In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Simon Cooke writes: > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Zambonini writes: > >> Yeah! Power to those on the net who are also spoddy enough to be on > > ^^^^^^ > >what. > >any sam-users read usenet? or is everyone too busy writing pointless assembly > >routines for an outdated 8-bit machine? > > I read Usenet, sure. But I do have lots of better things to do with my time > too. >
It's great when you come back from the pub, if you can still read. > And any assembly routines I write are 100% pure useful-for-other-things. > First of all, it hones my writing skills, and secondly, a good many can be > transplanted to other projects on other machines. If you like. I suppose assembly is okay if you can do it well, i tended to make loads of real stupid mistakes, so even writing a scroller took me an afternoon. High level languages take care of all the trival crap, leaving you free to concentrate on the programming. > > >marc broster > > If anyone's wondering, I assume that this is the same Marc Broster who wrote > the DWC demo on Fred 50... with its absolutely appalling perspective. Yuck. > Other than that, it was a technical masterpiece. I must say though, that if > I had to take up nearly 512k to do the 3d graphics routines for a game, I'm > sure I wouldn't have room in the memory to do Elite afterwards. If you need > THAT much memory for a 3d line drawing routine, you're doing it *WRONG*. Yep, that's me. You taking the piss with the 'Other than that, it was a technical masterpiece'? (scarcasm doesn't travel too well over ascii) If your not, thanks for the compliment, i'd like to know what sections of the code you're on about. I'd give you an explaination on how i used 512k for the demo (would have used more if available) on tuesday, i'am going away for the weekend, and i'am too tired to type now. > > He's also a fellow member of Mnemotech with David Zambonini. True, but it's doubtfull i'll be doing anything else on the coupe. I've been meaning to write a neural network in C, which i suppose i could compile using sam-C, but i seem to be spending most of my time reading AI books and downloading alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless. sigh. marc broster
