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Neotron
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 11:53
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Hi guys , again thanks for replying my previous posts.

o.k. the reason i put this post is to know how the other great programmers do programming.I have seen lots of people making a very good code.

Ok if anyone wants to keep their personal lives away then ok don't write the ages its okay.

My entry , i am started in game making thing when i was 13. but was getting dizzy and switched to blitz. any way when i programe in this wonder full language i make scrambled codes like in the room demo.

Again thanks for replies


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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 15:16 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2010 15:17
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Is this like AA for coders?

Hi my name is baxslash (really) and I'm a coder...
I suppose it all started when I was about 8 years old and my Dad (deceased) got a ZX81. He was a programmer and taught me the basics (no pun intended). Then I moved onto the Spectrum and after a few years on that I got bored and distracted by other things (school, girls, blacksmithing) until only a few years ago when I got back into programming via CAD. Starting with LISP on AutoCAD and eventually into C# working for a CAD development company.

I'm addicted now and there's no hope of escaping the destiny my Father set me on the road towards

There, I feel like I just let go of some real anxiety and personal demons...

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 15:27
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Hi my name is TheComet, but you can call me TheComet. I started programming when my dad bought me DBC 4 years ago. My dad had no idea what DBC was, so I had to learn it all by myself using help files and such. After 2 years I bought DBP, and have been using it ever since.

Thank you for listening.

TheComet

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Hi, my name is Hawkblood.... (wait for the "hi, Hawkblood")...
I was born in one of the great dark ages of man-- the 70's. We didn't have PC's then, so life sucked and everyone ate dirt. The 80's were a little better, because around 1985, I got my first computer. It was a Tandy 1000-- 8088 processor, 4.77MHz, and a monochrome monitor. Ahhh, those were the days.... But I came to a quick and devistating realization-- my dad didn't buy any games!!! I was shocked and appauled. A friend of my dad's, who was a programmer, came by to set up our computer and showed me a bouncing ball program in basic. I took a "hit off that" and I've been addicted ever since. I quickly found that basic didn't give me the high I was wanting so I went to harder and harder stuff to get my fix. I expanded my addiction first with Assembly and a few years later, I got into C++. C++ gave me a little high, but when I found that you can cut it with DirectX, I started tweaking on that. Several years went by and I was fine with what I had-- C++/DX9.0c, but then Window's 7 came out and my Visual Studios C++ didn't work with DX the way I came to love it.... So, I started looking for something else to get my fix off of. I began searching the bad part of the internet. I found myself beaten, bloody, and starving in a gutter, I looked up to see a sign from the Good Lord himself-- TGC's Dark Basic Pro!!!!

My name is Hawkblood, and I'm a programmer.

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Mobiius
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@Hawkblood: Priceless! Oscar performance!

Hello, they call me Mobiius, and when I'm not wasted drunk, I code. Started with BBC Basic, QBasic, then moved onto C/C++ at school. Naturally I excelled at everything I tried. (I dabbled with COBOL too, but it's like doing a fat bird. You'd do it if you have to, but not by choice) So I moved onto Java and visual basic whilst at uni. Then one (rare, sober) day, I happened upon a copy of DBC in an electronics boutique store in about the year 2000 and that's where I reached a state of programming Zen calmness. (Until DBP came out, when I got even zenner calm!)

I'm a PC and windows 7 was my idea.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 17:31
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There are some... who call me... Tim! oops, wrong movie

I started some extraordinarily basic (and embarrassing) stuff using AMOS. Graduated to the dizzy heights of ADA and FORTRAN in university, then pretty much ignored programming until someone (can't remember who) pointed me at DBC and DBP.

One day i will actually finish a project rather than just finishing off a few functions at a time

This is not the Sig you are looking for....
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David Gervais
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 17:54 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2010 17:56
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My name is self evident, I like to program sequentially from the start to the end and building functions as needed along the way.. the problem with this technique is at about 72% completion I have a playable game and then dev slows down because I have too much fun playing the dang thing LOL

In all seriousness, every programmer has his own way of doing things, some like to handle any I/O functions first, some work out the game mechanics and logic first, others are only interested in using the most complicated algorithms to confound and confuse anyone who happens to look at their source code. the whole 1=0 or 0=1 thing is enough to confuse me. (when I count to 10 I count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.) Getting my brain to accept 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 as the proper way to count to 10 is beyond any logical reasoning in my brain, so it short circuits.

