Richard I was trying to help you see how the typical employer would read your linkedin page (and most of employers do look at them.) It doesn't matter whether or not you really did have a software business at age 6. What matters is how that looks to someone reading that resume. Either they categorize you as a teller-of-big-tales, or they categorize you as much older than you are. Neither will help you. I didn't challenge your claims - I suggested that you revamp your resume.
I've tried too many times with you. I like Bloopox's approach: any further responses by you to any of my posts will incur a $100 service charge for me to read them.
Oct 27, 15 1:54 pm ·
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curtkram,
part of our role as forum posters is to not respond to RWCB PBD posts in threads we don't want killed.
this thread had run it's course by the time it was derailed, but if there was interest in the original topic, the rest of us should have kept our posts on topic rather than posting about R's professional ambitions. if you don't want threads to die, don't contribute to their death.
I second that. If a poster's post is not on topic or tangently, forum posters chooses to contribute to the off topic/tangent or stay on topic. It is like a fork in the road where you choose left or right. If you continue on the fork that is off topic or a tangent off from the original topic, it continues to depart from the original topic. More often, it is you guys who brings up my background but my experience and background isn't necessarily the normal path in life.
dammit tintt! this is exactly why no one makes enough money in architecture!
Oct 27, 15 4:24 pm ·
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Olaf,
In computer science / video game or software development:
A sprite (also called a 'missile' on the Atari 8-bit computers and similar equivalents called BOBs or Bitmap OBjects like on the Amiga) is a 2 dimensional bitmap 'object' that moves around the screen, typically, over the background bitmap layer. There is hardware and software sprites and that can be more complicated for non-computer savvy people to understand without understanding a little bit about the hardware level of computer video chips, its hardware architecture, etc.
On the Commodore 64 with its VIC-II video chip, the video chip has hardware sprites. Typically 8 hardware sprites at a time (but tricks can be done to make it appear from a human perspective of passage of time to be a lot more). They typically operate like a layer over the background.
Atari 400/800 computer used a different terminology and how they operate and are generated on the screen is a little different at the technical side.
You can think of sprites bitmap objects on their own layer. TI-99/4A had a layer approach but sprites did have limits of how many pixels on X and Y axis. They can be moved around on the screen. On the TI, the sprites were each a layer and can give an illusion of depth because when a game program sets register values (memory mapped locations used to configure the video display controller) for the sprites so some sprites can be above or below other sprites or you can set the register for collision so when sprites are over the same location on the screen (in part or in full) to be either 0 or 1. Which in turn can be used as an event trigger like when player's spaceship and an enemy spaceship collides and therefore explodes and you deduct the number of lives by one. When number of lives equals 0, you display GAME OVER.
Bottom line: we are talking about 2d bitmap data structure and handling hardware events.
Alternatively, one can emulate hardware sprites via software sprites but instead of hardware assisting the process, you have variables and logic handling and memory management so as to preserve the 'underlying' bitmap data of the main background bitmap or even the sprite when you do sophisticated tricks to make bitmaps appear to move behind components on the screen.
Ultimately, you are talking about a 2d bitmap data structure. Software sprites are often structured as a kind of array data structure.
Since the approach of sprites varies depending on the specific context, these responses are pretty much based on classical perspective.
Oct 27, 15 4:45 pm ·
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I'll charge $1 per binary bit that I have to read of other people's posts or their responses or respond to and charged by the bit.
Oct 27, 15 4:48 pm ·
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Assuming charset is UTF-8: That varies from 8 bits to 48 bits per character. That can make me wealthy even at $0.01 per bit.
I second that. If a poster's post is not on topic or tangently, forum posters chooses to contribute to the off topic/tangent or stay on topic. It is like a fork in the road where you choose left or right. If you continue on the fork that is off topic or a tangent off from the original topic, it continues to depart from the original topic. More often, it is you guys who brings up my background but my experience and background isn't necessarily the normal path in life.
Olaf presented the fork in the road (sprites), and you took off sprinting full speed down that fork. Can the users of the forum expect a little more discretion from you in the future when a fork in the road is presented ... ie. can you reign yourself in?
Dudes taking about Atari and Commodores like he's got a competitive advantage. While I'm messaging from an iPhone. Essentially a computer the size of a deck of cards.
Exactly how will you make money as a programmer? You will never make down from the attic.
but how many sprites at a time on a C128? and what was the command in 128 to enter into Assembly Code?
I made shitty joystick/sprite games in C128 back in the day, i would of been 11+/-....so not sure why everyone is getting all worked-up about Balkin's age and track record. Even an architect at 11 could copy code and change it and hack games....
made a version of this (Atari Game), but the sprite was the little guy below and made touchstone (movie intro) moons
and no i'm not Balkins, before you get all worked up.
