Hi Jim,
Of course, we are all talking personal opinions here and I fully respect
yours. However I personally feel that when a product is as old as Vb6 and
official support has been dropped for quite some time, it would be
inadviseable for new programmers to learn it only to discover that they have
learnt technology that was at its peak 10 years ago. If, like yourself, one
has been using the tool for a considerable time then that is a different
story. If you feel that you are comfortable with Vb 6 and want to continue
using it despite support having been dropped then that, of course, is
entirely your choice. In any case I shall certainly continue to play your
games from time to time.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kitchen" <[email protected]>
To: "Philip Bennefall" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Battle boomer question
Hi Philip,
I hate to disagree with you, but I do. The run time libraries for VB6 are
very small and easy to install. And that then makes VB6 games etc run
just fine under all versions of Windows. Heck, who cares if Microsoft no
longer supports VB6. I mean what if VB6 was not even a Microsoft product.
That doesn't make it bad. I see allot of Microsoft products that people
have allot worse time trying to get to run even with huge down loads and
installs of the supporting files. And heck I some times still run a
program named Cool Edit version 1.53 and that was built for Windows 3.1.
But it runs just fine and has some cool features that even the newest
version of Gold Wave doesn't have.
But that is just my opinion of VB6. And programming languages like screen
readers etc, everyone has their opinion as to which is the best, easiest
to use etc.
TGIF and BFN
----- Original Message -----
Hi Kevin,
BGT will definitely have a compiler in the 1.0 release, so a port of your
game to this language would not be a bad idea in my opinion. Of course,
I'm bound to say that but seriously though, VB 6, like AutoIt, is a
language that I would not recommend. It certainly works better than AutoIt
but it's so old now so that it's getting nearly impossible to maintain
forward compatibility with new Windows versions. Sure your games will run
on Xp, but above that it gets trickier and trickier. I'll be glad to help
you port to BGT, should you decide to take that root. Remember that for
freeware games, BGT will only sell for some 65 USD.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
Jim
I like Visual Basic 6.0 because I can not C.
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Chardon Ohio USA
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