:) sometimes....
> > Ohter thing .... Why you want to hide your VDP handling routines ?
> > I just don�t know why the good programmers don�t want to show how to do
> > that incredible VDP tricks to the beginer proggramers ....
>
> Ah, a good magician never gives away his tricks ;-)
> Another thing may be that the code to get the trick is so unclear that
> even the programmer doesn't know anymore why it works - he's just glad
> it does ;-)
I'm sure a good programmer knows how his trick works, but I think this
"hiding" is especially important for demo-programmers (sorry Mark :) but
I think that's the way it is) because a demo is usually nothing more than
a technical trick. That's what you're selling, along with some of your ego
:) (oops not to offend anyone) If the tricks are known, the demo isn't that
much fun anymore. So there are reasons for that. It's up to you to decide if
these are good reasons...
> > I�m sure that if they open that secrets to every one we will have more
> > good programmers on the MSX ....
> True fact
I completely disagree. That's like giving a monkey a nuclear reactor and
saying "hey now you're a good engineer". Coding a bigger project like a game
or something requires a lot more than a bag of tricks. If I were to release
all of my code (which I have considered) I don't believe that it would
result in more games being made. There is a lot of hard work in completing a
complete project, and that requires skills you need to learn, for example
through practice. The actual code isn't that relevant. It's also very
difficult to work with the code of someone else, and you learn a lot more by
doing it yourself.
Good programmers are people who are willing to see a big project through
over a larger period of time. It has NOTHING to do with VDP tricks. Make a
fun game, okay?
> Eric (knows the theory behind most of these VDP tricks, but ahh..
> that damn practice)
Cas (knows theory and a lot of practice, so get coding!)
http://www.stack.nl/~cas/par/
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