Anyways, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Cheers!

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Van B
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 18:20
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Scrambled code is my forte, although I'm trying to be 'good' since I started using C++ as well. I started so long ago now that it's rediculous, C16, ZX81 - but I really got into it once I learned how to spell. Back then, games were very expensive, no budget ranges - but more casual games would be printed as code listings in magazines, and a pro-coder neighbor (Roy Carnell, geek royalty and all round good bloke) wrote an awesome book 'Spectrum Adventures' which taught me a whole lot. It was like a big tutorial that ended with a pretty great little RPG adventure game, weapons, different monsters, big game map. It was actually better than his commercial games. I dabbled a lot on the AtariST, made lots of mini-games, then VB on the PC until I found bedroom coder heaven in DBClassic, then DBPro. Written about a dozen games, sometimes collaborating with an artist to save my own sanity. Now, after almost 30 years I might make some money with my codes, latest game is one of the featured titles on Intels Netbook app store, when it eventually takes off properly.


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The Slayer
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Hi, my name is The Slayer (...yeah, as in Slayer) so be aware, cuz' I'll slay you with my guitarriffs.

To me it all began about 25 years ago (or something like that) when my dad bought a second hand computer...a commodore 64 (with floppy disks) and lots of games and little programs. Man, I was hooked! So, I bought several books for the commodore 64 to learn how to program in Basic. The computer also had a cartridge plugged into it, which allowed to program in assembly and machinecode. So, I could literally read the code of the games on those floppy disks. Of course, some of them you could only see the assembly or the machinecode, but others were in basic (which was a lot easier to read and change).
But at that time, the computers started to change faster and faster, so to move on, I bought my first computer with Windows 95. To satisfy my thirst in programming, I bought DBC and Visual Basic. I tried several other languages (Visual C, Visual C++, HTML,...)
But now, since a few months, I started in DBPro, and that wonderfull feeling that I had 25 years ago when making games, has returned, and it feels awesome!

Slayer rules!!! Yeaaah, man!
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 22:40
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Hello World,

They Call me =PRoF=, short for The Mad Professor;

I taught myself to program with a pad, a pen and a book on ZX Spectrum Basic I had borrowed from the library. I'd have been about 9 mayb.

Had some stuff published once in the 90's on a Commodore Amiga (Using AMOS)

I'm currently trying to learn c#, but I feel that after 25 years of Coding in Basic, I may just have to stick to DBP

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Neotron
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 22:42
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Hi again,

Wow you guys are like The Master Programmers while i am just 16.

Any way the main question still remains is that how do you all guys think when you programe.

I think step by step and completely through logics but still i get lots of logical errors.

Thanks again for the time.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2010 23:27
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This just seems like spam to me.


"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" ~ Arthur C. Clarke
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Matty H
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Hi, my name is Matty.
I see lots of people started out in the 80's, I did too. It seems that was some sort of golden era for home programming. Those computers had the option to program right there out of the box and I wonder if there are as many young people taking up programming today?

Anyway, I started on the zx spectrum and then had a massive break of about 12 years lol. Anyway, I'm back, learning C++ mostly through DarkGDK. I do Java as part of my degree in the Open University.

My first game is nearly complete "Hot Goblins" and I hope to get it up on the intel appup store soon, wish me luck

fulcrum physics - free collision/physics plug-in for DarkGDK
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Phaelax
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Quote: "Those computers had the option to program right there out of the box and I wonder if there are as many young people taking up programming today?"


While there are definitely more options for new programmers today, you don't get QBasic bundled with Windows anymore, which is where my interest first peaked (other than building games with SEUCK on Amiga)


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Neotron
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First of all Phaelax i don't know how to programe a virus nor a spam

Second my posts goes for confirmation in order to be posted

And Third most important is that i asked how do you guys think while programming and i apolagies if i was not straight forward.

thanks again.

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Hawkblood
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@ Neotron:
I first think of what I want the program to do and then what it will look like. From there, I think of how to make my program do those things.....
I just now noticed that you are a new member. Is there a specific question about the programming approach/method?

