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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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rgb color value to DATA letter value, DATA letter value to rgb color value30th June 2025
I'd use a select/case conditional or lookup table instead of all those ifs.You then make a conversion function and call that. Which version of BlitzBasic are you using? |
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New Chapter for Commodore?29th June 2025
New Commodore Acquisition Update |
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Print - Newline28th June 2025
I wonder if that CLS is clearing after each file giving you only the latest.But yeah, it would help to do a minimal test. Ditch all the : and put 1 statement per line. |
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Rebuilding the Browsercade27th June 2025
What I mean is information is lost when you crop the screen. It's much easier to plan when you see 4 spikes instead of two. So you can see that visual information is removed in one version making it harder when it's technically the same game. *snip* |
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Rebuilding the Browsercade27th June 2025
What have been the bulk of the problems?Changes to the way the JavaScript canvas works? Also I'm a fan of rendering everything in the same aspect ratio and using best fit. I think it's better than breaking the screen up or cutting the sides off*snip* |
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Lazy afternoon dungeon wall26th June 2025
Yes, the tool in the lower left lets you pan textures in 2 directions to check. |
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Lazy afternoon dungeon wall26th June 2025
Just messing around.I've been looking at Dungeon Master lately. I used to do pixel art before it lost its resource bound identity in the mainstream indie world. Dunno if I'll finish it. A fun 15 minute diversion. (Image.png) |
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Brutalism Week26th June 2025
While not strictly Brutalist the Tokyo Nakagin Capsule Tower is a very Brutalist looking structure.I discovered it a while back when I was doing drafting in college and it was on the cover of my book. It was designed to be ''living'' in that the*snip* |
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Switch 226th June 2025
It still amazes me how many people think batteries have infinite rechargeability.I worked as a VP for the IT dept for 4 years and people always brought me their work laptops confused that after 4 years would not take a charge. I will never purchase a ga*snip* |
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Switch 225th June 2025
You can replace the battery in the Switch.You have to be very very careful though - work slowly. The battery is glued down. Best to take pictures the whole way and use a magnetic dish to keep the screws because you're going to have quite a few. A si*snip* |
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Noggin23rd June 2025
Looks cool. :)Another fun effect might be to take a list of all positions and shuffle it then deal them so they scatter all over in random patterns. :D |
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