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What do points make? Prizes!
Oh, no, that's somewhere else.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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A bit of futility has never harmed anyone.
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I can't even count that high.
I think eight comes next, but I'm not sure.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Helping you improve your English - not being a pedant...
And there was no rejoicing.
** People from 'up North'* might say 'there were no rejoicing" but they're wrong.
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Want to know where the people who are self-proclaimed not pedantic, but still correct other peoples spelling and telling them they're wrong come from...? 
I can give a hint, Pete doesn't live there
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Are you suggesting "darn sarf"?
I certainly don't come from darn sarf, me old mucker!
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Thanks !
"y" was indeed a mistake. I was almost 100% positive it was "were" though. My bad.[^]
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Never fear. I'm close, but don't hold your breath.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Here's something I jut discovered that I had completely forgotten about!
back in my youth, I wrote for various computer magazines under a different name (long story!)
Anyhoo - one month for a magazine I reviewed all of the available Doom map editors (AKA WAD editors, after the .wad file suffix for maps)
And I published the wad I created.
And I had completely and utterly forgotten about it.
Then, looking for something entirely unrelated - I found you can still find it on the interwebs[^]!
Now I'm going to be scouring them webs for more stuff what I did!
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link blocked by IT police
I know that feeling : I used to (modestly) belong to the demo scene and made music using a tracker[^] when I was young. Some of the tunes I made are still available on the Interweb...
[edit] looks like markdown and wiki links are not compatible 
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OMG! I'd forgotten about trackers! I even wrote a player for one at one point!
E experimented with 'reversing' the wave as it played, on one channel (so the waveform was reflected about the x axis) so it didn't play backwards, but the 'polarity' was reversed.
Gave a fantastic 3d sound effect if you reversed just one channel.
I'm guessing that's how 2-speaker surround works! i should've kept it up!
Also (and this is something I'm not sure many people know!)
If you look at a side-scrolling game, with a bit of parallax going on, and cover one eye with sunglasses (I took a sunglass lens and used it 'monocle-style) there's a great 3D visual effect.
I had dreams of combining the two - but I was reviewing freeware games and utilities at the time, so having far too much fun playing with other people's toys 
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Maxxx wrote: If you look at a side-scrolling game, with a bit of parallax going on, and cover one eye with sunglasses (I took a sunglass lens and used it 'monocle-style) there's a great 3D visual effect.
They used that effect in a Dr Who special in 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensions_in_Time[^]
It's called the Pulfrich effect[^]
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Damn! Pultrich died in 1927 - so I can't claim the name 
Yet another thing I've independently invented
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Trackers where awesome... and on the subject of follys of youth, I was and still am the only person who ever wrote (or even attempted to write) a protracker player for the 32k BBC Model B micro
h_8-Bit[bootfile]_[SSD]/122920">http://www.emuparadise.me/Acorn_BBC_Micro_ROMs/Music_Tracker_v1.01_(1993)(DSPD)h_8-Bit[bootfile]_[SSD]/122920[h_8-Bit[bootfile]_[SSD]/122920" target="_blank" title="New Window">^]
While it didn't technically play the sampled sound, it did a reasonable conversion of loading the first 3 channels, then converting them to note data that was then played on the computers built in sound chip.
PS: Sorry about the messy link, it's not my doing, that was just the first of the "Emu Nostalgia Sites" I found that has it available, here's a bit.ly link to the same destination : http://bit.ly/1FD7MBF[^]
I did later on (along with help from "The Yorkshire Boys") figure out how to play digital sound samples on the machine, a feat that was in itself quite remarkable for a machine with such little power. (A 2 mhz 6502 with 32k of memory, of which only about 18k was useable)
Shawty
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I still remember the first tim I heard "CITADEL" come out of the Beeb's speaker!
I was excessively annoyed because I had argued with my Father that the processor would not be fast enough to play back digitised sound! Of course, I'd done the math with 'real' sound frequencies - it didn't occur to me that by reducing the quality one could still manage it!
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Well you have Me and Henley Hacker from the Yorkshire Boys to mostly thank for that. We discovered and exploited a bug in the BBC's sound chip that allowed sampled sound to be played. Henley and the rest of TYBs then went on to make the exploit very popular with their mix mania disks, while I published a couple of "Docs" on how it was done and created a couple of SDK's and "Replayer" routines.
Before we knew what was happening, all most every Game publisher in the BBC market pretty much over night started adding sampled sound to their games..
I might still have the original disks with my docs and such like on somewhere, whether their readable or not is another matter altogether however.
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The folly of my youth is actually someone else's folly, some guy named St. Francis, St. Francis Folly[^]
Awesome soundtrack too!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Then, looking for something entirely unrelated - I found you can still find it on the interwebs[^]!
'Twould appear that I already have a copy, given that I downloaded the entire D1 & D2 wad databases.
I'll give it a whirl, tonight, and hurl abuse and insults at you tell you how it went, tommorrow.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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O (as they say) M (possessively) G!
I am impressed not only that you have all the WADs but that you apparently have a working copy of Doom accessible!
don't hold our breath for the map - it was just demonstrating a 'feature' that allowed you to be in a room full of baddies who wouldn't harm a hair on your head!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: you apparently have a working copy of Doom accessible!
DooM 1 (Ultimate), DooM 2, and Final DooM.
I just copy them to the same location, every time I get a new machine, and they just work. Best money I ever spent.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Marc Young, huh? Sounds a lot better than PooperPig... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Oui! It 'as a leetle of ze French, do you not think Monsieur?
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No. Actually, PooperPig sounds more French to me...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Cool story, bro!
Seriously, I think this is cool. I used to love playing Doom. 
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