Author | Comment |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 23 May 2004 20:58 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | I voted "12+" in the poll.
So far I have nothing constructive to add. Oh, I finally got some of my software back, most of you never heard about it. I'm resurecting my Grand Canyon Chasers project and it was renamed to Mordor Hunting Grounds (I named it that before I even heard of the movies). Well, I'm at a predicament. I'm replacing The Voyager (from Star Trek) with either a B2 Bomber, or the SR-71 Blackbird. I want to know which you guys think is the coolest and why. |
allynfolksjr Administrator
Posted: 24 May 2004 06:29 GMT Total Posts: 1892 | B2, stealth with superior flight systems. The SR-71 is an antiquated plane, and has little use anymore. Other than going fast. :-) |
dysfunction Goliath Posted: 24 May 2004 09:01 GMT Total Posts: 122 | It goes fast and high, but has zero maneuverability and barely carries enough fuel to fly itself, let alone weapons. B2 pwns SR-71. But instead of either I would use a B-1: very fast, very maneuverability, high weapons load, some stealth ability. Plus they just look awesome. |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 24 May 2004 11:09 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | I don't know of many places with free meshes and out of those I do know, one B1 Lancer Bomber exists. Whats you guy's take on the F-117 Nighthawk? |
BullFrog Wraith Posted: 24 May 2004 15:16 GMT Total Posts: 623 | F-22 Raptor is better. *cough, cough* :img20:
--- "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 24 May 2004 15:52 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | Sees avatar, thinks about texturing, looks for model. Sorry, no go. I'm currently using an A-10 Warthog and a Hind. Armarments have not yet been fully decided. |
BullFrog Wraith Posted: 24 May 2004 16:54 GMT Total Posts: 623 | Phooey. F-117 would work pretty good then, if you can get it to.
--- "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 24 May 2004 17:05 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | Have had it for some time now. |
BullFrog Wraith Posted: 24 May 2004 20:13 GMT Total Posts: 623 | Excellent. How's it look?
--- "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
spiral Wraith Posted: 24 May 2004 22:15 GMT Total Posts: 958 | SR-71 goes way faster and is way sleeker than B-2, pfft. |
BullFrog Wraith Posted: 25 May 2004 14:07 GMT Total Posts: 623 | They have different purposes. The SR-71 is meant for recon, and the B-2 for attacking. They suit their respective roles just fine.
--- "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 25 May 2004 19:34 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | Here is a pic of all three. Its large BTW. Do to the settings of the environment, they will be a little harder to see, but I want a black ops look. A few notes: I have to double check the site for a higher polygon F-117, those are not scaled, I need to change the smoothing on the F-117 (stupid error).
Pick one
I hate html. Z, you have a little user interface stuff to do :)
[Edited by Digital on 26-May-04 04:45] |
PhilosopherEd Goliath Posted: 26 May 2004 04:38 GMT Total Posts: 134 | alright, does anyone else think that asm programming isn't really calculator programming. i mean, the end result works on the calculators, but i believe only BASIC can count as a true calculator language. |
BullFrog Wraith Posted: 26 May 2004 14:16 GMT Total Posts: 623 | The language of the calculator is the language its processor "speaks." Therefore, assembly is the only true calculator language.
Of course that doesn't mean there can't be interpreters...
[Edited by BullFrog on 26-May-04 23:16]
--- "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
PhilosopherEd Goliath Posted: 26 May 2004 16:52 GMT Total Posts: 134 | true as that may be, i don't think you grasped what i was trying to say. although asm is in the calc's language and runs on a calculator, i believe that one who programs for it should not be called a calculator programmer persay. after all, programming on a computer and then putting it on a calculator doesn't really qualify as working with your calculator, as BASIC does. My point here is that the people who master BASIC, not ASM, are the true calculator masterminds since they actually work hand-in-hand with the equipment. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 26 May 2004 19:41 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | Don't hate on assembly just because asm games are better than BASIC ones!! :) |
BullFrog Wraith Posted: 26 May 2004 21:00 GMT Total Posts: 623 | Your original posting said that you believe BASIC is the only true calculator language.
However, the language of the calculator is the language of its processor. BASIC is not the language of the processor.
Though I do follow you on working with the hardware, but not necessarily agree...
--- "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 26 May 2004 21:11 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | Bull! "work hand-in-hand" How do you think ASM and C were first brought to the public. People went digging into the OS and learned what made it tick. You can change any little setting though ASM, something BASIC can't. Thats more like hand-in-hand.
Oh, and BASIC is converted to TI's ROM calls which are made in [very bad] ASM.
[Edited by Digital on 27-May-04 06:15] |
PhilosopherEd Goliath Posted: 27 May 2004 04:31 GMT Total Posts: 134 | sure you can do more with assembly, and assembly is better, but you need a computer to use them. instead of being a calculator programmer, all asm and C programmers are doing is computer programming. sure, somebody had to "dig in to the OS" at first, but you even need a separate computer for that. as said before, BASIC programmers are the real experts with actually using a calculator... |
BullFrog Wraith Posted: 27 May 2004 13:31 GMT Total Posts: 623 | Uh-huh. Don't follow. You need to know a heck of a lot more about the calculator to use assembly.
