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Game Creation => Other Languages & Tools => Topic started by: GabrielCA on April 07, 2010, 06:34:49 PM

Title: METAL Basic
Post by: GabrielCA on April 07, 2010, 06:34:49 PM

If anyone's looking for the download link :
http://web.archive.org/web/20080121002626/http://www.iit.edu/~sarimar/GDS/DL/metal-173.sit

Title: Re: METAL Basic
Post by: alias on April 07, 2010, 07:52:32 PM

Thanks for posting an incredibly outdated and currently unsupported BASIC language.

Also I think this was posted before somewhere, because I remember people using it a couple years back.

EDIT: I was right, http://www.gamemakersgarage.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=moving;action=display;num=1203537977

Read before you post.

Title: Re: METAL Basic
Post by: GabrielCA on April 07, 2010, 09:19:21 PM

Sorry, I know this isn't exactly news.
BTW - partial quote :

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The Metal link is down and I can't find it anywhere on google. .

Title: Re: METAL Basic
Post by: Gan on April 07, 2010, 09:38:38 PM

Ouch and oooh...
(Burn and burn ointment)

Anyway, what's metal like?


-Gan

Title: Re: METAL Basic
Post by: GabrielCA on April 07, 2010, 10:04:43 PM

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Ouch and oooh...
(Burn and burn ointment)

Anyway, what's metal like?


-Gan

I used it for at least 1,5 year, probably more.
I consider it very good for learning 2D (with sprites and double-buffering) game programming basics.
It think it includes a built-in pixel-based collision detection engine.

[EDIT]
Also, I used METAL to create my only ever contribution to the world of GameMaker, KeyDetect (first keyboard interface for GM)

Title: Re: METAL Basic
Post by: alias on April 08, 2010, 08:28:00 AM

Metal is pretty cool. But massively outdated. Id go with TNT. Back in the day METAL was the shiz.

Also, I didnt realize the link was down. Seems to work for me.

You should perhaps think about hosting metal  :) In case his site goes down entirely.

Title: Re: METAL Basic
Post by: GabrielCA on April 08, 2010, 03:20:36 PM

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In case his site goes down entirely.

The Web Archive will quite probably stay up, but it's kinda slow