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I got started programming when my parents bought me my first computer, a Commodore 64 with no disk drive. It came with a 500 page book of "games and apps" that it could run. If I wanted to to play pong on my C64, I had to type the code for it:

10 cls
20 goto 40
30 ...

One mistake and you had to start over. Man I hated that thing

Quote: "And Third most important is that i asked how do you guys think while programming and i apolagies if i was not straight forward."


My code is much like my desk, controlled chaos until it looks and performs like I want it, and then I clean it up until it looks presentable to the public. I rarely use gosubs, never use goto, and my last project was a simple card game which had 421 functions.

Before I even started working on my first game I started a set of Libraries to help myself later down the road. I have 56 different library DBA files each with their own specific task; one for keyboard and mouse input, one for networking, one for adding a console, etc. When I start a new project, I include several Libraries into my project and most of the hard work is already done.

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2010 05:05
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Quote: "And Third most important is that i asked how do you guys think while programming and i apolagies if i was not straight forward."


I can use one word to describe how I think when I program... logical. As Founder, President, and #1 Member of The Anti-Goto Order I never use GOTO or GOSUB in my own programs anymore.

My code is usually laid out like this:

Setup Screen Mode and Sync Rate
UDTs
DIMs
Variables
Main Program Loop
Functions

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Rich Dersheimer
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You know my name already. My first programming experience was with punchcards, in high school, early 70's. In college, I moved up to PDP 11's hooked to a DEC 10 mainframe. At home, I had a Radio Shack Color Computer to start with. Programmed it with BASIC and assembly language - 6809E. Moved up from there through various BASIC's, LOGO, various C's, HTML, Javascript, etc.

Hey, Google "Rich Dersheimer" and you'll see some of the stuff I was working on over the years!

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Quote: "First of all Phaelax i don't know how to programe a virus nor a spam
"

Spam isn't necessarily something doled out by a computer... if, for example, I posted 20 messages saying "spam", that would be spam. Spam is basically any purposeless message that takes up space. Really that was my first impression, 'cuz your english isn't great, but people are posting interesting stuff so I can't argue

I started programming ~5 years ago, when I asked my dad to teach me how to program, and he basically said "meh". So instead I googled until I found a box copy of DBPro on amazon, got my parents to order it, and started coding away. Doodling around and one class at school have gotten me kinda proficient at c++, java, and basic.


Is't life, I ask, is't even prudence, to bore thyself and bore thy students?
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This is all my fault, sorry. I thought you wanted to know more about us or something, I'm so vain!

OK well, when I start a new game I normally have an idea for the look or feel of the game or maybe a story, or maybe just something cool I came up with accidentally whilst working on another project.

However it gets started I try to get the general game right in my head and move toward it one step at a time.

Example (Work in progress "Fluid" which is current)
1- I want to make a game where you can control the movement of a 'living' fluid using the mouse
2- Start by thinking how it could work (I came up with using a randomly placed group of spheres that could be used to 'locate' the fluid)
3- Attempt a simple working version of this system
a- position 30-40 balls in a 2D space
b- when the mouse is clicked get balls within a certain radius to look at where the mouse is pointing
c- get them to move towards the mouse at a speed dependant on how far from the mouse they are
d- when they aren't being controlled give them some independant movement/AI
4- ....

I could go on but basically I guess I start with a goal in sight and think "What's the first thing I need to do to get to that goal?"

In short "To reach your goal you have to be able to see it!"

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HI again,

neurro fuzzy thanks for the spam info i thought they were just viruses and yeah i spell incorrect alot because my mother tongue is urdu and i am sorry if my last post harmed you phaelax.

Baxaslash,Grog Grueslayer and hawkblood that was the thing i was looking for thank you very much.

P.S if you all wonderful guys see this post please give response to the "Need help with trginometry functions" i could really use your guys help.

Thanks!!!!!

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I actually liked where this was heading..

My name is Kevin, and I'm a programmer.

The first computer I ever saw was a mainframe in the "caves" at Lawrence Berkley Laboratories in 1979. They were down there to keep them cool, because they consisted of several cabinets of vacuum tubes. My Dad was a Maintenance Machinist for the 2 Particle Beam Accelerators they had on site at the time, so I got tours of some pretty cool stuff that no one else every got to see.

