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by Dusty
Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:22 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: My old stuff online
Replies: 23
Views: 7151

Re: My old stuff online

Ah, thanks! Another website I didn't know... :wink:
by Dusty
Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:45 pm
Forum: Collecting and History
Topic: My old stuff online
Replies: 23
Views: 7151

Re: My old stuff online

Just found this gameplay of my old game on YouTube and liked to ask, if the guy who uploaded it is probably also active here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGa0Dq1xQ-c
by Dusty
Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:01 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Programming Mah Jongg
Replies: 12
Views: 3157

Re: Programming Mah Jongg

Yes looks great! And if I had known that it takes the time it is about to take now, I surely had joined the development - but Revision 2014 was much too short for me. Better I keep my ideas next time?! :P
by Dusty
Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:12 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Programming Mah Jongg
Replies: 12
Views: 3157

Programming Mah Jongg

Last night I was wondering, if there was a Mah Jongg game like Atari's "Shanghai" for the VIC and if not, how to write one... ;) I thought a little bit about it during the day and I guess, the main problem is the low resolution of the VIC: The game consists of 42 different tiles, AFAIK. Th...
by Dusty
Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:05 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Games we want to see
Replies: 323
Views: 195656

Re: Games we want to see

The challenge is to print the tiles to the screen (and probably to store them in memory)... the rest of the game seems pretty simple at first look. We should discuss this elsewhere, I'll start a new thread at the programmer's board tonight!
by Dusty
Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:31 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Games we want to see
Replies: 323
Views: 195656

Re: Games we want to see

Is there a Mah Jongg game for the VIC-20 (the search here returned 0 results)? If not, it could be a challenge for me! 8)
by Dusty
Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:55 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Denial's BIG Move
Replies: 20
Views: 2621

I think, best thing is to tell the future provider very exactly the problems we ran into (need some thousand DB accesses ONCE to upgrade the software and than have xx visitors per day). The problem with the current provider is, that they set up a limit of DB accesses per user and hour. We only need ...
by Dusty
Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:31 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Strange Exponent Issue
Replies: 5
Views: 1437

OT: The whole thing should go into a FOR..NEXT loop (should be a bit faster than, too - and saves memory):

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20 PRINT "NUMBER","SQUARE"
30 FOR P=1 TO 8
40 PRINT P,P^2
50 NEXT
by Dusty
Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:25 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Screen set 1 character 32 and 96 are both space.
Replies: 32
Views: 3877

The general idea is obvious, but when you copy both the main program and the loader, the 96 will still be there. Of course you can put any characters into the screen memory that build a valid ML program, the question (to me) is how to distinguish between a legal and an illegal copy. The idea with th...
by Dusty
Thu May 30, 2013 12:12 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Screen set 1 character 32 and 96 are both space.
Replies: 32
Views: 3877

The only thing that I can think of, that makes this useful, is that in ML 96 is the number for the mnemonic RTS. Some games used this for copy protection by printing a shifted space to the screen and then later JMPing to it or SYSing to it. I really like the idea, although I can't spontaniously fig...
by Dusty
Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:33 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: SQL experience needed
Replies: 12
Views: 1958

Let's give it a try!
by Dusty
Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:32 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: SQL experience needed
Replies: 12
Views: 1958

I see, so the problem seems to be the MySQL server rather than executing the PHP script, right? But it DOES work on a local machine running XAMPP or so?
by Dusty
Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:00 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: SQL experience needed
Replies: 12
Views: 1958

Yes, with MySQlDumper it's easy to upload large DB files to a web DB server. What is needed? - FTP access to the website (to upload and install MySQLDumper). - The MySQL dump from the current DB (as provided by PHPMyAdmin or similar) - Access to the new DB This should work. Did similar things severa...
by Dusty
Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:53 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: SQL experience needed
Replies: 12
Views: 1958

Well, I think, I am a little experienced with handling MySQL DBs, so feel free, if there is any specific problem I might help. Many providers limit the execution time of PHP scripts to a limit of 60 or 120 seconds or so. When you try to access a large DB (downloading or uploading), programs like PHP...
by Dusty
Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:07 pm
Forum: Announcement Board
Topic: VIC-20 Software Releases of 2012
Replies: 18
Views: 39112

Coppa Reloaded

Sorry, forgot to post my humble contribution to this wonderful community in this thread: Name : Coppa Reloaded Author : Ronald Koerber Released : August 3, 2012 Requirements : unexpanded VIC, joystick Description : 4 new levels for my 1985 game "Coppa". Move your space ship with the joysti...