i have looked at lowerdash but i just dont get how i would convert my program into lowerdash. to learn lowerdash would be to learn a new language. wher would i learn it?

On the reference page, on SmileBASICSource.

There is indeed a massive reference manual on SmileBasicSource. I've also attempted to walk through my object-oriented design process in a tutorial on there. Of course, I managed to overcomplicate it :p. I hope to try an even simpler guide soon. What kind of tutorial would be most helpful to you? Do you need to see a game in motion?

i am just learning sb as it is. lowerdash seems like i would have to learn from scatch-as if i didnt know anything like printing a name on the screen. i learn from doing. compare and contrast. (this is how you load background 0,1,2 in sb --- this is how it is done i lowerdash). lowerdash looks so much cleaner than sb i would love to learn it but i dont even know where to start.

One thing to note: Lowerdash is a superset of SmileBasic! Loading a background is the same in Lowerdash as SB: ''' BGLOAD 0, BGDATA ''' With Lowerdash, you might make a module "Level" that does that same code in a method 'start' that also sets up coins and stuff. Later you could just write: ''' curLvl = new Level('level name') curLvl.start '''

thank you