RetroBASIC
Basicprogramming(.org) => Community news and announcements => Topic started by: Cybermonkey on October 14, 2019, 04:02:25 PM
-
Dear community, this site will be closed by the 4th of November 2019.
I think BASIC is now a rather dead language and all BASICs which are a bit more successful do have their own dedicated forums (qb64, FreeBASIC, PureBASIC ...)
Maybe we will meet there again.
Oh, and by the way, this means all my other domains will be closed, too (all pulsar2d.org related domains).
It was a lot of fun the last years (more than a decade???); all started with that simple Yabasic forum.
I want to thank you all for your participation and wish you the very best for your (programming) future.
-
Ok Markus
and all best to you :)
-
Kind of sad news but you could see it coming from drop in number of posts.
Thanks Cybermonkey for picking up the ball when BP.org went belly up and for putting up with our craziness!
-
Speaking as one who is still learning... Not only will these sites be missed, the experiences and the advice, will be missed more so...
J
-
Indeed, I have noticed that there is significant activity over on facebook these days - I'm a member of a couple of groups (the most active being the one serving the Sinclair BASIC community) but as you say, more general forums are few and far between. And this place has been dead just lately.
Before we close, can members list the web forums they participate in? I'd like to keep tabs on folks I've gained respect for over the years.
-
It's sad to see this site go. I was never that active but I did like to stop in and view some of the dialog. This place will be missed.
-
Before we close, can members list the web forums they participate in? I'd like to keep tabs on folks I've gained respect for over the years.
http://masm32.com/board/index.php?action=unread and https://www.freebasic.net/forum/search.php?search_id=newposts
-
jj
dunny ask about member list and you give him a link to freebasic and masm forum ...
i only left two places
my old :
aurelsoft.ucoz.com
just my programming stuff, but i can open more boards ..ucoz is a very stable hosting
and this one i use as backup if i forgot something..it is general forum,if you wish post something it is open:
http://basicpro.spacefor.site/smf/index.php
-
dunny ask about member list and you give him a link to freebasic and masm forum ...
What is ambiguous about "can members list the web forums they participate in"?
-
I am not sure what he mean but i can guess
he probably mean on member list of this forum that he can contect or something
i might be wrong ...
however i am looking into board Code Examples, other boards are just mumbo jumbo talks without any value
and well i only maybe can found few interesting to me :
one of this is Mark(B+)
> 100 LOC interepeter .. i will copy to my site
-
I'm a member of a couple of groups
what kind of groups dunny ...from what i see that groups are trivial ::)
only maybe that one dedicated to Sinclair ZX..
-
Oh i forgot about
'by Peter Wirbelauer .... COSMO
star field example
it is good one ...copy....
-
Before we close, can members list the web forums they participate in? I'd like to keep tabs on folks I've gained respect for over the years.
Paul, I sure miss those fancy code snippets you use to do! But I know how work takes most your time.
I am still at JB forum (thanks to Richey's advocacy) though that is dying too: http://justbasiccom.proboards.com
And of course QB64 forum: https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?wwwRedirect
I check in at FreeBasic forum now and again and see JJ occasional posts of interest, for some reason in my mind FreeBasic and QB64 don't mix well. I started working FreeBasic before QB64 but after year or 2 of QB64 half my code that was working in FB, isn't ? Something about different compiler options I suspect.
I have just saved Aurels link maybe someone from here might show up there? Maybe Galileo with another one for Yabasic?
Aurel, I have a QB64 version of that 100 LOC interpreter that had the Eval code built-in (that made the 100 line thing possible), with its own Eval code now 400-500 lines and still stuck on how to introduce strings and string routines without punctuation. Currently working on GUI boxes possibly with an Editor box.
I also check SmallBASIC but Chris not so active anymore, that I can tell, maybe he is with Android groups?
http://smallbasic.github.io
I also lurk around n00b's site, RC Basic: http://rcbasic.freeforums.net
Where my old friend Johnno hangs out and is doing some 101 lectures. :)
Same for SdlBasic http://sdlbasic.epizy.com/index.php
Very occasionally Naalaa, where Tomaaz and Aurel may still do battle. :D
http://www.naalaa.com/community/index.php
I even peek in at AllBasic to see if JRS is still alive. ;-))
-
I even peek in at AllBasic to see if JRS
Oh no ,,have something with him is same as doing suicide from ambush . ::)
well i don't know that just basic is on such low-levels well same as all hobby programming sites.