Oct 27, 15 6:23 pm ·
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rob_c,
Sprites are not a new thing in the world of computing. Modern PCs are utilizing the same concepts for hardware and software sprites. Often, they are using software sprites like BOBs or BLOBs (BLitter OBject which is a bitmap object created and moved around with assistance of the Blitter) on the Amiga computers and AmigaAnywhere 2 API for Windows, Linux, and some other devices. Bottom line: we are often using bitmap images even if isn't in .bmp (Windows Bitmap format). They are still raster/bitmap graphics.
Often with a method of processing image data so bitmap values of a certain value will be treated as transparent if it isn't the lower layer in the stack.
I reference these classic platforms because they were hallmark examples of the concept of hardware/software sprites, the concepts of screen layers as well. They are well documented at that hardware level.
While, a modern PC can be tricky because saying they have hardware sprites is a half-truth as not all video cards are equipped with GPUs with hardware sprites. Add to that, many models of smart phones and tablets don't have hardware sprites but they do have 3d graphics so they either tax the CPU processing with software sprites or they tap the GPU's 3d processing power and simulate 2d hardware sprites and 2d games. With these modern systems, they had drop hardware sprites so as to free up space on the silicon die for more modern 3d graphic hardware and keep cost down because the target market is for 3d gaming not 2d games.
It won't necessarily be as memory efficient but it would arguably be more cpu efficient on such given platform when they can tap a pretty powerful (contextually speaking) GPU.
From someone with my years of experience, they aren't really 'sprites' to me but just a 3d object simulating 2d by turning off a perspective view but use a orthographic view of 3d space.
It's different.
How would I make money in software/video game development? I wouldn't make money. That would be a printing press thing. I would receive money through sales of software either directly or via a publisher. I would receive money through things like item shop if it is an online multiplayer game or things like that. There is many avenues for generating capital as a business. That takes time to determine which business model matters.
You make a false assumption that I would make the big capital from Commodore / Amiga or Atari. Nope. They maybe an avenue for some capital. However, I'm not necessarily doing that. I'd look at something more contemporary. castAR equipped computers/mobile devices?
I do have devices like an Android tablet, fairly modern PC with a GeForce GTX 960.
Balkins, you've had 10+ years. You can't make money doing anything. You live in your parents attic or sometimes basement.
Get therapy with your Obama care, finish a degree (any 4 year degree) get a job, get an apartment, and try to enjoy your life along the way.
I won't invoice you for this.
Oct 27, 15 7:00 pm ·
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Olaf,
but how many sprites at a time on a C128? and what was the command in 128 to enter into Assembly Code?
I made shitty joystick/sprite games in C128 back in the day, i would of been 11+/-....so not sure why everyone is getting all worked-up about Balkin's age and track record. Even an architect at 11 could copy code and change it and hack games....
made a version of this (Atari Game), but the sprite was the little guy below and made touchstone (movie intro) moons.
Cool.
Command was: MONITOR
or insert a disk with an assembler and load the program using the appropriate Load command. It's good that you understand what I am talking about. We both know what a sprite is and there is plenty of documentations. In the C128, if you were talking the 80-col. VDC, that would be 0 hardware sprites. When it comes to the VIC-IIe chip in the C128 (128 variant of the C64's VIC-II)... you have 8 hardware sprites on a line. You can get more on screen but it has been known that one can get quite a few more on-screen via sprite multiplexing. That can be done with both hardware and software sprites.
255 or so software sprites are known to have been done in the past. White Lightning -- Basic Lightning had 255 or so software sprite capability.
Doing so in ML is quite possible. Hardware sprite multiplexing and software sprite multiplexing is possible at the same time but exact limit is dependent on available clock cycles available without going to the point where you see glitches on the screen.
When you create new games from the grounds up, that's just progress of programming skills. I agree, anyone can start to learn programming by starting with type in programs, making changes but over time, if you want to really learn and advance in software development, you get to do more than just a few hacks. You get designing the video game or application. There is more to software development than programming as there is more to architecture than drafting. I'm sure we both can agree on that last point.
Oct 27, 15 7:06 pm ·
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rob_c,
I hadn't been doing much in programming for awhile. You have to have a burning passion for something to create.
Building design isn't like software development in that it is a business that depends on clients wanting a custom home design. That had been the business model.... custom home / building design. Problem is, no one wants to pay money for it. After about 3 years in, we had a catastrophic recession. It has only been recently that people even want to spend money to do remodels, decks, ramps, etc. The reason is people holding off because of the aura of uncertainty that the President and the entire FUCKING U.S. Congress had been totally dead on arrival and none of those assclowns had done anything to make meaningful improvement of the economy and the horrible incompetence of all of them had made recession drag on for so long.
Oregon has one of the highest minimum wage in the entire country and it has been straining. What does that mean, it means recovery from the recession is slow and when people are migrating to cheap states with little regulation (comparatively), that is where they are moving. It isn't easy to make money on people who don't even want architects/designers to design their homes. They feel we are just too expensive or otherwise too much for designing for our own desires and interests and not the client because we have too much of the self-centered artist mentality as a reputation.
