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 Ythan
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 My first program evar
#8596990 - 07/05/08 10:40 AM (1 month, 23 days ago) |
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 doomania.zip (87,343 bytes)
16 downloads [Copyrighted?]
I was going through some old floppies at my parents' house and I found a backup of one of the first programs I ever wrote. It's a Doom frontend from 1995, written in QuickBASIC. Much to my astonishment it even still runs, although the mouse support is sketchy in XP. I post it as an example of how not to write code. I ended up having to redo large portions of it to stay under QB's 64K source code limit; unfortunately the updated code is probably lost to the ages although I did open-source the program before abandoning it so it may still be floating around somewhere. I think I made about $50 off this when all was said and done, which just goes to show what could pass for commercial software back in the day.  Anybody else have historic examples of their work collecting e-dust on a disk somewhere?
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 Penguarky Tunguin
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 Re: My first program evar [Re: Ythan]
#8597167 - 07/05/08 11:52 AM (1 month, 23 days ago) |
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Unfortunately no. But during the heyday of the first Half-Life I made some kickass custom levels. I released them to a few multiplayer "clans"  and get some positive feedback and even had one of the developers express interest in hiring me to do others until he found out I was 15.
I made this awesome Saving Private Ryan level with sandbags, towers, scripted AI events and tracking scripts to follow you as you made it up the beach and into the bunkers. I had it all cinematic too where you would run into enemy soldiers hiding in trenches along the way. I even through in ambient war sounds. The level took forever, but I had a blast doing it, even though scripting was a bitch.
Not to mention the level editor back then was fucking daunting considering I'd never seen anything like it.
Damn, I wish I would have saved those.
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maggotz
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Re: My first program evar [Re: Ythan]
#8600424 - 07/06/08 11:10 AM (1 month, 22 days ago) |
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haha, i've taken a couple programming courses but nothing major. i've always found programming interesting, even fun. i remember i made little programs of every card game i knew and a bunch of little math apps for shit i used in later math classes. pretty basic stuff but i had fun. 
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Re: My first program evar [Re: Ythan]
#8604793 - 07/07/08 04:38 PM (1 month, 21 days ago) |
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A few years ago (I think it was when I bought my house in '01 and went through a bunch of old stuff during the move) I finally threw away a stack of 5 1/4" floppys that I had been packing around since about 1984 or 85. I took a computers class in High School back then and learned some BASIC and a little Pascal. Had an Aplle IIe at home and wrote a few simple programs and games. But after 15 years I couldn't see the point in keeping those old disks, and doubted that the data had survived anyway, so out they went.
Sure would be fun to see those programs again. I don't really even recall what any of the games were like or what the programs I wrote did. 
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Re: My first program evar [Re: Ythan]
#8607389 - 07/08/08 08:16 AM (1 month, 20 days ago) |
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I used to toy around with Qbasic when I was 12 or so, writing small little "pick up key" "use key" type text based adventure games. I'd always run into a snag though with the variables and I'd have to scrap it. I used to be all about the programming but it's just not my cup of tea anymore. I miss those days where you could walk around a flea market and find new and hidden gems in the pile of crap they had laid out.
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