I'd say defaming BASIC as you are, that you are either ignorant of modern BASIC dialects or are extraordinarily stubborn about Cs superiority to all things ever...
SHARED bitmask%() DIM memloc AS INTEGER DIM leadsdown AS INTEGER DIM EndRenderer AS INTEGER maxpar% = pvpvary% MOD tilesize 'Watch this cool optimization.
PvPConst% = multby80(maxpar% - 1) maxpar% = -maxpar 'Set one bit and add one, and you have one less MOD
'in the world. Cute, eh?
FOR yaya% = 0 TO 3 OUT &H3C5, bitmask%(yaya%)
FOR x% = RenderFirstX% TO RenderSecondX%
xx% = (MultByTileSize(x%)) + pvpvarx IF xx% > -20 AND xx% 319 THEN EXIT FOR IF (xx% AND 3) = yaya% THEN
IF xx% > -1 THEN
'One of the more consuming operations is taken care of by an array.
memloc = divby4(xx%) + PvPConst% 'This sets the pointer (HAH!)
FOR y% = RenderFirstY% TO RenderSecondY%
IF y% = RenderSecondY% THEN EndRenderer% = maxpar + 3 ELSE EndRenderer% = tilesize
IF EndRenderer% > 20 THEN EndRenderer% = 20
maptile% = map%(x%, y%)
FOR a% = 1 TO EndRenderer% 'uglier, but marginally faster.
memloc = memloc + 80
POKE memloc, sprite(a%, b%, mDsprites(maptile%).spriteplace)
NEXT a%
NEXT y% END IF
b = b + 2 xx% = xx% + 2 END IF b = b + 1 xx% = xx% + 1
WEND END IF NEXT x%
NEXT yaya
END SUB
AAAAAAH! MY EYES! YOU BASTARD!!! NOW I'LL NEVER PROGRAM AGAIN!!!
Quickbasic was the bigger brother. qbasic was v1.1 which shipped with Dos 5.0+. Quickbasic went on until it was renamed Professional Development System 7.0, then later Visual Basic for DOS 1.0. That was the last version made.
http://www.qbxl.net/
I'm a monster, you see. That's how I know all this.:P
The next version of QB after PDS was called VBDOS 1.0. Pretty nice. 0/2/386 compilation, lots of nifty little automated things, like checking the date and time in a thousand different ways.
I was going to mention that later versions don't have that, but then I realized that later versions don't have line numbers either...well...not if you're half way competent.:)
You know, I'm starting to get the slightest bit annoyed at the "oh yeah, THAT'S original" trolls.
I'm sorry, did the x-box shrink at some point? Did it stop having a library that consists of a handfull of original games and a bunch of year-old leftovers from the PS2? NO?
Then stop bitching when we make fun of it. Face facts, MS or not, the X-Box just isn't all it's hardware says it should be. Well, perhaps it's more PHYSICALLY than it should be, but...:P
Are you really that ignorant that you didn't notice that I also chose the leader of my own country as well? Are you that stupid? Can't you people just concede a point once in a while, that if that mostly illiterate man with no apparant skill in diplomacy, finance, war, leadership, and linquistics didn't happen to be "the other guy" in an election where the main democratic candidate came off like a moron in a two party system(gee...another rich white dude. Funny, that.), he never would have gotten himself into that chair?
Do the words "career politician" mean nothing to you?
Why not? It's too good for most of the "democratic" nations of the world, whose machinations are so entrenched in generations of nepotism that the chance of a truly great leader emerging is nearly nil. Instead, we gets folks like Bush Jr. who are in power because they've got freinds and family entrenched in high places, or Paul Martin in Canada, who got into politics because his father was there first.
And yes, I do realize that it's meant as a joke. Unfortunately, comments like this make supporters of Microsoft alternatives look extremely childish and unprofessional.
You'll have to point me to the rule that says that people have to act grown up and professional when they're not at work or paying bills.:P
2d in the context of 3d and 2d in the context of a desktop are two completely different beasts. For one thing, the former is distorted intentionally to increase image quality (remember DOOM? Remember blocks? Remember what some walls looked like at a distance, since they lacked mip-mapping?), and the latter depends explicitly on digital precision reproducing an image on the screen.