How can we change that?
I'm at a point where I am getting closer to being sick and tired of this f---ed up profession. At the same time, I am wondering why I am not yet giving up on it. A strange tenacity... who knows.
If one of you can get over here into Astoria area and make a real change of public perception of architecture and architects, I would apply to your firm in a heart beat.
I want to see good architects.... here in Astoria. We practically don't have a single real architecture firm in the area. It's controlled by the builders and the engineers. Hmmm... architects ran to the hills (well Portland/Seattle-----big cities..... during the recession).
OLAF WILL ATTEMPT TO TURN THIS INTO AN ARCHITECTURE DISCUSSION...schau mal!
You can get more on screen but it has been known that one can get quite a few more on-screen via sprite multiplexing.
Remember reading something similar when I was 11, made no sense. I spent more time making graphics than developing interactive stuff and yeah hacking is easy.
I also tried MONITOR once or twice but didn't have the wherewithall to follow through. Wanted to create code from ground up, this should make sense to any architect.
Hacking is the best way to learn Construction Drawings, but once you understand how to build it's funny to look at younger architects hacking the details, often major errors, that only someone who has built can spot.
You kind of go in reverse, you start with copy-paste and you end up in ASSEMBLY code as an Architect with materials. I'm finally getting there after 13+ years of architecture.
Randomly met a young massive internet upstart company for a walk-thru for an ownership the other day (had no idea who they were, mentioned them to others in the office and they damn near smacked me), and doing lots of upstarts, and just learned another client is a serious APP developer, it's a totally different world now than in the Commodore days. i don't think any of the kids understand this. Facebook is AOL 10 years later. An APP is a computer program....etc...nothing new, just new market that's into it. MUDDS and chatrooms vs IM's and Forums, etc...
You start as BIG and after 20-30 years you'll be lucky to practice like Ando.
Diagrams are in a sense a hack of architecture, it's abstracted, not the real or complete process, and easy to copy-paste, that's why everyone latches on quickly. It's easy to understand and repeat cheaply.
A waterproofing detail is closer to Assembly code and building code from ground up, each material, each fastener, each chemical must work together and a copy-paste doesn't always work....actually rarely works. as Construction materials are constantly changing so an appropriate detail 5 years ago won't work today. tools change both software and hardware. at some point you have to understand Assembly of materials to understand Architecture in full, otherwise you're just hacking it.
Custom home design - by skilled architects - has never been an option available to the masses. It's always, since the dawn of Architecture, been a luxury for the wealthy. I'd argue that an Architect-designed home is probably *more* widely available now than it's ever been before. I'm not sure what you're on about.
If you're doing custom homes, you're limiting yourself to the wealthiest few percent. Astoria is not a wealthy town. Even their civic projects are a struggle. I'm not at all surprised you're having trouble there.
You can't refuse to diversify and then complain about a lack of clients. If you want to serve a larger middle-class population, look to development. If you want to serve your city, try drumming up interest in public projects. If you want to design custom homes, move to Lake Oswego.
at some point you have to understand Assembly of materials to understand Architecture in full, otherwise you're just hacking it.
++Olaf
Oct 27, 15 7:38 pm ·
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Thanks Olaf. Thanks for re-framing it back into architecture.
Good job.
Oct 27, 15 8:03 pm ·
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tduds,
Custom home design - by skilled architects - has never been an option available to the masses. It's always, since the dawn of Architecture, been a luxury for the wealthy. I'd argue that an Architect-designed home is probably *more* widely available now than it's ever been before. I'm not sure what you're on about.
If you're doing custom homes, you're limiting yourself to the wealthiest few percent. Astoria is not a wealthy town. Even their civic projects are a struggle. I'm not at all surprised you're having trouble there.
You can't refuse to diversify and then complain about a lack of clients. If you want to serve a larger middle-class population, look to development. If you want to serve your city, try drumming up interest in public projects. If you want to design custom homes, move to Lake Oswego.
I agree with you on the diversifying. I'm sure you know I am a building designer. That aside, I agree that there has to be some diversification options.
By the way, where about are you?
In the diversifying, I'm still trying to figure out how to negotiate the hurdles. I'm currently looking at a current need in the area.... affordable housing. It isn't the end game but possibly a step forward.
Development sounds interesting but it comes with its challenges to navigate.
I still have hair on the top of my head and generally don't wear glasses.
Oct 27, 15 9:15 pm ·
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Wow, without counting this message and linked images, since: 5:00PM, I just made $107,208 if I charged $1 per bit if I were to collect. For 1.5 hours, that would be awesome and if I gave a 10% kickback donation to Archinect forum, that would have earned the forum admins, $10,720.80.
Wouldn't that be something if that was collectible.
