Hello, PascalGameDevelopment

[arthurprs]

Why Yet Another Web Framework?
Our opinion: PHP/Perl is messy, Python/Ruby is slow and less powerful.

please tell me that i don't read that...

complete false info...

Thanks for the flame bait.
I won't convince anyone.. LOL.

Completely true information. I work on Ruby and PHP scripts and Powtils programs for a living and I should know.

Perl and PHP are messy.. in our opinion. It is just our opinion. Not a fact. That's why it states on the website that it is an opinion, not a fact. Did I mention that it is an opinion.

Ruby and Python can be sped up by extending using Cee language. If that floats your boat, good. Personally, I like having one source base in one language. Not mixing and matching Cee with Ruby and PHP.

Google uses C++ to power their site.
http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/

However, in many cases, speed and optimization is not important. In that case, your choices are clean languages such as Ruby, Python, Pascal. Pascal offers the advantage that you do not have to write performance friendly code in Cee, you can just use modern pascal. And of course you can reuse all your delphi code and freepascal code from desktop programs (non gui related algorithms, which I have many).

I really disagree with your comment but,
i don't expected to start a flamewar, sorry..

[L505]

I really disagree with your comment but,
i don't expected to start a flamewar, sorry..

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[Traveler]

I was refeering to that game where you control a worm and you run eating things and grow larger and larger ...and you dont have to hit your body

I think you mean nibbles

Quite a fun game. It came with qbasic (ms-dos era) iirc. It think, it would really make a nice schoolproject, as the basic system is very simple to make. There are lots of interesting improvements too. You could for example add more pickups, than the obvious ones that'll make the snake grow. (speed, Invincibility, extra points/ whatever)

[Weedo]

or a multiplayer battle mode, with 2 snakes on the same board, and each one trying to make the oponent crash into it..( like sudently cuting his trajectory and force the oponent to crash in its own body )

[arthurprs]

with Borland Pascal 7.0 you will not be able to do much, only console things..

you can install freepascal 2.2, its completely free

[Huehnerschaender]

@arthurps
he said he cannot install anything It's not a matter of costs, its a matter of security settings in the school.


Hi Weedo,

welcome to PGD.
Using Pascal 7 you could do a little game like Pacman using the DOS graphics mode. Pascal should include a unit called graphics.pas. In this unit you will find all you need to "draw" the game. It will look very simple but to show that you are able to program a small game it should be enough. I don't think your teacher wants to see if youre an artist, he needs to check your programming skills.

Don't hesitate to ask further questions. But personally I did not use the DOS Pascal compiler for ages now...

Greetings,
Dirk

[wodzu]

Hello Weedo.

Welcome to our community :-)

It is a real shame that you can't install anything on PC at school. In my opinion you should speak with some teacher about it. As far as I know the main purpose of school is to help in gaining knowledge. There is another solution for you. You may burn installed FreePascal on the CD and run it from there (of course if you have such possibility).

Good luck!

[WILL]

I would agree that BP7, TP7 or anything older will do you about as much good as learning how to break the 640k memory barrier in DOS these days. :lol:

Free Pascal is definitely your best bet. If your school's computers had free/available USB sockets you could install Free Pascal onto a relatively cheap USB (thumb/stick) drive and have plenty of room to spare for your own sources and other API/headers, etc... That would allow you to do something useful and modern in (Object) Pascal at least.


The bigger issue at hand is, why on earth have they installed such an obsolete compiler on there in the first place? I'd recommend Free Pascal to your CS teachers next time you have the chance to speak on the matter.

It's sick and disgraceful how teachers these days just don't do their homework on what is current. Do a search on Google for Pascal and it's right on the first page, 3rd link down. :? And these people are supposed to be educators...

[Weedo]

Well, yea is kinda sad, but in fact the TP compiler is not such a pain, is a nice way to familiarise yourself with the structures and such, but they could of added delphi too, lazarus, free pascal or whatever, realy a mess. Anyway, i guess i'll present the compiled exe and have the source code writen on a bunch of papers next to me ....so i wont be forced to open the source on the PC. Anyway, i'm on start now !

[chronozphere]

I was refeering to that game where you control a worm and you run eating things and grow larger and larger ...and you dont have to hit your body Smile

That game is more famous by the name "Snake" AFAIK