To be honest, 2d quality is a very relevant issue for 3d cards, since the quality of the image in 3d is directly related to the quality of the image in 2d, so if your desktop is bleeding colours all over the place, and the colours are all washed out, and there are blotches all over the place, and it's fuzzy, you can have the best anti-aliasing and texture filtering, and a trillion polys per character, and the resulting image will still look like crap. It all comes from the same video memory, right? The fact that 2d textures are used in 3d games is not the reason, however.
Your sources must be different from mine. I've never heard anything but good things about nforces in general. I used one myself in my main system, and it was a great, very fast system.
Because if you notice AA artefacts that vividly in real-time and they bother you that much that you'd constantly play a waiting game so you can get the biggest, baddest $600 video card on the block, you're probably the sort of person these manufacturers play lip service to, but little else, because you're scary obsessive compulsive nerds with wallets a little too thick who will buy someones card, regardless of the merits, no matter what they do anyway?
Only a complete and utter moron would base his philosophy on making sure others don't get what they want, rather than doing what they want to do themselves. There are a few good, mostly personal, reasons for someone to donate their time to a project like that, but yours is about the most petty and vain reason against doing it I've ever heard.
Yes Virginia, people can use free software for free. Even people you don't like. Imagine that.
What arbitrary restrictions? You have the ASM source code if you bought the game, why keep complaining?
(besides which, calling the fact that you don't have the source code and they do arbitrary is a little...wrong, isn't it? It's like saying that because I have the keys to my house and you don't, the fact that I can get into my locked house is an arbitrary distinction.
I'd say tenebrae is a step in the right direction, but to be honest, the doom source ports are far superior in terms of updating an old game with newer technology.
Why do so many men think like militant lesbians? I don't hear woman gamers complaining about how they're portrayed in games, when I hear one with a legitimate complaint, I'll take it seriously. Until then, this is just a bunch of pathetic men complaining about a demographic they likely have about as much contact with as any other part of the outside world. So far, I've seen documentary after article after essay written by nerdy men by the truckload, and not one word from an actual woman on the subject. Isn't that STRANGE? WIERD even? Perhaps they don't care. Perhaps they won't say anything until the pussy whipped men shut up. Perhaps they know better than to moan and complain about their portrayal in a game meant to be FUN. I don't know. All I DO know is that these articles are masturbatory at best, and frankly, the sort of thing only a game nerd could ever get away with getting paid to write.
I thought that was a synonym for "managing to travel to another country without REALIZING that you're in a different country".
Example: "WHAT!? WHY, BACK HOME I CAN BUY MYSELF A BIG OL' QUARTER POUNDER WITH CHEESE IN ANY RESTURAUNT, BUT YOU'RE TELLING ME I CAN'T GET ONE HERE?! AND WHAT'S WITH THIS MONOPOLY MONEY I GOTTA USE? CAN'T I PAY IN REGULAR MONEY?"
Best said(yelled) in a world famous resuraunt, renowned for it's refined culinary palette, possibly (but not nessessarily) in france.:)
If I recall correctly, Xerox PARC came up with the idea of using a graphical terminal and mouse, but they didn't really take the concept where it is today. They were very much concentrating on the use of a mouse and graphics terminal as an extention to the dumb terminal in use everywhere. To say that Xerox engineered Apples GUI would be like saying that Ford simply embraced and extended the automobile from horse and buggy manufacturers. There was a LOT of groundwork to be done before you could call it a GUI, except in the broadest sense that it was on a graphics screen, rather than a text one.
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Who in the what now?
I'd say defaming BASIC as you are, that you are either ignorant of modern BASIC dialects or are extraordinarily stubborn about Cs superiority to all things ever...
So......
:P
If it was a C interpeter instead of a BASIC interpeter, would you be saying the exact same thing? Probably moreso.
STATIC SUB drawall ()
SHARED bitmask%()
DIM memloc AS INTEGER
DIM leadsdown AS INTEGER
DIM EndRenderer AS INTEGER
maxpar% = pvpvary% MOD tilesize 'Watch this cool optimization.
