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Does this mean I can finally run NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS natively on macOS?

by nathell 6y ago

pjmlp 6y ago
Probably PureBasic, RealBasic, Xojo would have been an option, although with code having to be changed for them.
- akudha 6y ago
  Xojo seems interesting (is that what used to be called RealBasic?). Do you have experience with it?
  - SyneRyder 6y ago
    Xojo did used to be called RealBasic (and briefly Real Studio). It's more like Visual Basic than QBasic/QuickBasic though. I've used it for a long time to make tools for myself that will run cross-platform Windows / Mac / Linux.
    - akudha 6y ago
      thank you for the answer. can you give some examples of the tools you built with xojo?
      - SyneRyder 6y ago
        My main Xojo program is a business database front-end for my indie software business. It parses sales notifications and inserts them into an offline database (ie so no customer data is ever kept online). It has a business dashboard for key performance metrics, generates charts for various sales / demographic queries. It also lets me generate serial codes for customers when giving away copies of my apps in promotions. I've been using that for about 20 years. I also made a cross-platform Twitter-esque client (similar to Tweetbot) to work with the Micro.Blog social network. I had it fully working with Mac, Windows and Linux before I got disillusioned with Micro.Blog and didn't release it. For internal use, I made a project estimation app for solo/indie developers like myself, that uses Monte Carlo estimation to predict an actual ship date based on the (in)accuracy of your previous task estimates. It had charts of percentage confidence, so you could give an 85% or 95% confidence of shipping a milestone by X date. The tasks & milestones were structured like an outliner and could be moved just with keyboard navigation. It was able to load project files from a discontinued Java program called Mr Schedule that I loved. That Xojo app was cross-platform Windows & Mac too.
daitangio 6y ago
Yes. Grlorillas is included and work well under ubuntu

Does this mean I can finally run NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS natively on macOS?

pjmlp 6y ago

Probably PureBasic, RealBasic, Xojo would have been an option, although with code having to be changed for them.

akudha 6y ago
Xojo seems interesting (is that what used to be called RealBasic?). Do you have experience with it?
- SyneRyder 6y ago
  Xojo did used to be called RealBasic (and briefly Real Studio). It's more like Visual Basic than QBasic/QuickBasic though. I've used it for a long time to make tools for myself that will run cross-platform Windows / Mac / Linux.
  - akudha 6y ago
    thank you for the answer. can you give some examples of the tools you built with xojo?
    - SyneRyder 6y ago
      My main Xojo program is a business database front-end for my indie software business. It parses sales notifications and inserts them into an offline database (ie so no customer data is ever kept online). It has a business dashboard for key performance metrics, generates charts for various sales / demographic queries. It also lets me generate serial codes for customers when giving away copies of my apps in promotions. I've been using that for about 20 years. I also made a cross-platform Twitter-esque client (similar to Tweetbot) to work with the Micro.Blog social network. I had it fully working with Mac, Windows and Linux before I got disillusioned with Micro.Blog and didn't release it. For internal use, I made a project estimation app for solo/indie developers like myself, that uses Monte Carlo estimation to predict an actual ship date based on the (in)accuracy of your previous task estimates. It had charts of percentage confidence, so you could give an 85% or 95% confidence of shipping a milestone by X date. The tasks & milestones were structured like an outliner and could be moved just with keyboard navigation. It was able to load project files from a discontinued Java program called Mr Schedule that I loved. That Xojo app was cross-platform Windows & Mac too.

daitangio 6y ago

Yes. Grlorillas is included and work well under ubuntu