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I'm Trying BlitzMax for the first time16th July 2025
There is a lot of missing documentation in BlitzMax (and NG which is the only one that's not dead).It is best to learn a tool like grep to dig through the source .bmx files for answers on how things with missing documentation work. (This is another e*snip* |
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Simulation Week15th July 2025
One very simple model of a computer for early education was the ''Little Man Computer''.The model consists of simulation of a little man trapped in a post office with 100 boxes, an inbox and an outbox and a calculator that only does addition and *snip* |
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Monty Python - The Witch Trial15th July 2025
Since Prolog's domain is deduction (drawing conclusions from sparse details), I thought the famous witch trial scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail would be fun.It turns out, if we impose the rules from the movie into Prolog we can deduce that *snip* |
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3D Printed Mutant Monty15th July 2025
I wish they'd push cheaper subtractive (machining) technology as hard as they've pushed 3D printing.I often have a need for strong parts and 3D printing always has the brittle sheering issue. Some time ago I spent some money for a cartridge hous*snip* |
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SnackVerse15th July 2025
Do they ever send Salmiakki or licorice with ammonium chloride in those?It's a Scandinavian and sometimes German candy that I like. |
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Simulation Week15th July 2025
If only there was some traditionally established way to increase funds... |
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FreeBASIC Text Game - Poetry (Workshop Simulator)14th July 2025
Itch.io gives you 1 GB for your games. Set up a page there and cross link here. :) |
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Getting to know language history14th July 2025
Generally languages link from influenced by to influenced on Wikipedia, it's become a semi-standard format.Guess what Wikipedia page had no information for that when the graph was compiled? 😉 It is best to just look to the BASIC neighborhood and *snip* |
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Endless Loop13th July 2025
Just remembered this book on my shelf and thought folks might be interested.Goes from beginnings at Dartmouth forward. The author is somewhat biased but the history portions were interesting. Endless Loop (Image.png) |
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Hammock13th July 2025
Ugh, mostly hovering on the 90s yet in Montana.I can't complain though, because we get so much winter that it gets depressing. |
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Hammock13th July 2025
A hammock is a nice summer investment.Very relaxing, it's a bit hot but the pergola is helping shade me a bit. (Image.jpg) |
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Getting to know language history13th July 2025
It's very simple - people got tired of entering binary (or hex) machine code to drive computers. (Check out the Kenbak - 1 or KIM-1)They gave these instructions names. Later the assembler would turn these names back into the operations. Eventually*snip* |
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Getting to know our history13th July 2025
One of my hobbies is programming language lineage and taxonomy.Some people seem to get stuck in a 5 to 10 year buffer around their favorite language but history offers much more to explore! One of my favorite sites gives fairly deep insight into the hun*snip* |
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Welcome, Forest Gump10th July 2025
It's good that Mark open sourced it.There's kind of a bitter irony to that though in that most people who use the language and would want it to live on don't necessarily have the interest in learning C++ to keep it alive. Brucey had been keep*snip* |
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How're You Doing10th July 2025
Doing well, my friend in the Air Force is here for a week.Summer is my favorite season despite it hitting 100 this week. Put my hammock out yesterday and put the canvas on my pergola. |
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Game Creators Shutdown9th July 2025
Beyond specific tools and languages, I wish programming language designers would get ANSI standards for multimedia extensions.Then anyone could keep this kind stuff alive (hardware shifts, abstractions via standard don't). The Borland Graphics Inter*snip* |
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BASIC - Programming language of yesterdays?8th July 2025
It's hard to define BASIC by syntax alone these days.There has been cross polination between Fortran, Algol, and later Pascal. Culturally it's always heavily Imperative and Procedural in practice using arbitrary keyword based program flow. |
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BASIC - Programming language of yesterdays?7th July 2025
It's hard to find a job where the focus really is programming. Most professional developers spend more time scrambling trying to glue together huge monolithic frameworks than programming and they spend just as much time in meetings and other kinds of*snip* |
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Welcome, Forest Gump7th July 2025
Welcome!I think there's still some room to go. (I really want first class functions with closures - language features going back to the 50s and 60s) But BASIC has come a long way from unstructured messes inherited from the style we see with Dartmout*snip* |
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BASIK by Realtime5th July 2025
Looks like the first file got mangled, here it is formatted for readability. (Linkage)Is this your project? The examples seem to work pretty well! |
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Rebuilding the Browsercade3rd July 2025
Are all the games in 1 file? |
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[BMX] Custom For Loop Iterators2nd July 2025
Here is an example of how to implement your own Iterator for BlitzMax NG for loops.I've never seen somebody do this so I present it here. The For loops are designed this way and left open to the user such that you can make your own kind of iterator.*snip* |
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High Contrast Week2nd July 2025
For me this week has been BlitzMax and boring Java Swing/Thymeleaf/PostgreSQL stuff. I'm looking to do some public health service with my State but it's hard to find consistent data in my region from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) web API. :(*snip* |
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High Contrast Week1st July 2025
Xerox PARC developed the first GUIs and some very contrasty systems.They invented Smalltalk and InterLisp (forked from BBN Lisp) systems . These were (and are) full featured programming environments originally backed by ARPA (Now DARPA) for AI work. Th*snip* |
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BB vs Virus Protection30th June 2025
I imagine you tried to download BlitzBasic and got malwareOr your computer got infected by something that replaces launchers. Where did you get the original binary from? |
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