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Angel Lazerus
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:25
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Is anyone else having trouble getting their stuff from Fast Track?
Ive been waiting scince the 14 of may for them to pull their finger out and deliver Dark Basic Pro.

First they "forgot" to prossess the order. Then it "got left behind at the depot". Then a nice lady from them called Penny delivered it to me by hand but it was Dark Basic, not Dark Basic Professional. And now it was supposed to arrive today (1/6/04) and it still bloody hasnt and now they say "There isnt anybody here who can prossess orders here today to look into it."

Unbelievable!!!

Has anybody else got tales of woe like this?

Anybody el
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:31
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I'd just like to mention here that FAST TRAK is not TGC!

"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde
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David T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:34
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Which means they're not this company, their another supplier. Ask on their forums

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Arkheii
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:36
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Quote: "(1/6/04)"


You guys have crazy date formats... mm/dd/yy over here...

I got DBC from my teacher, so yeah.

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David T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:38
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Quote: "You guys have crazy date formats... mm/dd/yy over here..."


Exactly what we are thinking.

How did you come up with month first? Is there a benefit?

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Ian T
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If you ask me, people should just use a TLA for the month. It'd simplify everything.

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M00NSHiNE
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I think the british date format is more logical, why so hard to understand? dd/mm/yy is a more logical order than mm/dd/yy because it follows them in the correct order smallest to biggest. I hate it when a date is given and you dont know which format its in. Hopefully the day is over 12 so it cant be a month, but if not you cant tell

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Peter H
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LOL!@ Moonshine- i know what you mean about the day being over 12


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Arkheii
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 19:03
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Because in a conversation, saying "June 1" sounds more logical than "1 June" or "1st of June." I just hovered my cursor over my taskbar clock, and the format is [Month] [Day], [Year].

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David T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 19:25
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Quote: "Because in a conversation, saying "June 1" sounds more logical than "1 June" or "1st of June.""


I see and use both equally. I think it's more logical giving them in the order that they come.

Year is made of up of months, month is made up of days etc.

It's like describing a time as

seconds, hours, minutes

Quote: "I just hovered my cursor over my taskbar clock, and the format is [Month] [Day], [Year]."


I just hovered over mine. It's not.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Programmatically, using mm/dd/yy could be easier than dd/mm/yy when comparing/finding differences between dates.
However, it should be converted to a Julian date beforehand anyway, so then the advantage goes....


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Damokles
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Programmatically, using yy/mm/dd would be easier !
But I prefer dd/mm/yy.

- Mind the gap -
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David T
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WHy odn't we all just talk in PHP timestamps?

I'm going to the pub at 7395660365.....

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Damokles
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 20:31 Edited at: 1st Jun 2004 20:32
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yeah ... but what about server times ? and we should have something that wouldn't be else in each country, nor in space.
I got it : Stardate 41799.7 would be the best.

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David T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 20:39
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Agreed.

Or should I go with a Vulcan "I concurr"?

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HZence
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Better yet, let's get back on subject!

DarkBASIC Professional only took about two weeks to get here. I live in the USA too, so that's not bad for overseas shipment.


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AluminumPork
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Same for me, we ordered DBP (in the US) and it came within a week. YAY!

P4 2.4Ghz HT, 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 128MB, 19" Viewsonic, 80GB HD

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David T
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2004 14:39
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DBS (as they were known back then) did have a US based Pro distributor called Real Game Tools.

Unfortunately, lack of orders meant the company went bust - Guys (the guy who ran it) disappeared without a trace.

Didn't even bother to release any patches for the editor

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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There is a sort of offical update for the editor - see the other site for details.


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las6
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2004 15:09 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2004 15:10
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lol. Gotta love that.
"the other site".

here's the link to the thread:
http://www.dannywartnaby.co.uk/rgt/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=3242


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