Pengwin Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Not sure if this has been asked before, but does anyone have any experience of using the Quick programming language? I have recently started a project and I am amazed at the power of this, what appears to be simple, language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pps Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Oh yes I did programming with QUICK. But as I have to rewrite my game now completely into assembler, cause Quick ran out of memory, I surely won´t programme any bigger project with this cool language anymore. I really don´t understand (now), why they sayed, that Quick was programmed as game coding base. IMHO there is not enough room for any greater game project For smaller projects it´s surely one of the most powerful and modern languages for ATARI 8-Bits. If you need some sources, I can take a look at my old ones... be aware: there aren´t much comments to understand, what I did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 (edited) The project I am working on, which I am keeping under wraps for now, is quite large, but that is mainly the data area, so I am using the memory otherwise used by the compiler for that. One thing I am finding is that I get some odd effects with the .TEXT function, which displays text in graphics mode 8, sometimes. Did you find any problems with this? Edited July 9, 2007 by Pengwin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pps Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 The project I am working on, which I am keeping under wraps for now, is quite large, but that is mainly the data area, so I am using the memory otherwise used by the compiler for that. One thing I am finding is that I get some odd effects with the .TEXT function, which displays text in graphics mode 8, sometimes. Did you find any problems with this? Oops, I didn´t ever used this function. But I remember a cool Fontplot routine given onto one Quickmag. I´ll search for it next days, and post the atr(s). It might be useful for you, although most (or all???) texts where written in German. But on the disks are some examples how to use the functions. stay tuned... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 I'm starting to see what you mean by "IMHO there is not enough room for any greater game project". I have just had to relocate a lot of data to get it to fit in the available memory. I still think I will manage to get a substantial project complete, but it looks to be more work than I first envisioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Check out Action!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 Check out Action!. I have the Action! cart, but I don't have the runtime engine to create stand alone programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javiero Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Check out Action!. I have the Action! cart, but I don't have the runtime engine to create stand alone programs. I'm shure you can get this on disk or type it yourself.... Action runtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted July 14, 2007 Author Share Posted July 14, 2007 Check out Action!. I have the Action! cart, but I don't have the runtime engine to create stand alone programs. I'm shure you can get this on disk or type it yourself.... Action runtime. Thanks for that. I may have another look at Action now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pps Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Ok, it took a while, but I found time to search for the Quick magazines. The routine for texts in Gr.8 is on magazine 10 if I remember right. The texts all are in German, but the routines should work with other languages too QUICK_Mags.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted July 22, 2007 Author Share Posted July 22, 2007 Ok, it took a while, but I found time to search for the Quick magazines. The routine for texts in Gr.8 is on magazine 10 if I remember right. The texts all are in German, but the routines should work with other languages too Wow! thanks. I shall enjoy looking over these, whilst improving my german Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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