Hi All, A visitor recently noticed the following sentence in the chapter, "The not equal to operator, != . With this we could say 5 ! = 4 and get a false...
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EastCoastGames@yahoog...
May 3, 2001 2:41 pm
The following EastCoastGames poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What is/are your favorite programming languages? CHOICES AND...
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EastCoastGames@yahoog...
May 3, 2001 2:51 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the EastCoastGames group: Do you like East Coast Games page design, or would it be better another way? ...
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Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 18, 2001 4:38 pm
Hello. My name is Ole. I was born in Denmark 35 years ago, but moved to Houston, Texas in '96 where I have been since. I started programming in basic and...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 18, 2001 5:01 pm
Hi Ole, Almost all of today's AAA titles are written in C or C++ with some in- line assembly. There are a few AAA titles written in proprietary languages....
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Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 18, 2001 5:06 pm
Thanks for your quick reply Forest. What is AAA? I do have experience with C and C++, but it was never my preferred language. Borland Pascal with it's...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 18, 2001 5:12 pm
AAA or triple-A means top ranking games. So games like StarCraft, Zelda, and Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey. An example of a non-triple A game would be Last Call....
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Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 21, 2001 2:32 pm
For those of you who are using C++ as one of your main programming tools, which one would you recommend as the best/most reliable compiler? Microsoft...
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Blaine Calkins
bcalkins@...
May 21, 2001 3:31 pm
Borland! ... From: "Ole Drews Jensen" <ojensen@...> To: <EastCoastGames@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 8:26 AM Subject:...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 21, 2001 4:49 pm
I use MSVC++ 6.0. I saw a Beta copy of 7.0 at the GDC and it only had a few changes. Not enough to upgrade but enough to possibly wait. I haven't used...
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Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 21, 2001 4:55 pm
Thanks Forest and Blaine, I already have Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional, and I've just downloaded a trial version of Borland C++ Builder 5.0 - you...
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Ismail Ata Kurt
atakurt@...
May 21, 2001 5:57 pm
For database applications borland c++ is the best but ms vc++ is best for other type of app(game prog,graf..) ... ...
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Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 21, 2001 11:09 pm
Hi All, This is the age old compiler question, and I've found that in my experience ultimately it doesn't matter. Personally, I prefer MS VC++, but thats...
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Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 22, 2001 12:53 pm
Thanks for your reply Oliver, I know what you mean about prefering the compiler you're used to using, but I have been away from C++ for a while, so I didn't...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 22, 2001 1:51 pm
All of the Windows Game Programming I've done, including sprites, I learned from Inside DirectX and Game Programming for Dummies. You can see my specific...
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Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 22, 2001 11:26 pm
Morning All, <boring story> To be honest, I've not done a heck of alot of game programming in my time. I started writing dodgey games in QBasic when i was 13!...
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Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
May 23, 2001 2:40 am
Currently we do not have any clients that are looking for candidates for game programming, but if you have a resume ready, I'd be glad to pass it on to our IT...
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Mitko
mhris@...
May 25, 2001 8:36 pm
Hi everyone. I'm new to this group, and completly new to game programming. I just have one question. I'm pretty advanced in C++, so where do I go from here?...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 25, 2001 8:44 pm
Hi Mitko, It depends on how technologically complicated you want to make your game. Most AAA games are written with VC++ with either DirectX or OpenGL....
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Mitko
mhris@...
May 26, 2001 2:42 am
Ok, this is my last question for now, and I promise I'll stop bothering you guys :P. Would it be even possible for a single person to finish a top-down RTS...
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Kevin Milner
tree_tosser@...
May 26, 2001 3:13 pm
Probably not, but that shouldn't stop us from trying. If you want, head over to my website and have a look. I'm putting together a grass roots project and I...
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Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 28, 2001 12:17 am
Morning Mitko + Forest + the rest, I agree with Forests points. It depends alot on what you are trying to create and what you want to create it for...
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Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 28, 2001 12:19 am
by the way Forest, can you give me the link to your tutorials?? or are they @ groups.yahoo?? ... From: Forest Handford [mailto:forestj@...] Sent:...
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Oliver Reeves
oliver.reeves@...
May 28, 2001 12:21 am
hrm.. might be able to. but you really need to know your stuff, and you would have to be prepared to put in alot of work! :) even John C doesn't release games...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 29, 2001 1:04 pm
Actually, an RTS game isn't too hard to make, unless it's 3D like Sigma. Natural Disaster is a turn-based game that uses a map similiar to the way RTS games...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
May 29, 2001 1:13 pm
I wrote most of the tutorials on www.EastCoastGames.com . The DirectX tutorial is at http://www.EastCoastGames.com/directx/intro.html . The Windows ...
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jr1qg@...
May 29, 2001 3:48 pm
Dream Knights games is looking for new mud game in developement. Posieions are; Web Master To install the current web pages and administer the server. ...
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g.sandles@...
Jun 3, 2001 12:30 am
The unfortunate thing about a website like this is that it attracts complete beginners like me who one day would love to program something substantial but at...
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Forest Handford
forestj@...
Jun 13, 2001 11:54 pm
Does anybody know how to convert an S3M (Scream Tracker) file to mp3? Winamp will play an S3M format but I don't think it can make MP3 files. The reason I...
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Ole Drews Jensen
ojensen@...
Jun 15, 2001 2:12 pm
Hi Forest, I believe this PDTracker will do the trick for you. http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~simh/pdtracker/ Hth, Ole ...
