i bought a gaming programming book any it did not come with the program and i cant make any games.
2006-08-12 10:15:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Visual BASIC belongs to M$, and therefore you will have to pay somewhere along the line, either financially or emotionally.
However, you'll struggle to make a decent game in any BASIC, unless we're talking tic-tac-toe and pacman clones.
If you want decent results, I'd recommend learning C/C++, and using free libraries for graphics, sound etc (OpenGL is free and reasonably easy for 3D graphics).
Rawlyn.
2006-08-12 10:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you do a Google search for it? If you can't find it for free this way, then you might have to use an illegal copy. Put yourself in software makers position. You spend millions of dollars producing a program, open a company to produce it and sell it. Lots of people rely on your product and sales to pay their bills and eat, cloth their kids etc. Some jerk makes an illegal copy and starts giving it away. You can't sell your product anymore and go out of business. All your employees are now out of work and cannot meet their obligations. Some may become homeless becaue of it.
Software companies go out of business everyday because of this. Many very good ideas for program never get produced because of piracy.
So if you use pirated software you are participating in what I described above. You hurt much more than a companies bottom line. By the way, companies do not have insurance that pays for business losses. That doesn't exist. No Insurance Company would produce a policy like that. Many companies, with bad management, wouldn't care if they made a profit and would just file the losses against the Insurance and the Insurance Company would soon go out of business.
2006-08-12 10:35:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what Visual Basic edition you want. Here is a little statment for you (lol)
Dim WhatYouWant as String
If WhatYouWant = "Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition" Then
It is availible for free on the MSDN site, see link below
Else
Sadly you will have to pay for it (I guess it is Visual Basic 6 if not 2005)
End If
lol- That was fun
2006-08-12 10:26:10 · answer #3 · answered by stephen.dew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, wth is up with all these people and there illegal software? well anyways get bittorrent, and downlad it from there
2006-08-12 10:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by Jim 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
e.g. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=free+visual+basic&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
2006-08-12 10:21:59 · answer #5 · answered by helpdesk916 ♦♣♠♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