Author Topic: The Memories. (Read 14509 times)

Clyde · « **on:** May 20, 2006 »

I've so many memories, of programming routines, some that backfired and others that people went blooming heck over. And I wondered, and thought it a good call, to make this post and see what memories you folks have throughout your coding years.

What was your first ever coded routine? Can you remember, and what platform was it on.

What's been your best routine so far, and what's been the effect / routine you've been most unhappy with and would you go back to it, and rework it?

The most memorable time for me, was coding some colour split raster bars in 6510+ on the Humble C64. My biggest disaster was attempting Texture mapping, something I hope to one day learn how to do. Today, my most treasured routine is one that myself and my partner in code in Gravity have come up with, which still remains to be seen. We're quite proud of it, and it will feature in a production very soon, I hope.

I also find it, that as I get older, the brain seems to need more pushing for inspiration for new concepts with routines. Don't know if it's the same for you.

Cheers and all the best,
Clyde.

Shockwave · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2006 »

Flippin heck, there's some questions there.

The first ever thing I coded that you could call an effect I suppose was in Spectrum basic, basically you had UDG's (user defined graphics) and I made this animated square and printed a screen full of them.
Anyway, I found that by constantly redefining the UDG I could get a whole screen full of smootly spinning squares.

The hardest and most satisfying thing I ever coded was not a demo, it was a conversion of the old Atari classic Battlezone.
I made a filled 3D version of Battlezone in a cult-ish language called Yabasic.
I had it published on a magazine coverdisk too

pentagram · « **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2006 »

Good question Clyde.

First thing I can remember writing to completion was a game on the Speccy called the Miner's Strike. It was back in 1985 and I wrote it with my brothers. It was like Space Invaders but with policeman and you fired Miner's at them. It was written in assember and can remember my brother working on the graphics for hours at a time.

The most satisfying is two things.

The first was when I was at school and me and a mate were pissing around and we coded what you call a dot ball. Something like 144 dots spinning around. The teacher was impressed and asked if we could do a head... yeah right! We managed it in the end but looked more like a Mr Potato Head more than anything else.

The other most satisfying, and the one definate memory I have is getting vectors on the Amiga working for the first time. Me and a mate were working for weeks and weeks on getting working! It was something stupid like 4am that it finally worked, a Eureka moment

I jumped around like a maniac and woke the whole house up. We worked on it for weeks and week optimizing it, squeezing every single cycle out of the machine. Eventually we got it faster than TEC/Cryptoburners line source, which legendary as a sort of benchmark for the time.

Approaching my 35th birthday, I find more and more ideas and concepts running around my head. I've literally got a desk full of bits of paper with routines scribbled in pseudo-code and crappy drawings. Never get the time to put them into practice though which is what frustrates me more than anything else.

Shockwave · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2006 »

Life gets in the way Pentagram. Unfortunately we all get jobs and have to pay our bills.
I battle with time myself so I know the feeling all too well.
We all have to spend too much time in work, never mind.
In 30 years you'll be retired and hopefully you'll have the time to get some of them coded.

pentagram · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2006 »

hahaha collecting me pension, losing my marbles, but still programming... now that's a thought to keep me cheerful!

Doesn't help that the work that pays the bills is programming as well. If it's been too stressful the last thing I wanna do is sit down and battle away at an effect.

Saying that, I've just sat in front of Photoshop for four hours redesigning my web site!

benny! · « **Reply #5 on:** June 12, 2006 »

First of all I like to say HELLO to the forum as this is my very
first post :!: I just saw the bbs-tro an pouet and liked the threads
I read so far - so I joined.

Back to the topic - the first real fx I used to code was the typical
typewriter / telex fx. Guess that I really got into programming after
seeing the movie WARGAMES

It was my kind of helloWorld program I tend to code whenever
I started playing around with new hardware and/or programming
language. Finally I used it in a little bbs-tro on the amiga which was
my first scene-production ever. You can download it here :

http://www.weltenkonstrukteur.de/dl/ffactory.exe

The code I was most proud of wasnt a demo-fx really. It was a bbs
system I wrote completely in Basic on the Amiga. It became rather
complex and I really like working on it ...

