Problem - "IDS?"
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adoxa wrote:
My first computer was the Amstrad CPC 464Ah… the classic Z80! From CP/M to Pac-Man to military flight avionics, it is a classic.
Was that machine your motivator to become fluent in assembly language?
Your documentation may be terse but it usually does the job. Headers in the source are more important than readme files.
The only thing I ever had trouble with was the “topics” in Console… I kept typing “help ships” until I finally figured out that I should type “help player” instead.
@Startrader: So, if I understand your story correctly, then you were partially responsible for creating that Y2K problem in the first place?
(Just kidding)
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Far from it, I was not a sysprog, sadly - I would be earning tons of money today if I had gone that way instead of fixing processors. Actually the majority of our problems were in disk and tape subsystems and printers as processors became more reliable.
My involvement with the sysprogs was because I had overall responsibility for a major customer who had 3 large systems, the largest in the UK, and I had to prod and poke our sysprogs in supporting that customer with (continuous!) quick fixes to the Operating Systems and applications and utilities - hence the stacks of dumps. That happened in two stages in my career, and sysprogs were integral to our hardware teams.
And then in the late 90’s I was involved in supporting those ICL customers via the 2 sysprogs who were making the fixes for them. Somehow, IBM systems were not so affected but IBM nonetheless made an awful lot of money selling “Y2K-compliant” upgrades!
adoxa - OK, how about making me or BW your Technical Writer? Tell him what it’s supposed to do, and he can write your docs while you bash out more utilities.
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Sure, if you’d like to write the docs, I’ll update the zips. I just feel that for these basic utilities, the normal help screen is enough. But as you point out, only for those that know to use the command line.
Learning assembly was just a natural progression, since that was basically the only choice after BASIC. I did have a Pascal compiler, but it produced 10K programs at a minimum, which is quite a lot when you have to load it from tape. All the editors I used were line-based, glad those days are over. When I first saw Turbo Pascal’s syntax highlighting, I was so impressed, I managed to do it for BASIC listings. One of the most useful things I ever wrote. Had a few type-ins published (one in an Aus mag and three in two UK mags).
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Cool.
I don’t envy you doing the type-in assembly work but, on the other hand, you developed an awesome set of skills from having done it.
Here is a DLL-building Tutorial for the people who do not already have a C++ compiler:
How to Compile a .DLL from a .RC Script
I think that StarTrader was just kidding about not knowing how to run a console app. If there is real interest, I could make a tutorial on that, as well. However, I assume that most modders already know the basics of how to use their computers.
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Needs a nice post to balance that “last” one…
My 1st PC… if you could call it that, was a Oric 16k… i still have her
& the manual & program book (i spent 6 days coding space invaders only to mess it at the end when i went to load it down to my tapedrive… dam…) thing had the strangest keyboard you’ll ever see… more like today’s pda raised keys than an actual keyboard… fun times.But yepers… even those that are quite good at scanning code & learning therefrom need a quick guide every now and then as to what does what for that, n, stuff
If anything it helps more on the “foggy” days when i just aint at 100%. -
Xarian_Prime wrote:
Needs a nice post to balance that “last” one…If you thought something was not “nice” then it was probably a translation error, Xarian.
I posted a tutorial with screenshots, offered to make another tutorial, complemented adoxa, and StarTrader already said that he was kidding.
This entire thread has been “nice”! Sorry if the jokes don’t always translate properly… I have found humor to be the most difficult thing to understand in other languages.
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<st punches=“” the=“” rofl=“” button=“” he=“” doesn’t=“” have…=“”>:D</st>
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StarTrader wrote:
“and then when I have published the fix and made the mod stable, I will retire from FL gaming”BOOOOO…
This would suck tremdously large donkey appendage…
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lolz… i meant “my” last post… ye know, the one about doors 'n a$$es… :pint:
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Xarian_Prime wrote:
lolz… i meant “my” last post… ye know, the one about doors 'n a$$es… :pint:Definitely a translation error there… that was your first post in this thread!
So I obviously have no clue what “last post” you are talking about, but thank you for your “clarification”.
I think…
:S
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CynicalRaver - You did What? You sucked a donkey’s appendage???!!! Is this a regular thing you do?
Well I know I wouldn’t be telling anyone if I had.
Care to translate?
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LOL
No…
Im just saying would blow if you stopped FL stuff.
Who would i bother with my noobish questions?
FriendlyFire? - Prob ban meGypsy
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Yeh, he came close to banning me!
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Btw - is there anyway to replace this “IDS?” by “Unknown” for example?
Theoreticaly when the number is wrong for ids_info for example it must be = null? -
Oh thx! Searched IDS? but it is “I D S ?”. Huh.