C16 Load Runner...look I was like 10, so Telnet stuff, not sure, but this one kid pretended to hack into a US Military base, I say pretend because later I figured out how to make a flashing "access" screen in C128....
the guy may live in a basement, but your damn nuclear power plant will blow when you telnet baby ;) traffic lights will get fucked....all from behind a screen.
Did not learn much from this game /\ Leisure Suit Larry....
by the way if you really want to fuck with humanity, giving out free APP ideas - read Douglas Coupland's Doppelgangers, make a business APP, trust me, people will be paying non-people to do their job....
Oct 27, 15 9:48 pm ·
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null pointer,
Investors / VCs, yeah... they generally don't like to invest in housing. ROI rate is too long and slow.
I have a better shot talking to investors in investing for software projects but you know, you have to show them a project... first and second, you're going to need to attract their attention through crowdfunding campaign being a negotiation leverage and third: you are going to need to incorporate your business and give them some share percentage of ownership.
I'm not exactly looking at starting off buying land unless I downright buy the property and then do the development in-house.
Oct 27, 15 9:52 pm ·
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Olaf,
You can always casually play at your convenience. Responsibilities, first.
The guy in the Old Navy hoodie, had worked for Microsoft and currently a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon.
Then there are a few other fellows. It was originated as a impromptu mini-convention that Mr. Mohr and I came up with to work some sort of coordinated event because several people were all passing through the area around the same time... Mr. Bernardo, Ms. Ellsworth, and some others. So, it was like, hey, why not kinds of get together and synchronize the timing that they would be in the area so it became a form of social gathering.
After all, it would make a bit of sense to get people altogether at the same place at pretty much the same day and relative time. Then for a number of years, this was done.
It had its fun moments. For some, it is an opportunity to meet these individuals in person which otherwise would just be people from different areas with interests in Commodore computers. Sure, many of us have newer computers for practical things but we also share an affinity to the Commodore computers as for many of us it was our first computer or one of our first computers that got us into computing.
Some of us still use these computers to some degree. A lot of times, it is to play the classic Commodore 64 games with the real machine. For some of us who still do some programming for the computers, we still have the real machine to test on. The emulators are good but they aren't perfect and it is just sometimes what you got to do to make the software run perfectly.
I have my C64 & C128 and 128D and a couple Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 as well as several other computers.
It's kind of like classic cars for some people. You may have a prius or honda civic to drive to work on the day to day. But you have that classic car that you drive to show but not the day to day.
Sure, a 1980s computer will have great difficulty doing many of the things a modern PC will be able to do but so what. There are things in life that isn't about strict practical reasons.
Oct 28, 15 12:49 am ·
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Olaf...
If I knew anyone or had any involvement in the 'hacking' (the cyber-crime), it wouldn't be in my interest to say anything.
As far as the nuclear games and all.... sounds like Defcon 5 from Cosmi.
As for dabbling into networks.... I've done a few ol' surfing the networks. Now, I can't say for sure which computer network or BBS that you were on back in the day but I had been on a number of networks like Quantum Link (Q-Link) and some other networks and BBSs. Some of them, can get pretty expensive calling unless.... never mind. It is probably best not to.
Scorched Earth? Balkins you want to make millions? develop my app idea, once the technical is sorted out I can take care of the rest,know enough people in that world to make it happen. yiu get my App idea working you will make IBMs little AI information finding jeopardy playing robot seem fake vs a Douglas Couplan doppelganger. essay is worth a read.
someone here just posted a pic of RWCB PBD at a bar in 2008? i don't see how that contributes to the discussion. not that there is much of a discussion to contribute too, but still.
are we supposed to be upset that RWCB PBD went to a bar in 2008? that met people irl that he originally met online? surprised that there are pictures of him online? impressed with doxing abilities? just don't get it. i know he can be annoying at times, but there is a point where the poor guy should just be able to live his life.
Seeing Richard outside is like seeing a penguin in the dessert.
Oct 28, 15 5:16 pm ·
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I don't care if there were photos of me there. Why wouldn't there be? It's just stuff that's part of life and activities even outside modern PC stuff or Architecture/Building Design.
It's okay to meet people in real life over common interests with people originally met online.
I relate it to Comicon, various RPG conventions, Auto shows / conventions, etc. Some times, the events are big, sometime the events are small.
This is probably more of a small gathering compared to some of the larger Commodore conventions that are more common in the mid-west parts of the country.
If I had more money to spend or otherwise, the time, I would travel to some of these every so often.
toy story bonnie house style
fucker's busy coding web frameworks in assembly. #butteringbreadwithanaxe
Richard I was trying to help you see how the typical employer would read your linkedin page (and most of employers do look at them.) It doesn't matter whether or not you really did have a software business at age 6. What matters is how that looks to someone reading that resume. Either they categorize you as a teller-of-big-tales, or they categorize you as much older than you are. Neither will help you. I didn't challenge your claims - I suggested that you revamp your resume.
