Dark Bit Factory & Gravity

PROGRAMMING => General coding questions => Topic started by: mikeyesfan on June 02, 2009

Title: I hope you don't close the forum down.
Post by: mikeyesfan on June 02, 2009

I know there are others who don't want it closed here besides me too.  I have not been on the page in a while, but after getting an e-mail telling me they will close down I showed up.  I pray you guys can keep the page up that or show up on Jonathan S. Harbours web page for his books and his forum at 
www.jharbour.com (http://www.jharbour.com)   

I like learning new C++ or other languages to program games on that is why I liked looking at this site sometimes to learn new things.  This will be a total bummer when it shuts down I know everyone else who looks here will think the same way.

Title: Re: I hope you don't close the forum down.
Post by: Hotshot on June 02, 2009

Dont worry! Every forum have dry up post periods but it like a pong game where the ball go out(when the dry up post periods) and then the ball come back to you(when people come back from hoilday or gone missing or been busy or been working then the post will be post or big ball start rolling like a snow ball effect when everyone post it because we have lots of people here that will be supporting the forum)

C++ is quite Daunting Language but if you get the hang of it(or get the grip) then you will get there and you have remember that learning C++ take time depending on what application you want to do. IF U going make window application then you better off doing VB.net. or Visual basic express which is free to download.  If You going to make C++ Games then you better off learn either SDL or Allegro :)

Good Luck  ;D

Title: Re: I hope you don't close the forum down.
Post by: mikeyesfan on June 02, 2009

Hi thank you for the response back by the way I’ve been using C++ for the past 3 years now with Allegro, SDL, Direct X 9.0, and Open GL.  You are right though there are people who start higher then they should I started with a Visual Basic 6.0 class in Jr. College.  And I then found Jonathan S. Harbour had a book on making Video Games in that program.

I moved up to the other programs after trying Bliz Basic3D and Darkbasic Pro then went up to C++.  I know that the economy is bad right now making it keeping a web site up is hard with the costs, so I understand closing it sadly.  I hope other people who look here on this site at least show up at his web page he teaches classes at www.uat.edu (http://www.uat.edu), books on his site, and has a forum there too check it out.

Title: Re: I hope you don't close the forum down.
Post by: Shockwave on June 02, 2009

Worst case scenario I would just preserve the whole forum database in some way

I hope that it never comes to that though, we've been around for ages and I want to keep thios website open for years to come. The fact is though that only a handful of people were posting over the last 6 months so it's hardly a blip, it was a steady decline.

The forum needs good posts, questions and discussions to stay alive basically.
Let's see how it goes for the next few months.

I will be removing inactive moderators from the mod list soon, keeping those who do post and hoppefully looking for some new talent to help give the site a boost.

We're not out of ideas yet :)

Title: Re: I hope you don't close the forum down.
Post by: ferris on June 12, 2009

I was just lurking around http://p212.ezboard.com/bdbf .. so nostalgic and so sad at once!!

Title: Re: I hope you don't close the forum down.
Post by: Shockwave on June 12, 2009

There are hardly any of our posts left there Jake, Ezboard fucked the whole thing up and we lost nearly all the posts after they had a server crash and no backup!

The same thing happened to most Ezboard communities... It does make me nostalgic too when I think back to the old days, there weren't that many of us on the board but it was a good time.