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flying_cucco

This is taking the piss...

29th April 2007

Thats a stock photo.


flying_cucco

Jay's 2nd Blitz Speed Test

28th April 2007

My desktop PC:
[code]---------
Image size : 8
---------
Test 1 : 4800
Test 2 : 4855
Test 3 : 4985
Test 4 : 4690
Test 5 : 4920
Average 4850
---------
Image size : 16
---------
Test 1 : 5000
Test 2 : 4950
Test 3 : 4680
Test 4 : 4955
Test 5 :*snip*


flying_cucco

Curiosity has overtaken me

28th April 2007

Can blitz read PNG files? It would save a lot of headache if you could cache the files to disk and then load them as normal.


flying_cucco

Curiosity has overtaken me

28th April 2007

Oh, right. :)
As ever, Wikipedia has technical details. The first two bytes are "BM".


flying_cucco

Curiosity has overtaken me

28th April 2007

What? A curly x maybe?
[edit]Sorry, what I meant was, I don't understand the question.[/edit]


flying_cucco

Curiosity has overtaken me

28th April 2007

This function basically asks a webserver for a file, and dumps it to a local file, just like your webbrowser would if you downloaded it there.
server$ = the server you are connecting to, ie "www.google.com".
url$ = the full url (address) of the file, ie *snip*


flying_cucco

Curiosity has overtaken me

28th April 2007

Blitz includes commands for working with TCP streams so you can download files easily.
[code]Function DownloadFile(server$,url$,filename$)
Local tcp,file
;connect
tcp=OpenTCPStream(server$,80)
;ok?
If tcp<>0 Then
;request file
WriteLine tc*snip*


flying_cucco

Jay's 2nd Blitz Speed Test

28th April 2007

Ow thats bad. What graphics card do you have? If its intergrated, what chip is it?
Have a look quickly by bringing up the 'run' box and typing 'dxdiag'.
My Rage is 10 years old! If you have a P3 era box you should have better than that - maybe this is a *snip*


flying_cucco

Jay's 2nd Blitz Speed Test

27th April 2007

Update: I changed images=200 to images=0 as suggested. A truer result is below
[code]---------
Image size : 8
---------
Test 1 : 25
Test 2 : 25
Test 3 : 25
Test 4 : 25
Test 5 : 25
Average 25
---------
Image size : 16
---------
Test 1 : 25
Tes*snip*


flying_cucco

Jay's 2nd Blitz Speed Test

27th April 2007

Old-skool Tablet PC:
[code]---------
Image size : 8
---------
Test 1 : 210
Test 2 : 215
Test 3 : 215
Test 4 : 215
Test 5 : 215
Average 214
---------
Image size : 16
---------
Test 1 : 215
Test 2 : 215
Test 3 : 215
Test 4 : 215
Test 5 : 215*snip*


flying_cucco

Cats Mewsic :-)

27th April 2007

Patrick Moore
PS that first one is now my wallpaper.


flying_cucco

Jay's Blitz Speed Test

26th April 2007

This might be interesting - I ran it on my trusty old tablet pc to see just how bad those scores could go.
Intel Celeron (Low Voltage), <500 MHz (throttled/powersave), 256MB RAM, 20GB 5400rpm HDD, Windows 2000 Pro.
And the graphics? ATI Rage Mobility PCI*snip*


flying_cucco

'lo again all

24th April 2007

Greets. Again. :D
[quote]Comp 1: AMD FX-62, 4gb DDR2-800mhz, GeForce 8800GTX, Windows XP SP2[/quote]
Whoa did that cost lots of pennies?


flying_cucco

A "big" project

23rd April 2007

Given enough examples, and starting basic enough, I'm sure we could work out their rules inductively. I think whatever system these theoretical aliens might use would be a bit stranger than diffent symbols for plus and minus. In human history, let alone ga*snip*


flying_cucco

A "big" project

23rd April 2007

That might be a stumbling block, but not a big one. "1+1=2" might be meaningless, but thats just the representation we developed. Once you get "one apple and another apple is two apples" right, its all downhill.
Our system of maths, like a language, is an*snip*


flying_cucco

A "big" project

22nd April 2007

"ponited", lol.
HoboBen - I remember at school once we had a contingent come over on exchange from somewhere in Africa. My maths teacher and theirs spent one lesson debating and proving things together entirely in maths - neither could speak a word of the*snip*


flying_cucco

I need to discuss a post...

21st April 2007

Hey I was Mormon too. We technically still am, but 'inactive'. It was always something my family we into, and I was dragged along.
I am now free to practice my own brand of Revisionist Satanism :)


flying_cucco

Power Mousey Randomness!

13th April 2007

Too bad CW is gone... I had that thread bookmarked :D :D
web.archive.org


flying_cucco

Sidescroller

12th April 2007

Get hold of some sprites and look how the've done the arms and legs and stuff. Alternately, get a mate to film you walking about and then play it back stop frame :)
You might need more frames for the walking to make it more natural - arm/leg only half rai*snip*


flying_cucco

Tor (anonymity network)

12th April 2007

Hmm. Cool idea, but a double edged sword.
For every poor repressed blogger you help bitch about their country, another sadist/paedophile/terrorist you help too. Even the wiki screenshot has links to at least two child porn sites, a prevelence of depravity*snip*


flying_cucco

Sidescroller

2nd April 2007

Temp linky
Looks cool and its your code anyways :D
[edit]Thats fine, but bare in mind that its hosted chez moi and not very reliable...[/edit]


flying_cucco

Hydra Sudoku

1st April 2007

OK, you think of an idea and story, and I will endeavour to make it into a game. Any sprites or graphics would be apreciated - I'm pretty fucksocks at artwork.
I don't mean a huge project, please don't go overboard, just something we can do quickly. Inter*snip*


flying_cucco

Hydra Sudoku

1st April 2007

All done (or at least working). All the dependants can be got from the CD or the Propeller Object Exchange over at Parallax.
(Image.jpg)
[code]{{ Fly Sudoku 1.9
(c) 2007 Rob Haskell (FlyingCucco)
Portions of this program (c) 2006 Nurve Networks*snip*


flying_cucco

Hydra Sudoku

31st March 2007

[edit]gone[/edit] video (limited time only)


flying_cucco

Hydra Sudoku

31st March 2007

Thanks mousey, but I only wrote the Sudoku part!
Anyway, here is a much faster, more robust version:
[edit]updated below[/edit]
given that few people here will have Propller hardware, I'll try and sort out some videos or something (again)

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