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Hybrid1973
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 13:29
In other forums is considered polite to introduce yourself at the first access; so I'm here. (I've been searching for the "welcome messages folder" but I didn't found).

Hi my name is Simone, I'm from Italy and I apologize for my english; sometimes it's not good enough.

By the way: one of my interests is programming and I started my "career" in the remote 1987 with Commodore64. Is for this reason may be, that I fell in love with basic language that is my favourite still today.
When I learned about existance of a directX programming basic I finally entered the world of darkbasic.
I'm relatively new to it but I'm very interested about and I found very useful your threads.
I'm not programming the "chance in a lifetime", just small and unuseful code.
I hope to be helpful to you all, because you have been very very helpful to me.

Hybrid1973
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 15:44
Hello and welcome to the forums.

Don't worry about your English, I am sure you will pick it up the more you post here. I hope you enjoy your stay on the forums and continue to find everything you need. If you have any questions, please ask and I am sure people will be helpful. But also, we're quite social, so don't be afraid to post here in Geek Culture.

xplosys
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 15:59 Edited at: 29th Oct 2011 16:04
Hybrid1973,

You're not S1m0ne the hot robot, are you? If you are... please post pictures. I still have a working C64 here somewhere. Maybe I'll go find it this weekend and hook it up to the TV.

Welcome to the forum.

Brian.

!retupmoc eht ni deppart m'I !pleH

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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 16:49
Welcome to the terrifying abyss that is the Game Creators forums. And as Seppuku said, don't worry about your English, no one here will mind (and also, it seems to be fine to me - you may speak better than some of our native members... no one in particular, of course )

Quik
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 17:01
Quote: "don't worry about your English, no one here will mind"


thats a lie... most people here mind...
I cant remember how many times i've been yelled at for saying i am and not Iam.. or is it the other way around? whatever.. xD


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Indicium
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 17:04
I'm sure you would start getting fairlyannoyed if I stopped putting spaces between my words.

Welcome to the forums.

Hybrid1973
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 17:35
thanx everybody!
Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 18:33
Quote: "I cant remember how many times i've been yelled at for saying i am and not Iam.. or is it the other way around? whatever.. xD"


Well, okay, there's some folk, but I'm sure they'll have some restraint for people learning the language. Usually people tend to be flattered if you try to speak their mothertongue but when it comes to English, people seem to expect people who speak it to be fluent.

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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 19:35
Quote: "Usually people tend to be flattered if you try to speak their mothertongue"


Oh darling dear. Let me bake you some of mummy's homemade apple pie, and then wash your sockies and panties, mummy's little snoogle pimms!!!

That's what you meant by your mother's tongue, right?

Hybrid1973
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 19:41
I would like to improve my english. No problem if someone underline some uncorrect words or syntax errors. I grew up with syntax errors!!
Obviously - if possible - I'd like polite manners
xplosys
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 20:09
I think I speak for all of us when I say, "lets just leave your mothers tongue out of this". How did we go from "Hi there" to "your mothers tongue" in less than one page. Please people, try to stay on topic. Jeeesh!

Brian.

!retupmoc eht ni deppart m'I !pleH

Alucard94
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 20:18 Edited at: 29th Oct 2011 20:19
Your mother's tongue is so fat th-

If nothing else being on here will definitely help you learn english. Welcome friend.

Hello, I am Seb.
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 20:37
Welcome to the TGC forums. Proper english not required


dont hate people who rip you off,cheat and get away with it, learn from them
fallen one
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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 20:56 Edited at: 29th Oct 2011 20:58
Bonjourno
C64, I remember it well, Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior, one of my favorite games, the cover was modeled by the beautiful glamor model Maria Whitaker, and Michael van Wijk, none other than what would later be Wolf from Gladiators TV show, a friend of mine once booked him, as well as Jet from Gladiators and also Gary Taylor World Strongest man part of his catastrophic failed bodybuilding/fitness show, which put him 20k into debt, and this is 20k in the early 90s, so that's an even higher figure in todays money.
My other favorite C64 game is Dropzone, easily the best game made on C64, Ive been wanting to create an inspired verion from these 2 games in AppGameKit, I find it difficult to find programmers to hire, so I have been looking to learn programming myself.


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Posted: 29th Oct 2011 22:13
Oooh, the Vic-20 is what I had...

Most people in these forums are that used to deciphering I wouldn't worry too much about the ingleesh bit. It's a bit like understanding someones voice in the static on a CB radio.

Welcome by the way... And get programming...

Mental arithmetic? Me? (That's for computers) I can't subtract a fart from a plate of beans!
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Hybrid1973
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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 00:11
C64, vic20 and many more...
I don't wanna be annoying for the young people of this forum and I'm open enough for appreciate advantages of today's programming approach;
but to type software for C64 was not the same thing is typing code today.
C64 (and its other contemporaries computer) was a stand-alone system with 32 kilobytes in RAM and less than 1 megahertz in CPU speed. Next year you could find no faster GPU in the shop and no more memory and nothing else.
It was complete.
Programming a C64 meant to know its internal architecture; playing a suond, giving a certain color to a sprite, draw graphics on screen and everything else, meant put the right byte in the right memory location. The POKE statement was very frequent in a c64 basic program; this means that machine language programmng was easier than it could be today.
I still remember some relevant addresses and I still have (somewhere) the complete description of every memory location and what it's for.
Programmers could count only on hardware and their own ability.
The best game was the better developed. A programmer could make it's own game all alone.
This policy still works today on standalone system like consoles but is a restricted area for companies that can buy very expensive programming kit and hundreds of people are needed to do a game.
Personal computers on the contrary are always slave of the next year hardware that will make the game running fast (even if bad programmed) and will make your PC obsolete.

