[ogkush]

A program made in BBC Basic for a hangman program that has three lives and lets the user input words at the end of the program

[alex-hs]

Edit: I may have been a bit hasty. See posts below

[RyanT]

That's interesting, I'll see if I can make one in c++

(Original post by alex-hs)
Brilliant. What do you want, a medal?

What's with the attitude?

[davros]

(Original post by RyanT)
What's with the attitude?

Probably just wondering why on earth the OP would just dump a load of random code in this forum - and by the look of it, code that was written about 30 years ago

[alex-hs]

(Original post by davros)
Probably just wondering why on earth the OP would just dump a load of random code in this forum - and by the look of it, code that was written about 30 years ago

Pretty much this.

User's first post; no accompanying text... smells like some weird spambot to me.

[ogkush]

Would like to just clear this up, made this program and wanted my friend to see it and he asked me to put it on this site. Sorry for any inconvenience

[CJKay]

Out of interest, how did you test that? Some BBC Micro emulator or somethin'?

[mfaxford]

(Original post by ogkush)
Would like to just clear this up, made this program and wanted my friend to see it and he asked me to put it on this site. Sorry for any inconvenience

It might have been good to put a comment with the code in your first post.

There are also [ CODE ] and [ /CODE ] tags that can be used around the code which can help formatting.

And wow, It's been a while since I've seen BBC Basic. Brilliant machines in the day, And still amongst the fastest booting machines around. I still have a BBC master around. I'm not sure how many of the game disks I've collected still work though.

As for the code. There are probably a few things you could do to improve it. Maybe read the words from a disk file - that way it would be easy to add words. Things like the getting word lengths could be done in a for loop. Or just get the length for the chosen word. You might also be able to make use of subroutines for some of the tasks as well instead of all the goto's.

[ogkush]

The version is used is here: http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/download.html
Its my first real program in BBC Basic so its still not as efficient as I would like, I'm still working on it

[alex-hs]

(Original post by ogkush)
Would like to just clear this up, made this program and wanted my friend to see it and he asked me to put it on this site. Sorry for any inconvenience

Ah, ok, apologies for being so blunt then. Though saying something to that effect in the original post would probably have been helpful

I'd recommend pastebin.com if you just want to share code.

[ogkush]

(Original post by alex-hs)
Ah, ok, apologies for being so blunt then. Though saying something to that effect in the original post would probably have been helpful

I'd recommend pastebin.com if you just want to share code.

No offence taken, will probably use Pastebin next time, some of the feedback on here has been helpful though so its not all bad

[ogkush]

(Original post by mfaxford)
It might have been good to put a comment with the code in your first post.

There are also [ CODE ] and [ /CODE ] tags that can be used around the code which can help formatting.

And wow, It's been a while since I've seen BBC Basic. Brilliant machines in the day, And still amongst the fastest booting machines around. I still have a BBC master around. I'm not sure how many of the game disks I've collected still work though.

As for the code. There are probably a few things you could do to improve it. Maybe read the words from a disk file - that way it would be easy to add words. Things like the getting word lengths could be done in a for loop. Or just get the length for the chosen word. You might also be able to make use of subroutines for some of the tasks as well instead of all the goto's.

This is very helpful advice, Thanks!
I'll try and incorporate this