Post by kiyotewolf on Oct 30, 2010 3:18:05 GMT -5
Ok.
I know in the FB forum, they have "rules", on what kind of BASIC you can talk about.
Although this is a bit off subject, I'm going to try to make this thread be open to discussion for any flavor of BASIC.
I mean, let's face it.
We all had to come from SOMEWHERE.
Microsoft wrote many of the original flavors of BASIC, and licensed it out.
We can use this to find common ground.
About the only individual flavor, was Apple Basic, or also called GAME BASIC, for the Apple ][e.
:.:
Why am I going off into a tangent.
Well, I live in old computer books..
I mean OLD ones.
I did learn a TON about game programming, from the Commodore 64, because you had to deal with simple algebra, lots of arrays, and making games out of that.
:.:
Also, based on my campfire story tale in the FB Forum, you will find a direct line from FB, backwards to many many early systems.
I started at a Coco 2, with a Coco 3 book, and went upwards from there.
:.:
C was gibberish to me, and still is mostly, but I'm finding now I have about 12 books on C, for DOS, and am FINALLY going to find the free Borland compiler, for C, download it, and just DO IT.
:.:
If we all try to expand and learn C, we can get our stuff on XNA Microsoft game studio networks.
:.:
Also, we need to expand into Linux, because Unix is how everything works.
Unix was written in C.
Linux runs on Android phones.
We MUST work on advancing.
~Kiyote Wolf!
I'll leave this here for now. I'll be posting tips & tricks here, for now, since I am going to be bouncing from OS to OS and platform to platform and back to retro systems as well, to make certain points.
I learned EXACTLY how the original NES works, by dissecting MCGA and how IT works.
I know in the FB forum, they have "rules", on what kind of BASIC you can talk about.
Although this is a bit off subject, I'm going to try to make this thread be open to discussion for any flavor of BASIC.
I mean, let's face it.
We all had to come from SOMEWHERE.
Microsoft wrote many of the original flavors of BASIC, and licensed it out.
We can use this to find common ground.
About the only individual flavor, was Apple Basic, or also called GAME BASIC, for the Apple ][e.
:.:
Why am I going off into a tangent.
Well, I live in old computer books..
I mean OLD ones.
I did learn a TON about game programming, from the Commodore 64, because you had to deal with simple algebra, lots of arrays, and making games out of that.
:.:
Also, based on my campfire story tale in the FB Forum, you will find a direct line from FB, backwards to many many early systems.
I started at a Coco 2, with a Coco 3 book, and went upwards from there.
:.:
C was gibberish to me, and still is mostly, but I'm finding now I have about 12 books on C, for DOS, and am FINALLY going to find the free Borland compiler, for C, download it, and just DO IT.
:.:
If we all try to expand and learn C, we can get our stuff on XNA Microsoft game studio networks.
:.:
Also, we need to expand into Linux, because Unix is how everything works.
Unix was written in C.
Linux runs on Android phones.
We MUST work on advancing.
~Kiyote Wolf!
I'll leave this here for now. I'll be posting tips & tricks here, for now, since I am going to be bouncing from OS to OS and platform to platform and back to retro systems as well, to make certain points.
I learned EXACTLY how the original NES works, by dissecting MCGA and how IT works.