And it would be really fun. So fun and great it wins 200 GOTY awards for 200 years each. Anyway, I got a bit carried away with that. I'm just going to take an undoubtedly long break from programming, which was probably going to happen anyway since all the programming I did before was in CS class and I only recreated 1 program from that class. I'm too busy with Uncharted and Kombat anyway.

And I'm never making another Battleship game. If I do, when that next SB comes out, it'll be 200x better and have graphics and multiplayer support and have a randomized theme. Like, it could be Batman themed, Spiderman themed, Battleship themed, or whatever randomly with a really catchy theme song playing in the background

I realize now that those two comments were from two different people which makes more sense. Anyway, it is as I feared. The backup is of the coin toss program. I think I'm just going to never touch SB again. I'll probably burn and smash my DS. If I'll ever use SB again, it'll be when the next DS comes out and has its own version of it.

I'll check it out and hope its not a backup of the wrong program. Also, I was done with Battleship when I started the coin toss thing so I didn't think I would need the other slots. I also noticed shift changed the save into a button or whatever it does, but it didn't say the same thing it usually does so I didn't want to take any risks. Also, I'm glad you got that reference.

I definitely saved the Battleship program as I had worked on it for days and then decided to work on the heads/tails thing. I must have somehow at somepoint overwritten it. I have the Battleship program that is now an unfinished heads/taild program and the coin toss program that is the finished one. I had noticed the backup thing, but had no idea what it was.

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I made a heads or tails game for no real reason. I had just decided it was finished, and that I wanted to check out my Battleship game agaim. I load it up, and I'm told there is a syntax error. "What?" I look at the code I thought I loaded Battleship? This isn't Battleship! And there wasn't a syntax error two seconds ago! Wait, where's the rest of the code? Waaaaiitt...maybe this IS Battleship!"

Alright! I have now completely finished the Battleship game! I may try to add more to in the future, but the game is fully functional. Thanks for your help

If not, or if you don't know what I'm asking, how would I change the numbers to the side to letters? do I have to use a bunch of if statements to convert it or is there a better way?

Thanks again. I got the game basically finished, except for one thing. I replaced the numbers to the top with letters, and the game translates the letter into a X-coordinate, but I realized that Battleship might actually have the letters to the side, for the Y-coordinate. This makes things a bit more complicated. Is there a way, like in Java, to change A to B easily, like A+1 would normally?

I ran into another problem, though. In Java, there are methods. Very handy. Very dandy. But, I cannot figure out how to replace them in BASIC. I tried using labels and GOTO, but that executew ALL lines after the label. I tried labels, GOSUB, and RETURN, but only recieved RETURN without GOSUB errors and whatever. I need to know how to replace methods and how exactly labels and GOTO/GOSUB work.

I was able to get away with using the while loop. I did not know about the REPEAT UNTIL, buy it sounded a lot like a do while loop, executing at least once. I was also able to get away with not using a char array.

I may not need a do while loop, but when I made my battleship game in Java, I could only get it working properly with a do while loop. Had to do with making sure the ships don't overlap each other

Also, when I create an array, in Java, I can set every element to what I want it to be: arr={2,3,3,4,5} or some thing like that. I don't know if its possible in BASIC, though. for now, I just set them seperately arr[0]=2 arr[1]=3 arr[2]=3 arr[3]=4 arr[4]=5 I also need to better understand booleans, and I don't know about while loops or if do while loops exist

Alright so I have a few more questions for now. I started making the battleship game again but I realized I don't know if arrays have to be number arrays or if I can, how to create a char array (I'm assuming I'd have to use a string array instead, if possible). I could get away with not using a char array just fine, but, hey.

Any ideas on what I should try and set out to would be appreciated. Also, excuse the typos. Its late and I don't know why I'm not sleeping.

Thanks, both of you. I still have questions, like how do I print an array in a print statement, but I'll probably get these questions answered eventually. I actually have no idea what to do with SB, though. I thought I'd try recreating the text based battleship I made somewhat recently in java, in my computer science class, but with my limited knowledge of BASIV, I doon't think I can even start

Also, I have no idea what DIM is. And does there really have to be a ? mark when I want user input? I couldn't say "Enter a number: ", I have to ask "What is the number?"?

I just realized I said 10/3!=false. I meant 10/3!=2 is false. 10/3==2 is true.

I figured out the comment thing. You said double and decimal. Are they not the same thing? Also, I'm used to 10/3!=false because the numbers would be ints, not doubles. My question then is are ints in BASIC? Also, Matrices! I just didn't know how it was spelled. And yes The Flashpoint Paradox is a big Flash thing. If you watch the show, you know why I mention it.