I've tried too many times with you. I like Bloopox's approach: any further responses by you to any of my posts will incur a $100 service charge for me to read them.
curtkram,
part of our role as forum posters is to not respond to RWCB PBD posts in threads we don't want killed.
this thread had run it's course by the time it was derailed, but if there was interest in the original topic, the rest of us should have kept our posts on topic rather than posting about R's professional ambitions. if you don't want threads to die, don't contribute to their death.
I second that. If a poster's post is not on topic or tangently, forum posters chooses to contribute to the off topic/tangent or stay on topic. It is like a fork in the road where you choose left or right. If you continue on the fork that is off topic or a tangent off from the original topic, it continues to depart from the original topic. More often, it is you guys who brings up my background but my experience and background isn't necessarily the normal path in life.
balkins what is a Sprite?
I'll read Richard's posts for $35 each. Does not include responses.
dammit tintt! this is exactly why no one makes enough money in architecture!
Olaf,
In computer science / video game or software development:
A sprite (also called a 'missile' on the Atari 8-bit computers and similar equivalents called BOBs or Bitmap OBjects like on the Amiga) is a 2 dimensional bitmap 'object' that moves around the screen, typically, over the background bitmap layer. There is hardware and software sprites and that can be more complicated for non-computer savvy people to understand without understanding a little bit about the hardware level of computer video chips, its hardware architecture, etc.
On the Commodore 64 with its VIC-II video chip, the video chip has hardware sprites. Typically 8 hardware sprites at a time (but tricks can be done to make it appear from a human perspective of passage of time to be a lot more). They typically operate like a layer over the background.
Atari 400/800 computer used a different terminology and how they operate and are generated on the screen is a little different at the technical side.
You can think of sprites bitmap objects on their own layer. TI-99/4A had a layer approach but sprites did have limits of how many pixels on X and Y axis. They can be moved around on the screen. On the TI, the sprites were each a layer and can give an illusion of depth because when a game program sets register values (memory mapped locations used to configure the video display controller) for the sprites so some sprites can be above or below other sprites or you can set the register for collision so when sprites are over the same location on the screen (in part or in full) to be either 0 or 1. Which in turn can be used as an event trigger like when player's spaceship and an enemy spaceship collides and therefore explodes and you deduct the number of lives by one. When number of lives equals 0, you display GAME OVER.
Bottom line: we are talking about 2d bitmap data structure and handling hardware events.
Alternatively, one can emulate hardware sprites via software sprites but instead of hardware assisting the process, you have variables and logic handling and memory management so as to preserve the 'underlying' bitmap data of the main background bitmap or even the sprite when you do sophisticated tricks to make bitmaps appear to move behind components on the screen.
Ultimately, you are talking about a 2d bitmap data structure. Software sprites are often structured as a kind of array data structure.
Since the approach of sprites varies depending on the specific context, these responses are pretty much based on classical perspective.
I'll charge $1 per binary bit that I have to read of other people's posts or their responses or respond to and charged by the bit.
Assuming charset is UTF-8: That varies from 8 bits to 48 bits per character. That can make me wealthy even at $0.01 per bit.
I second that. If a poster's post is not on topic or tangently, forum posters chooses to contribute to the off topic/tangent or stay on topic. It is like a fork in the road where you choose left or right. If you continue on the fork that is off topic or a tangent off from the original topic, it continues to depart from the original topic. More often, it is you guys who brings up my background but my experience and background isn't necessarily the normal path in life.
Olaf presented the fork in the road (sprites), and you took off sprinting full speed down that fork. Can the users of the forum expect a little more discretion from you in the future when a fork in the road is presented ... ie. can you reign yourself in?
Exactly how will you make money as a programmer? You will never make down from the attic.
Everyday Intern,
After everyone else reigns themselves in and stick to the topic.
I'll charge $1 per binary bit.
binary bit.
binary binary digit.
"ATM Machine"
but how many sprites at a time on a C128? and what was the command in 128 to enter into Assembly Code?
I made shitty joystick/sprite games in C128 back in the day, i would of been 11+/-....so not sure why everyone is getting all worked-up about Balkin's age and track record. Even an architect at 11 could copy code and change it and hack games....
made a version of this (Atari Game), but the sprite was the little guy below and made touchstone (movie intro) moons
and no i'm not Balkins, before you get all worked up.
rob_c,
Sprites are not a new thing in the world of computing. Modern PCs are utilizing the same concepts for hardware and software sprites. Often, they are using software sprites like BOBs or BLOBs (BLitter OBject which is a bitmap object created and moved around with assistance of the Blitter) on the Amiga computers and AmigaAnywhere 2 API for Windows, Linux, and some other devices. Bottom line: we are often using bitmap images even if isn't in .bmp (Windows Bitmap format). They are still raster/bitmap graphics.
Often with a method of processing image data so bitmap values of a certain value will be treated as transparent if it isn't the lower layer in the stack.
I reference these classic platforms because they were hallmark examples of the concept of hardware/software sprites, the concepts of screen layers as well. They are well documented at that hardware level.