--- "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
PhilosopherEd Goliath Posted: 27 May 2004 13:36 GMT Total Posts: 134 | no, you just need to know about computers and specs to use asm. knowing the processor doesn't qualify as "knowing" the calculator. after all, someone that doesn't even own a calculator can program in asm. however, you need the calc to actually do BASIC. |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 27 May 2004 14:59 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | Man Phil-e, your making no logical sense to more than one person. The only reason why you can program BASIC on the calc is because TI made an interface to do so. Guess what there is also an interface to program ASM too. You can find it at calc.org or click here. It the first one. Also, if TI didin't provide the Flash App for BASIC, you would then be forced to program BASIC in GraphLink. Oh, and besides the header information, one can program BASIC in NotePad. In other words, you don't even need a calc to program BASIC. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 27 May 2004 17:31 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | Ya, digital is right. if you change a BASIC prgm to a .txt file, you can edit it. [yet most of it will be wierd ASCII characters, though]. Also, you really do NEED to know about the calc in order to program it in asm. |
dysfunction Goliath Posted: 28 May 2004 08:13 GMT Total Posts: 122 | Yeah, although the basics of asm are the same for every calc from 73 to 86, their are many hardware-specific differences. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 28 May 2004 16:49 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | ya, that's why you hear about the different builds for different calcs |
Evil Kirby Dragoon Posted: 30 May 2004 20:16 GMT Total Posts: 55 | I'm with Phil Ed. He makes sense. Also, BASIC rules!...
...because I only program in BASIC and don't know asm. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 31 May 2004 21:52 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | I'm learning assembly right now [again], and boy is it hard. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 4 Jun 2004 13:37 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | lol, i saw a funny shirt today: C:\DOS
C:\DOS\Run
Run\DOS\Run Hehe, get it?
[Edited by Lunchbox on 04-Jun-04 22:37] |
blahblah Dragoon
Posted: 4 Jun 2004 14:06 GMT Total Posts: 69 | no i don't get it. i don't see dos running, who the heck is dos and why is he running? stupid joke if you ask me. but you aren't asking me so it doesn't matter.
[Edited by blahblah on 04-Jun-04 23:07] |
blahblah Dragoon
Posted: 4 Jun 2004 14:07 GMT Total Posts: 69 | ps, lunchpales are better |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 4 Jun 2004 15:38 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | DOS stands for Disk Operating System. It was one of the first OSs for computers. Its a geek joke. |
spiral Wraith Posted: 4 Jun 2004 23:52 GMT Total Posts: 958 | You can emulate up to a 386 processor and DOS on pocket pc's now, it's quite neat, but I haven't tried it yet. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 5 Jun 2004 17:24 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | Thank yuo D for actually understanding my super nerdy joke :) . I'm sure the other admins will get it [i should hope they do] |
allynfolksjr Administrator
Posted: 5 Jun 2004 19:08 GMT Total Posts: 1892 | I think I've seen that shirt before, or maybe just the instructions, quite amusing, I think. |
Evil Kirby Dragoon Posted: 5 Jun 2004 22:09 GMT Total Posts: 55 | Funny quote.
On a completely unrelated topic, recently I've decided to take up a sport during the summer in case I get bored. I'm considering choosing Mass genocide. I just have to decide on what. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 7 Jun 2004 13:56 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | I hope you're not serious Evil kirby. |
spiral Wraith Posted: 7 Jun 2004 17:10 GMT Total Posts: 958 | it's a quote lunchbox, but not a very funny one. |
Barrett Administrator
Posted: 8 Jun 2004 13:51 GMT Total Posts: 1676 | this one goes on top; who unlocked the other 7?
--- -Barrett A |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 8 Jun 2004 19:43 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | It had to be spiral, Z, or redux since you and I didn't. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 8 Jun 2004 20:10 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | I did it!...Just kidding |
dysfunction Goliath Posted: 9 Jun 2004 08:55 GMT Total Posts: 122 | Wow, I haven't been here in a while. Of course, I got the DOS joke. |
spiral Wraith Posted: 9 Jun 2004 15:33 GMT Total Posts: 958 | i didn't unlock it. edit:sorry, that should be them
[Edited by spiral on 10-Jun-04 00:34] |
Evil Kirby Dragoon Posted: 10 Jun 2004 08:40 GMT Total Posts: 55 | What are u guys talking about?
BTW, lunchbox, I'm not taking up genocide, it was just a joke. However, there are too many Mosquitos in the world.... |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 10 Jun 2004 17:34 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | I know you weren't, but i didn't know it was a quote. BTW, they're talking about how someone unlocked all the other 7 debate forums for posting. |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 17 Jun 2004 18:09 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | Hello? anybody still here? what should we talk about now? |
Lunchbox Carrier
Posted: 27 Jun 2004 07:51 GMT Total Posts: 2007 | NOOOOOOO!!!! It looks like thee debate threads have finally outlived their usefulness :img31: |
Digital Guardian
Posted: 27 Jun 2004 15:28 GMT Total Posts: 1051 | I want to start teh every popular Mac vs. PC debate, but that is beating a dead horse and is really boring once you've done it for a while.
What do you think is the best game that was every made? |
Barrett Administrator
Posted: 27 Jun 2004 16:15 GMT Total Posts: 1676 | Zelda: A Link to the Past
--- -Barrett A |
allynfolksjr Administrator
Posted: 27 Jun 2004 18:15 GMT Total Posts: 1892 | Starcraft, hands down. Thats the best strategy game that exists, Warcraft is puny compared to SC. Even though the engine is outdated, I still regularly play it. If blizzard doesn't make a Starcraft II soon, I'm going to be, um, extremely angry.
The best FPS is probably Halo, but Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty is good too. |
spiral Wraith Posted: 27 Jun 2004 22:36 GMT Total Posts: 958 | Mac mice suck. They give my hands cramps, I don't see how anyone can use any of them. |