, then actually move to and select the sharpen item. Now repeat this for the de-specle.
With a toolbar approach, you can simply move the mouse (once) to the button and click the damn thing. then move a bit left or right (depending on the layout of the bar.) and click once more.
The author seems to imply that menus (mac or otherwise) are simply MUCH faster than toolbars and clutter up the screen less. While i agree that menus are less cluttering, i completely disagree that they are faster. move the mouse around in menus while examining the travel time then check the toolbar approach, and you will see what i mean.
There are others in our lives that would like to get something special for some geek they love. Being that we can be hard to buy for (unless you are into the same kind of technology), I personally appreciate this kind of effort.
Think about it: If you REALLY wanted to get something special for someone who's life revolved around say Electronic Engineering, but you had no idea what a transistor was even, wouldn't you find a guide helpfull?
I bought one of these units as well. Some of my observations:
/. readers it should not be THAT hard to decipher.
1) The rocker/control button sucks! It is hard to control with the front panel rocker.
2) The remote interface button is no better. (it is a steel nub instead of the fat plastic rocker on the main unit, but it is still mounted to a VERY skinny plastic piece that WILL break.
3) The remote control is decent and is really the ONLY way to control the unit with any type of sanity.
4) There seems to be a bit of whine when the unit is first powered on (from the hard drive spinning up) and you will most likely want an engine noise power line filter. (got mine from crutchfield)
5) The documentation DOES suck, but for most
6) Power is a bit of a problem. it requires 12volts at 3amps to spin up a standard desktop hard drive so keep that in mind.
7) The firmware updates have proven buggy. Some of the updates give REALLY cool features, but most introduce bugs. Example: If you are playing a playlist in random mode and turn the unit off, it will not remember the random mode once power is applied.
8) Hardware can be a bit touchy. I had to send my unit back to compgeeks once because it simply would not power up. this was apparently a defect in the early units that has since been addressed.
9) Although they say Maxtor hard drives are flaky, mine has a 40 gig Maxtor and seems to be just fine. YMMV.
10) The start up time has been GREATLY reduced with the later firmware upgrades. about 7 seconds from on to playing!
11) The remote display (tethered) plugs into the top of the slide out part of the unit, so you have to pull the cable each time you want to bring the unit in the house. and the plug is a small IDE like cable with a pretty tight receptor.
All in all i am VERY happy with the sound quality of the unit and the overall value is wonderful! Would i recommend it for the novice? probably not. But for anyone with a bit of tolerance and creativity? absolutely!
If I decided to spend a little discretionary time whipping up, say, a color gameboy port of Commander Keen (an idea I have sort of been toying with), then I might ask Tom and John if they wanted to make some levels for it.
WOW, is it just me or did anyone else catch this slap in the face! Whew, definately still some bad blood there huh?