So, no spectacular fx that really fascinates me. I really prefered the
simple stuff like starfields and so on ... call me an oldschooler if you
want

Shockwave · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2006 »

Hi Benny, welcome to the board

The intro in the link you posted is an Amiga exe I guess?

There's lots of people who love oldschool stuff here (and new stuff too).
Glad that the bbs intro has worked

We're hoping to pull in a lot more members, this board was really only just launched a couple of months ago, we were at another place a long time before that.
Feel free to chip in wherever you feel like.

benny! · « **Reply #7 on:** June 12, 2006 »

Quote from: Shockwave on June 12, 2006

Hi Benny, welcome to the board
The intro in the link you posted is an Amiga exe I guess?

Thanks for the nice welcome.
Yes. It is an amiga exe (ecs). It works on an emu like WinUAE though

Quote

There's lots of people who love oldschool stuff here (and new stuff too).
Glad that the bbs intro has worked We're hoping to pull in a lot more members, this board was really only just launched a couple of months ago, we were at another place a long time before that.
Feel free to chip in wherever you feel like.

I really like the iintro - although I have to say I am not very active atm
concerning coding demo fx. Now here and then when I have some
spare time. Nevertheless, I am in the scene for quite a long time and
still like the creativity of it.

Atm, I try to experimenting with some fx for mobile devices using J2ME.

Rbz · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2006 »

@benny: Nice Amiga intro dude, you should send it to Pouet

Btw,

Clyde · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2006 »

Yes indeedly

Benny!

Great to meet and greet you welcome aboard dude.

Cheers and all the best,
Clyde.

Rattrapmax6 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 17, 2006 »

....

Three years ago (at the age of 16 or so), my first program was:

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'--------- Begin Program ------------
PRINT "Hello world!"
'-------- End Program ------------

In QB1.1 .... XD

Favorite routine so far? hmm.... I really like motion the bluring routine I do in pure FB.. Deleter wrote a code with it, and I quickly picked up on the idea and advanced apon it, and now I can do some really awsome effects..

I don't have one routine I'm not unhappy w/, I learn everyday, so I have too many to want to think about.... Only thing I might change, is how I didn't get into a community untill 2 years after I started coding, I would have learned alot more, cause I never really challenged myself until I had any real compotition.... however, I did learn how to solve problems on my own, and I'm a better coder for that, so I guess that wasn't too bad.... =) ... plus ppl missed my 100% noob stage, they only got the 40% of what was left.. (I'm at near full geek now, w/ those slight n00b moments (like forgeting about HEX$ and writing my own Dec to Hex routine...

))

Shockwave · « **Reply #11 on:** June 17, 2006 »

Shit, why do I feel so fucking old all the time?

Everyone is younger than me.

Clyde · « **Reply #12 on:** June 17, 2006 »

We'll if its any concelation im 31 this year.

My first ever proggie was:

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10 Print"Hello ";
20 Goto 10

benny! · « **Reply #13 on:** June 17, 2006 »

I am 31, too. Damn is it normal that sceners are that old nowadays

Nevertheless, nice to see that I am not the oldest guy here ;-) To be honest
I really thought that the majority here is about 20 or even younger...

Somehow I feel relief now ..

Shockwave · « **Reply #14 on:** June 17, 2006 »

I'm probably older than all of you except Wham.

Rbz · « **Reply #15 on:** June 17, 2006 »

@Shock: Heh, we have the same age

Clyde · « **Reply #16 on:** June 17, 2006 »

Hehehehehe, everytime I ask you your age it's always different dude.
haha, you old git. :p

Rattrapmax6 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 18, 2006 »

Since when is 30+ old?

<- Is 19 going on 20 btw....

Shockwave · « **Reply #18 on:** June 18, 2006 »

It's all in the mind I guess.
In 6 1/2 years I'll be 40

DaZZaBoY · « **Reply #19 on:** June 18, 2006 »

Just turned 35 (in May) here and the feeling is GOOOOOOOOD!

Suppose it depends on the sort of lifestyle you lead. lol

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