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Artificial Heart Demo

Retro — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:08:45 GMT

Back when first .NET studio was released I recreated one of my early games called Mad Driver. It was made to test the new GDI+ but without hardware acceleration I wasn’t pleased with results. Now, created with VB.NET 2005, a new remake of Mad Driver is being made, but this time using the Artificial Heart Game Engine that runs on managed DirectX. The work so far is wrapped together in this demo.

Artificial Heart Demo is created with free Artificial Engines, found on www.3dlevel.com. It features a sophisticated intro, showcasing the many effects of the engines. To throw in some nice functionality of my own, I’ve created a customizable menu system that can be easily used also for many other purposes, from intro titles to GUI elements. A track editor was made for editing the terrain and a stage class loads the data and renders the terrain.

I was hoping to include also some driving, but as the deadline is here I am submitting this to show that Visual Basic can indeed be used to create games. I’ve used a retro style of graphics in this demo, but only because of my personal preference. Modern looking games can also be made, just check out Bomboholic (www.bomboholic.com) also being made with the Artificial Engines and VB.NET!

Besides programming the demo I’ve also made all the art (3D models of the bridge, car, city in back …) and even mixed some music using DirectMusic Producer. However with all this things to do for just one person, music and all game play remains to be added into the actual game, although I’ve already made prototypes so the road to completion is not that long any more.

The game launcher is also fully functional and allows you to select graphics setting, music mode and redefine keys. However, only the graphics setting have effect in this demo.

I hope you enjoy watching the sunrise and that someone will also be inspired to create high profile 3D games using VB.NET!

A RSS news Manager

juavizga — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:28:24 GMT

My application is a rss manager that allows the user read news in RSS format and manage and organize the rss fonts added by the user

BitTorrent-Parser

henningms — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:52:52 GMT

It's basically a RSS reader but it's designed to work with the torrentbits framework, and it organizes and puts the different torrents where it belongs, the app also digs out any other info you might need about the torrent.

CallerPC

grennis — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:05:26 GMT

CallerPC is an application that lives in your system tray and uses the MS Telephony API (TAPI) to notify you of incoming phone calls. When you receive a call, a transparent notification window pops up over your desktop and a ring wave sound is played. If you have caller ID, CallerPC can also speak aloud the name and number of the person who is calling you using MS Speech API (SAPI). It can also notify you via email when new calls are received. CallerPC uses property grids to allow you to configure the look and feel (fonts, colors, images) of the call notification popup window, as well as the "ring" wave sound and the voice to use when speaking the caller information. You can also configure the modem(s) or telephony devices to monitor for incoming calls. The CallerPC project includes re-usable managed TAPI classes that you can use to build your own Telephony-enabled applications.

exercise-it

ZippyV — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:30:04 GMT

Vocatrainer is an application to learn a list of words in a foreign language. Just load up a list and complete the 9 exercises. After each exercise you can see which words you answered wrong.
Some exercises support an 3 different types of difficulty.
You can also make your own vocabulary lists with the build in editor or you can visit my website and download new vocabulary lists.

Rajprit's All-in-One Notepad

rajprit17 — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:35:08 GMT

Description: Its an all-in-one notepad which lets you to create / edit /view rich text and plain text files. It has got many features, it has: 1) 4 in 1 Calculator : Its a Simple calculator, Trigonometrical calculator, Geometrical Calculator and a Loan Amount Calculator. 2) Number to Words Converter: It can numbers to words in both Indian and European standard. 3) Media Player: You Can Watch Movies / Listen Music while typing letters. All the above tools can be opened simultaneously System Requirements : Windows Media Player 9 or later

print control

pritpal — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:37:54 GMT

rich text print control

Jay Roxe - How you can learn to program with Visual Basic Express

The Channel 9 Team — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:05:10 GMT

Jay tells how he learned to program and encourages new developers to try out Visual Basic Express by playing with the sample application included.