While, a modern PC can be tricky because saying they have hardware sprites is a half-truth as not all video cards are equipped with GPUs with hardware sprites. Add to that, many models of smart phones and tablets don't have hardware sprites but they do have 3d graphics so they either tax the CPU processing with software sprites or they tap the GPU's 3d processing power and simulate 2d hardware sprites and 2d games. With these modern systems, they had drop hardware sprites so as to free up space on the silicon die for more modern 3d graphic hardware and keep cost down because the target market is for 3d gaming not 2d games.
It won't necessarily be as memory efficient but it would arguably be more cpu efficient on such given platform when they can tap a pretty powerful (contextually speaking) GPU.
From someone with my years of experience, they aren't really 'sprites' to me but just a 3d object simulating 2d by turning off a perspective view but use a orthographic view of 3d space.
It's different.
How would I make money in software/video game development? I wouldn't make money. That would be a printing press thing. I would receive money through sales of software either directly or via a publisher. I would receive money through things like item shop if it is an online multiplayer game or things like that. There is many avenues for generating capital as a business. That takes time to determine which business model matters.
You make a false assumption that I would make the big capital from Commodore / Amiga or Atari. Nope. They maybe an avenue for some capital. However, I'm not necessarily doing that. I'd look at something more contemporary. castAR equipped computers/mobile devices?
I do have devices like an Android tablet, fairly modern PC with a GeForce GTX 960.
Get therapy with your Obama care, finish a degree (any 4 year degree) get a job, get an apartment, and try to enjoy your life along the way.
I won't invoice you for this.
Olaf,
but how many sprites at a time on a C128? and what was the command in 128 to enter into Assembly Code?
I made shitty joystick/sprite games in C128 back in the day, i would of been 11+/-....so not sure why everyone is getting all worked-up about Balkin's age and track record. Even an architect at 11 could copy code and change it and hack games....
made a version of this (Atari Game), but the sprite was the little guy below and made touchstone (movie intro) moons.
Cool.
Command was: MONITOR
or insert a disk with an assembler and load the program using the appropriate Load command. It's good that you understand what I am talking about. We both know what a sprite is and there is plenty of documentations. In the C128, if you were talking the 80-col. VDC, that would be 0 hardware sprites. When it comes to the VIC-IIe chip in the C128 (128 variant of the C64's VIC-II)... you have 8 hardware sprites on a line. You can get more on screen but it has been known that one can get quite a few more on-screen via sprite multiplexing. That can be done with both hardware and software sprites.
255 or so software sprites are known to have been done in the past. White Lightning -- Basic Lightning had 255 or so software sprite capability.
Doing so in ML is quite possible. Hardware sprite multiplexing and software sprite multiplexing is possible at the same time but exact limit is dependent on available clock cycles available without going to the point where you see glitches on the screen.
When you create new games from the grounds up, that's just progress of programming skills. I agree, anyone can start to learn programming by starting with type in programs, making changes but over time, if you want to really learn and advance in software development, you get to do more than just a few hacks. You get designing the video game or application. There is more to software development than programming as there is more to architecture than drafting. I'm sure we both can agree on that last point.
rob_c,
I hadn't been doing much in programming for awhile. You have to have a burning passion for something to create.
Building design isn't like software development in that it is a business that depends on clients wanting a custom home design. That had been the business model.... custom home / building design. Problem is, no one wants to pay money for it. After about 3 years in, we had a catastrophic recession. It has only been recently that people even want to spend money to do remodels, decks, ramps, etc. The reason is people holding off because of the aura of uncertainty that the President and the entire FUCKING U.S. Congress had been totally dead on arrival and none of those assclowns had done anything to make meaningful improvement of the economy and the horrible incompetence of all of them had made recession drag on for so long.
Oregon has one of the highest minimum wage in the entire country and it has been straining. What does that mean, it means recovery from the recession is slow and when people are migrating to cheap states with little regulation (comparatively), that is where they are moving. It isn't easy to make money on people who don't even want architects/designers to design their homes. They feel we are just too expensive or otherwise too much for designing for our own desires and interests and not the client because we have too much of the self-centered artist mentality as a reputation.
How can we change that?
I'm at a point where I am getting closer to being sick and tired of this f---ed up profession. At the same time, I am wondering why I am not yet giving up on it. A strange tenacity... who knows.
If one of you can get over here into Astoria area and make a real change of public perception of architecture and architects, I would apply to your firm in a heart beat.
I want to see good architects.... here in Astoria. We practically don't have a single real architecture firm in the area. It's controlled by the builders and the engineers. Hmmm... architects ran to the hills (well Portland/Seattle-----big cities..... during the recession).
OLAF WILL ATTEMPT TO TURN THIS INTO AN ARCHITECTURE DISCUSSION...schau mal!
You can get more on screen but it has been known that one can get quite a few more on-screen via sprite multiplexing.