The next time I saw something resembling a computer, it was actually a dumb terminal they were hooking up in one of the math classrooms at my high school in 1980. I never got to see what they were hooking it up to.

In 1983 we moved from California to Oregon, and my new high school had a computer club that had just finished building an IMSAI 8080 the school had purchased from Heathkit. During my last 2 years of high school I learned AppleSoft BASIC on the room full of Apple // computers they had, and a little 6502 assembler.

My parents bought me an Apple //e with the 128K memory expansion card and a 300 baud internal modem for graduation. I followed that with the purchase of a TRS-80 Model 1, and a Color Computer. My Dad drew the line when I purchased an IBM 2311 Mainframe hard drive and was working out the details of how to interface it with the Apple. (He saw that it had a 220 Volt 80 Amp power requirement, and never let me plug it in.)

I wrote little games and some BBS software for both the Apple and the CoCo. From there I took 2 years of Electronics Engineering, and 2 years of Computer Science in College. Then spent another year taking Computer Science at a school for the blind. (I've been legally blind since birth) That landed me a programming job at the main office of the IRS in Washington DC. There I worked mainly in COBOL and IBM 370 Assembler. That's also where I became a Windows Network Administrator because the guy that was doing it before me didn't know Windows, and he was retiring.

After leaving the IRS in 1996 and moving back to Oregon I started an ISP company where I learned all of the necessary Web programming languages. A competitor with deep pockets forced me out of business and then went under a year later themselves. That's when I started in game programming. First with the Torque game engine, and then switching to TGC products.

I've been very happy with TGC products over the last 4 1/2 years. I may end up finding a different programming solution if I choose to support more platforms than just Windows, but I'm happy with this for now.

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Quote: "My Dad was a Maintenance Machinist for the 2 Particle Beam Accelerators they had on site at the time, so I got tours of some pretty cool stuff that no one else every got to see."

That's awesome.


Quote: "First of all Phaelax i don't know how to programe a virus nor a spam

Second my posts goes for confirmation in order to be posted

And Third most important is that i asked how do you guys think while programming and i apolagies if i was not straight forward."


Actually, i don't recall seeing any question in your first post. If it wasn't for everyone else's responses, I wouldn't have even know why you made this post as it seemed more of a statement to me. Vague posts by brand new users often throw a flag for me. Well, that and the bad english, but when it comes to language on this forum I try to give the benefit of doubt.

Moving on....

My interest with computers started with our first Amiga 500 in the late 80s. I started programming with QBasic sometime around '95 I think, hosting a fan website full of codes that often did well in the QB top 40. Then in '97 I took Pascal (which came naturally to me) and C++ in school. Sometime in early college I had classes in Java, C++, COBOL, ASP.NET, and SQL. I've stuck with Java for many years now, learning much of it on my own outside of class. I've dabbled in C#, porting some of my Java projects into it. Most of my hobbyist programming is in DBP still, and have been using it for 10 years now. Professionally, I've done mostly web stuff, JSP and html/css.

That's my brief history. If you're looking for ideas on how to go about programming in general and don't want to build a UML diagram everytime, then it's best to make a list. When making any sort of GUI, I draw it out in Photoshop first so I have a template to refer to. When it comes to functionality, I make a list of everything the program has to do, so I'm not left thinking about what to do next after each task is completed. I also try to make my code modular and also apply a bit of web design knowledge, that is, keep content and presentation separate. I'll have a separate routine which draws or displays the graphics while a completely separate routine manages triggers and events.

Also, indent code properly and make lots of comments. Even if the comment seems unnecessary it can still divide up parts of the code making it easier to look over.


"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" ~ Arthur C. Clarke
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@Neotron: Urdu! So I'm guessing you're from Pakistan. Neat. ^^

As for myself, I've always been interested in programming but I've never accomplished much. My earliest program was basically a random number generator for RPG characters written in GW-Basic. Granted, I had no idea what RPGs were at the time; I was 9ish.

When I do code, I leave myself lots of comments so if I abandon it suddenly I can at least remember what I was trying to do.
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Hello!

