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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 11th Dec 2018 17:20
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Quote: "Oops, then that makes at least three. I was referring to someone else."


I doubt it, my alter ego has an an even greater sense of mischief than I do.
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gamerboots
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Present Been a while but definitely looking forward to doing at least one project this next year.
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Jeku
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Posted: 17th Dec 2018 23:08
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Quote: "Jeku, you want first dibs?"


ROFL, tempting... hmmmmm.....

Quote: "That's excellent to hear."


Long time no see... I remember using that ban hammer on you a few times
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Posted: 25th Jan 2019 16:19
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I'm still around too, someone hide Jeku's ban hammer!!!
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Wolf
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Posted: 25th Jan 2019 16:34
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I check about every month or so.
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xplosys
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Posted: 25th Jan 2019 22:24
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Most of you seem familiar to me. If I could only remember who I am!
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Lukas W
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Posted: 26th Jan 2019 21:00
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Sometimes I lurk these parts of the internet too. A member for half of my life now
IS that a game, a program, or 3 year old drawing.
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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 30th Jan 2019 04:35
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How is this forum still around?
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AutoBot
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Posted: 30th Jan 2019 19:28
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The memories are real right now. I remember quite a few of you!

Apparently I'm still around too! lol
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 31st Jan 2019 19:39
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It seems that we have no life.
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Scraggle
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Posted: 1st Feb 2019 12:09
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Hey!
I'm still here too.
Although "Scraggle" the original one whose name I stole passed away over 10 years ago.

I'm also in the "one year to 50" club.
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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2019 20:25
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Quote: "I'm also in the "one year to 50" club."


Wish I was.
Green Gandalf of the TGC forums aka Scorpius of the Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox forums.
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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 4th Feb 2019 15:54
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making me feel young..

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ababagalamaga
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Posted: 5th Feb 2019 00:11
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Moreover, new people appear here (I, for example!) Hello!
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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 5th Feb 2019 10:17 Edited at: 5th Feb 2019 10:18
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Hi ababagalamaga,

Welcome to the forums. Hope you find it as rewarding as the rest of us have. This forum is often my first port of call whenever I have an awkward error on my PC. There’s usually someone who can help . It’s also an interesting place to investigate or to just browse generally for ideas and inspiration as well as being inhabited by loads of helpful people.
Green Gandalf of the TGC forums aka Scorpius of the Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox forums.
Shader developer for Evochron Legacy produced by StarWraith 3D Games.
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ababagalamaga
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Posted: 5th Feb 2019 13:17
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Very happy to hear that! I hope to find here friends and the pleasure of communication!
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Dazzag
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Posted: 14th Feb 2019 17:27
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Quote: "Hi Dazzag! Were you in Cyprus at one time? Edit: I see you still are ... "

Oops. Sorry, didn't see your reply at the time (this is my every 6 months or so check in). These days too used to forums sending an Email about replies. Does this forum these days do this?

Anyway, yep still in Cyprus. Apart from a few years back in the UK (girlfriend, now wife, wasn't ready to move to Cyprus) I've racked up about 9 years out here. Got to love the weather!

Thanks for the link to the codez! Ah, those were the days. I'd give anything for those times, when trolls were rare and just cheeky posts....

Cheers
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Hodgey
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Posted: 15th Feb 2019 19:28
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Been ages since I've visited. Warms my heart to see the old crew still around and of course plenty of new avatars (faces) too. Looks like the forum's had a few updates. When did the mod badge change from gold to blue?
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iindii
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Hello again. I see some new names keeping the fort tidy.
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camW00dS
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Posted: 14th Mar 2019 13:34
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I've just joined

Is it still alive?
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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 18th Mar 2019 16:38
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Quote: "I've just joined

Is it still alive?"


It certainly is. Welcome to the forums .
Green Gandalf of the TGC forums aka Scorpius of the Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox forums.
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Alucard94
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Posted: 30th Mar 2019 04:51 Edited at: 30th Mar 2019 04:52
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Holy crap, I still have this site bookmarked. Man I haven't been on here in years.
I actually remember a bunch of the names in this thread, damn. What's up people?
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Kohaku
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Posted: 9th Apr 2019 13:23
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It is a bit quieter eh? I think the recent(ish) activity by TGC on Steam specifically has me visiting the site after nearly a decade long hiatus.

Mostly lurking though. This is my second post in several years.
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Crazy Programmer
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Posted: 10th Apr 2019 17:10
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Nobody can leave the forum, its a trap set by Rick and the team.
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 18th Apr 2019 21:36
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I thought I found a way out once but it just turned out to be gas.
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Blobby 101
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Posted: 25th Jun 2019 15:32
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Some names here I haven't seen in a long time... What're the odds on tha_rami making an appearance now he's famous?
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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Jun 2019 03:10
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I'm still around. Don't have much time these days for game programming, I work in coldfusion now.
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JLMoondog
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Posted: 26th Jun 2019 19:49 Edited at: 26th Jun 2019 19:53
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I've been here nearly 15 years(though technically nearly 20 if you count the grey forums)! ...though my badge says 10, not sure why. I miss the grey forums, when I was super young and naive about game development.
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LBFN
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Posted: 28th Jun 2019 03:04
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Blobby 101
Quote: "What're the odds on tha_rami making an appearance now he's famous? "


What is tha_rami up to these days? We worked on a game together back in the day.



