CoolBasic

-         game programming language –

 

The English reference manual

 

CoolBasic version 10.42

28th Nov 2005

 

The Search and the Learning Center doesn't work in the English manual.

 

What is CoolBasic?

CoolBasic is a BASIC-like programming language especially orientated in game creation. This version of CoolBasic is only capable of 2D-graphics. It has in-built commands for game entities (objects), images, sound and so on.

 

The manual

CoolBasic Beta stage was intended to be only available to Finnish group whose task is to find bugs before CoolBasic goes to world-wide. Surprisingly, CoolBasic become quite popular despite its early stage of development, and kind of ran out of our control; CoolBasic wasn't supposed to be known by anyone beyond the Beta group.

 

The manual of CoolBasic is very comprehensive, but unfortunately it's available only in Finnish. After a few requests, I decided to write a short language reference in English because a number of non-Finnish forum members emerged.

 

This document includes language reference, command reference, but not much more. I currently have my hands full with the new level of development; CoolBasic is going to face a massive renewal again. To be honest, full translation of the current manual would be pointless since we have to rewrite the manual anyway. But here we go, in terms of short English "manual".

 

In this document we assume you already have the knowledge of BASIC syntax and behaviour. We won't explain things for total beginners the way we did in the Finnish manual.

 

 

Language Reference

 

Command Reference