A shot of the physics demo in action

The demo has a pretty simple premise – use the arrow keys to fly a spaceship (taken from the classic game Raptor) in all 4 directions and use spacebar to fire two “lasers.”  As always, the included VB6 source code is very carefully organized and commented.

Also, for any VB-haters out there, it’s worth noting that if the demo’s frame rate limitation box is unchecked, the code will easily run 500+ FPS on any modern machine.  Still think VB6 isn’t a viable choice for game programming?

As a bonus, the demo also includes the code for drawing an animated star field.