So many games to code.....so little time.
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Blobby 101
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Posted: 28th Jun 2019 23:11
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Quote: "What is tha_rami up to these days? We worked on a game together back in the day."

Became a bit of an indie game celebrity. Co-founded Vlambeer and made some well received games (Ridiculous Fishing, Nuclear Throne), and more recently he's become quite well known as a regular speaker at conferences and things.
Wonder how many other TGC alums have made good? Reckon we could get a blue plaque put up.
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fubarpk
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2019 18:34
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Im still here

Started with DBPRO
Then evolved to DarkGDK
and now finally AGK
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Rudolpho
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Posted: 19th Jul 2019 11:05
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I peek in once in a while when I get too nostalgic about the days of eld when things were simpler and one could still dream up interesting game and tool ideas

Nice to see some familiar names on this now mostly dead forum though!

My projects: [ Ziggurat Engine ] [ DBPro 9Ex ] [ ZInput ]
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Phaelax
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Posted: 19th Jul 2019 22:55
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I just realized this is my 20th year anniversary since I started using DB.
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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2019 09:22 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2019 09:23
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I'm still here since 2005, started way back early 80s using the Vic-20 (aged 12), BBC micro +, Amiga 500+ doing basic, assembly. Am now 50, blimey how time flies. Doesn't seem that long ago we were all huddling around our hand held bulky space invader games at school.
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flashing snall
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I come and check every once in awhile, but my life is so different now. I miss all the dumb stuff I used to post here. I just went on a trip realizing FPSC is open sourced and free. My brain exploded with nostalgia just now when I built a little level and went around blasting that spikey scifi head guy
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Conjured Entertainment
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Posted: 1st Sep 2019 23:26
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I'm still here too.

Pretty much what flashing snall said, and like Bored of the Rings, I started out on a Vic-20 too.
So, I have always loved Dark Basic (classic and pro), and BASIC is why I love AppGameKit too!

Coding things my way since 1981 -- Currently using AppGameKit V2 Tier 1
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Phaelax
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This forum is no where near as lively as it once was.
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Dynamo
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Figured I'd poke my head in here. Was mostly active on the old official forums and a few of the other communities that seem to be long gone. I haven't done any game development since I became a professional programmer, sadly. I've been getting the itch lately though. Hello to anyone that might remember me.
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Phaelax
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I know the feeling. When you sit at work all day writing code (mostly fixing old code some idiot wrote), you don't feel like doing it at home.
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xilith117
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I'm still here. Its crazy to think that it has been a decade.
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I don’t know how much longer this forum is going to be kept online, but, it would be a good idea to submit your favorite threads to the wayback machine so they can live on even after the forums get shutdown -> https://archive.org/web
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xilith117
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That is a really good idea.
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Les Horribres
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Just had to find Da Codez again

It's the small things that get you.

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TheComet
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Posted: 17th Feb 2020 18:41 Edited at: 17th Feb 2020 18:43
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Some of these names look familiar. @LBFN, @GG, @Jeku etc. how're you all holding up?

Haven't looked at this website in probably 2 years. I am looking at it now though, because I started working on an open source and cross-platform reimplementation of the DarkBASIC language and I've basically forgotten everything about DarkBASIC and its gloriously horrible syntax.
https://github.com/thecomet/opendarkbasic

In testing my parser I've stumbled across more than a few curious "features" of DBP. For example:


This compiles and prints 42. That makes no sense.

In DBC, this will print "2":


These days I'm mostly active on Discord, so feel free to hit me up if you want to chat. TheComet#5387
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Phaelax
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I'm curious to know why 0 evaluates true in your DBP example. The DBC example, though odd, does make sense when you think about how it assigns memory registers and what not. I don't think classic attempted any sort of validation on what was to the left of the equal sign. It saw a 1 and placed 2 at 1's position in memory.
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Yeah in the DBC case the interpreter creates a new variable called "1" and assigns it the value of 2.

Quote: "I'm curious to know why 0 evaluates true in your DBP example"


It doesn't. It turns out that DBP doesn't care where you put global declarations. The very existence of them, even if the code is unreachable, causes the compiler to define them anyway. This also works for example:



I haven't tried this but I'm assuming it would also print 42:



[EDIT] It does.
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It's been so long since I visited. I remember when I was here every day and all the people and trying to make games were an important part of my life.

Seeing the old names and avatars is all very nostalgic.

I had some great times here.
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lagmaster
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good to see this forum still going
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The Nerd
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Still lurk from time to time! Though haven't logged in in ages.

I can't believe the forum emoticons are still the same!

Started out with DarkBasic Classic back when I was about 12. I'm a professional software engineer today. DarkBasic and this community had a huge impact / influence on me.

Funny to see all the old names!
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BMacZero
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Virtual Nomad just followed me on itch.io, so I thought to check back here! I see lots of familiar names still checking in recently, which is amazing. I still make lots of games, I work at a professional studio and I also made some mildly successful indie games. It all started here, so it's all of your faults, haha! Thanks! I mostly use Unity now, though.

I saw tha_rami once at GDC a few years back but I didn't have a chance to actually flag him down and talk to him.

I published a game!
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