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I'm happy to say that thinBasic is running just fine under recently released Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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Largo, i have done an experiment . making a bundled exe: file "ok.exe" without choosing to obfuscate the source.
now when i ...

Dear all,

I've added a new functionality to thinBasic community forum: thinBasic Applications Forum

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I'm happy to say that thinBasic 1.8.9.0 works perfectly under Windows 8 Developer Preview recently released to the public by Microsoft.
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Chiedo ospitalita' sul forum, e mi scuso per il messaggio in italiano ma il mio
inglese lascia molto a desiderare.

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ThinBASIC offers the continuously developed TBGL library since year 2005. It is module focusing on providing way to draw graphics hardware accelerated way, but only with features which are widely adopted. That means, only "safe" functionality is added, so programmer can sleep peacefuly, because his scripts will run on any PC with properly installed GPU drivers.

But in real world, there are situations, when you simply need to use even the cutting edge features or features not commonly implemented by all hardware vendors. One of such a features is offscreen rendering, and this article will tell you for what it can be useful, what are the basic principles and it finally gives you sample implementation and script examples.
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Hi,

during Game Access 2010 there was one nice technique mentioned "by the way" as approach used for modelling chicken ...

There is an interesting trend which can be observed in the cut scenes present in many videogames released in the last years. Almost every 3D game now shows increased focus on cinematic feeling, which is achieved by extensive use of motion capture and specific work with camera, which includes not only its movement in the scene, but also simulating some of the optical properties as well.
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Once more best wishes for 2011 ,

please download the full PF in clumsy english here:
PF 2011 (video)

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