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Forklift_Fred

The 'Your Name' topic..
4th January 2008

Oh, Googling your own name, I forgot about that part... I would appear to be the younger brother of Jemima Khan and thoroughly well connected financially and rather good looking in a young, early fame period Hugh Grant type way.
Lucky bastard! :D

Forklift_Fred

The 'Your Name' topic..
3rd January 2008

Google Forklift Fred and you'll find me at the top!
Rather bazaar considering there is a forkliftfred.com and a whole forklift company that uses the name!
My creation and use of the name was completely independent of any other occurrence and frankly my s*snip*

Forklift_Fred

The official 'OMG! WTF!? Snow!!' thread
3rd January 2008

We've had it cold here but no snow. You don't need snow to be cold.
In fact you don't tend to get snow if it's too cold...
I want snow, and I want it settled when I wake up!
Oh well, I can dream...

Forklift_Fred

The 'Thank You' Thread
2nd January 2008

I must admit, the financial side of things completely passed me by but all the forum coding and tweaks and weekly workshops.
All hail to the father of SoCoder.
Oh and he seems to be a reasonably nice guy too.
It's quite sickening! :p :D
Many thanks and*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Tetris
1st January 2008

OK... I took a look and there are several issues to address. First of all, you should only use Cls and Flip once every cycle so I would suggest removing all the ones within functions and put Cls at the start of your "While Not KeyHit(1)" loop and Flip at t*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Tetris
29th December 2007

Very true. It's more complicated than you might first think but it's as good a place to start as any, just to see how things go together. Anyone starting out shouldn't expect their first project to amount to a great deal. If you are simply running through *snip*

Forklift_Fred

Screen Resolutions?
29th December 2007

Well, as I said, I use it and for my sanity I just measured a few squares on my screen and they all measured up perfectly...
The problem, if there is one, is down to the coder's implementation of scaling which isn't really an issue when it comes to 3D as *snip*

Forklift_Fred

Screen Resolutions?
29th December 2007

Aww shucks! :embarrassed:

Forklift_Fred

Screen Resolutions?
29th December 2007

I've just replaced my mobo and stuck with the onboard gfx for the time being. The lowest it will go is 800 x 600 which is what I code to (for some archaic arbatery reason)my full range is as follows:
800 x 600
960 x 600
1024 x 768
1088 x 612
1152 x 86*snip*

Forklift_Fred

How to get back into game programming?
27th December 2007

Wednesday Workshops did the trick for me I think.
Having spent a couple of years away from coding games, just a dabble here and there for web gallery automation and basic file handling, I wanted to get back into the games I was making before I got distrac*snip*

Forklift_Fred

RotateZoomer?
22nd December 2007

Glad to be able to help :)

Forklift_Fred

WM003 - Christmas (Already!)
21st December 2007

I've been sick all week so I can't see mine being anywhere near ready before I go away on Sunday.
(Also, now my snowmen work, they suddenly move 2000 units along one axis for no reason!)

Forklift_Fred

RotateZoomer?
21st December 2007

First of all, you need to change your If...Then section. Either use a second variable set before the loop:
[code]DISTANCE=0.6
While...
...
If SHIFT>20 Then DIR=-DISTANCE
If SHIFT<0 Then DIR=+DISTANCE
...
Wend[/code]
or simply combine t*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Age old Collision problems!
14th December 2007

To put this one to bed (and myself, looking at the time!)
For whatever reason, I now have the player using ellipsoid-to-polygon collisions but the snowman needs ellipsoid-to-box. No idea why. Possibly the number of faces on the walls (they are now simply *snip*

Forklift_Fred

Age old Collision problems!
14th December 2007

Genius update!
I am now back up and running (minus CD/DVD drives but I barely use them anyway!) I copied the drivers from the driver CD to my USB stick (which is new and I keep forgetting about!) and step by step got everything working again :D
As for th*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Age old Collision problems!
14th December 2007

Again, thank you. I'm struggling with fixing my PC and finishing Xmas shopping so have still not been able to get back to this.
My PC is running with a new motherboard but it is limited due to driver issues and I can't connect to the internet so I still c*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Age old Collision problems!
13th December 2007

Right, thanks guys. Unfortunately, since my last post, I've shut down my PC and the damn thing won't start again! No power at all :( (PSU has been tested as OK so it's been identified as a MotherBoard problem.)
This means that I've been unable to get back*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Age old Collision problems!
13th December 2007

Thanks, some how I thought that would be the case...
Any ideas what it might be? I'll post the lot if I have to but why should it detect the collision and stop (or slide depending on what I have it set to) but then get stuck? There's very little involving*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Age old Collision problems!
12th December 2007

I know, I know. Everyone's been there and it's probably the most common problem area but I've spent the last few hours practically tearing my hair out on what should be a simple thing.
If the snowman hits anything it should turn and move off in a differen*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Xmas Avatars!
11th December 2007

You geek! :D
I've just updated mine to phase 2, by the way

Forklift_Fred

Guess Who? cards?
11th December 2007

I was thinking either "starts with letter...", "ends with letter..." "Contains letter..." I don't remember ever using it myself but it was a thought that came to me. Otherwise specifically stating a name would be win/lose. Perhaps it could be restricted to*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Guess Who? cards?
10th December 2007

You've also got... (variations in yellow)
Hair - Long / Short
Face - Oval / Square / Round
Expression - Smile / Frown
[color=yellow]Mouth - Large / Small
Lips - Fat / Thin
Nose - Big / Small / Long and Narrow[/color]
You could go as far as ribbons i*snip*

Forklift_Fred

Xmas Avatars!
6th December 2007

Love it :)
I can't be bothered to do anything new though so I'll work my way through my old BlitzCoder Xmas avatars. As before, I'll be building up to a full blown Christmas
(I'll modify my avabar later)

Forklift_Fred

#127 - The 1 Hour Challenge
4th December 2007

I had an idea for another game so I thought I'd have another go...
[big]Catch A Cold[/big]
[code];;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; ;;
;; One Hour Challenge ;;
;; ================== ;;
;; Take 2: Catch A *snip*

Forklift_Fred

sid/mid to mod?
3rd December 2007

Not sure if this fits your description but the file extensions do.
(Linkage) can open .MID files (as well as .IT .XM .MOD and 12 others that I've not heard of) and will save to .IT .MOD .S3M .XM and will even make a .WAV of your tune.
It's been my Track*snip*
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