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DaveTheCoder

I can beat that. My 80's Mac didn't have an Assembler, so I had to hand-code machine instructions in hex using a 68000 manual, and patch the instructions into memory. That had the side benefit of making me really familiar with the instruction set.

Kojack

My assembly programming in order: 6502, 6809, 68000, Z80, x86, ARM. ARM was my favorite (doing low level stuff for gameboy advance development), it had some interesting features like switching between arm (32bit) and thumb (16bit) modes based on whether the destination address of a jump was even or odd. Followed by 68000 (on my amiga), so much nicer than x86 (especially early x86 with the memory segment crap).

duane

Oh, you're forcing me to dig down deep.

Hey, it had switches and a read-out. I don't think mine had a solar cell, but it came with lots of wires and little springs. :)

Nerdzmasterz

Nice!

fire7side

C#, python and java are all right. You really don't need the speed of c anymore and you have to manage your memory which is a pain. Python I like the best because it has classes and it looks better because of forced indentation. If you want speed, then Rust is really the way to go, but for one person game development, you are better off with a scripting language. c or c++ just slows you down. Blueprints are fine. It's just something to get used to. You aren't a real programmer because you use c. You are most likely a low level programmer or someone on a huge team.

Nerdzmasterz

C++ is like... DOTS for Unity. It's a layer underneath the other programming languages that are being used, which means faster processing speed, not coding speed.

some_lame_kid

If it has switches and a readout, I think it counts. I just looked it up, and those are surprisingly cheap.

some_lame_kid

@cybereality said: I might have an extra laptop in the closet. When I get back home from the trip I can check and see what I have left. I know I don't have any more gaming laptops but I might have something that's not too old.

Are you offering a laptop?

Nerdzmasterz

@Nerdzmasterz said: C++ is like... DOTS for Unity. It's a layer underneath the other programming languages that are being used, which means faster processing speed, not coding speed.

I probably didn't make sense when I spoke of DOTS, didn't I? It's hard to explain that programming languages are created using other programming languages, such as C++.

Nerdzmasterz

@duane said: Oh, you're forcing me to dig down deep.

Hey, it had switches and a read-out. I don't think mine had a solar cell, but it came with lots of wires and little springs. :)

Same. Once, I tried to understand binary.

There are 10 different kinds of people- those who understand binary, and those who don't.

cybereality

@some_lame_kid said:

@cybereality said: I might have an extra laptop in the closet. When I get back home from the trip I can check and see what I have left. I know I don't have any more gaming laptops but I might have something that's not too old.

Are you offering a laptop?

Yes, but don't expect anything too high end. PM me and let me know what apps you need to work.

cybereality

I never used Assembly, but as part of my computer science program I had to write a program for the original Turing machine in my head.

DaveTheCoder

That raises an interesting idea. Could we learn to execute programs in our head? It would be especially useful if we could do it in the background, while engaged in other activities.

Nerdzmasterz

I saw a vid where a guy used brain waves to control objects, using a set of Necomimi ears. It was the weirdest thing.

Nerdzmasterz

Like control a mouse, a robot, and I think something else.

Kojack

I learned Z80 assembly using one of these: It was at college, we had a bunch of these and hooked them up to oscilloscopes to view the state of various cpu pins while it ran.

DaveTheCoder

Ever used a logic analyzer to debug a program in an embedded system? You can't look at much data at a time, but if you add some bit flags to indicate different states, you can monitor them by looking at the data lines between the CPU and RAM.

cybereality

Some silly drama from a Godot hater. https://godotes.com/issues/the-curator-who-hates-godot/

Nerdzmasterz

Let's prove that Godot is amazing by pumping out games.

fire7side

@cybereality said: Some silly drama from a Godot hater. https://godotes.com/issues/the-curator-who-hates-godot/

Kind of an example of a do nothing critic. He can't write games so he critiques the people who can write games. In a lot of ways I would agree with him, but not on the art or game engine, but on the lack of originality of many games, including AAA titles. 2d games, and pixel art games are sold cheaper or given away for free because the developers know they don't compare to high end graphic games in that aspect, but many beat them out in game play and originality. However a lot are pretty much copies also. One of the only action games I play is a low res voxel game called flipping legends on android. The graphics could be amazing and it would be the same game, because it transcends graphics. However there are open world games with amazing graphics that do kind of take your breath away. Even those, though, if there isn't good game play, will get old very fast. They need a critic rating system on Steam so this type of critic would be on the bottom of the barrel.

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