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Hey all, I was playing around with drawing the screen back onto itself which create these cool feedback fx (like filming a tv that is showing the camera feed). I’m trying to find some fitting sound fx and I’d like to know what you think, suggestions for sound are very welcome. It’s written in codea on iphone with lua.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MY0cRiyd9x4

Dude, that is 2 cool, thanks for sharing! 

Reminds me a bit me of that oroborus code thing, which coded itself into another language and another going through many languages only to end up in it’s original state. The code was shaped as an oroborus as well. This takes that conept to a whole other level!

Hey all, long time no see!

I just watched this video on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqqPOky-Nv8

I share his sentiments on coding now and I feel the same about my graphics skills. The ai of today and especially tomorrow just took out most of the fun i had figuring things out. I was wondering how you guys feel about this.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the potential of ai (and i’m using it for many things) and I always knew these days would come, but I do now exist in this existential dread that none of our skills matter anymore…

I’m really interested how you guys feel about this.

Lovely demo Hellfire! 

It's cool you mentioned it was written in lua, I've been playing with lua for years on the ipad using Codea. I might just get pico8 so that I can share some stuff on pc as well! 

Hi Omnikam, the thumb looks great! When I run it, the music plays but the window stays black unfortunately.

I'm on a msi laptop running windows11.

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This short story was brought to you by gpt3 - merry xmas all

Sounds good, looking forward to give it a spin! 

I might actually set up one or more of me olde desktop pc's as well! Maybe press a physical key once in a little while. Ah, memories... 

These mobile vessels, it's good rowin' and all, but it's been too long since I commandeered a true ship. I hope to be hoistin some sails in the new year, may the winds of fortune blow in our favor once again!

*missing pirate smiley*

Dude, that looks awesome! In the comming weeks I'm going to boot up an actual laptop to give it a try!

Also, good to see you still on, best wishes to you and all of dbf! 

Ah, the good Doctor! 

Thanks, I will check that out!
It's not all bad though, I guess my site was due for an update anyway. I think the main layout was still created by a table, which was already bad practice back when I wrote it. But then again, if it aint broke...

Once upon a time I was planning on porting most of my flash stuff to SVG or Canvas as well.
Gotta get with the times yo! 

I really hope the browsers have settled on the w3c standards in the mean time! Must've been well over 10 years since I did any webdev, but I still have nightmares from all of the individual browser hacks. CSS was still pretty new back then and I hated it, although it's clearly a neater solution than all of the inline formatting.

Thanks DD, good seeing you again!

Hey guys,

Long story short, or in todays terms: TL,DR = I'm looking for a lightwheight ftp program, just to add and remove files from my server.

TL version,
My old page was deleted due to missing a few payments, so I'm trying to rebuild it, but my trusty fireFTP plugin for ff is no more. Being the tactical genius that I am, I have no backup either! But I do still have most files. It's a mostly pointless exercise anyway, as Flash apparently doesn't even run in browsers anymore... 
Computers make you feel old real quick! 

In time, I plan to make youtube videos of my flash demos and probably rebuild my site from scrach in another form. But I need an ftp program/plugin to upload/download files to my webserver. I was hoping you guys have some suggestions, preferably free.

Thanks!

Also, long time no see, but I'm infinitely gratefull that this site is still up and running! 

  all!

@tarpan
There is a bit of lua code floating around here on the forums, i’m sure you’ll find it with a search.

[EDIT] found it: http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php?topic=5765.20
There is a cool short flowfield program I wrote in there too.
Flowfields was something posted on these forums and I totally forgot Hotshot pointed me to codea in the first place. Needless to say I have endless respect for these forums and it’s denizens!

I’m currently also still couch coding lots of lua in the Codea app for ipad. Unfortunately Codea is the only coding app (I ever found) that actually works on mobile devices. It’s actively supported and head and shoulders above the rest of the mobile coding apps I ever discovered.

That said, I would love to hear suggestions for alternative MOBILE coding apps!

Lol, remember this old thing? I was reading up on bitcoin, trying to get my head around this decentralized agreement thing, and I remembered this old thread. I was thinking of buying 100 bitcoins att just because I thought it was cool...

Back then (acording to wikipedia) 1 bitcoin was worth between $0,30 and $5 and by now 1 bitcoin is worth about $13000!

Kinda wish I had, haha! 

Hi root42 and SilentWorld! 

Wow, excellent, thanks for posting them here!


Now you got me dreaming of side views, walk cycles...
Not sure if you're familiar with the old text based Sierra games, but I can totally picture a little startrek themed Spacequest adventure. Walking around the enterprise, meeting all these fantastic characters!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTEUGkTbXys
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inYBmvtGl54

Thats awesome! I would love to see a borg in all its pixelated glory!

That sucks va!n, hope the treatment works and you'll feel better soon.

My mother passed away last year, so Im working on cleaning up the house and setting up a decent desk for myself so that I can hopefully get back behind the keys very soon.

 

Thanks for sharing the experience va!n, looks and sounds like great fun. Reading this made my day! 

Sweet, would love to see those animated! 

Excellent oldskool vibes as always! Ye olde scroller was a bit hard to read but looks great.
Loved the ending! 

Awesome work aNdy! 

I love that you inclded a hidden part, nice surprise. K+