Remember reading something similar when I was 11, made no sense. I spent more time making graphics than developing interactive stuff and yeah hacking is easy.
I also tried MONITOR once or twice but didn't have the wherewithall to follow through. Wanted to create code from ground up, this should make sense to any architect.
Hacking is the best way to learn Construction Drawings, but once you understand how to build it's funny to look at younger architects hacking the details, often major errors, that only someone who has built can spot.
You kind of go in reverse, you start with copy-paste and you end up in ASSEMBLY code as an Architect with materials. I'm finally getting there after 13+ years of architecture.
Randomly met a young massive internet upstart company for a walk-thru for an ownership the other day (had no idea who they were, mentioned them to others in the office and they damn near smacked me), and doing lots of upstarts, and just learned another client is a serious APP developer, it's a totally different world now than in the Commodore days. i don't think any of the kids understand this. Facebook is AOL 10 years later. An APP is a computer program....etc...nothing new, just new market that's into it. MUDDS and chatrooms vs IM's and Forums, etc...
You start as BIG and after 20-30 years you'll be lucky to practice like Ando.
Diagrams are in a sense a hack of architecture, it's abstracted, not the real or complete process, and easy to copy-paste, that's why everyone latches on quickly. It's easy to understand and repeat cheaply.
A waterproofing detail is closer to Assembly code and building code from ground up, each material, each fastener, each chemical must work together and a copy-paste doesn't always work....actually rarely works. as Construction materials are constantly changing so an appropriate detail 5 years ago won't work today. tools change both software and hardware. at some point you have to understand Assembly of materials to understand Architecture in full, otherwise you're just hacking it.
Custom home design - by skilled architects - has never been an option available to the masses. It's always, since the dawn of Architecture, been a luxury for the wealthy. I'd argue that an Architect-designed home is probably *more* widely available now than it's ever been before. I'm not sure what you're on about.
If you're doing custom homes, you're limiting yourself to the wealthiest few percent. Astoria is not a wealthy town. Even their civic projects are a struggle. I'm not at all surprised you're having trouble there.
You can't refuse to diversify and then complain about a lack of clients. If you want to serve a larger middle-class population, look to development. If you want to serve your city, try drumming up interest in public projects. If you want to design custom homes, move to Lake Oswego.
at some point you have to understand Assembly of materials to understand Architecture in full, otherwise you're just hacking it.
++Olaf
Thanks Olaf. Thanks for re-framing it back into architecture.
Good job.
tduds,
Custom home design - by skilled architects - has never been an option available to the masses. It's always, since the dawn of Architecture, been a luxury for the wealthy. I'd argue that an Architect-designed home is probably *more* widely available now than it's ever been before. I'm not sure what you're on about.
If you're doing custom homes, you're limiting yourself to the wealthiest few percent. Astoria is not a wealthy town. Even their civic projects are a struggle. I'm not at all surprised you're having trouble there.
You can't refuse to diversify and then complain about a lack of clients. If you want to serve a larger middle-class population, look to development. If you want to serve your city, try drumming up interest in public projects. If you want to design custom homes, move to Lake Oswego.
I agree with you on the diversifying. I'm sure you know I am a building designer. That aside, I agree that there has to be some diversification options.
By the way, where about are you?
In the diversifying, I'm still trying to figure out how to negotiate the hurdles. I'm currently looking at a current need in the area.... affordable housing. It isn't the end game but possibly a step forward.
Development sounds interesting but it comes with its challenges to navigate.
Is this Balkins?
Nah, that looks like someone else I know.
I still have hair on the top of my head and generally don't wear glasses.
Wow, without counting this message and linked images, since: 5:00PM, I just made $107,208 if I charged $1 per bit if I were to collect. For 1.5 hours, that would be awesome and if I gave a 10% kickback donation to Archinect forum, that would have earned the forum admins, $10,720.80.
Wouldn't that be something if that was collectible.
Profundus Maximus
At 1-cent per bit..... That would have been.... $1072.08 and 107.28 cents for Archinect.
Wouldn't I be richer than Donald Trump in a year?
If it was collectible like that.
Unless you change your name, development isn't for you.
You'll have a tough time having investors take you seriously with those ignorant diatribes.
Continue.
Olaf,
out of casual 'computing retro fun', I have a telnet accessible BBS with an internet based telnet client link.
Link: http://wavestar.x10host.com/indexbbs.html
One can also telnet directly to it. At least they should be able to through a more direct link: http://wavestar.ddns.net
As long as I keep it sync'd to my external IP address.
More BBS door games can be installed or even created if I so choose to implement.
Balkins - trying to work here man....or not
C16 Load Runner...look I was like 10, so Telnet stuff, not sure, but this one kid pretended to hack into a US Military base, I say pretend because later I figured out how to make a flashing "access" screen in C128....
you know any of these kids
the guy may live in a basement, but your damn nuclear power plant will blow when you telnet baby ;) traffic lights will get fucked....all from behind a screen.
