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Geek Culture / Old Timers - been around since the release of DBC? Drop in and say hi...

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Orgull V2
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:16
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Hi there.

Although this is a fairly new forum account I was around back when DB got started. I miss some of the oldbies, I was wondering if some of you have new names. I used to be just "Orgull". I see indi is still around, what about Magellan, MattMan, crap I can't remember any more names right now, I must be getting old.

Anyone been around since the beginning want to say hello?
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Cian Rice
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:34
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Mattman is still here, he's just grounded alot, Magellan is now "Peter H"

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Dazzag
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Alright. I started in July 2000 if I remember correctly. Indi started either the week before or after me, so you may remember me too! Saying that I have a memory like a fish, so I have no memory of you. Sorry

I was the bloke who liked to go on about Codez BTW. You know 1243523533B is a small green tank. Not to be mistaken for the medium green tank (134553353C). Although it can use 180 degrees of movement on the gun. etc. I used to drink more then....

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Killswitch
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:37
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I joined in 2001 - this too is an old account. Still like it here.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:38
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I started sometime between 2000 and 2001, I was never very active on the forums though.

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Orgull V2
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:42
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Dazzag! I remember you... good to hear from you again.

Thank you Anime blood for the info on Mattman and Peter H.

Hello to all the rest.
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Van B
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:46
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I think I caught on at about DBC 1.6 - when you had a 500 save limit on the trial - lasted ages before I finally managed to order a copy.

There's actually more oldbies still around than I thought there would be a couple of years ago, in the space of a few months a lot of old faces disapeared.


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Dazzag
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:48
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Hmmm. Did you leave a *long* time ago? Name seems to ring a bell... did you have website at the time? Basically I noted down all the ones listed and bunged the links on my website. Unfortuantly I update my website about once a millenium these days (loads of work....) so will still be there too.

So what have you been upto? Personally I totally dropped out of the scene when work exploded after 911 (travel industry and IT), and had no time for anything but work. Kept up with DBC for a bit after that, but gave up waiting for DBP. Bought DBP on the day of release, but never used it (apart from writing some VB DLLs for Hubdule's stuff) properly. Must get back to it....... Went back to the forums just for yapping though. I like the community...

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Ian T
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:48
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I joined the community in very late '99 and became an active member around 2000. Magellan's still around here. Mattman, unless I'm remembering wrong, has only been around for a year or so.

Some oldbies still visit, some don't. As nice as this community is, I miss a lot of the old regulars .

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David T
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:49
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Mattman? Oldbie? No! Surely not.

I remember when he was new, he annoyed the hell out of us

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Dazzag
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Quote: "I joined the community in very late '99 and became an active member around 2000."
Yeah, I was the same. I was into DIV at the time, and basically owned DB, but didn't want to use the forum because I was happy with DIV's (and I didn't want to be spotted as a DB traitor, as I like to use "dazzag"). Then totally converted and left DIV in the dust. Made my first post on their forum in like 3 years the other day. They are seriously bitter now waiting for DIV-DX (works in windows XP). They get like a proper update of the worklog around once every 3 months now. Hell, I was waiting for a non 9X DIV back in 2001.

Heh, I remember my first post was a question on how to roll a ball convincingly. Dr Av gave me the code for that one. Except one line was cunningly wrong I found out, and I had to fix it. I reckon it was to make sure I wouldn't just copy it, and had to understand it at least a bit. His game was also a ball game (like Marble madness). The demo was pretty good. Haven't seen him in a while though (Blitz - Which I own too, but never really got into).

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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 04:56 Edited at: 18th Sep 2004 04:57
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I joined some forums under a diferent name back when dbc 1.08 was out and dbc 1.13 had popped up. I didnt really get too much into db then and wasnt on the forums much at all - then when pro came along I joined these forums and became the menace I am today my screen name back then was Tek4_DB. I dont remember having any fights with anyone except Guy Savoie briefly. Lol, oh well.


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Orgull V2
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 05:01 Edited at: 18th Sep 2004 05:03
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Yes Dazzag, I left about the time DBPro came out, ages ago... I got tired of trying to build my world editor with primitives, and there was no .bps loading or anything. Man I remember before there were static objects and I had to keep my objects down to 20 or less in view at any given time. Those were the days.

I had a website "fuhringerstudios.com" but I let it die. I was big on a technique I wrote some tutorials on called "forced timing", seems in the intervening years everyone has adopted it for their own, which pleases me greatly. I was also big on complaining about people posting every second post about how DB couldn't make a commercially viable product.

I think things have really improved while I was gone IMHO.

Wow, I remember Guy Savoie... is he still around and the same as ever?
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Ian T
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 05:20 Edited at: 18th Sep 2004 05:20
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Unfortunatly, no he's not. He started Real Game Tools as the American distributor for DBP, but something went wrong about a year down the line; the company folded and he left the community. I hope he's doing alright.

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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 05:29
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I started back in '99.

It's good to see some of the old oldbies

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David T
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 05:30
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I first heard abotu DB from a DIV newsletter. I remember the feature now.

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 07:38
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I started, in 2000, I think 2000ish, probably wasn't around but welcome back anyway.

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TravisP
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 07:48
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I joined round 2002 became active member like 3 months ago



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Neofish
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 07:51
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i joined in (look at the date ) but i think i had the DBC demo a long time ago (uh.... the one on PCGamer)

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 07:52 Edited at: 18th Sep 2004 07:55
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Wow, hey I joined last year wadda ya know.

