Metal Basic

[Guojishen]

Simple question, I'm not that smart when it comes to these things, and Im probably gonna get laughed at by you people, but.... If I make a game or program in Metal Basic and make it a stand alone application, can it be opened and played and such on a pc running windows? If not then what, if anything, can be done to allow it to be played in the non-macintosh enviroment?

[igame3d]

HAHAHAHA Laughing you out of the forums.
Nah.
But here is some quick answers.

A) Metal BASIC is dead
B) It will never be on windows
C) Find another language and rewrite your code

If you absolutely have to have your little app on windows,
then you will have to get one of those Mac emulators.

[sealfin]

You might want to look into BlitzMax (http://www.blitzbasic.com/Products/blitzmax.php), a cross-platform BASIC-like language; I have no first-hand experience with it, but several members of this forum have - I think the OMG winner Escort Wing was coded in it...?

[EvolPenguin]

It was, and it's a great language to learn. http://www.2dgamecreators.com/ is a good website to help you get started.
http://www.2dgamecreators.com/tutorials/gameprogramming/index.html is the direct link to it's beginner tutorial.

Alex

[Joseph Duchesne]

Blitz Max is an excellent option for beginners as is Processing (processing.org).

Blitz produces faster running games and the syntax is closer to BASIC whereas Processing can compile for mac, pc and linux (through the Java VM) on any one of those operating systems. Blitz requires you to compile for windows on windows, mac on mac, and I am unsure if it offers Linux. Processing can also run on cell phones through Processing Mobile. Also Processing: Free, Blitz Max: Shareware.

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

FWIW, most of you Metal code probably will run in Blitzmax unchanged. The parts you'd most likely have to rewrite are the drawing, sound and input.

[EvolPenguin]

And you can always ask Lurie for help.
(hehe, volunteering other people is fun!)

Alex

[Leisure Suit Lurie]

Yeah. And Evol will be happy to mow your lawn gratis for the summer.

Wow! It *is* fun volunteering people. :P