Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Internet type people..erased...

Author
Message
Kanzure
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Feb 2003
Location:
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 02:26
Link
There are many types of people in the world, but few types of INTERNET people.

What I mean by Internet people, is the background the person grew up in from the start to the end. I feel that the more and more AOL comes out and stuff, the more Internet Type people are erased. When I was a newbie, back in 01, I was happy and all on the GameShark Discussion Board..and they had people that were smarter then even me at this point, that had good game hacking skillz with the hex edtior and all w/ modifiyed gameboy roms and such....I grew up on their, but the more and more I go to diffrent forums the more I find that few are like that anymore...Its really sad and all, because "Internet People" would be great to have around these days...(well, hey.nu is the only place I know with em besides Azure Heights (search for it lol))...

Where did you grow up in/on? I'm a pure GameSharkie and proud of it, except now the GS boards are like AOL heaven for n00bs that have no clue what they are doing
~Morph/Kanzure
CodeNation
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Rob K
Retired Moderator
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Sep 2002
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 02:32
Link
I was frustrated at the lack of programs to do certain tasks, so I learned how to program in Delphi and later VB. As I got stuck with problems I couldn't solve, I used the internet to read forums and so on.

I then went on to host a Nintendo emulation website, which hosted and allowed users to discuss N64 / Gameboy emulation. I also had about 50 N64 games and > 100 Gameboy games hosted. As many pros left the N64 arena fed up with the lack of fresh talent in the emulation coding field, I left.

Then a friend introduced me to DB...
a year later I got DBP


BLUE GUI Plugin: http://blue.robert-knight.net
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
MikeS
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Dec 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 02:43
Link
One day I had one of those spring of the moment "I wanna make a game", type thing. I searched google, and on about the second page, I saw dark basic classic.Then I went to the forums, and asked about it.

In fact, I have my first post saved on word somewhere, lol.This is because these forums are so great and helpful, and this is where I'm growing up now.



Yellow:Wanna publish my game microsoft, cuz i no u rich so...Can I have my bag of money now?
Microsoft: *snicker* Tip of the month-Microsoft will never(probebly) publish your game.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Kanzure
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Feb 2003
Location:
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 03:28
Link
Heh...my "home" has been domolished, so its a major bummer. The board I knew had ppl that posted *REAL* posts not those 4 sentance thing..It was very impressive too There were real people helping out idiots with like 4 paragraph posts each o_O..who has time for that?

~Morph/Kanzure
CodeNation
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
MikeS
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Dec 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 03:51
Link
Yea, it's almost sad, but I spend at least 2 hours a day looking through these forums. Though I wouldn't say it's sad, because I learn a lot from them, and occasionally, I can help some people out. Although, anymore I try to avoid the newcomer's section because of the huge flood of newcomers since June 1st-->July 20th.I still enjoy these forums, and even one I move onto other programming languages, I think I'll still stick around these forums for a little while.



Yellow:Wanna publish my game microsoft, cuz i no u rich so...Can I have my bag of money now?
Microsoft: *snicker* Tip of the month-Microsoft will never(probebly) publish your game.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Kanzure
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 19th Feb 2003
Location:
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 03:54
Link
Yep, same with me - I've moved on from DB mostly cept for 3D games if any, and for others I'm doing C/C++...

~Morph/Kanzure
CodeNation
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Mattman
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Jun 2003
Location: East Lansing
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 03:57
Link
I grew up here. My dad does computer stuff, and so i have been brought up around computers. I have wanted to learn games for a long time, and i wanted to learn C++. You can guess what happened. I read a tid-bit about BASIC (pure) in a internet history book i read (Nerds 2.1.0). I then learned about it off dev sites and there was stuff about other BASIC languages when i saw this on db:

Dark Basic:
Used to create up-to-date 3D windows games

I then found it's web site and fell in love with it!

---Mattman
DID YOU KNOW THAT ???
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
MikeS
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd Dec 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 21st Jul 2003 04:02
Link
(this is more of an avatar test, and I'm trying to make this post useful.)

Heheh, yea, I've been growing up with computers for a long time now.
I'm finally starting to learn some C++,VB6, and the other big languages. It's a lot of work, but I think I'll make my applications (editors,etc.)in C++, and the actual games in DBP.Well, that's my plan for now at least.



Yellow:Wanna publish my game microsoft, cuz i no u rich so...Can I have my bag of money now?
Microsoft: *snicker* Tip of the month-Microsoft will never(probebly) publish your game.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-11-23 11:40:51
Your offset time is: 2024-11-23 11:40:51