PvPConst% = multby80(maxpar% - 1)
maxpar% = -maxpar 'Set one bit and add one, and you have one less MOD
'in the world. Cute, eh?
FOR yaya% = 0 TO 3
OUT &H3C5, bitmask%(yaya%)
FOR x% = RenderFirstX% TO RenderSecondX%
xx% = (MultByTileSize(x%)) + pvpvarx
IF xx% > -20 AND xx% 319 THEN EXIT FOR
IF (xx% AND 3) = yaya% THEN
IF xx% > -1 THEN
'One of the more consuming operations is taken care of by an array.
memloc = divby4(xx%) + PvPConst% 'This sets the pointer (HAH!)
FOR y% = RenderFirstY% TO RenderSecondY%
IF y% = RenderSecondY% THEN EndRenderer% = maxpar + 3 ELSE EndRenderer% = tilesize
IF EndRenderer% > 20 THEN EndRenderer% = 20
maptile% = map%(x%, y%)
FOR a% = 1 TO EndRenderer% 'uglier, but marginally faster.
memloc = memloc + 80
POKE memloc, sprite(a%, b%, mDsprites(maptile%).spriteplace)
NEXT a%
NEXT y%
END IF
b = b + 2
xx% = xx% + 2
END IF
b = b + 1
xx% = xx% + 1
WEND
END IF
NEXT x%
NEXT yaya
END SUB
AAAAAAH! MY EYES! YOU BASTARD!!! NOW I'LL NEVER PROGRAM AGAIN!!!
Quickbasic was the bigger brother. qbasic was v1.1 which shipped with Dos 5.0+. Quickbasic went on until it was renamed Professional Development System 7.0, then later Visual Basic for DOS 1.0. That was the last version made.
:P
http://www.qbxl.net/
I'm a monster, you see. That's how I know all this.
The next version of QB after PDS was called VBDOS 1.0. Pretty nice. 0/2/386 compilation, lots of nifty little automated things, like checking the date and time in a thousand different ways.
:)
I still play with basic quite often. I like it.
http://djrpg.sourceforge.net (!!!)
Hey, he managed the html. It's the slashdot he mixed up.
I was going to mention that later versions don't have that, but then I realized that later versions don't have line numbers either...well...not if you're half way competent. :)
You know, I'm starting to get the slightest bit annoyed at the "oh yeah, THAT'S original" trolls.
:P
I'm sorry, did the x-box shrink at some point? Did it stop having a library that consists of a handfull of original games and a bunch of year-old leftovers from the PS2? NO?
Then stop bitching when we make fun of it. Face facts, MS or not, the X-Box just isn't all it's hardware says it should be. Well, perhaps it's more PHYSICALLY than it should be, but...
Are you really that ignorant that you didn't notice that I also chose the leader of my own country as well? Are you that stupid? Can't you people just concede a point once in a while, that if that mostly illiterate man with no apparant skill in diplomacy, finance, war, leadership, and linquistics didn't happen to be "the other guy" in an election where the main democratic candidate came off like a moron in a two party system(gee...another rich white dude. Funny, that.), he never would have gotten himself into that chair?
Do the words "career politician" mean nothing to you?
...
"is falling"?
against Asia?
Did I miss something....like the part where american technology was more advanced?
Why not? It's too good for most of the "democratic" nations of the world, whose machinations are so entrenched in generations of nepotism that the chance of a truly great leader emerging is nearly nil. Instead, we gets folks like Bush Jr. who are in power because they've got freinds and family entrenched in high places, or Paul Martin in Canada, who got into politics because his father was there first.
yeah man, sign me up for some of that cyber-acid!!!
Just think of the wierd music that could be made when everyone gets cyber-stoned!
And yes, I do realize that it's meant as a joke. Unfortunately, comments like this make supporters of Microsoft alternatives look extremely childish and unprofessional.
:P
You'll have to point me to the rule that says that people have to act grown up and professional when they're not at work or paying bills.
2d in the context of 3d and 2d in the context of a desktop are two completely different beasts. For one thing, the former is distorted intentionally to increase image quality (remember DOOM? Remember blocks? Remember what some walls looked like at a distance, since they lacked mip-mapping?), and the latter depends explicitly on digital precision reproducing an image on the screen.
