Survey posted 2003-12-08 19:35 by Joey.

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I think we need to have a "lifetime achievement" award, given to some particular coder, or perhaps one coder in each group (83's,89's, etc.) Several names spring to mind...

Rusty Wanger is the first that comes to mind. If it weren't for VTI, we would not have such a selection of stuff. There are also a lot out there that deserve the award because of their acomplishements like TICT with FAT...

FAT? That is crazy! Sure it is good, but the 89 is not the place to have a raycasting engine! it is so hard to make out!

Any who, you are missing the bigest one of all after Rusty, the TIGCC people. All of them. If not for them, i would be forced to use ASM, and I don't have the patience. I don't think we could thank them enough.

-W-

Well I do have the patience, also the games [in general] would be a slightly higher quality if always written in ASM.

"but the 89 is not the place to have a raycasting engine! it is so hard to make out! "

Fix your eyesight, if works just fine, given that the programmer(s) who use it designe their sprites properly.

I've found a way to thank them: port the IDE to Mac OS X!!!

BTW: I'm posting this from a commandline text-only browser on my Mac OS X system. This is cool.

Oh yeah! Shootout! That game's fun. It uses fat.

Speaking of which, Harper Maddox has just released a new game today for the 83+/SE calcs. It is Flash I believe. He was one of the first original assembly programmers and is on the top downloads list as well.

linky?

OMG it's on the front page!!
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ok, see the web link on my post!

I have my profile set so I see only 68k stuff excluding the 92.

I voted for ID, even though I used it for maybe two days over the summer, and subsequently deleted it. It is, in my opinion, the one that would have been the hardest to code. I mean... the hooks into the Apps desktop... the pictures... not a project for the fainthearted.

Quick test: If the subject line has (in order) Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic (Russian characters), Katakana (Japanese [or is it Hiragana?]), and some random characters, your Web browser is Unicode-capable (and up-to-date, like MacOS X 10.3 Panther).

Or mybe not. I have Apple's Safari, and it shows up as question marks. (Or is ticalc.org's software not up to date Unicode-wise??)

Trying again in IE 5.2 for Mac and Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla.

Nope in firebird.

IE says nay.

Mozilla: nix, nil, nada.

Anyone want to try?

Please put your browser name and version.

(Mozilla Forebird is 0.7, Mozilla is 1.5)

I am using Konqueror under linux, and it is all just question marks.

MWM

IE 6.0.2600.0000/WinXP/UTF-8: Nope

All for Macintosh, on version 10.3.1. Put OS version, too, please.

Well, it seems that ticalc.org is simply giving question marks - look at view source. (IE6 on W2K, also viewed with proxomitron)

Our news system is not Unicode aware, correct. All pages are served up in ISO-8859-1 (at least they should be).

netscape gives question marks too

They're all question marks in the links browser too. :-)

Yeah, I know ticalc serves up only Western (ISO-8859-1) characters, as mentioned earlier.