The Welcoming Committee

[ccss]

i'm new here, dont hurt me.

[benny!]

Hehe ... don't worrry ... and welcome to dbf!

[Shockwave]

Hey ccss, Welcome to DBF A warm welcome to all the other new peeps I've missed too

[stavs]

Hi everybody.  I've been interested in demoscene for ~25 years,  and I released a few wholly unremarkable efforts for the Acorn Archimedes back in the day.  In the last 6 years I've managed to visit at least one demo party each year.

A few years ago I purchased an Acorn RiscPC, the platform I could never afford in my youth. I began dabbling with gfx effects in ARM assembly embedded in BASIC.  More recently I've been learning and using C, with a sprinkling of inline ARM.

I'll no doubt be asking for pointers on old-school algorithms.  There's still some effects that stymie me.

Cheers folks.  Perhaps I'll see you at Outline this year.

[Kirl]

Hello stavs! 

[benny!]

Hi Stavs,

welcome on board. Almost forgot about the Acorn Archimedes. Back in my youth when I owned an Amiga2000 I was quite interested in the Archimedes, too. But since I already owned an Amiga2000 I had no money left to buy on Archimedes, too.

But I remember that this computer was highly interesting, amongst other things for the game Zarch


Enjoy your stay here

[stavs]

Hehe.  Yes, Zarch was a great tech demo,  but I didn't find it very rewarding to play.

There were several much more entertaining, and technically superior, games for the Arch such as Star Fighter 3000 and Aldebaran.

[Raizor]

Welcome Stavs. Just wondering if you're 'Stavros' from Sundown?

[stavs]

I am indeed the drunk brummie from Sundown.  o/
rc55 is moving to Australia in a few weeks,  so I'm not sure if Sundown is going to happen again this year... 

[Shockwave]

Hi Stavs, welcome to DBF

rc55 is moving to Australia in a few weeks,  so I'm not sure if Sundown is going to happen again this year... 

Good for Ruairi, I thought about emigrating there myself about 10 years ago... No chance now though.  Gutted that I missed Sundown this year again - I've been twice in the past and enjoyed it on both occasions but the last 2 times I've planned to go my eyes have been playing up and I've been unable to drive

Anyway, maybe the other one (sunrise) will be on this year instead.

[stavs]

Anyway, maybe the other one (sunrise) will be on this year instead.

Or maybe Ruairi will run "uʍopuns uʍop-ǝpısdn". 

[Raizor]

I am indeed the drunk brummie from Sundown.  o/
rc55 is moving to Australia in a few weeks,  so I'm not sure if Sundown is going to happen again this year... 

I thought so o/

Yeah, Sundown does sound like it may well not happen this year. Fingers crossed that something does come together as I had a great time there last year

[Exilepilot]

Hey guys, I'm a graphics designer, I also code some Lua, C, C++.

[combatking0]

Greetings Exilepilot, and welcome to the forums.

[Shockwave]

Hi Exilepilot Welcome to DBF.

[benny!]

Hi Exilepilot ... it's cool to have a graphic designer who can code around. Do you have an online gallery of your art? Would be interesting to see.
Enjoy your stay.

[Raizor]

Hi Exilepilot, sounds like a very useful mix of skills to me! Welcome aboard.

[Exilepilot]

Greetings Exilepilot, and welcome to the forums.

Hi Exilepilot Welcome to DBF.

Thanks guys!

Hi Exilepilot ... it's cool to have a graphic designer who can code around. Do you have an online gallery of your art? Would be interesting to see.
Enjoy your stay.

I have an online portfolio, although it's not the most organized one. It contains really old work and some new, most of my good work is on DeviantART. I've progressed from manipulations to UI design, I'm also learning vector art which is really handy when creating game sprites/characters...etc

Hi Exilepilot, sounds like a very useful mix of skills to me! Welcome aboard.

Indeed, I use Lua in a game called MTA. It's an online version of GTA:SA, it uses C++ and has Lua virtual machine embedded into it, for server-side/client-side scripting which has grown over the years and gives you the choice to create pretty much anything (Within reason, obviously). I learned C from a 'C for dummies' book, which I finished within 3 weeks and found it very interesting. I progressed onto C++ which was a big move, using a language with object oriented capabilities was hard at first but I am most comfortable with it, but still got allot to learn.

I'm interested in programming syntax's, paradigms, how they're typed...etc.
I also have the slightest knowledge of Ruby, D, PHP, Java. 

Links:

• 
  DeviantART Gallery
  
• 
  Github
  

~Exile

[Kirl]

Hi there Exilepilot! Some cool desktops on deviantart, love the LUA image.

Welcome aboard! 

[benny!]

Hey ... thanks for additional information. Looks like you are a minecraft fan. Like it, too! Nice style. Keep them coming.
Best,
benny!