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  1. But if it was only work nobody would care for doing it. There is also the fun part in discussing details with other developers and trying to do things that have never been done before. A good example is Lucien's maze engine and Exceeds Peugeot-demo. They are both "impossible" things to do an a Lynx. Still they work like a dream and these guys are some real guru's of the Lynx today.

     

    I also have two more or less secret "dream"-projects that I work on. Something new that brings a smile to the Lynx community. After the Multicart is out I will continue on them.

     

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    Karri

  2. In my experience the best way is to learn programming and write the game by yourself. I know several persons who have taken that route. Writing a game is also more rewarding than playing somebody elses game.

     

    You need to learn the basic structure of game programming so it won't become spagetti-code that is a nightmare to clean up afterwards. Also separating user interface from the graphics and sounds helps keeping the game clean. Below is a code snippet in C doing the job.

     

    initialize_everything();
    do {
    advance_time();
    user_input();
    if (need_to_update_screen && screen_is_idle) {
    	update_graphics();
    }
    update_sounds();
    } while (game_is_running);
    

     

    Atari 8 bit machines and Atari Lynx have free C-compilers at www.cc65.org

     

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    Karri

  3. I had a slightly similar situation with a laptop I bought from ebay. Finally I installed Debian on it instead and today there is no way I would switch back anymore.

     

    But the Debian laptop is used more for serious things like writing documents, surfing, email, paying bills etc. Not much games I'm afraid. Well, I do code all my Atari Lynx games on it.

     

    But there are some commands you need to learn to make it work. The most used commands for me are:

     

    This command finds packages you can download for the system.

    apt-cache search something (apt-cache search dvd player)

     

    To keep the system secure and up-to-date. I usually run this once a month.

    apt-get update

    apt-get upgrade

     

    To get new programs installed into the system.

    apt-get install something

     

    To remove packages I don't like anymore.

    dpkg -r something

     

    The nice thing is that you do not have to search the web to find the location of the packages. The apt-tool will do it for you and bring in everything and take care of dependencies. Every file in Debian belongs to some package and you can always ask the system to run a verify on al its packages. So far the verify has been able to spot rootkit attacks. Even Linux has its share of malware but problems are not frequent and easier to handle than in Windows in my opinion.

     

    But if you want to stay with Windows then I would probably do things like this:

    Run fdisk to see if the laptop has a small partition for hibernating, 300MB or so. Don't touch that partition. Remove all other partitions. Modern Windows does not allow you to do this so get a Knoppix CD, boot from it and get the job done. The command sequence is something like:

     

    fdisk /dev/hda

     

    d stands for delete

    w stands for write partition table back to disk

    q stands for quit

     

    Then you insert your Windows CD which should not find anything on the hard disk and let you run your install.

     

    And try out Knoppix while you play around with it. If you like it then there is a command that allows you to drop Knoppix from the CD on your hard disk and then your laptop becomes Debian. Or just boot from the Knoppix-CD when you want to work without "extra help from sidekicks" and leave Windows as it is now.

     

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    I wish you luck with your OS installs whatever way you choose to take,

     

    Karri :ponder:

  4. I tried that when I first found the problem... it found the problem but couldnt remove it...

     

    That's depressing. In this hostile world the operating system should really be on a read-only memory stick. But unfortunately Windows does not work that way.

     

    Perhaps that is why I like dedicated games consoles so much :ponder:

     

    Nothing to install, nothing to get infected.

     

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    Karri

  5. Oh no. The G Major is the 5th sonata. I was thinking about the one in C Major that goes like this

    Piano Sonata 1 Allegro. The 5th is pretty repetitive and lots of work :evil: . That would not probably even fit on the cart.

     

    I just figured out that my blog settings require approval for comments to show up. Now that is changed so that you can comment anything. Sorry about it. This is my first blog-thingy and I am still learning.

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