To be honest, 2d quality is a very relevant issue for 3d cards, since the quality of the image in 3d is directly related to the quality of the image in 2d, so if your desktop is bleeding colours all over the place, and the colours are all washed out, and there are blotches all over the place, and it's fuzzy, you can have the best anti-aliasing and texture filtering, and a trillion polys per character, and the resulting image will still look like crap. It all comes from the same video memory, right? The fact that 2d textures are used in 3d games is not the reason, however.
Your sources must be different from mine. I've never heard anything but good things about nforces in general. I used one myself in my main system, and it was a great, very fast system.
Because if you notice AA artefacts that vividly in real-time and they bother you that much that you'd constantly play a waiting game so you can get the biggest, baddest $600 video card on the block, you're probably the sort of person these manufacturers play lip service to, but little else, because you're scary obsessive compulsive nerds with wallets a little too thick who will buy someones card, regardless of the merits, no matter what they do anyway?
An OS based on an interpreted bytecode language! Was this moronic or what?
:)
Haven't you read about what the native API for longhorn is going to be?
It's a sad, sad day for all the little people who might give a damn.
Only a complete and utter moron would base his philosophy on making sure others don't get what they want, rather than doing what they want to do themselves. There are a few good, mostly personal, reasons for someone to donate their time to a project like that, but yours is about the most petty and vain reason against doing it I've ever heard.
Yes Virginia, people can use free software for free. Even people you don't like. Imagine that.
What arbitrary restrictions? You have the ASM source code if you bought the game, why keep complaining?
(besides which, calling the fact that you don't have the source code and they do arbitrary is a little...wrong, isn't it? It's like saying that because I have the keys to my house and you don't, the fact that I can get into my locked house is an arbitrary distinction.
Doom Legacy? NO! Jdoom! :D
:)
Polygonal enemies just cinch it for me.
I'd say tenebrae is a step in the right direction, but to be honest, the doom source ports are far superior in terms of updating an old game with newer technology.
I deal with americans all the time. You have no idea how bad they can be. It's sad.
Sadly, game developers and writers of vision still dictate content with an iron fist.
CURSE THOSE MEN AND WOMEN OF VISION! CURSE THEM!!!
Why do so many men think like militant lesbians? I don't hear woman gamers complaining about how they're portrayed in games, when I hear one with a legitimate complaint, I'll take it seriously. Until then, this is just a bunch of pathetic men complaining about a demographic they likely have about as much contact with as any other part of the outside world. So far, I've seen documentary after article after essay written by nerdy men by the truckload, and not one word from an actual woman on the subject. Isn't that STRANGE? WIERD even? Perhaps they don't care. Perhaps they won't say anything until the pussy whipped men shut up. Perhaps they know better than to moan and complain about their portrayal in a game meant to be FUN. I don't know. All I DO know is that these articles are masturbatory at best, and frankly, the sort of thing only a game nerd could ever get away with getting paid to write.
I thought that was a synonym for "managing to travel to another country without REALIZING that you're in a different country".
:)
Example: "WHAT!? WHY, BACK HOME I CAN BUY MYSELF A BIG OL' QUARTER POUNDER WITH CHEESE IN ANY RESTURAUNT, BUT YOU'RE TELLING ME I CAN'T GET ONE HERE?! AND WHAT'S WITH THIS MONOPOLY MONEY I GOTTA USE? CAN'T I PAY IN REGULAR MONEY?"
Best said(yelled) in a world famous resuraunt, renowned for it's refined culinary palette, possibly (but not nessessarily) in france.
If I recall correctly, Xerox PARC came up with the idea of using a graphical terminal and mouse, but they didn't really take the concept where it is today. They were very much concentrating on the use of a mouse and graphics terminal as an extention to the dumb terminal in use everywhere. To say that Xerox engineered Apples GUI would be like saying that Ford simply embraced and extended the automobile from horse and buggy manufacturers. There was a LOT of groundwork to be done before you could call it a GUI, except in the broadest sense that it was on a graphics screen, rather than a text one.