#DoCollision
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Ariel: I should have added something to the last message. I am a Common Pleas
court judge in Berks Co., Pa. A far cry from your profession. I was thinking:
The next time I must give some bird 10 to 20 years, I should add the proviso
"or until you invent a successful substitute for the DoCollision routine on an
Amiga." I'll bet that would produce the results! Out of curiosity, let me
know your educ. background sometime when you have a few minutes. I always
wondered how the pro programmers get into their chosen field. ( I often wonder
'why' they do too. It is fun for me, but if I had to do it for a living and
beat the deadlines set by a deadhead, I would go right up the wall. Peace!
Tom 73717,3446
Tom, are you implying that you get a large number of Amiga programmers before
you on criminal charges? Maybe that accounts for the frequent delays in getting
Amiga software to market. 🙂
Nick
Nick: My god! What a brilliant idea!! Were these infidels cast into the
bowels of the slammer with but bread and water until a bug-free release were
ready, we may be amazed at both the quantity and quality of the new-found
output. I'll work on that.
Tom
Tom:
Just saw a homebrew DoCollision() in the Dec issue of AmigaWorld in the
'C' Animation Tutorial, part III. Just in case that might be helpful.
Ariel
Ariel: Thanks for the info. I better check that mag. I got the Sept/Oct in
normal course of USnail, but no November issue was received. I've been
following McClellan's pigs.c to date, hoping for what you just said. In the
meanwhile, I researched Ozer's yaboing.c code. Between that, the RKM Hardware
book and what I have learned so far, I modified my source code, and I am about
an hour away from trying a compile. Ozer uses the collision regs. in a manner
one can understand, but he is working with SimpleSprites. For openers, I have
declared VUserStuff as a pointer to UWORD, and will attempt to use that
variable to point to my collision masks. I'll keep you posted, because if my
brainstorm gels, (no pun) I should have a simple answer to the problem that
shouldn't get in the road of multitasking.
Now I better look for a December and November issue, dammit.
Thanks. Tom E.
Tom,
I think you may have hit upon a technique for getting a lot of needed things
done! Let me know how the Supreme Court reacts to it. <grin>
Regards, Larry.
Larry: See reply to Nick.
Tom
Tom,
To add to others versions of how they got into programming:
Majored in chemistry at Penn State in the early 60's but played with
the mainframes there because one of my friends was in computer science and he
got me interested. Went to work for GE in Valley Forge as a plastics
specialist and had to do quick analysis of the results of materials tests
working under government contract. GE also happen to be trying to sell this
new thing called time-sharing computers and set up a few terminals. They also
gave some classes in FORTRAN IV and it fit my needs exactly.
Left Pennsylvania in '70 and came to Colorado and joined the police
dept., didn't do much more with computers except read about them until the late
70's when I got a home computer (Atari 8bit) and figured I had to know how it
worked…so re-learned programming. I met a couple of guys who were working on
a program that was to be published and started out beta testing their product.
They had a little side project that had sat idle for a few years so "just for
fun", I finished it and it got published. They got a few more contracts and I
got more involved.
In the meantime, the police department decided it was going to not only
computerize, but was going to have it's own processors rather than use the
city's computers. They needed programmers and I got "elected" to lead up
several of the projects. That included design and implementation of a modern
Computer Aided Dispatch system in concert with 18 other cities (Pittsburgh
being one of them)…and we're still working on that one…and will be for
another year or so.
Getting involved in computers and programming was a long and sometimes
torturous road….but it's sure fun…most of the time.
Don
Don: I'll be darned. That is not at all what I would have expected.
Interesting….. There may be hope for me yet if I stick at it.
Tom