Hi Willem, Same here. I really hope that the games written in Visual Basic 6 last a good long time. So far we've been lucky and still get them to run on the Windows 8 betas. However, I am concerned long term because the issue is one of maintaining them as ops improve and change.
Already we can see that User Account Control is something that has been around from Windows Vista and offers extra security from viruses, trojans, worms, and other malware yet we've seen very little from the audio games community to actually make their app's more User Account Control compliant, and instead the developers simply request we turn it off. While that works it also means one must compromise his or her security simply to continue playing games all because steps aren't being taken to develop software that meets current development standards. I've been guilty of this myself, but still it isn't something we should take lightly. Plus as someone with a degree in computer science and as a developer I realize how much more languages like Visual Basic .NET has to offer over say Visual Basic 6. Besides the fact it is better supported on Vista, Win 7, and Windows 8 it is fully object oriented, has a lot more preexisting classes to work with, some things are just down right easier to do. Accessing the registry, for example,is fairly straight forward in VB.NET. Plus if someone has VB .NET Pro they can compile executables for 32-bit and 64-bit platforms as well as for smart phones etc. It just seems a waist to me not to take advantage of what something like VB .NET or C# .NET has to offer the modern Windows developer. Cheers! On 9/13/12, Willem Venter <dwill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Richard. > I really hope that we will be able to play all the VB6 games for many > years to come, as many of my favorite games are written in vb6. Not > only Jim's kitchensinc games and the games you mentioned are vb6, but > also GMA games, bsc, LWorks, and many other games. I can actually > think of more good vb6 games than non vb6 games. > > The reality is that VB6 is an old technology. And old technologies > sooner or later become so hard to use that people will stop playing > those games. for now things are still working fine, but we as a > community need to find a sustainable way to make the vb6 games work, > so they are not lost to us. > > This has nothing to do with putting down of programming languages etc > and everything to do with keeping the games I like around as long as > possible. > > I feel as a fellow programmer the least I can do to pay tribute to the > creative sols that made all these games that I love so much is find a > way to make them playable for as long as possible. I know it's > terribly altruistic of me, but for now it's the only solution I can > see. > > Added to that, I do have a degree in computer science, so this is > squarely inside my domain. After all, games got me interested in > programming in the first place. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