Did not learn much from this game /\ Leisure Suit Larry....
by the way if you really want to fuck with humanity, giving out free APP ideas - read Douglas Coupland's Doppelgangers, make a business APP, trust me, people will be paying non-people to do their job....
null pointer,
Investors / VCs, yeah... they generally don't like to invest in housing. ROI rate is too long and slow.
I have a better shot talking to investors in investing for software projects but you know, you have to show them a project... first and second, you're going to need to attract their attention through crowdfunding campaign being a negotiation leverage and third: you are going to need to incorporate your business and give them some share percentage of ownership.
I'm not exactly looking at starting off buying land unless I downright buy the property and then do the development in-house.
Olaf,
You can always casually play at your convenience. Responsibilities, first.
fucking, crazy just realized, my oldest daughter who is 7 is really into Minecraft and Stranded Deep now....
Minecraft....vs Loadrunner?
The real RWCB, PBD in his natural habitat http://www.dickestel.com/images/expo365.jpg
JBeaumont,
The guy in the Old Navy hoodie, had worked for Microsoft and currently a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon.
Then there are a few other fellows. It was originated as a impromptu mini-convention that Mr. Mohr and I came up with to work some sort of coordinated event because several people were all passing through the area around the same time... Mr. Bernardo, Ms. Ellsworth, and some others. So, it was like, hey, why not kinds of get together and synchronize the timing that they would be in the area so it became a form of social gathering.
After all, it would make a bit of sense to get people altogether at the same place at pretty much the same day and relative time. Then for a number of years, this was done.
It had its fun moments. For some, it is an opportunity to meet these individuals in person which otherwise would just be people from different areas with interests in Commodore computers. Sure, many of us have newer computers for practical things but we also share an affinity to the Commodore computers as for many of us it was our first computer or one of our first computers that got us into computing.
Some of us still use these computers to some degree. A lot of times, it is to play the classic Commodore 64 games with the real machine. For some of us who still do some programming for the computers, we still have the real machine to test on. The emulators are good but they aren't perfect and it is just sometimes what you got to do to make the software run perfectly.
I have my C64 & C128 and 128D and a couple Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 as well as several other computers.
It's kind of like classic cars for some people. You may have a prius or honda civic to drive to work on the day to day. But you have that classic car that you drive to show but not the day to day.
Sure, a 1980s computer will have great difficulty doing many of the things a modern PC will be able to do but so what. There are things in life that isn't about strict practical reasons.
Olaf...
If I knew anyone or had any involvement in the 'hacking' (the cyber-crime), it wouldn't be in my interest to say anything.
As far as the nuclear games and all.... sounds like Defcon 5 from Cosmi.
As for dabbling into networks.... I've done a few ol' surfing the networks. Now, I can't say for sure which computer network or BBS that you were on back in the day but I had been on a number of networks like Quantum Link (Q-Link) and some other networks and BBSs. Some of them, can get pretty expensive calling unless.... never mind. It is probably best not to.
Scorched Earth? Balkins you want to make millions? develop my app idea, once the technical is sorted out I can take care of the rest,know enough people in that world to make it happen. yiu get my App idea working you will make IBMs little AI information finding jeopardy playing robot seem fake vs a Douglas Couplan doppelganger. essay is worth a read.
Maybe so, but not so much for tea.
someone here just posted a pic of RWCB PBD at a bar in 2008? i don't see how that contributes to the discussion. not that there is much of a discussion to contribute too, but still.
are we supposed to be upset that RWCB PBD went to a bar in 2008? that met people irl that he originally met online? surprised that there are pictures of him online? impressed with doxing abilities? just don't get it. i know he can be annoying at times, but there is a point where the poor guy should just be able to live his life.
+curt
It was in response to Brud-G's unflattering cartoon, and Rick's subsequent assertion that he has hair. I was confirming that. I didn't notice a date.
It's nice to see that Richard has a life beyond this forum.
and Richard met your mom at the bar and took her home.....
JBeaumont,
Actually, it was a pizza parlor which happens to have beer and other such drinks available for those of age. Basically a pizza parlor + bar.
http://www.dickestel.com/mossycon4.htm
Astoria does happen to have a significant beer culture for a town its size.
Why are you addressing that to me? I didn't state anything regarding the setting of the photo.
Seeing Richard outside is like seeing a penguin in the dessert.
I don't care if there were photos of me there. Why wouldn't there be? It's just stuff that's part of life and activities even outside modern PC stuff or Architecture/Building Design.
It's okay to meet people in real life over common interests with people originally met online.
I relate it to Comicon, various RPG conventions, Auto shows / conventions, etc. Some times, the events are big, sometime the events are small.
This is probably more of a small gathering compared to some of the larger Commodore conventions that are more common in the mid-west parts of the country.
If I had more money to spend or otherwise, the time, I would travel to some of these every so often.
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