So - youg programmers - forgive me when I talk about the good times gone but - I think - it's the truth.
But we're the luckiest; we've got darkbasic!
Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 00:52
Welcome! I'm glad you actually introduced yourself properly!

If you stay like you are now, you'll fit in just fine!

Welcome to the Forums

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The Slayer
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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 18:49
Quote: "Oh darling dear. Let me bake you some of mummy's homemade apple pie, and then wash your sockies and panties, mummy's little snoogle pimms!!!

That's what you meant by your mother's tongue, right?"

Is that how us foreigners need to speak English? Wooooow!

Quote: "Programming a C64 meant to know its internal architecture; playing a suond, giving a certain color to a sprite, draw graphics on screen and everything else, meant put the right byte in the right memory location. The POKE statement was very frequent in a c64 basic program; this means that machine language programmng was easier than it could be today."

You're absolutely right, Hybrid1973! I used to program on a C64 too. Man, that was so awesome. I had a cartridge on mine and with that you could see/change the code of any program/game in memory. That's how I learned a bit of assembly, and machinecode. I remember assembly commands like rts, lda, jmp, xor.
I still miss my old C64. But like you said, we still have DBpro.

Welcome on the forums!

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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 18:55
Quote: "I'm sure you would start getting fairlyannoyed if I stopped putting spaces between my words"


faitly sure it isnt exactly the same thing
more like writing 2 words together, which goes together but there should still be a space inbetween..

or atleast thats how i see it lol


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 19:55 Edited at: 30th Oct 2011 19:55
Sothedistinctionwouldbethedifferencebetweenthisparticularsentence.

And this particular one, I amcorrect no?

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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 21:11
Quote: "Is that how us foreigners need to speak English? Wooooow!"


Yeah, it's all about regional dialect. Where Sep comes from, Snoogle Pimms is the only way to refer to someone politely.

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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 22:12


Suddenly I have this image of all the chavs in my town referring to each other as 'snoogle pimms', if they did, I'd have a much higher opinion of where I live.

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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 22:59
Quote: "Snoogle Pimms is the only way to refer to someone politely"


.. and for that reason Sep, they'll continue to use shoe and bum. Have no fear, Snoogle Pimms.

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Posted: 30th Oct 2011 23:28
Quote: "more like writing 2 words together, which goes together but there should still be a space inbetween.."


I have stayed out of this 'Iam' thing since it started ages ago. I don't care what you write but the 2 words don't just go together. When 'I' and 'am' go together it's a contraction and it's written like this: I'm.

When this first came up you said you did it this way (Iam) because it's quicker and you're lazy. But Iam and I'm is the exact same amount of keystrokes.

Anyway I couldn't care less... not when there is awesome trolling to be had over in the BF3 thread.

Anyway Hybrid1973, welcome to the forum. There are many interesting debates to be had here, and fun for all.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2011 02:29
Don't worry at all about grammar, and ignore anyone who gets angry at you about it. Welcome to the forums.
A small piece of advise: use fulcrum physics or Dark Dynamics for physics instead of Dark physics.
I probably won't talk to you much though. I am mostly on the Dark GDK part of the forum.... Mostly...


Hybrid1973
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Posted: 31st Oct 2011 13:35
I won't worry about who gets angry about my grammar errors; anyway I wouldn't dislike to receive istructions about how improve english too.

Although Italy is a small peninsula, it's quite popular due to great people of the past; everyone in the world know about Roman Emperor which has marked half europe giving similar languages to France, Spain, Italy and (significanty less) in Romania too.
The most know about the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, Assassin's Creed 2 takes place in Tuscany, Indiana Jones in "and the last Crusade" find a passage under Venice, Rome is the capital of Christian religion and in music you can find dynamics symbol like "molto forte", "pizzicato" or you can find the speed of a song called "tempo", "allegretto", "andante" all Italian words.

Surely my people has marked history but today Italy is famous for it's prime minister, for mafia, pizza, spaghetti & mandolino and if you see italians on movies, they surely wear a hat, sun glasses and you can hear sicilian accent in their words.

What we can do? The world is going worse and every country follows it's decline or vice-versa.

But lets stop talking about tongues, lets return in topic and lets speak about a language that we share: darkbasic.

Sincerely thanx to everybody.
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Posted: 31st Oct 2011 15:32
Quote: "But Iam and I'm is the exact same amount of keystrokes"


but i'm is uncorfimatble < i have no idea how that spells..> to spell...


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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2011 23:20
Quote: "I won't worry about who gets angry about my grammar errors"

At least yew dont tlk like dis.... lol

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Posted: 6th Nov 2011 00:23
Hello there Simone... a warm welcome to my second home... for ehich I do not claim tax for... lol... and a place I have been calling home for about a year now... I love it here and hope you too will feel the same too.

On another note... the falloff or spinoff from your ancestors the Romans... we the British left out mark too... Fish & Chips... however it seems more like football fights and silly politicians now...

Eitherway... Hi

(hi five for the outdated politician joke)

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