Here is a tutorial on how to write your own particle engine. The source code provided at the end of the lesson was written in DBP, but I see no reason why it can't run in DBC. Go to my website, and click on Tutorials under DarkBasic. The tutorial is in a MS Word document format.

http://www.dbspot.com/krytek/

I thought about writing one recently, dunno if Ill have use for it now, but I will have a read of this in a bit. Cheers

Looked good. May be handy for someone.