-
Okay, if there is any interest, I use regularly the following forums:
- QB64: https://www.qb64.org/forum/
- Pascal Game Development: https://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com/forum.php
- German FreeBASIC forum: https://forum.qbasic.at/
- German Lazarus Forum: https://www.lazarusforum.de/
- Official Freepascal/Lazarus Forum: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php
Well, I guess that wraps it up ...
-
Well, I'm not an active BASIC-er any more but my almost daily lurking routine still includes
Charles Pegge's OxygenBasic forum (https://www.oxygenbasic.org/forum/)
Eros Olmi's thinBasic forum (https://www.thinbasic.com/community/forum.php)
John Spikowski's AllBasic forum (https://allbasic.info/forum/index.php)
Jose Roca's (tolerant) PowerBASIC forum (http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php)
(Intolerant) PowerBASIC Peer Support Community forum (https://forum.powerbasic.com/)
Farewell to all my former brothers in arms here! :)
-
As one who is still learning.... May I ask, "What is to become of all the posts, samples, tutorials and resources that have been gathered over the past years? Will they be archived for future 'read only' reference or will they be just deleted?"
J
-
Hi Cybermonkey,
Thanks for giving SmallBASIC a forum home for the past few years. It was good while it lasted!
It's a lot of work keeping a forum site alive, so it's understandable you'd want to call time given the low activity.
I'm not sure where I'll point the forum link to from https://smallbasic.github.io. Maybe this https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbasic/
Cheers,
Chris
-
well chris
i am not sure but it looks that there is no any feedback from sourceforge site to SB
also i don't see anything on github which by the way is not good as forum board for
potential users...
-
johnno
saving resources....hmmm i think once the forum is removed everything is gone
only in case someone copy whole forum to another place
maybe is possible that with SMF...
-
Farewell to all my former brothers in arms here! :)
Take care, Mike. And same to you, Aurel ;)
-
Aurel,
I figured that deletion may be the path taken but hoped that it wouldn't.
I have mainly used Basic for most of my adult life and STILL haven't mastered it... lol
It's not that Basic is difficult to learn, it's that Basic is difficult for 'me' to learn....
To coin a phrase, "I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer" and will probably never will be.
This is why I rely on sites like this and people like you with which I can continue to learn.
I find it discouraging when sites close down. I understand why they do and do not place
any blame on them for doing so. None the less, it is still discouraging.
I will continue to work with Basic; Look for resources; Continue to learn.
I may not have that many years ahead of me, but until that time comes,
I can still have fun with Basic.
To quote the Master Control Program, from the movie Tron: "End of line".
-
Yes, everything will be deleted. Actually I will cancel the contract with the provider. So all domains will expire and the webspace will be cleared.
Just in case, I will do a complete backup of the forum. If anyone is interested to move on with it, I will of course provide the backup.
(https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Hosting_-_How_do_I_move_my_SMF_forum_to_a_different_host)
-
wow 10 steps are very critical ...
and probably whole foum is very large ,and also can be possible to copy to new free hostring with
ftp manager...hmmm lot of work and i am not sure if all that worth
-
I lurk around World of Spectrum, Sinclair ZX World, JB, Liberty Basic, LB Booster, BBC BASIC and Dunny's SpecBas forum mainly - but most are quiet and I rarely have the time to get involved and post these days.
Thanks Cybermonkey for hosting what was left of Bp.org
The BASIC world is small and getting smaller, so no doubt our paths will cross occasionally in the future.
Farewell all.
-
If someone is interested you may look into my ucoz forum
I add two new sections:
BASIC programming
ALL HOBBY programming boards
https://aurelsoft.ucoz.com/forum/
-
Here is how look post on ucoz forum:
-
For chrisw
both places looks too static and how you can talk with anyone there?
-
John has offered to host a READ ONLY copy of the forum over at AllBASIC.info. He also wants to let you know that anyone is welcome to join the AllBASIC forum if you still have BASIC interests.