I guess I was never too noobish, considering DB was the fourth(but I forgot most of the other ones)programming language I learnt. So I guess I'm a medy(old medy)

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Neofish
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i guess im a new medy as i know one language well, learning 3/4 more and i dont ask n00bish questions because i learnt a LONG time ago

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Peter H
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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 08:05
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wait..see my join date? that's really when i joined...

i've heard some about this "magellan" but only after i had named myself "magellan Studios"...

so i changed to Peter...H(plain peter was taken up...)

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Dazzag
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Quote: "I wrote some tutorials on called "forced timing""
Rings a bell... I always used to go on about split screen coding quite a bit if I remember rightly, plus fast collision detection routines. Those were the days. Oh, and good old md2 and quake 3 level loading (long winded methods I seem to recall). Good times..... must find some extra time....

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Cian Rice
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What happened to Zenassam, twas a good guy but disappeared about a month ago. He would've made a nice mod, but he wasn't around dunring that post.

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Ive been wondering that too, about Zenassem. We are near to releasing DarkTOPIA, and it was his thread which started the whole thing.


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Cian Rice
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Twas, was he part of the development team or did he just come up with the idea?

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indi
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hi mate ltns

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Orgull V2
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Hi Peter H! Good to hear from you again.

BTW where is Zenassem? Is he okay? I've been reading his tutorials on 2D religiously, and he seems to have dropped off in mid-sentence. I hope he's okay. Does anyone know how to contact him?
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Orgull V2
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INDI!!!

Good to hear from you again. I love what you've done with your site. Do you really have time for all that custom work you're offering? How are you doing these days?
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Kevin Picone
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I'm still here. Joined just after Dbc 0.6 came out..

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Quote: "Hi Peter H! Good to hear from you again."


Yeah, uhh... did you actually read his post? He's a different Magellan to the one you were thinking of.


I got into DB when the demo was featured on the June 2001 demo CD of PC Active, I never joined the forums though because back then I didn't even know what a Forum was. lol.


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I am old timer. I joined db forums since the DarkBasic Professional patch 5.6 came out. And I joined these forums on Friday September 17,2004
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Quote: "Joined: Fri Oct 18th 2002"

Quote: "I joined these forums on Friday September 17,2004"


Okay, now I'm confused


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lol

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August 20th, 2000 - Started with DarkBASIC (v1.06 I believe)

April 2002 - Started with Visual Basic

September 2003 - Started with C (and a little C++)

July 2004 - Started with DarkBASIC Pro

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I've been using DarkBASIC ever since that PCGamer demo, years ago. I joined the forums like, a few months ago though. Anywho, that was a good issue of PCG. Lemme see if I can find the demo...

Nope, its gone. Oh well

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Manticore Night
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I got DBC demo from a CD that came with a book, on game design, trying to keep coding skills up to par, apparently it had NO code in it, in any language. Good read tho.

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I been here since before the old black forums style, before Rich joined TGC and before 1.3
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medwayman
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I found db late 99/early 2000 not sure the exact time. I think it was the first time db made it onto a magazine cover disk because it didn’t get a mention on the disks listing, and only had a tiny text box in the mag.

Made my first post as _Zippy_ sometime in 2000 and have had numerous names since. Never liked any of them lol. Never really got to know anyone on the boards as I don’t post that much, but I’m an old fart all the same.

Hello if you know me

Edit: Hello if you don't

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I was "here" (in the DB world) during the disapearing forum thing that got me using the American forums when DB didn`t maintain theirs and shut it down for ages, I was Hobbyman back then, but I have been Mentor for ages (had a brief spell as Digitus Maximus when I was feeling like a change but it was too much typing )

Mentor.

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Mnemonix
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I first started using DBC in April 2002, i didnt know there was a forum, until i found out about DBP. I joined the forums the same day i ordered DBP, December 2nd, 2002 .

The 3d chat is coming...
In the meantime, come in the IRC. Ask me for details!!.
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Mattman
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I'm still here! I'm kind of an oldbie I guess. I came around when DBP patch 2 or 3 was out I think. I don't seem to remember you though...

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I started with DBC around October 2002, joined forums when I got DBPro


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Wow time flies. If I remember correctly I bought DBC in the summer of sixty nine... erm I mean 2000. Version 1.06, I think. I wasn't a very active forum member back then, though.

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Orgull V2
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Hello all.

Sorry about misunderstanding your post Peter H, I was tired, just got home from work. Didn't read it clearly. Oops.
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I joined the DB forum about December 2001. I have a DB file with Oct 2001 as the creation date, so that seems about right.

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I've been here since DBP patch 2 or 3. Joined the same day as Mnem.
Quote: "Mon Dec 2nd 2002"


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dark coder
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well ive been here since around 2001, so i guess that qualifies me as an oldbie


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Peter H
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@orgull-...lol...that's why i changed my name...i didn't want to be confused with someone else...

also soon i will use my brother's logo "Hellmuth Arts" he is in california at Biola(artsy college) studing...well i guess you could call it a "film" major though i forgot the real name...he's made several movies for local film festavels(sic) and ...ect ...ect

so soon i will have nothing to do with the word Magellan...then no more confusion

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I suggest an oldbie revolution! We kick out all the mods (even if they are oldbies) and set up our own OAP Programmer government thingy. Yeah! Who's with me!

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