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| Brandon | Releasing the code for Fun500 4.When I first started writing GUIs in 2005, I had just started writing QBASIC code. I didn't realize that you had to start QB with the /L command in order to make assembly code work, so I was unable to run GUIs that came as source, only those whose download included an executable. That's why Fun500's 2005 series didn't have a mouse. After I learned to use the mouse, I made 1.00 which started to make Fun500 look more like the average GUI. Once I finished 1.00, I set huge plans for 2.0, it was going to be a fancy scripter. I ended up having a billion BETAs, only to end up after a couple years of work with a scripter with no real applications. The 3.0 and 4.0 releases were really just bug fix and optimization releases and could easily be called "2.1" and "2.2". Although these versions of Fun500 might not do a whole lot, over the course of the time that I developed them I learned a lot about QBASIC and how to make a GUI that actually worked. Today I was cleaning up my old flash drives and I happened to find a ZIP file that contained the source code to Fun500 4.0. I've decided to release the code to the public. I'm sure the code is a big mess and the GUI is slow, but maybe someone will be able to learn something from it. Fun500 4 Source Code | 2013-04-09 | 8:28 PM |
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