TwinBasic

[VB6 Programming]

The Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey is now live.

twinBASIC isn't included in the list of programming languages, but you are allowed to type in your own favorite language(s).

This survey is anonymous.


https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/05/0...y-is-now-live/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 298 and BETA 299 of the twinBASIC programming IDE are now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 300 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[yereverluvinuncleber]

This release is a bit Spartan.

[fafalone]

But Wayne's back and the march forward continues, that's the important part.

[yereverluvinuncleber]

It's all Greek to me.

[fafalone]

Yes yes I get it now 🤣

[Shaggy Hiker]

Took me a minute, too.

[VB6 Programming]

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC Update: May 14, 2023

Highlights include the return of regular twinBASIC releases, the twinBASIC Update video from Access DevCon Vienna, and multiple tB appearances on Hacker News.

https://nolongerset.com/twinbasic-update-may-14-2023/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 301 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 302 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 303 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[fafalone]

There's still some bugs, particularly on the level select form, but in a triumph of compatibility, Carles PV's Lems (a remake of the classic Lemmings) is fully playable in tB.

https://github.com/fafalone/Lems64



The repository has an untouched version of the VB6 version I made a couple bugfixes to then imported to tB once it was working, and more exciting, a 64bit version, replacing the TreeView with a twinBASIC TreeView, and the ImageList control with my own 64bit-compat port of Krool's VBCCR ImageList.

I've gotten some complex API-heavy projects to work, but that this is working when it's a bunch of highly complicated VB-based rendering of a game, shows just how incredibly close tB is to full compatibility now.

(Requires tB Beta 303 or newer, released the day of this post)

[Niya]

....but in a triumph of compatibility, Carles PV's Lems (a remake of the classic Lemmings) is fully playable in tB.

Wow. That's pretty cool. TwinBASIC has come a long way.

[yereverluvinuncleber]

There's still some bugs, particularly on the level select form, but in a triumph of compatibility, Carles PV's Lems (a remake of the classic Lemmings) is fully playable in tB.

That is rather impressive. You know my thread? https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....e13&highlight=
I think that we will need a similar thread for TwinBasic, images and descriptions, very soon.

We are soon reaching a time when the replacement for VB6 (TwinBasic) will be dominant form and we have to decide whether we on this forum decide to let TB = VB6 and not just push it into a niche part of this forum. If we do decide that TB'ers can post their creations just as we post pure VB6 apps then we don't have to do anything. If we decide to enforce the boundaries too formally this place will die and the TBforum will take over. I suggest we allow these direct VB6 replacements IN as it were.

[fafalone]

Could be nice to have one here... there is something like it; there's a 'Show and tell' channel on the twinBASIC Discord for sharing current projects.

I've been thinking the VB6 forum might be more appropriate for twinBASIC threads once it gets going... being 100% backwards compatible is a completely different thing than every other 'Other BASIC' like B4X, Xojo, FreeBasic, QB64, etc. Could introduce tags for it.

When it becomes far more popular than VB6, that might be the time for a dedicated forum... but I think the current solution of relegating it to an often-unchecked catchall forum, where everyone is just posting in one thread, has the impact of keeping tB discussion off of VBF and instead in the tB Discord or GitHub.

As I've mentioned before, I think a lot of people in the community don't know just how incredibly far along tB is... I stumbled on this thread myself just like 8 months ago and I was very much surprised at that time, and became an instant fan.

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 304 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

Release the Lemmings

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 305 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 306 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 307 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 308 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 309 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

[VB6 Programming]

In a significant move towards preserving classic code, TwinBASIC, a modern BASIC compiler aiming for complete compatibility with all existing VB6 and VBA code, is making steady progress...


https://8bitnews.io/article/twinbasi...aign=twinbasic

[Shaggy Hiker]

That is rather impressive. You know my thread? https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....e13&highlight=
I think that we will need a similar thread for TwinBasic, images and descriptions, very soon.

Good idea. I've long advocated for further threads on TwinBasic rather than everything being stuffed into this single thread.

[Shaggy Hiker]

and became an instant fan.

But you used to like tractors, right?

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 310 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

[fafalone]

But you used to like tractors, right?

Ok this one is even harder than the other one, I give up

[VB6 Programming]

But you used to like tractors, right?

I'm not an ex-tractor fan. I still like tractors.

[VB6 Programming]

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC Update: May 21, 2023

Highlights include a twinBASIC port of the classic Lemmings PC game, the potential sale of Wayne's MDE conversion service, and a mention in the 8bitnews Newsletter.

https://nolongerset.com/twinbasic-update-may-21-2023/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 311 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[yereverluvinuncleber]

We all love tractors and diggers.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Ok this one is even harder than the other one, I give up

It's an ancient meme in this forum, quite possibly from before your time, even though you've been on here for quite some time. It's that old. There was a series of posts where people were coming up with contrived ways to use the term 'extractor fan' with different meanings.

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 312 of the twinBASIC programming IDE is now available...

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[VB6 Programming]

BETA 313 and Beta 314 of the twinBASIC programming IDE are now available...

*** Use Beta 314 ***

Download from here... https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic/releases

• Click on "Assets" for the latest release
• Download and Extract the ZIP file into a local folder
• Then run the twinBASIC.exe from that local folder

How to install https://nolongerset.com/how-to-install-twinbasic/

[VB6 Programming]

Official list of new twinBASIC features

https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....=1#post5598184

Also see https://twinbasic.com/

[RDGMax]

I get this error when i try to compile an imported vbp project IDE 314.Using Previous IDE Not show any error.

IDE affected 312 to 314

IMAGE

https://iili.io/HrdiMZJ.jpg

[fafalone]

VBF has some issues with attachments; can you repost, or better yet, describe the error in more detail?

[yereverluvinuncleber]

- and perhaps it might be best to start posting such support threads in a different part of the forum, away from this one which has now morphed into becoming "Announcing TwinBasic Progress".

Moderators: Can we change the name of this thread to correspond to its current function? We don't want it to become a catch-all for every TB related issue.

[fafalone]

Yeah the whole 'everything in a single thread' thing is a big part of why both GitHub and Discord have bigger tB communities even when most of us are members here... There's a whole subforum for Azure/Cloud with 11 threads *ever*, Xamarin with 33 threads *ever* and several other extremely low-activity forums for niche areas related to .NET in general. By the standard set there tB has already exceeded the minimum level of activity that should qualify it for it's own subforum, and it's more directly related to VB than some of the others too.

So tB forum when?

In the meantime if you really want to be where the tB action is happening, Discord is the big one, GitHub is bit less active but still far moreso than here.

[VB6 Programming]

Yeah the whole 'everything in a single thread' thing is a big part of why both GitHub and Discord have bigger tB communities even when most of us are members here... There's a whole subforum for Azure/Cloud with 11 threads *ever*, Xamarin with 33 threads *ever* and several other extremely low-activity forums for niche areas related to .NET in general. By the standard set there tB has already exceeded the minimum level of activity that should qualify it for it's own subforum, and it's more directly related to VB than some of the others too.

So tB forum when?
.

Totally agree. It is clearly time for twinBASIC to have its own subforum (and Codebank) here.

And not everyone here are also on Discord and/or GitHub.