You design games! Whoah! What company do you work for??? Designing video games is one of my life's goals. I'm currently reading a big fat book on c++, but I'm not sure yet on which compiler is the best. I've got a good feeling about MS Visual C++, but I'm just not sure. Can you recommend one to me? Pretty please?

As for which compiler to use, it depends on a few things: your machine, what you want to do, your platform, your experience, etc.

I use MS Visual C++ and g++, and I also do some code in asm (68k, and SPARC).

Cheers,
Hush.

P166
32MB RAM
13.3 GIG HD
Matrox Mystique (4MB I think)
6x4x12x (Burn/Re-Write/Read) burner
8x Creative CD-Rom
15 inch Dell UltraScan

soon: (probably a...)

AMD K7800MHz
13.3 GIG HD
3DFX Voodoo 3 3500
6x4x12x (Burn/Re-Write/Read) burner
19 inch moniter (some sort)

older computers (rarely used)

4 486's
I think they are all 486 66MHz CPUs
most are 8MB RAM, some maby 4MB RAM
only 3 moniters in house (15 inches I think, one is on my P166)
HDs I know of -- 100MB, 235MB, 325MB, 2.5GIG, 13.3GIG (13.3GIG on P166)
CD-Rom in one of the 486's, dual-speed (2x) I think
250MB tape drive in 486

all I can think of..

I run:

Windows 98
Slackware 7.0 (along with WindowMaker)
Windows 3.1
Redhat 6.0
Dos 6.2

Cable modem attatched to NT4 firewall/Inet host, which connects via 2nd ethernet card to 8 port hub, which connects to:

An NT4 file server with 2 external disk arrays
A multi-headed win98 machine
A Win2k machine
A Mandrake Linux box
A Sun Ultra 10 workstation <- kicks winblows ass on everything, except software availability.
An HP jetdirect connected laser printer.
2 APC Smartups 700 w/ Ethernet SNMP cards.

Plus the Cybex Autoview Commander 8 port console switch, Flatbed scanner, Logitech Wingman force feedback steering wheel, and the MS sidewinder joystick.

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/Gadget

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there always is."

K-6 2 400
128 ram
TNT
10-gig hd
cheeep NIC
SB PCI 128
cheeeeep 17'' screen

My friend has the most badass comp..

Athlon 800
192 ram
20gig hd
geforce w/ 64 megs DDR ram OC'd to where no chip has gone before
cheep 19'' tho
sb live player
AND A VIDEO PROJECTOR. it kicks ass.

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If you believe that taking smoke into your lungs is harmless, you are an idiot.

Celeron 566 o/c'd to 850 mhz using golden orb cooling and iwill slotket2 converter
Abit BE6-II MB
128 mb pc100 sdram cas 2 latency
Voodoo 3 2000 (I want a geforce2 bad)
19" Gateway Monitor (ev900)
Panasonic 3rd gen DVD ROM
Hollywood+ DVD decoder w/tv out
crap Philip's 2x2x6 burner
Sound Blaster Live value
Altec Lansing surround speakers/sub
Hewlett Packard remote for winamp/dvd volume control.
Windows 98 is the OS (if there was something else more stable and ran as many GAMES, I'd use it but for now windows is it.)