My nick is miso, and very new in the forums, so most of you won't recognize me. I begun programming with a good old Commodore 64, and the next stage was Turbo Pascal combined with some ASM. Those were the days Long years ago I found an ad of Darkbasic in a local newspaper, so I ordered instantly. It bewitched me, falling under its spell where there was no cure. I left pixel art for 3d modelling and texturing skills.

Long years have passed again, now with Darkbasic Pro, I think I have all the possibilities I just needed. At the moment I work on multiple projects as a team member, including 2d and 3d ones.

Well, thats all, thank you for your attention.

PS.: I'm not a native english speaker, so please forgive my spelling mistakes.

No place like 127.0.0.1 .
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Quote: "Spam isn't necessarily something doled out by a computer... if, for example, I posted 20 messages saying "spam", that would be spam. Spam is basically any purposeless message that takes up space."


The Posting Competition?

TheComet

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Neotron
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Hi guys

if any ones still reading this please i need some help!!!

My parents and family members think that this gaming thing is not going to get me a visa to canada i am currently in pakistan.

it would be very helpful if some one can give me a link to a website
thanks

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KISTech
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Not gonna touch that with a 10 foot pole.

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Quote: "My parents and family members think that this gaming thing is not going to get me a visa to canada i am currently in pakistan.

it would be very helpful if some one can give me a link to a website"

http://www.canadaimmigrationvisa.com/morevisa.html

Try posting this in a more relevant forum and thread next time...

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Hello, everybody. My name is Russia and I am 32 years old. In 1991 my father bought me a Spectrum and since then, I enjoy programming. sometime later, just the BASIC assembler then computers have changed spree I (girls). and in 2001 the brother of my own father gave me a DBC later I bought a DBP and since I write write and write. Thank TGC !!!!! True, I finished up the vertebral hernia and tell everyone to guard your health, do physical exercises generally take care of health.

.....already beside..... for all
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So I was attacking the death star when it hit me! “I need a computer that can target the exhaust hatch!” So I told the boys at Microsoft, and BOOM! Windows 7 comes out. Now I can blow up the Death Star without relying on the Force. My name is Luke Skywalker, and Windows 7, was MY id... oops wrong story.

My name is Eminent and I am a programmer(a crappy one) but still a programmer. I began when I was 11ish with Java. I went half insane at the complexity of it. SO I quit and now, a couple of years later, I found DBP and I finally understand programming. I still have a lot to learn about programming though(anyone know how to the mouseclick function to only count once per click and not when you hold the left mouse button?).
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hi my name is McDonalds,
I invented the big mac and a creepy clown named Ronald. I have no ambition. I just sit around and look at people's kids eating my
"fat and happy meals".
i invented the DaVinci code, the computer, and fire suppression systems in casinos.
i have a tendency to scratch my butt in the morning, and i don't use aftershave(it hurts)(don't believe me? ask kevin from home alone).
the worst part of my day is when my molecular structure goes all haywire and i begin to liquify. this happens often, but on the plus side, i never have to shower.
my bikini leaves terrible tan lines and i don't wax in the summer
my leg hair reminds me of my programming...
unreasonably overgrown, totally redundant,extremely messy,and serves no purpose.
shouldn't this be a geek culture thread? just wondering?

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I was 8 when i started programming, I started on a commodore 64 and an Acorn Electron (equivalent to the bbc micro) never really made anything of note just 1 or 2 text adventures but nothing impressive or noteworthy.

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Hi, my name is Chris. I don't know anything about programing and at 40 years old I don't know if I will ever be able to learn (Can't teach an old dog new tricks? We will see)

I have been a gamer since the stone age (1978) on the great Atari system and been playing games ever since.

Anyway I will try my best to learn this stuff and to make my friends (the ones that havent died of old age yet) proud

Don't judge a book by its cover.
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Hi, my name is oritpro. I built my first computer in the late 70's around a Z80 processor on a solderless breadboard. It wasn't much of a computer though, about all I did on it was register ops but I learned a lot about computers in the process. So you could say I was using machine code at the most primitive level.

My first real computer was a Timex Sinclair ZX81 with a whopping 1k of memory. This what I learned Basic programming on in the early 80's. I still own it, but it's been sitting in a box for several years now.

