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Maintenance Week30th July 2025
Working on getting my code organized in my BlitzMax shmup game.I'm keeping the various components pretty generic and reusable but I'm going to solidify the actual game logic into a singleton class next. This should allow me to make different gam*snip* |
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No More Goo.gl30th July 2025
Google really is a dangerous bedfellow.I sort of wonder how long before they also change Youtube linking style for our embedded video links only using the last part of the URL. |
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Bought a mini 8'' 4:3 lcd monitor30th July 2025
It would be nice if we could go back to user serviceable parts like batteries especially for phones.The Pine Phone was a step in the right direction as far as this kind of thing goes but unfortunately more people wanted to use it than develop drivers for*snip* |
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Starfleet Academy29th July 2025
Well, there you have it.(Image.png) |
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Maintenance Week28th July 2025
I'll offer a pre-meme anecdote from The Tao of Programming - Book 5 (Maintenance)[quote]Thus spake the Master Programmer: ''Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.''[/quote] And one more - Book 4 (Co*snip* |
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Starfleet Academy26th July 2025
We can only wait but I probably won't watch it...The writers need to stop making moody snarky assholes. (Yes, there have been some like Q but he was clearly somebody you were not to like initially) They seem hell bent on uprooting what Starfleet was*snip* |
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Making Pebble Content26th July 2025
What languages can you program em in?(Also, my ''full'' avatar isn't showing like the rest in this thread - nvm fixed somehow) |
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Communication Week24th July 2025
Xerox PARC invented Ethernet communications in the early '70s and you can find more about it and their other innovations below. |
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Communication Week23rd July 2025
Not a lot of implementation, but reading up on garbage collection algorithms.At some point my toy Lisp will get a non-trivial one. We've come a long way in GC since the early 60s. I don't aim to have the most complex one in the world but I wou*snip* |
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PotatoP - Minimal Power Computer23rd July 2025
I've always thought the PotatoP is a very cool design for a computer with minimal power draw.It essentially can go for 2 years and still do some of the basic stuff like draw to screen and save new programs and functions to the ''disk''. It l*snip* |
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Nobunaga's Ambition (series)22nd July 2025
Oh, and as a bonus, Kou Shibusawa wrote the early games in BASIC. :)The DOS version is currently abandonware. |
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Nobunaga's Ambition (series)22nd July 2025
One series that's always fascinated me from afar is KOEI's Nobunaga's Ambition series.Essentially the game is set in feudal Japan and the goal is to unify the country through economics, conquest, trade, and diplomacy. You pick your startin*snip* |
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Nights Out21st July 2025
Sambuca has always sounded interesting.I do like licorice quite a bit. Apparently there is some coffee bean burning ritual or something with it... |
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Vincent Price OTR Collection20th July 2025
During a particularly rough time in my life I found listening to low stimulus forms of entertainment a nice distraction.I ended up knitting an entire Christmas scarf for my mom while listening to some old time radio over the period of a week. There is a*snip* |
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Switch 220th July 2025
I've always been a Nintendo guy but I think I'm going to hold off on this one until I see the direction that the key carts take at $80 a piece...I tend to hold on to my games having many systems and physical cartridges so I want something that*snip* |
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Grapefruit20th July 2025
Just as bitter as I remember it but I was craving something a little sharper than orange. It is one of those strange fruits that causes medications to either be too effective or ineffective. I ended up enjoying it quite a bit after spending a day doing *snip* |
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Grapefruit20th July 2025
I've purchased my first grapefruit in 30 years. Wish me luck! |
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Nights Out19th July 2025
[PG-13 warning]What was the poison of choice today? I partake once in a blue moon, (and sometimes Blue Moon). I also like some of the hard iced tea - especially the peach from Jack Daniels and Twisted. I'll have an IPA with certain company but the*snip* |
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Simulation Week19th July 2025
Kudos for writing an emulator in BlitzBasic. |
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User Left19th July 2025
It seems reasonable to me. Maybe update the rules for the FAQ section. Looks like we had another childish temper tantrum and somebody went through deleting all his posts. |
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BASIC - Programming language of yesterdays?17th July 2025
Microsoft BASIC is nebulous today unless you mean the licensed hobby language by Gates et al.There has been Altair Basic, M BASIC, GW Basic, Quick Basic, Visual Basic, Visual Basic For Applications and Visual Basic .NET. I think Microsoft is pushing C# *snip* |
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Small Silly Question - How to Play Sound?17th July 2025
It would be best to open up Max IDE so you can look at the help page. There's a sound playing example. I would suggest reading the whole manual first. (Linkage) |
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JSE vs Source Files17th July 2025
Global variables would probably stomp each other too between files.You might be able to do package/module scope though with a prefix on the globals... The idea would be that you generate new globals with a different name and the user's variables get*snip* |
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I'm Trying BlitzMax for the first time16th July 2025
Well, don't let the lack of a community deter you if a language is good.The very best thing you can do when learning a language is read the whole spec. That way you get an idea of the big picture of the language. You don't have to understand ev*snip* |
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I'm Trying BlitzMax for the first time16th July 2025
There is a lot of missing documentation in BlitzMax (and NG which is the only one that's not dead).It is best to learn a tool like grep to dig through the source .bmx files for answers on how things with missing documentation work. (This is another e*snip* |
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