The Zx81 was followed by several Atari's and Commodores where I continued to write most of my own programs in Basic. I even built a voice synthesizer for my C64 and had a blast with it.

I started using x86 PC's in the late 80's and learned to code in assembly language (MASM, x86 assembler/disassembler) , several flavors of Basic (GW, Power, Visual, etc...), and Borland Turbo C on them.

My true profession is computer networking although I still enjoy coding once in awhile.

I recently purchased DBP (DarkGame Studio) and am presently learning the language and how to get around in it. It is quite impressive! I've found the Newsletters and forums to be a valuable resource while I familiarize myself with DBP.

Oh yeah, this is also my very first post here.
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alright people i too actually like this where it was going before so everyone is allowed to tell there amazing stories.


Here's my entry.
I was very fond of games when i was 3 about 14 years ago.

I got my first computer at the age of 5.Got to play around in it.But it was freaking slow (486 mhz processor,64 mhz ram,2 gb space,no internet).And it had Windows 98.

I used to make characters in MS Paint and moved it inside it.

After that i got into the world of 3d gaming .Play Station 1!

And i never touched computer till i had PS 2 broken down by extensive playing.

After that i got the 3D MOVIE MAKER for my P3 computer.Made super cool animations and closed it for studying purposes.

at age of 13 . i got in the market for the 3d movie maker but it was not there like it wasn't there for centuries.

And there was my choice for my future of game programming .I got two choices (3DS max and MAYA).since i had little knowledge i bought myself the 3ds max.

then i first got myself dark basic pro but was too confused so i got into blitz3d.made a college project and returned to dark basic pro for new effects.

now i am grasping the dbpro but i still miss the blitz3d commands as it returned you the object no. into the variable you liked.

and it had the NEW command in array building.

But i now LOVE the dbpro .

Thanks for listening.

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May he forgive me
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Quote: "at age of 13 . i got in the market for the 3d movie maker but it was not there like it wasn't there for centuries.

And there was my choice for my future of game programming .I got two choices (3DS max and MAYA).since i had little knowledge i bought myself the 3ds max."

You bought 3DS Max when you were 13? All I could afford when I was 13 was an occasional ZX Spectrum game on cassette for about £3.99...

I still can't afford Max now!!

Quote: "now i am grasping the dbpro but i still miss the blitz3d commands as it returned you the object no. into the variable you liked"

Do you mean like this?

...then you just say:


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this thread is really interesting, seeing all the stories is really cool.

Ok, so here goes...My name is Chris, and I've always loved computers. My first experience with coding was when I was in elementary school, one of my friends showed me java, and I was hooked.

For a few years after that I did web development with java and python, and I gained a lot of experience with object-oriented languages.

When I was 13 I discovered dark basic, I bought it and started coding some games.
When I found out about darkGDK, I decided to download it and try to teach myself C++.

After a few years of working with C++ and the modding scene, I decided to come back to dark basic, because although it isnt capable of as much as C, I like the ease of basic. I started the OpenFPS project, and here I am.

I'm also pursuing a career in game programming.


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baxslash you must our country Pakistan.It is a pirate heaven.
i you make a game and just sell it to one person by mistake then see your games on the stores shelf and tell the shopkeeper i made this and he says thats the latest game in market developed by a pakistani.

i see fraud everywhere .3ds max 2010 is available for $0.01!!!

no i am telling the truth.with ten dollars you can buy 10 types of games/movies/softwares and no law enforcers ever gonna stop ya.

all the trash you throw (trash=old computers) come to our places in containers and you can buy them on weight.

ALLAH IS THE GREATEST
May he forgive me
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Quote: "baxslash you must our country Pakistan.It is a pirate heaven.
i you make a game and just sell it to one person by mistake then see your games on the stores shelf and tell the shopkeeper i made this and he says thats the latest game in market developed by a pakistani."

Sounds like Hell rather than Heaven! Why would anyone from your country ever become a developer?

Quote: "3ds max 2010 is available for $0.01!!!"

I bet Autodesk are really happy then! That's why it costs $3000 over here...

Quote: "all the trash you throw (trash=old computers) come to our places in containers and you can buy them on weight."

Could you look out for my wife's earings? They're teardrop pearls on platinum dangly things. She threw them away ages ago by mistake...

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